E-commerce
in Vancouver.
Vancouver has one of Canada's strongest concentrations of editorial-led DTC brands — and one of its hardest e-commerce markets. Customer acquisition is expensive, AOV expectations are high, and the audience can spot a stock-template build from across the street. We build commerce sites for brands that need both craft and conversion.
Most Vancouver e-commerce builds fall into one of three camps: editorial DTC brands that need content + commerce on the same stack, subscription-first products with complex lifecycle logic, and established retailers migrating off a tired Magento or BigCommerce install. We've built across all three.
Our default recommendation for Vancouver brands is WordPress + WooCommerce for editorial DTC (the content side of the stack is unmatched), Next.js Commerce for high-traffic or content-heavy storefronts, and full custom headless when the catalog logic earns it. We recommend in week one based on team capacity and content load, not on which stack we want to bill more hours against.
Conversion-rate work is part of every build, not a phase that happens later. PDP composition, cart and checkout UX, lifecycle email integration (Klaviyo, Customer.io), and the analytics setup that tells you which products are paying for which acquisition channels.
What you're hiring for.
- Built for the Vancouver DTC audience — restrained typography, generous whitespace, real photography that earns trust before the first add-to-cart.
- Headless or monolith — whichever fits — we recommend stack in week one based on your team's content load and traffic patterns, not on what's easiest to sell.
- Core Web Vitals green at launch — most stores we audit are losing 5–15% of mobile conversion to slow LCP; we fix that on day one.
- Lifecycle email integration as a default — Klaviyo, Customer.io or Braze flows modeled and shipped with the store, not as a CA$15k post-launch upsell.
- Built to be owned — your merchandising team updates products, content and lifecycle copy without filing a developer ticket every time.
E-commerce —
Stores that feel like the product.
From the
studio blog.
Sanity vs Contentful vs Storyblok for 2026 builds — editor UX, cost, content modelling, and a decision matrix by team profile.
The 2026 Core Web Vitals thresholds, why field data matters more than Lighthouse scores, and the highest-leverage fixes for marketing sites.
Section by section: what a 2026 landing page hitting 8–15% conversion actually contains, and the micro-decisions that move the needle.
A buyer's guide to choosing a Vancouver or Langley web design studio in 2026 — framework, categories, notable names, and red flags.
What a website actually costs in Canada in 2026 — by project type and vendor tier, with the hidden costs every quote leaves out.
What people in Vancouver
actually ask.
Working on something
in Vancouver?
Thirty-minute call, no slide deck, no salespeople. Tell us what you're building and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right team.