Web Development Company in Toronto

How much application logic sits behind the marketing layer decides the number: a branded marketing site on Next.js with a headless CMS, a custom web platform with auth, dashboards, and payments, or enterprise modernizations for Big Five subsidiaries, national retailers, or OSFI B 13 scoped systems. Toronto pricing tracks local senior engineering rates where a senior frontend developer earns CAD 130,000 to 180,000 and a full stack engineer CAD 150,000 to 210,000. Eligible engineering work often recovers 35 percent through the federal SR&ED refundable tax credit for Canadian controlled private corporations.

Yes for most organizations operating in Ontario. Under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation 191/11, private and non profit organizations with 50 or more employees, and all designated public sector entities, must conform new and significantly refreshed public web content to WCAG 2.1 Level AA. Codazz bakes this into discovery with an audit against success criteria like 1.3.1 info and relationships, 1.4.3 contrast, 2.1.1 keyboard, 2.4.7 focus visible, and 4.1.2 name role value, then verifies with axe DevTools, NVDA, VoiceOver, and manual keyboard passes before launch.

Both, depending on the merchant. Given Shopify is headquartered in Toronto and powers a large share of Canadian commerce, we deliver Shopify Plus stores using the Dawn theme or a fully headless Next.js and Hydrogen front end backed by the Storefront API. For GTA retailers that need ERP, membership, or PIM logic beyond Shopify limits, we build custom Node or Next.js platforms with Stripe Canada, Moneris, and Canada Post AddressComplete. Every build ships with AODA Level AA checkout, Ontario Consumer Protection Act disclosures, and Core Web Vitals budgets that protect paid acquisition performance.

We treat French as a first class locale, not an afterthought. Toronto businesses that sell into Quebec or serve federally regulated users fall under Law 25 and the Charter of the French Language, which expects French content of equal prominence. We use Next.js i18n routing with /en and /fr paths, hreflang tags, and a professional French Canadian translation pass rather than machine translation. Sanity, Contentful, and Payload are configured with locale aware fields, and legal documents such as privacy notices, Law 25 disclosures, and Ontario Consumer Protection Act terms are reviewed by bilingual counsel when the client engages one.

For Canadian data residency we deploy on AWS ca central 1 in Montreal, Google Cloud northamerica northeast1 in Montreal, or Microsoft Azure Canada Central in Toronto. Vercel and Cloudflare sit in front for edge caching with Toronto and Montreal POPs. For Shopify Plus the merchant database is managed by Shopify and stored in Canada, while custom Next.js apps store Canadian user PII in RDS or Cloud SQL inside ca central 1. When OSFI B 13, PIPEDA, or Law 25 obligations require stricter controls, we add KMS managed keys, VPC isolation, CloudTrail or Cloud Audit Logs retention, and contractual data processing agreements.

Yes. Moneris is the largest Canadian processor and is common for Toronto merchants already using RBC or BMO acquiring relationships, and we integrate the Moneris Checkout and Unified API for card and stored token flows. We also implement Stripe Canada with Payment Element, Interac Online through Interac partners, Interac e Transfer for B2B and payouts, and Apple Pay and Google Pay with Canadian wallet testing. PCI DSS scope is minimized with tokenized iframes and hosted fields, and refund, chargeback, and Consumer Protection Act cancellation flows are built into the admin UI.

If your Toronto website collects personal information from Quebec residents, Law 25, formally An Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information, applies alongside federal PIPEDA. You must designate a privacy officer, publish a clear privacy policy, obtain granular consent for each purpose, disclose automated decision making, support data portability, and report confidentiality incidents that present a risk of serious injury to the Commission d acces a l information. Codazz implements consent management with OneTrust, Cookiebot, or a custom solution, bilingual notices, and server side logging of consent events to support enforcement audits.

Yes, where the engineering work qualifies. The federal Scientific Research and Experimental Development program offers a 35 percent refundable investment tax credit on eligible expenditures for Canadian controlled private corporations, up to the CAD 3 million expenditure limit, plus provincial credits in Ontario. Custom algorithms, performance engineering beyond standard practice, novel accessibility tooling, and non trivial integration work often qualify while routine marketing site work does not. Codazz maintains a technical uncertainty log, sprint level time tracking, and architecture decision records your external SR&ED consultant or accountant can use to substantiate the T661 filing.