WordPress care, fixes and builds for Vancouver

Working across three time zones

Toronto is three hours ahead of Vancouver. In practice that suits care and emergency work: updates and checks can run before your business day starts, and a 10 am call in Vancouver is a 1 pm call for us. We book calls in your time, and the staging site and written updates mean nothing waits on a meeting.

We have no Vancouver office and do not pretend to. Everything runs remotely, and every account, licence and backup stays in your name.

British Columbia rules a WordPress site has to respect

Privacy (BC PIPA). British Columbia has its own private-sector privacy law, the Personal Information Protection Act, in force since January 2004. It applies to businesses, non-profits and other private organisations that collect, use or disclose personal information of people in BC. For a website that mostly means three things we build in: forms that collect only what you need, a privacy policy that says where the data goes, and a clear way to answer access requests.

Sales tax on stores. A BC store charges the 5% GST plus the 7% BC PST on taxable goods. WooCommerce handles both, but the rates, product tax classes and the rules for buyers in other provinces need setting up and testing with real orders before launch.

What we usually do for Vancouver clients

• Hacked site recovery: contain, clean, close the hole and harden.
• Care plans: tested updates, off-site backups, monitoring and a person to call.
• Speed optimization for sites that feel slow on a phone.
• WooCommerce stores with GST and PST configured correctly.