Logistics · Toronto

Logistics Software Development Company in Toronto, built to ship.

Fleets run on a thin margin, and a missed delivery window eats it. As your build partner we ship the systems that protect that margin from the warehouse dock to the doorstep, covering real-time GPS tracking, route optimization, delivery, and supply chain visibility. Driver apps, dispatch dashboards, and the data pipelines linking them to your warehouse and ERP all come from one team that has tracked 30,000 vehicles in production. Toronto (EST) is 10.5 hours behind India (IST), so the live overlap is limited to your early morning and our evening, which is why we run an async-first workflow backed by a dedicated project manager who keeps your day moving even while our main build hours are offline for you.

Rated 4.9 stars across 24+ client projectsYou own 100% of the code and IP. NDA on request.

Toronto market

Toronto is Canada's largest tech talent market and ranked third in North America in CBRE's 2025 Scoring Tech Talent report, behind only the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle. With over 3,000 active startups, a deep base in fintech, AI and healthtech, and tech hiring that surged about 22 percent year over year in 2025, demand for custom software and mobile apps far outpaces local supply. Geminate Solutions gives Toronto founders and enterprises a dependable remote product team to build and ship without the local hiring squeeze.

Local signal: Toronto ranked third in North America in CBRE's 2025 Scoring Tech Talent report and added 42,900 tech jobs between 2021 and 2024, the most of any Canadian market.

Financial services and fintechArtificial intelligence and dataHealthtechE-commerce and retail techSaaS and enterprise software

4.9★

Client rating across 24+ projects

250K+

daily active users on apps we built

10M+

requests per minute handled

50+

products shipped worldwide

The problem

The map says the vehicle is somewhere it is not.

Fleet telemetry arrives late, out of order, and sometimes twice, because trucks drive through tunnels and network dead zones and then flush a backlog of GPS pings at once. A system that trusts arrival order shows a vehicle jumping backwards down the motorway, and every downstream number, ETA, geofence alert, driver hours, inherits the error.

Dispatchers stop trusting the screen and go back to phoning drivers, which is the moment the software stops paying for itself.

We have shipped this

Pixytan, which we built and run, tracks 30,000+ vehicles. Out-of-order and duplicated telemetry is a case we designed for deliberately rather than discovered later.

What we build

Logistics Software Development for Toronto teams, end to end

Real-time GPS fleet tracking with geofencing, live maps, route replay, and trip history

Route optimization engines that factor in traffic, delivery windows, vehicle capacity, and driver hours

Driver mobile apps with job assignment, proof of delivery, ETAs, and customer notifications

Driver behavior and fuel analytics covering speeding, harsh braking, idle time, and consumption anomalies

Predictive maintenance built on OBD-II and engine diagnostics with service scheduling

Supply chain visibility dashboards that link shipment tracking to warehouse and ERP systems

Your time zone

Toronto (EST) is 10.5 hours behind India (IST), so the live overlap is limited to your early morning and our evening, which is why we run an async-first workflow backed by a dedicated project manager who keeps your day moving even while our main build hours are offline for you.

Your IP, your code

Your IP belongs to you from day one, we operate under NDA, and our English-fluent team is structured around async communication and a dedicated PM so Toronto clients stay in control despite the time difference.

Priced in CAD

Transparent, milestone-based, scoped on a free call. No hidden costs and no lock-in.

Logistics

The decisions logistics software development actually turns on

Moving physical things, where the plan and reality diverge hourly.

The exception is the product

The happy path is a small part of the work. Failed delivery, refused goods, damage, address not found, recipient absent, driver sick. A system that models only successful movement is unusable in week two, because the day is made of exceptions.

Proof of delivery is evidentiary

Signature, photograph, geolocation and timestamp exist to settle a dispute about money weeks later. They have to be captured offline, survive a dead battery, and be tamper-evident once uploaded.

Route optimisation is constrained, not clever

Vehicle capacity, driver hours, delivery windows, access restrictions and traffic. The interesting engineering is in expressing the constraints correctly, because a mathematically optimal route that breaks a legal driving limit is worse than a merely good one.

Tracking accuracy is a battery negotiation

Customers want live position and drivers need the phone to last a shift. The polling interval is a product decision with a hardware consequence, and getting it wrong shows up as handsets dead by mid-afternoon.

Building in Toronto

What is actually different about logistics software development for a Toronto client

Working overlap

1.5 hours a day

Ten and a half hours behind Surat, which leaves roughly ninety minutes of shared working day at the very start of theirs and the very end of ours. This is the hardest overlap on the list and it has to be designed for: written handover, decisions batched, and one fixed call rather than ad hoc availability.

Where the data can live

Azure Canada Central and Google northamerica-northeast2 are both in Toronto, and AWS ca-central-1 is in Montreal. Canadian clients ask about residency more often than American ones, and public sector work frequently requires it outright.

Sectors that dominate

Bay Street financial services and insurance dominate, with mining finance behind them and a genuinely deep AI research cluster around the university and the Vector Institute that punches well above the city's size.

The mistake we see most

The ninety-minute overlap is the project risk, and it is usually underestimated because it looks survivable on paper. In practice a question asked at the wrong hour costs a full day, every time, and three of those in a sprint is the sprint. Batch decisions into one fixed call, write the handover down, and give the team authority to proceed on anything not explicitly blocked.

Working week

Monday to Friday, and the shared window is the very start of their day against the very end of ours. This is the hardest calendar on our list and it has to be designed for rather than absorbed.

Compliance in Canada

How does Logistics Software Development stay compliant with PIPEDA / Law 25 in Toronto?

Toronto companies build under Canada's PIPEDA, with Quebec's Law 25 adding stricter consent and residency rules, overseen by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. We design every logistics engagement to respect those rules from day one, not as a checklist bolted on at the end. PIPEDA expects comparable protection when data is handled by a third party, so contracts and processing terms make our obligations explicit and auditable.

Who regulates you

the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. Quebec's Law 25 carries some of the toughest consent and breach rules in North America, which we apply when you serve Quebec users.

Where your data lives

You pick the hosting region. When residency rules or a Canada contract require it, we deploy inside your jurisdiction and you hold the cloud accounts.

What you own

100% of the source code and IP, transferred under contract, with an NDA and a data processing agreement signed before anything is shared.

Proof we can do this at scale: the products we have shipped run at 250K+ daily active users and have handled 10M+ requests per minute, across 50+ products rated 4.9 stars over 24+ client projects. Security and data handling are part of how we build, not an afterthought.

FAQ

Logistics Software Development in Toronto, answered

What GPS hardware can you integrate with for logistics software development?

We build hardware-agnostic platforms and integrate with devices from makers like Teltonika, CalAmp, and Queclink, plus OBD-II dongles. We handle the protocol parsing and data normalization, so if you already have trackers installed, we build the system to work with your existing hardware rather than forcing a swap.

Can the platform scale to track thousands of vehicles?

We have run this at 30,000 vehicles in production. The architecture leans on message queues such as MQTT, time-series storage, and PostgreSQL with PostGIS for spatial queries, so the system ingests continuous location data from large fleets without dropping updates or slowing the live map.

Do you have experience with ELD, DOT, and FMCSA compliance?

Hours-of-service tracking sits at the core of it. We build driver logging that records hours, generates compliance reports, and supports DOT audit requirements for fleet operators. We also encrypt vehicle telemetry in transit and can align data handling with GDPR for operations in regulated markets.

How do you handle the big time gap between Toronto and India?

We are honest that the live overlap is short, mostly your early morning and our evening, so we run an async-first process. A dedicated project manager owns daily updates, written handoffs and a fixed live call window, which means you get clear progress every morning rather than chasing replies across time zones.

Is offshore development with Geminate Solutions cheaper than hiring developers in Toronto?

Toronto's developer market is the most competitive in Canada, so an offshore product partner generally lowers your build cost while still delivering senior-level work. We confirm the exact cost on a discovery call tied to your scope and timeline instead of quoting a flat figure.

How do you handle PIPEDA / Law 25 and data protection for Toronto clients?

Toronto businesses fall under Canada's PIPEDA, with Quebec's Law 25 adding stricter consent and residency rules, overseen by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. PIPEDA expects comparable protection when data is handled by a third party, so contracts and processing terms make our obligations explicit and auditable. Before any data is shared we sign an NDA and a data processing agreement, and Quebec's Law 25 carries some of the toughest consent and breach rules in North America, which we apply when you serve Quebec users.

Where will our data and code be hosted if we build with you from Toronto?

You choose the region. We default to a cloud setup that satisfies PIPEDA / Law 25 obligations, and when residency rules or a Canada contract require it, we host inside your jurisdiction. You keep full ownership of the source code, the data, and the infrastructure accounts at all times.

How much does Logistics Software Development cost in Toronto?

Every logistics project is scoped on a free call rather than sold as a fixed package, and most engagements start with a paid pilot sprint so you see the work before you commit. You get a clear number in CAD before anything starts.

Do we own the code?

Yes, completely. The code, the project, and the content are handed to you. You hold the keys, not us. We sign an NDA before you share anything.

How long does it take?

Most builds go live in two to four weeks. Larger products with a custom backend or migration take longer, and you get a firm timeline before any work begins.

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