For most Victoria small businesses, a custom WordPress site lands between $500 (5-page Starter) and $3,500 (WooCommerce store). The Standard $1,500 tier covers 10 pages with lead-capture forms and is the most common choice for established businesses. Every tier includes first-year Canadian hosting and free revisions during the build and for 14 days after launch.

Not necessarily. Ambrite is based in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on Atlantic time, four hours ahead of Victoria, so your mornings overlap with the Ambrite working day. Projects run by email, so there's a written record of every decision and no need to meet in person, and you deal directly with the developer who builds and hosts your site.

Usually both, on separate pages. Visitors and residents search for different things: a visitor wants hours, directions and what's nearby, while a local wants services, prices and booking. Pages written for each audience serve both better than one page trying to do everything. Ambrite structures your site around the customers you actually have.

Customers in British Columbia pay GST plus BC's separate provincial sales tax (PST). Selling across Canada is more involved: GST/HST is generally charged at the rate for where an order is delivered, and some provinces expect out-of-province sellers to collect their sales tax too. WooCommerce can apply the right rate to each customer's address automatically, and Ambrite sets those tax rules up as part of every store build. What you actually need to register for is worth a quick check with your accountant.

Most private businesses in British Columbia fall under BC's own Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) rather than the federal PIPEDA. In practice, that means a clear privacy policy, consent before collecting personal information through forms or tracking, and care over where that data is stored. Ambrite hosts sites in Canada and can build consent checkboxes and privacy notices into your forms, though the policy wording itself is best checked by a lawyer.

Most projects for a Victoria business launch in about a week once we have your content, whether that's a 5-page Starter site, a 10-page Standard site, or a WooCommerce store. We give you a firm timeline upfront and stick to it, with no open-ended "agency time".

We build every site with on-page SEO baked in: clean structure, proper meta tags, fast load times, mobile-friendly layouts, and schema markup where it helps. For Victoria businesses serving local customers, we focus on local SEO signals: Google Business Profile integration, location-aware page structure, and content that ranks for "Victoria + your service" searches. SEO is ongoing work, not a one-time fix, but you'll launch with a strong foundation.

Yes, we regularly migrate sites from other hosts, page builders, and platforms (Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy Builder, etc.) onto our Canadian hosting. There's no extra charge to migrate a domain or transfer hosting; it's part of the build. If you have content worth keeping, we'll bring it over. If the existing site is a mess, we'll rebuild it cleanly.

Clear communication with no language gaps, your site and its data hosted in Canada, and someone you can actually reach when something goes wrong. Offshore quotes look cheap on day one, then you're paying twice to fix the launch. We've inherited and rescued plenty of those projects.