E-Commerce Store
An online store that's fast, findable, and easy to run.
Cairn Studio builds online stores for Calgary businesses starting at $5,000, on Shopify, WooCommerce, or custom builds, with product SEO, payments, and email flows included.
An online store earns its keep when product pages rank on Google and the checkout doesn't leak customers. We build stores that do both, on Shopify, WooCommerce, or fully custom when your catalog demands it.
We've shipped storefronts and full marketplaces, from a tea brand's online shop to a two-sided marketplace for pre-owned sportswear. Your store gets the same engineering.
- →Store build: Shopify, WooCommerce, or custom
- →Payments: Stripe, PayPal, Square
- →Product schema and SEO per product page
- →Shipping, tax, and inventory configuration
- →Abandoned-cart and order email flows
- →Conversion tracking and analytics
Which e-commerce platform should I use?
It depends on what you sell and who runs the store day to day. Shopify is the right answer for most retail: it is fast to operate, nearly impossible to break, handles Canadian taxes and shipping well, and your staff can manage products without training. WooCommerce fits businesses that want full ownership of their store and already live in WordPress, at the cost of more maintenance responsibility. Fully custom builds make sense when your pricing or catalog logic does not fit either platform — configurators, B2B price tiers, or marketplace models with multiple sellers. On the discovery call we will tell you straight which one fits, including when the honest answer is the cheaper option.
Can you migrate my existing products and customers?
Yes. We move product descriptions, images, variants, pricing, customer accounts, and order history wherever the source platform allows export. Just as important, we set up permanent redirects from every old product URL to its new home, which preserves the Google rankings your product pages have already earned — skipping this step is the most common way store migrations quietly destroy traffic. For stores moving off platforms with locked-in data, we document exactly what can and cannot come across before you commit, so there are no surprises after the switch. Migration scope is itemized in the written quote rather than discovered mid-project.
What does an online store cost to run monthly?
Plan for two categories: platform fees and payment processing. Shopify plans run roughly $50 to $130 CAD per month depending on tier; WooCommerce itself is free but hosting suitable for a store runs $30 to $60 per month. Payment processing is similar everywhere: around 2.9% plus 30 cents per transaction through Stripe, PayPal, or Shopify Payments. Email marketing tools add $20 to $60 per month once your list grows. We lay out the real numbers for your specific setup in the quote, because the platform marketing pages tend to bury them. There are no ongoing fees to us unless you choose a care plan.
Sound like what you need?
30-minute call, no pitch. Tell us where your business is and we'll quote e-commerce store to your scope.