Catalog management for Canadian stores.

Canadian stores have an unusual job: sell to two languages, three or more tax regimes and a market that sits next to a much bigger one. Product data gets copied from US suppliers with imperial units and US spelling, then half-translated into French. This page covers how we tidy that up, and what is specific to selling in Canada. Quoted and billed in USD.

What you get

• Canadian English: colour, centre, grey, but "tire" and "aluminum", which Canadians spell the American way. We follow Canadian usage, not British.
• Structured French fields: French titles and descriptions held in separate fields or translation slots, checked by a person.
• Metric and imperial held together: centimetres and kilograms as the base, inches and pounds where your shoppers expect them.
• Tax-ready categories: taxable flags and product categories prepared for GST, HST, PST and QST handling.
• Barcode and SKU checks: UPCs in the right field, duplicates removed.
• Category mapping: Shopify product types, Google categories and marketplace trees.
• Descriptions, images and alt text tidied, with a change log of every edit.

How it works

1. Send an export and access. A CSV or a staff or collaborator account. No passwords.
2. We audit and quote. Findings and a fixed price in USD before work starts.
3. We clean. The AI engine does the volume; a person reviews every output.
4. You approve. Changes arrive as files or drafts and nothing goes live unchecked.
5. Load and report. Approved changes applied and the change log delivered.

What is specific to Canadian catalogs

Two languages

Many Canadian stores sell in English and French. The common failure is a catalog with English titles and French descriptions, or French text pasted into the English field. We separate the languages into their own fields, keep SKUs and handles consistent between them, and check that variant options (colours, sizes) are translated in the same way across products. Quebec has strict rules on French in commerce; we prepare the data, but we do not give legal advice and recommend a native review of anything customer-facing for that market.

Provincial tax

Canada has GST of 5% federally, HST in several provinces, and PST or QST layered on top elsewhere, with rules that depend on where the customer is. We do not configure any of it. We do make sure each product carries the right tax category and that nothing is flagged as exempt by accident, since a wrong flag is hard to see until an accountant finds it.

Metric first, imperial too

Canadian shoppers read centimetres and kilograms on a package and feet and pounds in conversation. Suppliers from the US send inches and ounces. We normalise to one base unit per field and put both in descriptions. Weights matter because Canada Post and courier rates are priced by weight and dimensions, and rural and northern deliveries can cost far more than urban ones.

The US next door

Many Canadian stores sell cross-border. If you sell to the US as well, product data needs UPCs, US sizing and sometimes Prop 65 text. We check which fields your US-facing channels need and keep one master record.

Marketplaces

On Amazon.ca and eBay Canada, French fields are optional on some listings and mandatory on others, depending on category and program. Check current seller documentation for your account; we work from it.

Prices in CAD, fees in USD

Your product prices stay in Canadian dollars. Only our fee is in US dollars. We flag when a price column looks like it is in the wrong currency, which happens when a US supplier file is merged with a Canadian one.

Pricing

Quoted and billed in USD. Catalog cleanup starts at $199 for up to 250 products. Adding products through bulk product upload starts at $249 for up to 250. Monthly Catalog Ops starts at $349 per month. A fixed quote follows once we inspect your files. See pricing.

Is this a fit?

It suits Canadian stores with a few hundred or more products, bilingual ambitions, or a mixed set of US and Canadian suppliers. It also helps before opening a second channel.

If you have a small catalog you wrote yourself, our data quality checklist is enough. If you need certified translation or legal wording for Quebec, you will need a specialist; we prepare structure and drafts, not legal text.

Ask for a free sample of up to 10 products, then get a fixed quote at get started.