Web Development Company in Quebec City

Un site marketing bilingue propre tourne entre 35 000 et 80 000 CAD, livraison de huit à douze semaines avec OQLF et Loi 25 inclus. A bilingual marketing site lands at CAD $35,000 to $80,000 over eight to twelve weeks including OQLF review and a Loi 25 PIA. A custom web application or insurance portal (quote flows, broker dashboards, AMF disclosures, bilingual auth) typically runs CAD $90,000 to $260,000. A full platform rebuild with headless CMS, design system, integrations to policy admin systems, and SGQRI 008 accessibility for public sector clients ranges from CAD $200,000 to $750,000. Quebec City rates sit below Toronto and Montreal because the local market trades on relationships and fixed-fee certainty. We deliver fixed-fee proposals in French and English.

Bill 96 strengthens the Charter of the French Language and requires that French be the predominant language on websites serving Quebec, including any business operating in Quebec with 5 or more employees that offers goods or services. Our delivery default is French-first: the canonical URL renders in French, English is a /en/ subpath toggle, and search engine signals (hreflang, sitemaps, canonical tags) point French as the primary locale for Quebec geo-targeting. All forms, error messages, legal copy, cookie banners, and confirmation emails default to Quebec French, and OQLF terminology is enforced via CI checks against the Grand dictionnaire terminologique. Bill 96 inspectors typically review the French surface first; we make sure that surface is the better one.

Loi 25 requires explicit, granular, and informed consent for collection of personal information, separate consent for any automated decision-making, a designated Person in Charge of Protection of Personal Information visible on the site, a public privacy policy in plain French, and a documented process for access and rectification requests. Our consent flows split marketing, analytics, and functional cookies into separate opt-ins (not bundled), capture timestamped consent records suitable for CAI inspection, surface the right to receive an explanation for any automated decision affecting the user, and link to the DPO contact in the footer. Cookie banners default to opt-out (no implied consent), which is stricter than PIPEDA but matches Loi 25 and aligns with GDPR-style patterns Quebec residents now expect.

Yes. SGQRI 008 is the Quebec standard for web accessibility, which extends WCAG 2.0 AA with additional Quebec-specific requirements around French-language assistive technology compatibility, structured data, and PDF accessibility. We deliver against SGQRI 008 by running axe-core and Pa11y in CI, manual testing with NVDA and VoiceOver in French, semantic HTML structure that the Standard tools accept, and a remediation log for any tickets opened during accessibility audits. Public sector engagements also include compliance with the Politique gouvernementale sur la sécurité de l'information and a coordinated submission through the CAG procurement framework when needed.

Yes, and we run this migration regularly for Quebec City marketing teams who started on WordPress with WPML or Polylang for bilingual content and have outgrown the editorial workflow. We migrate to Next.js or Remix on the front-end with Sanity, Contentful, or Strapi as the headless backend, preserve bilingual content parity throughout, redirect every existing French and English URL via 301s with a canonical map for SEO, and re-implement Gravity Forms or Contact Form 7 surfaces as React components with proper Loi 25 consent capture. Migration typically runs eight to fourteen weeks for a 200 to 800 page bilingual site and ships with an SEO comparison report so marketing can defend traffic continuity to leadership.

We default to AWS ca-central-1 in Montreal or Azure Canada East in Quebec Province (the Beauceville-Vallée-Jonction region) for application servers, databases, and any storage of personal information. CDN edge runs on Cloudflare or AWS CloudFront with Canadian PoPs in Montreal and Toronto, and any cache layer that touches personal data is configured to invalidate on consent withdrawal. Cross-border calls (US-hosted analytics, US-hosted email providers) require a Loi 25 comparative privacy assessment, which we author as part of discovery. We document residency in the privacy policy and the data processing agreement so CAI auditors have a clear answer in French.

A bilingual marketing site (10 to 30 pages, Sanity or Contentful, basic forms) ships in eight to ten weeks from kickoff including OQLF review. A larger marketing platform (40 to 100 pages, design system, advanced animations, multilingual SEO, integrations to HubSpot or Marketo) takes twelve to eighteen weeks. An insurance portal or member-area web application with AMF-grade authentication, Loi 25 consent flows, and integrations to policy admin systems runs sixteen to twenty-six weeks. Public sector sites under SGQRI 008 and CAG procurement add four to six weeks for accessibility audit cycles. We give a fixed schedule with French and English deliverable dates at proposal time, not after.

Yes. The Quebec e-business tax credit (CDAE) returns up to 30 percent on eligible IT salaries (24 percent refundable plus 6 percent non-refundable) for qualifying businesses in IT services, including web development and SaaS. Federal SR&ED can apply to genuinely experimental portions (novel algorithms, performance research, accessibility research) and stacks on top of CDAE. Investissement Québec also runs grant programs for digital transformation that subsidise marketing site rebuilds when tied to export growth. We deliver time-tracked logs, technical narratives in French and English, and the documentation profile your SR&ED consultant and Revenu Québec need. Final eligibility sits with your tax advisor.