Shopify stores that sell.

Use Shopify when product structure matters: variants, inventory, taxes, shipping, pickup, discounts, gift cards, checkout, order management, and repeat purchases. If a simpler website can do the job, I will say so.

The Storefront can be: $5,500 once, or Own It Monthly at $1,375 today and $386 a month for 12 months, which is $6,007 all in, and you own the store outright at the final payment. The plan runs directly between you and me, with no credit checks. The Masterpiece is not on it. A build that size bills by milestone instead, so you pay as agreed stages go live rather than carrying a year of payments on work that is already finished.

How Own It Monthly works

Yes. The Storefront includes a launch catalog of up to 50 products and the Masterpiece up to 150, with bigger ranges priced by scope. There is no set number of collections, and sizes and colours do not count as extra products. I create the product photos and mockups and write every product detail from what you tell me.

Yes. Payments, shipping, taxes, and inventory are configured as part of every build. A store is not finished until the money and delivery details are set up and tested.

Product pages are built to carry reviews and trust signals from day one. The Masterpiece adds a Google Shopping feed so products can show up where buyers are already searching to purchase.

Often yes. If a basic theme has been outgrown, I can rebuild the storefront, restructure products and collections, sharpen the product pages, and tighten the checkout and email flows so the store finally matches the brand.

With me, a Shopify store set up and stocked costs $5,500 for the Storefront, or from $10,000 for the Masterpiece. The Storefront launches with up to 50 products, and I create the photos and mockups and write every product detail from your information. The Masterpiece adds brand identity, bespoke layouts and up to 150 products, and bills by milestone. The Storefront can also be $1,375 at signing and 12 payments of $386, which is $6,007 in total. Shopify's own monthly plan is billed separately.

Use Square when the counter is the business and the website is a side door. Use Shopify when shipping and online orders are the business, or will be within two years. At the volumes most small shops do, the plan prices are close enough to ignore, so decide on what the store has to do. Calculated shipping rates are a real reason to pick Shopify for parcels leaving the Kootenays. Running both means two systems counting the same stock, so choose which one owns inventory first.

Usually yes, on taxable goods, once you are registered or required to be. A BC seller of taxable goods generally registers for PST unless it qualifies as a small seller, and the general rate is 7%. GST registration becomes required once taxable sales pass $30,000 in one calendar quarter or over four quarters in a row. Shopify calculates the tax at checkout, but charging the right rates, filing and remitting stay with you. Your own situation is a question for your accountant.