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Ecommerce and websites that hold up at peak, custom software for the operation behind them, and Amazon for the products you ship year round.
Nockta builds ecommerce stores, websites, and custom software for St. Catharines and Niagara businesses, and runs their Amazon and advertising. Shopify and headless builds, Next.js sites, custom web applications, and marketplace operations, designed for a market where the year is decided in a few months.
A storefront sized against your busiest weekend rather than your average week, on Shopify or a headless stack.
Web applications and internal tools for the operational work around the storefront, built for staff who change between seasons.
A second channel that keeps selling when local traffic drops off: store setup, A+ content, and catalog work.
Advertising and SEO timed to the season, with tracking that shows what the peak actually returned.
Niagara businesses earn a disproportionate share of the year in a handful of months. That shapes every technical decision. A storefront that is comfortable in January is not the same storefront that survives the August weekend when everything arrives at once, and finding that out in season is the expensive way to learn it.
Seasonality also decides who can run the software. Teams turn over between seasons, so anything a manager has to update in May needs to be obvious to someone who started in April. Systems that only one person understood are how sites end up frozen for two years.
The build work reflects that: ecommerce on Shopify or a headless stack sized for your actual peak, site speed treated as a requirement rather than a nice-to-have, and custom web applications for the parts of the operation the storefront does not cover. Everything editable goes somewhere a new hire is not expected to touch.
Shopify Plus licensing starts at CA$3,400 per month in Canada, and a proper Plus build typically lands between CAD $30,000 and $150,000 depending on integrations. Here is the honest math, what actually moves the number, and when Plus is the wrong answer.
Read the guide →On Amazon the listing is the product page, the search result, and the sales pitch at once. Title, images, and A+ content do most of the work, and A+ content is free for brand-registered sellers. Here is what to fix first and in what order.
Read the guide →A Shopify migration for a catalog of a few hundred to a few thousand products typically takes 8 to 14 weeks, and the work that protects revenue is a complete 301 redirect map built before anything else. Customer passwords never migrate, Shopify sets your URL structure for you, and the old platform's bad data follows you unless it is cleaned first.
Read the guide →Half an hour on how the business runs and where the time goes. No deck, no discovery invoice.
What we would build, in what order, what it costs, and what we would not build yet.
Working software you can click, every week, until it is doing the job. Then we keep it running.
That is what we design for. We size the storefront against your peak rather than your average week, and treat caching and page speed as part of the build rather than something to tune afterwards.
Yes. Editable content sits behind clear limits, so a new hire can change hours, prices, products, and pages without touching the layout or the checkout.
Off-season, so the work lands before your peak rather than during it. If something is broken in season we stabilize first and rebuild properly once the pressure is off.
It does if you ship a physical product beyond the region, because it keeps revenue moving when local traffic drops. We handle store setup, listings, A+ content, and the ongoing catalog work.
Book time with James and bring the problem costing you the most. If it is not worth building, we will say so on the call.
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