E-Commerce App Development
Our e-commerce app development team builds shopping apps for Canadian retailers, direct-to-consumer brands and marketplaces. A retail app earns its keep through repeat buyers, so we focus on fast browsing, a short checkout and reasons for customers to come back.
Apps we build for e-commerce
- Native storefronts connected to Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento or a custom backend
- Loyalty and rewards apps with points, tiers and member pricing
- Click and collect apps that tie online orders to store pickup
- Multi-vendor marketplaces with seller onboarding and payouts
- Subscription and replenishment apps for recurring orders
- In-store companion apps with barcode scanning and stock lookup
Key features
- Fast catalogue browsing with search, filters and saved wishlists
- Checkout in a few taps using Apple Pay, Google Pay and saved cards
- One-tap reorder and order history that encourages repeat purchases
- Order tracking with shipping updates pushed to the device
- Segmented push notifications for restocks, price drops and abandoned carts
- Real-time inventory sync so customers never buy what you cannot ship
Compliance and considerations
Card payments are covered by PCI DSS. The practical answer for almost every retail app is to keep card data off your systems entirely by using a tokenised provider such as Stripe, Apple Pay or Google Pay, which is how we build unless you have a reason to do otherwise. Marketing messages to Canadian customers fall under CASL, so we build consent capture and an unsubscribe path into the sign-up flow rather than adding it later. Pricing, shipping and return terms shown in the app also need to match what your consumer protection obligations and store policies require.
Why e-commerce companies choose us
- We build native-feeling storefronts, not a browser window wrapped in an app icon
- Checkout work is measured: fewer steps, fewer form fields, fewer abandoned carts
- Integration with the commerce platform, ERP and inventory system you already run
- Push and loyalty designed to lift repeat orders rather than annoy customers into uninstalling
- Fixed-scope quotes, so a seasonal launch date is a date you can hold suppliers to
- Support plans that cover peak trading periods when downtime is expensive
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Yes. We connect to your existing platform through its API so products, prices, inventory and orders stay in one place. Your team keeps working in the admin they already know, and the app becomes another sales channel rather than a second system to maintain.
It does when repeat purchase matters. Apps hold sign-in, payment details and preferences, so a returning customer buys in seconds, and push notifications reach people that email does not. If most of your traffic is one-time visitors from search, a better mobile site is the cheaper answer and we will tell you so.
Most e-commerce projects run $50,000 to $199,000. A storefront on an existing platform sits at the lower end, while marketplaces with multiple sellers, payouts and custom logistics sit higher.
A storefront MVP with catalogue, cart and checkout usually launches in 8 to 12 weeks. A marketplace or a build with loyalty, subscriptions and in-store features takes 4 to 7 months.
Yes. Tax and shipping rules normally stay in your commerce platform, which already calculates provincial rates, and the app reads the result. Where you need custom logic we build it in the backend so both web and app use the same rules.
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