Ecommerce / Ontario
Ecommerce in Toronto
Catalogues that are hard. A hundred and eighteen thousand products, supplier feeds that disagree with each other, and pricing that can't be a number in a field.
In shortAspireco engineers ecommerce for hard catalogues: large supplier-fed ranges, prices that are calculations rather than a number in a field, and freight quoted before checkout. It is for distributors and retailers replatforming a deep catalogue, and for operators building a multi-vendor B2B marketplace.
Toronto, specifically
The widest mix of anything in the country — professional services, retail groups, agencies, distributors and a deep bench of software talent that makes build-versus-buy a live question rather than a formality. It is also where the most systems have already been half-built by somebody else, so a good share of the work is deciding what is worth keeping.
East along the 401, about ninety minutes from the studio without traffic. On site for discovery when it helps, remote for the build.
- Professional services
- Retail and ecommerce
- Distribution
- Agencies
We have not delivered a ecommerce engagement in Toronto yet. The audit is free and written either way, so you can find out what we would do without taking our word for the rest of it.
What this looks like when it is built
- Ecommerce · FlooringShopflooringA 118,000-product flooring storefront with a pricing engine that thinks in boxes, coverage and waste — replatformed off WordPress behind a 36,786-URL redirect map built before the DNS cutover, so ranked URLs never became 404s.
- Ecommerce · B2B marketplaceNorpex MarketplaceA commercial food-equipment marketplace where independent vendors onboard themselves, sell under one checkout, and get paid on a schedule.
Also in Toronto
Asked about ecommerce in Toronto
Can you clean up supplier data for a Toronto retail group or distributor?
Yes. Retail and ecommerce and distribution are two of the sectors that dominate Toronto, and both run on supplier data. Supplier ingestion, normalisation and deduplication into one schema are the core of catalogue engineering, and feeds that disagree with each other are the normal case. Shopflooring, our own storefront, normalised twenty-plus supplier price lists this way and matched supplier photos on exact SKU.
Can a Toronto retailer move ecommerce platforms without losing search rankings?
Yes, if every indexed URL is mapped before the DNS changes. When Shopflooring came off WooCommerce, all 36,786 legacy URLs were mapped to live destinations first and checked against production, 300 for 300, so no ranked page became a 404. For an established Toronto retail group with years of search history, that mapping is the part of a replatform worth doing slowly.