Shopify store setup for businesses in Canada, at a fixed US$1,250

The subscription and any apps are paid by you directly, in Canadian dollars, so nothing sits in our name. These are the plans on Shopify’s Canadian pricing page, checked October 27, 2026:

• Basic: C$49 a month, or C$37 a month paid yearly
• Grow: C$132 a month, or C$99 a month paid yearly
• Advanced: C$517 a month, or C$389 a month paid yearly
• Plus: from C$3,400 a month

A business must register for GST/HST once its taxable sales go over C$30,000 in four consecutive calendar quarters. GST is 5%. HST is 13% in Ontario, 14% in Nova Scotia (since April 1, 2025), and 15% in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Prince Edward Island.

British Columbia (7% PST), Saskatchewan (6% PST) and Manitoba (7% RST) charge their own sales tax. A seller elsewhere in Canada that accepts orders from British Columbia and delivers taxable goods there must register for its PST: with no minimum if it solicits orders there, by advertising or any other means, and otherwise once its gross revenue from British Columbia goes over C$10,000 in the past 12 months, or is expected to in the next 12. Saskatchewan requires a licence from sellers outside the province who sell to its customers, with no threshold. Manitoba requires registration from sellers outside the province who deliver taxable goods there, solicit orders there and accept orders from there.

Quebec’s QST is 9.975%, charged alongside the 5% GST. A business outside Quebec that’s registered for GST/HST must register for QST under Revenu Québec’s specified system once its taxable sales to Quebec consumers go over C$30,000 in 12 months.

What we do: Tax is set up in every store we build, for the taxes you’re registered to collect. We set up each provincial tax you’re registered for, alongside GST/HST. If you sell to Quebec, we set up QST in the store alongside GST.

We set it up with you; we don’t give tax advice.

Online payments by standard card through Shopify Payments cost 2.8% + C$0.30 on Basic, 2.6% + C$0.30 on Grow and 2.4% + C$0.30 on Advanced. With a payment provider other than Shopify Payments, Shopify adds its own fee of 2%, 1% or 0.6%, depending on the plan.

For Canadian stores, Shopify Shipping sells labels from Canada Post, DHL Express Canada and UPS, within Canada and abroad, and from Purolator within Canada.

Since August 29, 2025, low-value parcels no longer enter the US duty-free: its “de minimis” exemption for goods worth US$800 or less is suspended for every country. Canada Post now needs a declaration ID before it will print a label for a US parcel. US states’ sales tax rules for sellers outside the state are on our US page.

What we do: Shipping is set up in every store we build: the zones, the rates and the carriers you use. If you sell to the US, we set up its shipping zones and rates in the store.

The Office québécois de la langue française says businesses operating in Quebec must write their commercial publications in French, and that consumers are entitled to a complete French version of a business’s website.

What we do: We work in English only, so we can’t write, translate or check French copy.

Most stores start on a theme, set up around your products, colours and logo rather than the other way round. A design from scratch is for when a theme won’t carry the brand. Both are in the same fixed price; a paid theme licence, if the design needs one, isn’t.

Either way, you see your store in Figma, with your products and your words in it, and mark what you’d change. Two rounds of changes are included, and nothing is built until you’ve approved it.

Not always, and if we don’t think you need us, we’ll say so on the call. What the fixed price buys is the design approved before anything is built, the fiddly parts set up for you, and a store that’s entirely in your name on handover day.

Then this package doesn’t fit, and we’ll quote you properly, in writing, before you pay us anything.

Bigger than these? Membership sites, catalogues above the ceilings, custom features, anything with customer logins: quoted after the call, in writing, with its own list of what’s not included.

Centangle Global is a US company, with its delivery team in Islamabad, building websites since 2013. Recent Shopify work includes eshopp, a store for a mobile and repair retailer in Canada, which you can open at eshopp.ca.

1. 01

   A 20-minute call

   What you sell, what you have now, what it needs to do. If a package fits, we say which. If nothing does, we say that too.

2. 02

   The scope, in writing

   What’s included, what isn’t, the price, the dates, and what we need from you and by when. Nothing starts until you’ve agreed it.

3. 03

   The design

   Your pages in Figma, with your products and your words in them. You go through it and mark what you’d change. Two rounds of changes are included.

4. 04

   You approve it

   Only then does anyone write code. This is the step that keeps the last week quiet.

5. 05

   The build

   Your products loaded from what you send, then payments, shipping and tax set up, and every app named and priced before it’s installed. You get a written note at the end of every week.

6. 06

   Launch and handover

   Your domain connected, on a dated day, with a recorded walkthrough of the three things you’ll most often want to change.

7. 07

   Thirty days of fixes

   Anything that breaks in the first thirty days after launch, we fix, at no charge.

Shopify’s plan prices and card rates are from its Canadian pricing page, checked October 27, 2026, and re-checked every quarter. The GST/HST, shipping and language facts are from the official pages below, checked October 2026 and re-checked every 6 months. Prices and rules change, so check the linked page before you rely on one. We set these up with you; we don’t give tax or legal advice.

• Shopify: plans and pricing, Canada
• Canada Revenue Agency: GST/HST rates by province
• Canada Revenue Agency: when to register
• BC Laws: Provincial Sales Tax Act, the 7% rate
• BC Laws: Provincial Sales Tax Act, sections 172 and 172.2 (sellers elsewhere in Canada)
• Saskatchewan: PST registration and reporting (Bulletin PST-5)
• Manitoba Finance: RST registration (Bulletin 004)
• Revenu Québec: calculating GST and QST
• Revenu Québec: QST registration for suppliers outside Quebec
• Shopify Help Center: shipping carriers by country
• US Customs and Border Protection: the end of de minimis
• US Customs and Border Protection: low-value shipments
• Canada Post: shipping to the US
• Office québécois de la langue française: the language of commerce and business (in French)