Montreal business websites, French first

01A Montreal launch checklist

Language comes first, and in Montreal it is a practical question as much as a legal one: customers search, read reviews and fill in forms in both languages. The Charter requires the French version to be available; it does not stop you from offering English alongside it. We are not lawyers, so confirm your own situation with the OQLF or an advisor.

Privacy is the second item. Law 25 makes the person in charge of protecting personal information visible on the site, requires a privacy policy in clear and simple terms, and expects tracking that can profile a visitor to stay off until the visitor turns it on. A store also charges 5% GST plus 9.975% QST to Quebec customers. The table shows who does what on a Montreal launch.

02Which Redenn products fit Montreal businesses

Restaurants, cafés, salons and gyms usually fit Starter (CA$299) with booking (CA$99), in French and English. A bilingual site has close to twice the pages of a single-language one, and every French page adds an additional standard page (CA$49/page) and content insertion (CA$29/page); the written quote shows that arithmetic openly rather than hiding it in a package.

Retailers selling online start at Ecommerce (from CA$1,499), with a French checkout and GST plus QST set by province. Payment processing fees are billed by the payment processor to your own account. Manufacturers and professional firms fit Business (CA$499) or Business Plus (CA$799), where accurate French product or practice pages matter more than design flourishes.

Before adding the AI Receptionist (from CA$149/month) or AI Website Chat (from CA$99/month) for Montreal customers, ask us to confirm in writing how it handles French for your use case; we will not promise French conversation we have not tested with you. The receptionist says it is an AI assistant at the start of each call and whenever asked. Usage (AI, call minutes, SMS, email) is billed by each provider directly to your own account; none is included in our prices. Ask about a trial period to see your real usage first.

Prices are in Canadian dollars and exclude taxes. Any tax that applies is shown separately on your invoice.

03Making both languages work

A bilingual site works when each page has a true twin. The French page and the English page share the same structure, each has its own URL, and the language switcher takes a visitor to the equivalent page rather than back to the home page.

The parts people forget are the small ones: form labels, error messages, the confirmation page, the automatic email that follows a booking, and the cookie notice. Each should appear in the language the visitor used. Newsletters to French-speaking contacts go out in French, with the sender identification and the unsubscribe link in French too.

Brochures, catalogues and similar documents you publish online are commercial publications as well, so they need a French version too.

04Local search in Montreal

Montreal searches happen in French and in English, and Google matches each to content in that language. Write your Google Business Profile in French, with French categories and a French description, make the French pages the main version, and link them to their English equivalents with hreflang. Reply to each review in the language it was written in.

As in any large city, do not build a page for every neighbourhood. One strong Montreal page naming the areas you serve, such as Plateau-Mont-Royal, Rosemont, Villeray, Verdun or Saint-Laurent, beats a stack of near-copies. Search + AI Foundation adds entity clarity and a crawler policy for AI search engines. Google says a page has to be indexed and eligible for a snippet in Google Search to appear as a link in its AI features, so clear, indexable French pages are the foundation. We do not promise rankings or AI citations.

05How working with Redenn works in Montreal

Redenn has no Montreal office. Because we run projects in English, a French-speaking person on your team approves the French content before launch; that review step is part of our launch checklist, not an optional extra.

• Who you contract with: Redenn Informatics Inc., a federal corporation under the Canada Business Corporations Act, corporation number 1386773-1.
• Who leads your project: our founder, Narinder Chahal, based in Brampton, working with you by phone, video call and email.
• Who builds it: our own engineering team in Patiala, India, at Redenn Informatics Pvt. Ltd. Work moves forward overnight and replies land in your morning.
• How to reach us: email hello@redenn.com or call 1 888 905 4003, Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern. A person replies within four business hours, Monday to Friday, and a written, fixed-price proposal follows within two business days.
• Money: build packages are invoiced in Canadian dollars and paid 30% to start, 30% at a mid-project milestone and 40% at launch. Prices are in Canadian dollars and exclude taxes. Any tax that applies is shown separately on your invoice.
• Ownership: You own it all. Your domain is registered in your name from the start. Once the project is paid, the code and content we create are yours: at handover you get the code and every login, or we keep managing the accounts for you on a paid plan. If you ever move to another developer, you take everything with you.
• Language: project communication is in English. We build the bilingual site and place the French copy that you or your translator supply; we do not write or translate French copy. Quebec clients receive the quote, terms and invoice in French first, or bilingual.