Bilingual Shopify stores, CRO and growth marketing for Montreal brands, built French-first for Quebec shoppers and ready for the rest of Canada.
[ SHOPIFY AGENCY · MONTREAL · QUEBEC · CANADA ]
[ ECOMMERCE IN MONTREAL ]
Montreal is the one major Canadian market where French comes first. Most shoppers browse, search and buy in French, and Quebec law expects them to be able to. Since Bill 96's rules took effect in June 2025, French must be markedly predominant on commercial signage, and the Charter's French requirements cover commercial websites, product information and advertising. A store that tacks a machine translation onto an English site is both a legal risk and a conversion problem.
Quebec also has Canada's strictest privacy regime. Law 25 requires consent for tracking technologies, privacy by default and a named person responsible for personal information. For a Shopify store that means a real consent banner, analytics and ad pixels that respect it, and Klaviyo forms that collect consent properly in both languages.
Fashion is the city's commercial heritage. Montreal ranks as North America's third-largest clothing manufacturing centre after New York and Los Angeles, and the Chabanel district is still home to hundreds of apparel companies. That makes it a natural base for DTC fashion and accessories brands. We work with Montreal brands remotely, as Shopify developers and growth marketers who build French-first stores rather than translating as an afterthought.
[ KEY SECTORS ]
[ SERVICES ]
One team for the build, the conversion work and the marketing that brings shoppers back.
[ WHAT WE PLAN FOR ]
Country-wide rules on tax, payments and shipping are covered on our Canada page. These are the details specific to Montreal.
[ WORKING TOGETHER ]
Our team works in Pakistan time (UTC+5), and we're honest about what that means for Canada. Our fixed meeting slots, 10:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 16:00 Pakistan time on weekdays, fall overnight in Canada. In Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa the afternoon slot lands at roughly 4 to 6 a.m. in winter (5 to 7 a.m. in summer). Further west the morning slot is the usable one, in the late evening the day before: about 9 to 11 p.m. in Vancouver and 10 p.m. to midnight in Calgary in winter, an hour later in summer. In practice most of the work runs asynchronously. We build while you sleep, and written updates, staging links and recorded walkthroughs are waiting at the start of your day; you reply during your working hours and we pick it up the next morning our time. Live calls are booked into those slots for kick-offs, reviews and launches.
Live call times, Montreal time (Mon–Fri)
12am–2am & 4am–6am
1am–3am & 5am–7am in daylight saving time
Written updates every working day, with a shared project board you can check any time.
Book a call in your time zone[ RELATED WORK ]
Shopify projects for brands selling to customers in Canada and beyond.
01A luxury skincare storefront that pairs science-led products with an elegant, editorial shopping experience built for confidence and trust.
02A bright, story-driven home for The Glo Companies, bringing five sensory-play brands, wholesale and fulfillment together on one Shopify site.
03A premium, high-converting web experience for HeyBuddy built to explain the product clearly and turn curious pet parents into customers.
04A playful, high-energy storefront for Moo'd Up's better-for-you chocolate milk mix, built to make nutrition feel fun and subscriptions effortless.
[ FAQ ]
If you sell to Quebec consumers, French is expected on your commercial website, product information and advertising, and Bill 96 tightened the rules from June 2025. You can still offer English, but French should be at least as available and prominent. We build French-first Shopify stores with Shopify Markets so both languages stay in sync. Confirm the details with Quebec counsel.
Law 25 requires a privacy policy in clear terms, a named person responsible for personal information and consent before tracking technologies that identify or profile visitors run. Practically, that means a consent banner, pixels and analytics that respect refusals, and signup forms that record consent. We set these up in Shopify and Klaviyo so marketing data still flows from visitors who accept.
We build the store, structure and translation workflow, and set up French templates, navigation, SEO metadata and Klaviyo flows. For marketing copy we recommend native Quebec French writing or review rather than relying on automated translation, because tone and vocabulary differ from European French. We work alongside your writer or translator and make sure every string in the theme can be translated.
Montreal is on Eastern time, so our weekday meeting slots fall early in the morning, roughly 4 to 6 a.m. in winter and 5 to 7 a.m. in summer. Most work runs asynchronously: written updates, staging links and recorded walkthroughs ready when you start your day. We work remotely from Pakistan and have no Montreal office.
[ LET'S TALK ]
Tell us about your store, your customers and where you want it to go. We'll come back with clear next steps and a project scope.
