Online Electronics and Accessories Store

Households and individual shoppers across Canada looking for good-value accessories and gadgets with fast shipping.

You earn the margin between your buying price and your selling price, plus extras like bundles and add-on accessories.

• Choosing products that sell
• Online marketing and basic website skills
• Customer service and handling returns

• Electrical and wireless products may need safety certification (such as CSA or cUL) or ISED approval, check before importing or selling
• Provincial electronics recycling or environmental fees may apply to some products, check your provincial program
• Register for GST/HST once you pass the small supplier threshold, and check how PST or QST applies to online sales to other provinces
• Counterfeit or unbranded stock can bring returns, safety risk and legal trouble, buy from reputable suppliers
• Quebec customers may expect French-language information, check the rules if you sell there
• Check whether your municipality requires a home-based business licence, and get commercial general liability insurance

Estimates put startup costs typically around $2,000 to $10,000, depending on your product range, how much stock you hold and whether a supplier ships orders for you.

Monthly revenue is typically estimated at around $1,000 to $5,000, depending on your products, pricing and marketing. Returns and counterfeit or unbranded stock can reduce what you keep, so buy from reputable suppliers.

Check whether electrical and wireless products need safety certification (such as CSA or cUL) or ISED approval, and whether provincial electronics recycling fees apply. Also check GST/HST, PST or QST on online sales, and whether your municipality requires a home-based business licence.