Currently available for select engagements

Hire Shopify Migration Expert Canada
Replatform without losing the rankings

Shopify migration for stores moving from WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, or custom platforms — data, URLs, and SEO carried over cleanly. Eastern Time overlap for live collaboration; Pacific Time covered by agreed windows and async handoffs..

Start Your Project Email Omer WhatsApp

15+

Years Experience

100+

Projects Delivered

Countries Served

$25M+

Revenue Enabled

Canadian Brands — Timezone & Tax Reality

A migration is won in the weeks before launch

Most migrations fail quietly: rankings lost to broken redirects, customer passwords that do not carry over, order history that arrives mangled, and apps discovered missing at launch. A migration done properly is a checklist discipline — catalog, customers, orders, content, URLs, and redirects mapped before anything moves; a staging store your team tests against real data; and a launch window with monitoring and a rollback plan. The goal is a launch your customers do not notice, except that the store got faster.

For Canada, the work is shaped by the local market. Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal carry most head-office and DTC demand, with Calgary and Ottawa close behind. Shoppers expect CAD pricing, clear duties-and-taxes messaging on cross-border orders, and shipping options from Canada Post and Purolator alongside UPS and FedEx Canada. Quebec shoppers expect a French-language path through storefront, checkout, and support — not an English page with a translate button. I am Omer Muneer Qazi, Senior Shopify Migration Expert with 15+ years of experience and 100+ projects delivered. Book a free discovery call and we will scope the engagement against your market, not a generic template.

What you get

Built for Canada

Platform audit and mapping — catalog, customers, orders, content, and integrations inventoried, with every item mapped to its Shopify destination.
Data migration — products, variants, customers, and order history moved with validation counts at each step — nothing silently dropped.
URL and SEO preservation — redirect maps for every indexed URL, metadata carried over, and a post-launch rank and traffic watch.
App and integration replacement — every existing app and integration inventoried, with a Shopify equivalent or custom build priced before launch.
Launch and rollback plan — a launch window with monitoring, a tested rollback, and 30 days of post-launch support.
Canadian commerce setup — GST/HST and provincial tax configuration, CAD pricing, Canada Post and Purolator shipping options, and French-language paths for Quebec shoppers.

How it works

From kickoff to launch in Canada

Audit and mapping
one free call plus a full inventory of data, URLs, apps, and integrations, with the migration plan priced from it.
Staging build
a staging store built and tested against your real data by your team, not just by me.
Pre-launch checks
redirects, checkout, payments, and fulfilment tested end to end before any DNS change.
Launch and watch
go-live in a planned window, with rank, traffic, and order monitoring through the first peak.

Why Omer

Why hire Omer

15+ years of engineering experience across Phaedra Solutions, Integriti, Napollo, Nabidios, and EverestX.
Senior Senior Shopify Migration Expert for Canada — shopify migration expert work delivered for Canada market conditions: eastern time overlap for live collaboration; pacific time covered by agreed windows and async handoffs..
100+ projects delivered, $25M+ in client revenue enabled across 6 countries.
Operator background — ran day-to-day ops for Nello, a drink brand, so unit economics shape the build, not just the feature list.
One senior owner — direct access, no account-manager layers between you and the work.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Will we lose our rankings?

Rankings are protected by redirect maps, metadata preservation, and post-launch monitoring — and by refusing to launch until the checks pass. Short-term fluctuation is possible; permanent loss is a planning failure, not bad luck.

What about customer passwords?

Passwords cannot be migrated between most platforms for security reasons. Customers are handled with a tested reset flow and clear messaging — planned in advance, not discovered at launch.

How long does a migration take?

It depends on catalog size, integrations, and custom logic — the audit produces a real timeline. A migration quoted without an inventory is a guess, and guesses are how launches slip.

What hours do you overlap with Canada?

Eastern Time mornings in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal overlap with late afternoons in Dubai, which covers standups, reviews, and launch windows. Pacific Time work in Vancouver runs on agreed early windows plus structured async handoffs, so nothing waits overnight without a written update.

How do Canadian tax and privacy rules affect the work?

Where the build touches money or data, I configure for GST/HST plus provincial PST in BC and Saskatchewan and QST in Quebec, and I handle personal data in line with PIPEDA. Tax opinions and legal positions stay with your Canadian accountant or counsel — I implement what they confirm.

Currently available for select engagements

Ready to get started?

The best way to explore working together is a quick conversation. Reach out through your preferred channel and let us discuss your project.

Start Your Project Email Omer

Explore more

Related ways to work with Omer

Not quite the right fit? These closely related engagements solve adjacent problems — browse a few before you reach out.