Website development, SEO and digital marketing for Montreal businesses
Montreal is the one Canadian city where the language of your website is a matter of law. Quebec's Charter of the French Language, strengthened by Bill 96, requires businesses to serve customers in French, and a commercial site that is English-only is exposed. Search 'web design company Montreal' and you find agencies on the Plateau and in Old Montreal pricing bilingual builds at bilingual rates; we are a web design agency in India that scopes the French version as a real line item, at a published price in Canadian dollars.
In one paragraph
The Tech Genius is a web design and SEO agency in India that builds bilingual French and English websites, ecommerce stores, search and social campaigns and software for Montreal and Quebec businesses, remotely. Invoices are in Canadian dollars, paid to Canadian dollar account details as a zero-rated export, and the company is GST-registered in India with its prices published on this site.
- Invoicing
- CAD, zero-rated export of services
- Payment
- Local CAD account details — you pay domestically, not by international wire
- Overlap
- Our evening covers your morning on Eastern time
- Sales tax
- As a non-resident supplier we do not charge GST/HST; B2B reverse charge applies
- Outreach
- We follow CASL — express consent only, no cold blasting
Working with us in Montreal
What Montreal businesses run into, and what we do about it
French first is the law, not a preference
Under Quebec's Charter of the French Language, as amended by Bill 96, a business's website and customer communications must be available in French, with French given at least equal prominence to any other language. We build French as the primary version with English alongside — separate URLs, hreflang, a language switch that remembers the choice — and the translation itself is done by a person, scoped and priced as its own line, not by a plugin.
Quebec privacy law is stricter than the rest of Canada
Quebec's Law 25 imposes obligations on businesses operating in the province — consent for cookies and tracking, a named person responsible for personal information, privacy assessments for some transfers of data outside Quebec. We build cookie consent and data handling with Law 25 in mind and tell you where your own lawyer needs to sign off.
Montreal agency rates for bilingual work
Bilingual builds are priced at a premium in Montreal because every page is two pages. We charge for the translation, not for a bilingual mystique: the base build price is the same one published for every Canadian city, and the French version is a visible line item you can compare.
Every SEO agency Montreal businesses shortlist has to rank in two languages
French and English searches are different keyword sets, not translations of each other — a Montrealer searching in French uses different words, not the same words in French. Our seo services for Montreal research both, build French pages for French queries, and report both every month.
Invoicing, payment and tax for every Montreal project follow our Canada page.
Why Montreal clients work with us
Bilingual scoped properly or not at all
Translation by a person, French URLs, French meta titles, French search research — or, if you only trade in English outside Quebec, none of it and no charge. What we will not do is ship an English site with a machine-translation toggle and call it Bill 96 compliant.
A social media marketing agency for a two-language feed
Montreal brands post in French and English, sometimes in the same caption. We run social alongside the site and search — a digital marketing agency Montreal brands can hand both languages to — and price the retainer separately so its cost is visible.
No office in Montreal, said plainly
There is no Plateau studio and no Griffintown loft; we work from India. Delivery is remote over video calls, WhatsApp and a shared project board — in French or English on the board, as you prefer — and what you get instead of a local office is a published price list in Canadian dollars, an Indian GST registration you can verify, and a site and accounts in your company's name.
White-label for Montreal agencies
Agencies in Montreal subcontract bilingual build work to us when they need a web design company behind their own brand. Non-circumvention is signed before a client name is shared, and the French copy goes through your reviewer before it ships.
Areas we cover in Montreal
These are the areas we are asked for most. Delivery is remote, so where your office sits makes no difference to the work or the price.
- Ville-Marie (Downtown)
- Old Montreal
- Plateau-Mont-Royal
- Mile End
- Griffintown
- Saint-Laurent
- Westmount
- Laval
- Longueuil
- Brossard
Partner with us from Montreal
Two ways in, besides hiring us directly. Both run on written terms agreed before anything starts.
White-label for agencies
Your agency's name on the work, our team behind it. Websites, SEO, ecommerce, software and WhatsApp automation built under your brand, at published wholesale rates.
How it works50/50 ecommerce partnership
You bring the stock, we bring the marketing, and the profit splits 50/50. The partner holds and ships stock inside India.
How it works
Questions from Montreal clients
Do you have an office in Montreal?
No. We are in India, so a Montreal business works with us over video, WhatsApp and a project board. If you need a vendor who can meet on Sainte-Catherine Street every week, hire locally — we would rather say so here than on the first call.
Are you a digital marketing agency in Montreal or a web design company?
Both, and software besides. The website development company Montreal businesses hire us as builds the bilingual site; the same team then runs the French and English SEO, the social retainer and any CASL-compliant automation, under one published price list in Canadian dollars.
Can we pay a Canadian account, and is GST or QST charged?
You pay Canadian dollar account details we hold through a licensed provider, so it is a domestic transfer. As a non-resident supplier our invoice is a zero-rated export with no GST/HST charged; for B2B purchases the reverse-charge mechanism applies on your side, and your accountant will recognise the treatment.
What is the timezone overlap with Montreal?
Montreal is on Eastern time, nine and a half hours behind India in summer and ten and a half in winter, so our evening covers your morning. Calls go in that window; a brief sent at the end of your day is worked on during ours and is ready — in both languages where relevant — when you start.
How much does a bilingual website cost for a Montreal business?
Most business websites land between C$3,500 and C$6,500 depending on page count and complexity, invoiced in Canadian dollars; the French translation is priced as a separate, visible line item, and ecommerce or custom functionality cost more. Everything is published on this site before you get in touch.
Let’s talk about your project.
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