Shopify migration service for Canada.

A Canadian store rarely moves as one clean block. There may be a French storefront, a US price list, provincial tax settings and years of search traffic to old URLs. This page covers how we move it.

What you get

• Products, variants, images, collections and metadata moved to Shopify.
• Customers and order history imported where the source platform allows.
• A bilingual structure for English and French content.
• Redirects mapped from every old URL, French ones included.
• A QA report comparing source and destination counts.
• Draft state until you approve.

How it works

1. Audit. You send an export or give read-only access. We list products, collections, pages, languages and URL patterns.
2. Fixed quote. One price per store, agreed before work begins.
3. We build. The AI engine does the volume and a person reviews every output.
4. You approve. The Shopify store stays unpublished while you check products, translations and checkout.
5. Cutover. We load redirects, you point the domain, and we spot-check the live store through a collaborator account.

What is different about Canadian migrations

Bilingual stores

Language is where Canadian migrations go wrong. WooCommerce stores often use a translation plugin that duplicates posts, while others keep French in custom fields. Shopify instead keeps one product with translated fields. We map one onto the other, match each French item to its English original, and flag orphans. If your French content is thin, we list what is missing rather than machine-translating it silently. Questions on Quebec language obligations belong with a lawyer; Bill 96 changed commercial French-language rules, but we do not advise on it.

CAD and USD markets

Many Canadian merchants sell to the US too. Shopify Markets can show CAD to Canadian visitors and USD to US ones, with prices set per market or converted. We check that product prices, compare-at prices and shipping thresholds make sense in each, and we confirm duties and tax display with you.

Provincial taxes

GST, HST, PST and QST are collected through Shopify's tax settings, not product rows. We carry over taxable flags, product types and weights so the settings work, and we flag missing data. Registrations and rates are for your accountant.

Redirects

French paths need their own rows. We test every line, because a redirect chain through an HTTP-to-HTTPS hop is the usual cause of lost link value. See our 301 redirect guide and SEO-safe migration guide.

Shipping and payments

Canada Post and common carriers integrate through Shopify apps or built-in rates. We check weights and dimensions so rates compute, but we do not configure carrier accounts unless you ask. Payment gateways are configured by you; we do not enter payment credentials.

Pricing

Quoted and billed in USD. Platform migration is quoted per store after a scoping look at your store. The fixed quote reflects products, variants, languages, customers and redirects, and is sent before we begin; see pricing. The timeline is agreed in that quote too.

Is this a fit?

It suits Canadian stores with a few hundred products or more, a French storefront, or years of search traffic to protect. It also suits teams moving from WooCommerce, Magento or BigCommerce. See our WooCommerce to Shopify page.

If you have a small catalogue in one language and no search history, Shopify's own import tools may be enough. For theme redesign, custom apps or tax advice, hire a specialist.

Read about the store migration service, then ask for a free 10-product sample or a fixed quote.