Makro is an ecommerce agency in Montreal, designing, building, and growing Shopify Plus stores that hold up as the brand scales.
We are a Shopify Plus Premier Partner and work only in ecommerce. For Montreal brands that means the full build: design-led storefronts, bilingual French and English commerce, and ERP integration, run by one senior remote-first team from discovery to launch. See what we build or our work.
Information architecture, the component system, and the templates behind them: collection logic, product pages, cart, checkout. In Montreal that work starts bilingual, because a navigation label and a size chart have to hold in two languages before the layout is done.
Custom development where the platform stops, plus the data path to ERP, OMS, PIM, and 3PL. Quebec manufacturers carry the oldest ERP around, and the field mapping between it and the storefront is where an enterprise e-commerce project spends its time.
Measurement before opinion. We baseline the funnel by language, because French and English traffic rarely convert at the same rate, then test UX against revenue per session.
After launch the store is a product, not a project. Release cadence, roadmap, translation upkeep, and new markets, run by the team that built it.
Montreal commerce spans design-led brands, bilingual French and English storefronts, and retail-rooted names. These are the three patterns we staff for.
Montreal sets a high creative bar. We design Shopify Plus storefronts that carry a strong point of view and still measure: fast pages, clear merchandising, and a checkout that converts.
Quebec commerce is bilingual. We build storefronts that work in French and English, with localized content, currency, and search, so the brand reads native to every customer.
Legacy platforms get expensive and brittle. We run staged migrations onto Shopify Plus with products, accounts, order history, and subscription state reconciled before the switch, so nothing is lost at launch.
Roadmaps, merchandising, and conversion rate optimization grounded in your data, not a generic playbook.
Storefronts that carry the brand and still convert, from the homepage to the checkout edge cases.
The storefront connected to ERP, OMS, and the systems that run the business, built to stay in sync.
Staged cutovers off Magento, WooCommerce, and custom stacks onto Shopify Plus, with orders, accounts, and subscription state reconciled before the switch.
Wholesale portals, company accounts, customer pricing, and the custom logic your operation needs where the platform stops.
Montreal is not one audience. Select a district to see the kind of brand it grows and the Shopify Plus work it tends to need. These are local archetypes we are equipped for, not a client roster.
Montreal’s creative-brand core. Editorial storefronts with a strong point of view that still have to convert: clear merchandising, fast pages, checkout that works.
Theme architecture, custom sections, Shopify Functions for discount and shipping logic, and checkout extensibility through UI extensions. Development is scoped against your data model, not a feature list.
Most brands are better served by a well-architected theme. Headless earns its place when editorial content and commerce come from separate systems, common once a bilingual publishing workflow sits behind the storefront. We name the case before development starts.
Tokens, components, and documented PDP and collection UX patterns, authored so the storefront holds when French copy runs longer than the English it replaces. That is a layout constraint, and it belongs in the system.
ERP, OMS, PIM, and 3PL integrations built as private Shopify apps with retries, idempotent writes, and observable failures. Enterprise integration is judged by what happens when a sync fails at 2am, not by the happy path. For a Quebec manufacturer that means a legacy ERP holding pricing, inventory, and terms.
Every designer and developer on a Montreal project is senior and in house. No farmed-out development, no junior team learning enterprise commerce on your store.
Language obligations for commerce in Quebec are a legal question, and your counsel owns the answer. Our job is to make it implementable in the storefront instead of a standing list of exceptions.
Markets gives you real locale routing, hreflang, and per-market pricing and payments. We configure French as a first-class locale with its own URL structure and server-rendered content, not a client-side swap a crawler never sees.
Product titles, variant option values, metafields, policies, transactional email, checkout strings, and app-injected content each translate through a different mechanism. Half-finished bilingual stores fail in the same four places: option values, app content, order notifications, and error states. We map every surface before the build.
When French is the afterthought, customers find it in two clicks: an English size chart, an untranslated shipping estimate. We build both locales in the same sprint and review the French storefront on its own terms.
Counsel sets the requirement. We build the storefront able to satisfy it: French at parity across product content, policies, and checkout, descriptions structured as editable content rather than strings hardcoded in a theme, and a language selector that never traps a customer. At enterprise catalog sizes that parity is a systems problem.
We build for brands where commerce is complex. The work is staffed for that complexity, not a template applied to everyone.
Replatforms, integrations, and app builds run on methods we have run before, which is what keeps a launch from becoming a gamble.
Subscriptions, filtering, and POS integration are largely built. You inherit them instead of paying to invent them.
We invest in the relationship beyond go-live. The team that builds your store is the team that helps it grow.
Conversion work holds only when the build under it is stable, and in a bilingual market only when the data splits by language. The boundary, stated plainly: Makro builds and engineers commerce. We do not buy media.
We baseline the funnel, size each opportunity by revenue per session, and hold a test through a full purchase cycle. We run it split by locale, because a French checkout problem hides inside a blended average.
Server-side events, attribution that survives the next browser privacy change, and Shopify reporting that agrees with the accounting numbers. Most e-commerce marketing decisions run on data nobody has audited.
Search and filtering UX that handles accented French queries, collection logic, bundles, subscriptions, and lifecycle email in the customer's language. Your marketing team gets surfaces instead of a development backlog.
We do not buy media. Paid search, paid social, and influencer programs belong with your marketing team or a specialist media partner, and we build the tracking they need. Ecommerce marketing agencies and build agencies are different disciplines.
Featured · replatform & integration
We migrated a global fashion brand off Magento onto Shopify Plus and wired real-time inventory across the stack, so what the storefront shows is what the warehouse holds.
An agency listing six e-commerce platforms is staffed thin across all of them. Ask which partner tier they hold, how many enterprise builds shipped last year, and whether anyone can answer a checkout extensibility question in the meeting.
Not a translated homepage. Ask for a live French locale, then check the URL structure, the hreflang tags, the checkout, and one transactional email. Ecommerce agencies that build bilingual will hand you the URL.
Ask which ERP and OMS systems they have connected, who owned the field mapping, and what happened the first time a sync failed in production. For a manufacturer this decides the timeline.
Names and seniority for the people writing the code and drawing the interface, and what share of development is subcontracted. At Makro the team that pitches is the team that delivers.
Yes. Makro is an ecommerce agency and Shopify Plus Premier Partner working with Montreal brands. We design, build, and grow ecommerce stores on Shopify Plus, including bilingual French and English storefronts, from the storefront through ERP integration and conversion work, with one senior remote-first team from discovery to launch.
Yes. Quebec commerce is bilingual. We build Shopify Plus storefronts that run in French and English, with localized content, currency, and search, so the store reads native to every customer and meets Quebec language expectations.
Yes. Migrating to Shopify Plus is core work for Makro. We run staged replatforms off Magento, WooCommerce, and custom stacks, reconciling products, customer accounts, order history, and subscription state before the cutover so nothing is lost at launch.
Cost and timeline depend on scope: catalog size, the systems being integrated, B2B requirements, and whether it is a migration or a net-new build. A focused replatform is smaller and faster than a complex B2B build with ERP integration. We scope each project in a paid discovery before quoting, so the number reflects the real work rather than a template price. Book a discovery call to get a scoped estimate.
Yes. Makro holds Shopify's Premier Partner tier, the highest level in the Shopify Plus partner program, reserved for agencies with a proven track record on complex enterprise commerce.
Cost tracks scope, not city. The variables that move an enterprise e-commerce build are catalog complexity, how many systems get integrated, B2B requirements, bilingual scope, and whether the work is a replatform or net-new. Bilingual is real work rather than a checkbox: a second pass across content, policies, email, and QA. Makro quotes after a paid discovery, and ongoing development work is scoped as a retainer.
Language obligations for commerce in Quebec are a legal question and your counsel owns the answer. Makro's role is the build: French as a first-class locale in Shopify Markets with its own indexable URLs, product content and policies managed through Translate and Adapt so your team maintains them without a developer, and checkout and transactional email in the customer's language.
Our senior, in-house team focuses on one industry and one platform: enterprise commerce on Shopify Plus. No farmed-out development, no junior team learning on your store. The people you meet are the people who build it.
Replatform plans, B2B builds, ERP integrations, conversion work. Book a discovery call and we will tell you what the build actually takes.
