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Everything a Quebec customer can land on must be available in French, and the French can be no harder to reach than the English. Shopify's free translation gets you part of the way — but in France French, it leaves your policies untranslated, and it goes stale the moment you edit the English. Generic translators leave anglicisms and untranslated English that read as non-compliant — and careless — to your Quebec customers.
Refund, shipping, and terms are the highest-risk pages. Shopify translates its defaults — but the moment you edit them, the French falls behind and stays behind, and your own custom policy text it never translates at all.
“Courriel,” not “email.” “Magasinage,” not “shopping.” Machine translation gets the dialect wrong in ways Quebec customers notice.
You translate everything — then add a product or edit a policy, and it's English-only again until someone notices.
Free to check. Paid to fix and stay current.
Get a Bill 96 compliance score across your policies, products, emails, pages, and theme — with gaps ranked by risk. No credit card.
One click translates the gaps into genuine Québec French. Your brand terms are enforced, OQLF wording is respected, formatting is preserved.
New and edited content is re-translated automatically. Set it once, and compliance becomes a state you stay in — not a project you repeat.
OQLF terminology, no anglicisms, no leftover English — the quality generic auto-translate misses.
Brand names and house terms translate the way you decide, every time — never drifting.
No per-word metering, no surprise bills. You always know what you'll pay.
Start free — check your store, and see our French on your own content.
Bigger catalogue or more languages? Write to support@lexibond.ca — we'll size a plan with you.
Complaints to Quebec's language regulator hit a record ~10,371 in 2024–25, up roughly 140% over five years, with websites among the top objects. Penalties can reach thousands per day, and consumers can now act directly. Actual prosecutions stay rare — so the smart move isn't panic, it's removing a cheap-to-fix risk while serving your Quebec customers properly.
Read: what Bill 96 actually requires of your storefront →No. It's a tool to reduce compliance risk and effort — a positioning and monitoring aid, not legal advice or a certification. For a binding opinion, consult a lawyer.
Less than you may have read. "Markedly predominant" is the rule for public signs and commercial advertising — French with a much greater visual impact, and since June 2025 also exterior signage that carries a non-French trademark. A website is commercial documentation under the OQLF's own guide for businesses: it must be available in French, and if you also publish another language, the French must be at least equivalent and no harder to reach. The practical safe reading: anything a Quebec customer can land on should be fully available in French.
Partly. Shopify's free Translate & Adapt auto-translates products, collections, pages and blog posts — up to two languages, in France French rather than Québec French. It doesn't translate your policies at all, and when you edit the English it leaves the old French in place until you re-run it. Lexibond adds what it lacks: Québec French with your brand terms enforced, policies and customer emails covered, a compliance score, and re-translation when your content changes.
No. Lexibond never overwrites French you created — it only fills gaps and refreshes translations it made itself.
Yes — choose from Spanish, German, Italian, and Portuguese, using the same engine, with your glossary applied per language. Core includes French plus one of them; Pro includes French plus two. French, with Bill 96 compliance, is the focus.
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