Web Development Company in Montreal

Bilingual delivery is not a line item in Montreal, it is the frame the whole budget sits in: a marketing site with full bilingual EN-FR delivery, Law 25 consent banner, and Bill 96 linguistic review, a headless commerce build on the Lightspeed or Shopify Plus pattern with bilingual product catalogue, Nuvei or Stripe payments, and Quebec tax handling, or public sector and enterprise platforms with WCAG 2.1 AA, accessibility certification, and CSPQ-style governance. We always quote fixed fee, and we include the French-first content workflow rather than treating French as a post-launch translation pass.

Bill 96 strengthened the Charter of the French Language and, since June 2025, requires that commercial websites and marketing aimed at Quebec consumers present French at least as prominently as any other language, with markedly predominant French in many contexts (signage, packaging, certain commercial communications). Our builds default to French-first information architecture, French as the default locale, French URLs and metadata, and a visible language toggle to English. We run an OQLF-style linguistic review before launch, and we work with your in-house Quebec content team or a certified Quebec translation partner. Generic machine translation does not pass enforcement review and we will not ship it as production copy.

Law 25 (formerly Bill 64) is Quebec's modernised private sector privacy regime. It has been rolling in since September 2022 and is now in full force, predating the proposed federal AIDA and CPPA by years and aligning closely with EU GDPR. It mandates a designated privacy officer, transparent consent (no pre-checked boxes), data subject rights including portability and erasure, mandatory breach notification to the Commission d'acces a l'information, privacy impact assessments for any new system processing personal information, and explicit consent for cross-border transfers. Our web builds ship with a Law 25 consent banner (not a cookie wall), a privacy policy template, a register of treatment, and a data subject request workflow your privacy officer can operate from day one.

Yes. We build to the conventions used by the Centre de services partagés du Québec (CSPQ) for quebec.ca, by Ville de Montreal for montreal.ca, and by the federal Government of Canada Web Standards where Quebec ministries integrate federal services. That means French-predominant UI, WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility (audited with axe, Pa11y, and manual assistive technology testing), Canadian and ideally Quebec-resident hosting, government of Quebec design system tokens or a clean equivalent, and full Law 25 compliance plus AODA WCAG alignment where the audience crosses Ontario. We have shipped Drupal and WordPress VIP work to this baseline and we deliver an accessibility statement and a linguistic audit alongside the launch package.

Our default for Quebec clients is AWS ca-central-1, which is physically located in Montreal inside Quebec province, and GCP northamerica-northeast1, also in Montreal. Both keep data inside Quebec, which removes the cross-border transfer obligation Law 25 attaches to processing outside the province. Azure Canada Central is in Toronto and is acceptable for Canadian residency but not Quebec-only residency. CDN edges run on Cloudflare and Fastly with Montreal POPs. We document residency in the Law 25 register of treatment and the data processing agreement so your Commission d'acces a l'information audit trail is ready before it is asked for.

Yes. Nuvei (Montreal HQ) and Lightspeed Commerce (Montreal HQ) are first-class targets for our team and we follow their published API patterns. We have built headless commerce on Lightspeed Retail and Lightspeed Restaurant, integrated Nuvei card and Interac e-Transfer flows, and shipped Shopify Plus headless storefronts where the merchant preferred a more global platform. Quebec tax handling (GST plus QST, with the Revenu Quebec QST registration check) is built into our checkout templates. We also integrate Moneris, Stripe, and Square where the client has a different acquirer relationship in place.

WCAG 2.1 AA is the working standard for Quebec public sector procurement, Ontario AODA, and the federal Accessible Canada Act. We bake accessibility into design tokens (contrast, focus state, motion preferences) and component primitives (semantic HTML, ARIA only when native semantics fail, keyboard parity, screen reader landmarks). Automated checks run on every pull request with axe, Pa11y, and Lighthouse. Before launch we run manual assistive technology testing with NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver, and TalkBack, and we deliver an accessibility statement that names the standard, the audit date, and known limitations. Bilingual accessibility means the screen reader experience is tested in French as well as English, which most agencies skip.

Quebec offers several stackable credits including the Tax Credit for the Development of E-Business (CDAE) at up to 30 percent on eligible IT salaries for qualifying corporations, the Multimedia Title Production Tax Credit for interactive content, and the federal SR&ED program at 35 percent refundable on eligible R&D for Canadian-controlled private corporations. Custom web development with novel technical work (performance research, accessibility innovation, bilingual personalisation engines) often qualifies for SR&ED, and certain ongoing IT roles qualify for CDAE. We deliver time-tracked logs, technical narratives, and experiment documentation in CRA T661 and Revenu Quebec CO-1029.8.36 formats. Final eligibility sits with your tax advisor, Revenu Quebec, and Investissement Quebec.