Live commerce platform development · India to Canada
Multi-vendor live commerce platform developers serving Canada for marketplaces where every seller can go live, built in India and owned by you.
SpikeSecure builds multi-vendor live commerce platforms for Canadian retailers, D2C brands and founders from Coimbatore, India, in the format Instagram Live, Facebook Live and TikTok made familiar: live rooms with pinned products, flash deals and chat, a seller studio any approved vendor can go live from, one cart across sellers paid through Stripe and Interac, split settlement and payouts per seller, Canada Post and Purolator delivery, AI moderation and an operations console. The marketplace, split-payment, live-video and moderation modules already run in WeaveHub and in our own product, Local Friends. Fixed-scope USD proposals, NDA, code in your name.
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SpikeSecure Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is a software development company in Coimbatore, India, that builds multi-vendor live commerce platforms for Canadian retailers, D2C brands and founders remotely. A multi-vendor live commerce platform lets any approved seller go live from a phone, pin products with live-only prices while streaming and take orders inside the stream; shoppers keep one cart across sellers, pay once through Stripe and Interac, and the platform splits every payment to the right seller after delivery. A build for Canada covers shopper apps on Android, iOS and web, the seller studio, catalogue and inventory, cart and checkout, split settlement through Stripe Connect with CAD settlement, Canada Post and Purolator delivery, AI moderation, analytics and an operations console.
What is different from a Canadian agency is the cost base and the time-zone shape, not the engineering: our published Indian ranges are the starting point for every USD proposal, the live overlap is 08:00–10:00 ET, and the marketplace, split-payment, live-video and moderation modules come from WeaveHub and from our own product, Local Friends, which run them in production. We have not yet published a live commerce client by name, here or in India, and this page says so. Instagram Live, Facebook Live and TikTok are named as formats shoppers know, not as clients.
Typical budget: ₹12–25 lakh for a multi-vendor live commerce MVP: seller lives, shoppable products, cart and checkout, and seller payouts.
Indicative cost: multi-vendor live commerce MVP ₹12–25 lakh (roughly USD 14,000–29,000), full platform with co-host lives, coupons, AI moderation, recommendations and seller statements ₹25–45 lakh (roughly USD 29,000–52,000), white-label or multi-tenant platform from ₹45 lakh (from roughly USD 52,000), live commerce module in an existing store or marketplace ₹4–10 lakh (roughly USD 4,500–11,000), on our published Indian pricing, roughly ₹87 per US dollar; we invoice in USD or INR, not Canadian dollars. Confirmed in a written USD proposal.
Timeline: MVP 12–16 weeks to store-ready builds; full platform 18–28 weeks; module in an existing store 6–10 weeks; seller pilot with your own sellers before the public launch.
Payments and settlement: Stripe (Checkout, Billing and Connect, with CAD settlement), Moneris or Bambora for card acquiring with a Canadian bank, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay, and Interac e-Transfer or Interac Debit through gateways that support them; split settlement per seller through Stripe Connect with CAD settlement, released after delivery confirmation.
Couriers and languages: Canada Post, Purolator and UPS; English and French (French is required for a Québec launch).
Working hours and invoicing: Our office hours of 09:30–18:30 IST are 00:00–09:00 Eastern (23:00–08:00 during standard time) and 21:00–06:00 Pacific, so live overlap with a Canadian business day is short: we agree a daily window in the proposal, typically 08:00–10:00 Eastern for Toronto and Montréal teams, and run the rest asynchronously with written updates you read at the start of your day. Vancouver teams work mainly asynchronously with an early-morning call where needed. USD or INR, invoiced through Stripe or Wise. We do not currently invoice in Canadian dollars; conversions shown are indicative.
Market context: Canada shares the US live-selling habits with two differences that shape a build: French-language requirements for Québec and federal and provincial privacy law, plus cross-border sellers who ship from the US.
Live commerce platform components we build for Canada.
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Live rooms shoppers buy in
Vertical live video with instant start, viewer count, hearts and chat, a pinned product card that updates stock and sold count in real time, timed flash deals and live-only prices, Buy now and Add to cart without leaving the stream, replays that keep the product timeline, and deep links that open a live from ads, WhatsApp and social posts.
02
Seller onboarding and studio
Self-serve seller sign-up with KYC and bank verification, catalogue import from CSV, Shopify or WooCommerce, a go-live studio with product queue, pin and flash-deal controls, co-host lives between sellers, scheduled lives with follower reminders, and simulcast to Instagram, YouTube or Facebook from one stream.
03
Multi-vendor cart and checkout
One cart across sellers with live prices held for a set time, courier and delivery date per seller, coupons issued inside a live, UPI, cards, net banking, wallets and cash on delivery, address book, order tracking and returns per seller, and a GST invoice from each seller.
04
Split settlement and payouts
One customer payment split to each seller automatically with the platform commission held back, settlement after delivery confirmation, refunds and chargebacks reversed per seller, a seller ledger with statements, and payouts to bank or UPI the way WeaveHub (Razorpay Route) and Local Friends (RazorpayX) already run them.
05
Logistics and inventory
Courier allocation per seller through Delhivery, Shiprocket, Shadowfax, Ekart or your own riders, label printing and pickup scheduling from the seller app, live stock that decrements as orders land, reservation during checkout, and low-stock alerts to the host mid-live.
06
Moderation, analytics and growth
AI moderation of video frames, chat and product claims with a human review queue (the pipeline that runs on Local Friends), seller ratings and dispute handling, GMV by hour, viewer-to-order conversion, retention per live, cohort views and GA4, push, WhatsApp and SMS reminders for scheduled lives, and referral and affiliate codes for creators.
Screens
What a live commerce platform we build looks like.
Illustrative screens of the shopper app, the seller studio and the operations console: the live room in the page header, then the seller go-live studio, the multi-vendor checkout, the live room again and the console. Fictional app, sellers and figures; your build carries your branding, CAD pricing and Stripe and Interac rails.
Seller go-live studioAny approved seller schedules a live, queues products, pins one at a time, runs a timed flash deal and streams to the app and to Instagram, YouTube or Facebook at once.Multi-vendor cart and checkoutOne cart across sellers, live prices held for ten minutes, courier and delivery date per seller, UPI, cards, net banking or COD, and one payment split to each seller on delivery.Live roomSeller video with viewer count and hearts, chat with seller replies pinned, flash-deal timer, and a product card that updates stock and sold count as the live runs.Operations consoleSellers live now, GMV by hour, orders and live conversion, settlements split per seller and held until delivery confirmation, recent orders, a moderation queue with AI flags for human review, and the lives scheduled tonight.
Photos inside the mock-ups are licensed stock photos standing in for seller video and product images; the app name LiveKart, the seller names, products and every number are sample data, not any real app's interface or metrics.
Canada client context
Building a live commerce platform for Canada from India.
The flow, end to endSellers go live, shoppers buy in the stream, one payment is split per seller and held until delivery, sellers ship. Figures are sample data; seller photos are stock images standing in for your sellers.
Canada shares the US live-selling habits with two differences that shape a build: French-language requirements for Québec and federal and provincial privacy law, plus cross-border sellers who ship from the US. The platform decisions that matter are payments and settlement, couriers, language and moderation.
Live-selling formats shoppers know
Instagram Live, Facebook Live and TikTok are the formats your sellers and shoppers already use in Canada, so the product has to match that pin-to-purchase rhythm while giving sellers what those platforms do not: their own storefront, their own customer list, lower commission and payouts they can see. We build the buy button into your app and let sellers simulcast the live to social.
Payments and split settlement
Stripe (Checkout, Billing and Connect, with CAD settlement), Moneris or Bambora for card acquiring with a Canadian bank, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay, and Interac e-Transfer or Interac Debit through gateways that support them. One shopper payment is split to each seller through Stripe Connect with CAD settlement with your commission held back, released after delivery confirmation; refunds reverse per seller and the seller ledger produces statements and tax documents.
Couriers and delivery
Canada Post, Purolator and UPS, integrated in accounts you own, with label printing and pickup scheduling from the seller app, live stock that decrements as orders land and delivery dates shown per seller at checkout.
Languages
English and French (French is required for a Québec launch). Interfaces, store listings and seller training materials are localised with copy supplied or approved by you.
Compliance
We design for PIPEDA and the provincial laws that apply to you, in particular Quebec's Law 25 (consent, privacy officer, impact assessments, breach registers), CASL consent rules for email and SMS, bilingual English and French interfaces where Quebec's Charter of the French Language requires them, WCAG 2.1 AA under the AODA in Ontario and the Accessible Canada Act, and PCI DSS scope kept inside the gateway, at the time of writing (October 2026). Your counsel signs off; we implement.
Hosting and video
AWS ca-central-1 (Montréal) or ca-west-1 (Calgary), Google Cloud Montréal or Toronto, or Vercel with a Canadian region, in your accounts with your billing; encrypted Postgres, S3 and a CDN in front. Data stays in Canada unless you choose otherwise. Live rooms run on Agora or LiveKit with replays on a CDN with edges near Toronto, Montréal, Vancouver and Calgary.
Pricing and timeline approach
How we price and schedule a live commerce platform for Canada.
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Live commerce module in an existing store or marketplace — ₹4–10 lakh
Live rooms with pinned products, chat and flash deals added to your Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento or custom store or marketplace on its existing catalogue, cart and payments, with replays and analytics. 6–10 weeks. Roughly USD 4,500–11,000.
02
Multi-vendor live commerce MVP — ₹12–25 lakh
Flutter apps for Android and iOS plus a web app: seller onboarding with KYC, catalogue, go-live studio, live rooms, multi-vendor cart and checkout, split settlement, courier integration, basic moderation and an operations console. 12–16 weeks. Roughly USD 14,000–29,000.
03
Full multi-vendor live commerce platform — ₹25–45 lakh
Everything in the MVP plus co-host and simulcast lives, scheduled lives with reminders, coupons and affiliate codes, returns and disputes per seller, AI moderation with review queues, recommendations and ranked discovery, seller statements and GST invoicing, cohort analytics. 18–28 weeks. Roughly USD 29,000–52,000.
04
White-label or multi-tenant platform — from ₹45 lakh
One codebase serving several branded marketplaces or regions, tenant-level commission and payout rules, regional CDN and payment gateways, SSO for enterprise sellers and a phased rollout. 28–40 weeks. Roughly USD 52,000.
05
Currency and invoicing
USD or INR, invoiced through Stripe or Wise. We do not currently invoice in Canadian dollars; conversions shown are indicative.
06
Running costs to plan for
Live video minutes billed by Agora or LiveKit, CDN and storage for replays, payment gateway and split-settlement fees, courier charges, SMS and WhatsApp messages, cloud hosting, and optional maintenance from ₹20,000 per month (roughly USD 250) with security patching, SDK and store-policy updates and a monthly health report.
Scheduled around the agreed Canada overlap window; every step is written into the proposal.
01
Discovery — week 1
We map seller types, commission model, categories, payment and courier rails, moderation rules and the first-live plan, agree compliance scope with your counsel and Canadian consumer rules, and send a fixed-scope USD proposal within 48 hours.
02
Design — weeks 2–3
Live room, seller studio, cart, checkout and operations screens as a clickable prototype, tested with real sellers and shoppers on the pin-to-purchase path before any code.
03
Build — week 3 onwards
Live video and the room first, then catalogue, cart and split settlement against gateway sandboxes, then seller onboarding, logistics and the console, in weekly recorded staging demos with GitHub access from day one.
04
Seller pilot and QA — final weeks
Five to ten of your sellers onboarded through the real flow, test lives with real products, payment, split, refund and courier flows checked on real devices and networks, store-policy review.
05
Launch — soft launch first
Store submission in your developer accounts, a limited seller cohort with daily reconciliation of payments, settlements and deliveries, then the public launch with the first scheduled lives in your Canadian prime time.
06
Support — ongoing
30-day warranty, then maintenance from ₹20,000 per month with security patching, SDK and gateway updates and a monthly health report on GMV, conversion and seller activity.
Canada delivery model
How a Canada project runs with a team in Coimbatore.
SpikeSecure has one office, at CHIL SEZ IT Park, Saravanampatti, Coimbatore, India. Canadian clients are served remotely by that engineering team; there is no Canada office, entity or local staff, and we do not claim one.
Working hours. Our office hours of 09:30–18:30 IST are 00:00–09:00 Eastern (23:00–08:00 during standard time) and 21:00–06:00 Pacific, so live overlap with a Canadian business day is short: we agree a daily window in the proposal, typically 08:00–10:00 Eastern for Toronto and Montréal teams, and run the rest asynchronously with written updates you read at the start of your day. Vancouver teams work mainly asynchronously with an early-morning call where needed.
Commercials. A written, fixed-scope proposal before work starts. USD or INR, invoiced through Stripe or Wise. We do not currently invoice in Canadian dollars; conversions shown are indicative.
NDA and ownership. A mutual NDA is signed before discovery. Source code lives in a GitHub organisation you own; gateway, courier, cloud, store and messaging accounts are in your name from day one; the intellectual property in the delivered work is yours.
Communication. A named project lead, a shared channel on Slack or WhatsApp, weekly demos on a staging URL (recorded for absent stakeholders), a written status note every Friday and GitHub access throughout.
Hosting. AWS ca-central-1 (Montréal) or ca-west-1 (Calgary), Google Cloud Montréal or Toronto, or Vercel with a Canadian region, in your accounts with your billing; encrypted Postgres, S3 and a CDN in front. Data stays in Canada unless you choose otherwise.
After launch. A 30-day warranty on every build, then optional maintenance with monthly health reports, or a documented handover to your in-house team or a local vendor.
Evidence
Related work you can check.
Indian projects and our own product, published with permission and shown as evidence of scope and delivery; SpikeSecure does not name Canadian clients on this page.
The India page for the same service, with the full component list, pricing tiers and 12 FAQs.
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FAQ
Live commerce platforms for Canada: your questions answered.
How much does a multi-vendor live commerce platform cost for a Canadian company?
Our published Indian ranges are ₹12–25 lakh for an MVP, ₹25–45 lakh for a full platform, from ₹45 lakh for a white-label or multi-tenant product and ₹4–10 lakh for a live commerce module in an existing store or marketplace; roughly USD 14,000–29,000 for the MVP and roughly USD 29,000–52,000 for a full platform as indicative conversions (roughly ₹87 per US dollar; we invoice in USD or INR, not Canadian dollars). The written USD proposal fixes the price.
How are payments split between Canadian sellers?
The shopper pays once through Stripe (Checkout, Billing and Connect, with CAD settlement), Moneris or Bambora for card acquiring with a Canadian bank, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay, and Interac e-Transfer or Interac Debit through gateways that support them; Stripe Connect with CAD settlement splits the amount to each seller with your commission held back, settlement is released after delivery confirmation, refunds reverse per seller and a ledger produces statements. WeaveHub, an Indian marketplace we built, runs the same model on Razorpay Route.
Which live-selling formats do Canadian shoppers already use?
Instagram Live, Facebook Live and TikTok. Your platform keeps the same pin-to-purchase rhythm and lets sellers simulcast one live to those channels, while the buy button, cart and payouts live in your app.
Which couriers and languages are supported?
Canada Post, Purolator and UPS for delivery, integrated in accounts you own. English and French (French is required for a Québec launch), with seller training materials in the same languages.
How do you handle Canadian privacy, tax and consumer rules?
We design for PIPEDA and the provincial laws that apply to you, in particular Quebec's Law 25 (consent, privacy officer, impact assessments, breach registers), CASL consent rules for email and SMS, bilingual English and French interfaces where Quebec's Charter of the French Language requires them, WCAG 2.1 AA under the AODA in Ontario and the Accessible Canada Act, and PCI DSS scope kept inside the gateway, at the time of writing (October 2026). Your counsel signs off; we implement. Seller identity, returns policy and complaint handling are displayed where the rules expect them; AI moderation with human review covers video, chat and price claims.
Where will the platform and data be hosted?
AWS ca-central-1 (Montréal) or ca-west-1 (Calgary), Google Cloud Montréal or Toronto, or Vercel with a Canadian region, in your accounts with your billing; encrypted Postgres, S3 and a CDN in front. Data stays in Canada unless you choose otherwise. Live video runs on Agora or LiveKit and replays are served from a CDN; seller, shopper and payment data stay in your accounts.
How do you work across the time difference with Canada?
Our office hours of 09:30–18:30 IST are 00:00–09:00 Eastern (23:00–08:00 during standard time) and 21:00–06:00 Pacific, so live overlap with a Canadian business day is short: we agree a daily window in the proposal, typically 08:00–10:00 Eastern for Toronto and Montréal teams, and run the rest asynchronously with written updates you read at the start of your day. Vancouver teams work mainly asynchronously with an early-morning call where needed. Weekly demos are recorded, a Friday status note lists decisions needed, and live-event issues are handled outside the window under the maintenance agreement.
Have you built a live commerce platform before?
We have built and operate the modules it is made of: WeaveHub (multi-vendor marketplace with split payments and KYC onboarding) and our own product Local Friends (live video, wallet, payouts and moderation). We have not yet published a live commerce client by name, in Canada or in India, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise.
Can you add live selling to our existing Canadian store or marketplace?
Yes. Live rooms with pinned products, chat and flash deals can be added to a Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento or custom store on its existing catalogue and payments in 6–10 weeks, roughly USD 4,500–11,000 as an indicative conversion of the ₹4–10 lakh range.
Where is the team that would build this?
In Coimbatore, India. SpikeSecure has no Canada office or entity; your project is delivered remotely under a mutual NDA with weekly recorded demos on a staging URL, GitHub access from day one and a written status note every Friday.
Who owns the code, the sellers and the data?
You do. Source code goes into a GitHub organisation in your name; gateway, courier, cloud, store and messaging accounts are yours from day one; seller and shopper data sit in your own databases, and the intellectual property in the delivered work is assigned to you on payment.
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