How Much Does a Shopify Store Cost in Canada in 2026?

A Shopify store in Canada has two kinds of cost: the Shopify plan, from CAD 37 a month on Basic billed yearly (CAD 49 billed monthly), plus card fees on each sale; and the one-time cost of designing and setting up the store. Our Shopify builds start from USD 3,000, with proposals in CAD on request, and most take 3 to 6 weeks.

This guide breaks down both, covers the Canadian tax and language details your store must get right, and uses the Odd Bunch store we built as an example.

What do the Shopify plans cost in Canada?

Shopify's Canadian prices, as listed on its pricing page in November 2026:

• Basic: CAD 37 a month billed yearly, or CAD 49 billed monthly. Online card rate 2.8% + 30 cents
• Grow: CAD 99 a month billed yearly, or CAD 132 billed monthly. Online card rate 2.6% + 30 cents
• Advanced: CAD 389 a month billed yearly, or CAD 517 billed monthly. Online card rate 2.4% + 30 cents
• Plus: from CAD 3,400 a month, for high-volume brands

If you use a payment provider other than Shopify Payments, Shopify adds a fee of 2% on Basic, 1% on Grow and 0.6% on Advanced. Most Canadian stores avoid it by using Shopify Payments. Prices change, so check shopify.com/ca/pricing before you budget.

What does the build itself cost?

The plan is the smaller part. The build depends on:

• Theme: a ready-made theme adjusted to your brand, or a custom theme designed around your products
• Number of products and how they are organized into collections and filters
• Subscriptions, bundles or build-your-own boxes
• Shipping rules by province, delivery zones and local pickup
• Apps for reviews, subscriptions, loyalty or email marketing, most with their own monthly fees
• Moving products, customers and orders from another platform
• Bilingual English and French pages

A real Canadian example: Odd Bunch

Odd Bunch delivers affordable, rescued produce in boxes across Canada. The store had to explain rescued produce in a sentence, show the value clearly and make ordering a box easy anywhere in the country. We built it on Shopify with a custom theme around the Odd Bunch story, prices in CAD and a clear path from landing on the site to choosing a box and checking out.

How should GST/HST be set up?

Shopify can charge the right sales tax for each province, but it has to be set up correctly. The rates in November 2026:

• GST of 5% in Alberta and the territories
• HST of 13% in Ontario, 14% in Nova Scotia, and 15% in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Prince Edward Island
• GST plus provincial sales tax in British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Quebec, where registration rules for the provincial tax differ

Whether you must register and charge GST/HST depends on your sales, and small suppliers may be exempt. This is a summary, not tax advice: confirm your registration and rates with your accountant or the Canada Revenue Agency before launch.

Do you need French for Quebec?

If you sell to customers in Quebec, Quebec's language law expects your store's commercial content, such as product information and checkout, to be available in French. Shopify supports multiple languages, and we set up proper English and French versions with the right page tags, so each one can be found in search.

What other Canadian rules apply?

• Privacy (PIPEDA): a clear privacy policy and only the personal data you actually need
• Email marketing (CASL): signup forms that record consent before you send marketing emails
• Accessibility: in Ontario, AODA expects many organizations to have accessible websites, so we build to WCAG 2.x AA

What does a Shopify store cost to run each year?

• The Shopify plan, monthly or yearly
• Card fees on every sale
• App subscriptions
• Domain renewal
• Updates, new pages and marketing to keep sales coming