LocaleGuard LocaleGuardLocaleGuard checks your storefront against Quebec's French-language requirements, scores your coverage, and fixes the gaps in one click — in real Québec French, not generic machine translation. Then it keeps you compliant as your store changes.
Free check · No credit card · Built for Shopify merchants selling in Quebec
French must be "markedly predominant" on your storefront. Shopify's free translation covers its own boilerplate — but in France French, it goes stale when you edit the English, and it won't translate the content you write. 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. Upgrade when you're ready to fix and stay current.
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.
Broadly, French should have a greater visual presence than other languages on your commercial pages. The practical safe reading: anything a Quebec customer can land on should be fully available in French.
Shopify's free tool translates its own boilerplate — default policies and notification emails — but in France French, not Québec French, and it leaves that translation stale when you edit the English. It doesn't translate the content you write yourself. LocaleGuard catches all three: France-French wording, stale drift, and your own untranslated content.
No. LocaleGuard never overwrites French you created — it only fills gaps and refreshes translations it made itself.
Yes — Spanish, German, Italian, and Portuguese, using the same engine and glossary. French, with Bill 96 compliance, is the focus.
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