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eCommerce for Retailers
You've built your brand in physical stores — the product knowledge, the customer relationships, the reputation. But your online presence doesn't reflect any of it. Maybe you're on an aging platform that's expensive to change. Maybe you've never sold online at all.
We help brick-and-mortar retailers launch or rebuild their eCommerce on Shopify Plus — with real-time inventory across every location, a platform that's actually maintainable, and a strategy that treats online as a growth channel, not an afterthought.
What makes retail eCommerce different
Multi-location inventory is the whole game.
You're not a D2C brand shipping from one warehouse. You have 3, 7, 28 stores — each with its own stock. The customer browsing your site at 10pm needs to know if the product is available at their nearest location, or if it ships from another. Get this wrong and you oversell, disappoint, and erode the trust your stores spent years building.
Your catalog is bigger than your team.
A retailer carrying 350+ brands and 10,000+ SKUs doesn't have the luxury of hand-crafting every product page. You need a platform and a process that lets you manage a large catalog efficiently — bulk uploads, vendor data feeds, structured attributes, and search that actually works when your customer types a part number or a brand name.
The platform you're on is holding you back.
Most retailers we work with are on a platform they've outgrown — Magento 1, Squarespace, a custom build from five years ago. The cost to maintain it climbs every year. The features you need (real-time inventory, mobile-first design, modern checkout) require more custom development than they're worth. Migration feels risky, but staying is more expensive.
Going online for the first time is harder than it looks.
If you've never sold online, the challenge isn't just building a store. It's deciding how online fits with your existing operations — does online inventory come from store stock or a central warehouse? Who picks and packs? How do you handle returns? The technology is the easy part. The operational decisions are what determine whether eCommerce actually works for your business.
How we work with retailers
Multi-store eCommerce on Shopify Plus.
Real-time inventory sync across every location — online and in-store. Customers see accurate stock at their nearest store. Orders route to the right location. Jean Bleu launched eCommerce across 28 stores with inventory sync from day one. No overselling. No manual stock counts. No reconciliation headaches between systems.
eCommerce audits and migration roadmaps.
Before we build anything, we assess what you have and what you actually need. For Bicycles Quilicot — 7 locations, 350+ brands, 10,000+ products — we delivered an honest eCommerce audit and a clear migration roadmap from Magento to Shopify Plus. Not every retailer needs to migrate tomorrow. But every retailer needs to know what they're dealing with and what the path forward looks like.
Platform migration without losing what you've built.
We migrate retailers from legacy platforms to Shopify Plus with SEO preservation (URL redirects, meta data, structured data), customer data migration, and cutover planning that doesn't cost you a day of sales. Atelier Imparfait moved from Squarespace to a full transactional Shopify store with custom product configurators — the kind of migration where the new site does things the old one never could.
Shopify Plus for specialty retail.
Not every retailer sells commodity products. We build stores that handle what makes your business different — product configuration for made-to-order items, complex variant structures (size x color x material x finish), and catalog organization that helps customers find the right product in a sea of options. Algolia search for large catalogs. Collection-based merchandising. The tools that make 10,000 SKUs feel manageable, not overwhelming.
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Retailers we've worked with
BICYCLES QUILICOT
How Montreal's oldest bike shop — 7 locations, 350+ brands, 10,000+ products — got an honest eCommerce audit and a clear Magento-to-Shopify Plus migration roadmap.
ATELIER IMPARFAIT
How a Quebec furniture manufacturer turned a Squarespace catalog into a full transactional Shopify store — with custom configurators for made-to-order tables and stair components.
JEAN BLEU
How Quebec's 28-store denim retailer launched its first eCommerce channel with real-time inventory sync across all locations.
Ready to take your stores online?
Whether you're launching eCommerce for the first time or migrating from a platform you've outgrown, we'll scope it based on your catalog, your locations, and how online fits with your existing operations.
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