French Canadian (fr-CA) localization release

blog/260522-french-canadian-localization.md

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+---
+title: "Codat now speaks Canadian French"
+date: "2026-05-22"
+tags: ["Product", "Update", "Link", "Portal"]
+authors: avanjani
+---
+
+We're rolling out Quebec French (fr-CA) localization across the client-facing surfaces that financial institutions and their SMB clients use every day.
+
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+
+## What's new?
+
+On **May 22, 2026**, we are shipping a first-class fr-CA experience across Link, the Codat Portal, customer-facing reports, and payment method inference. This enables our clients operating in Canada to serve French-speaking Quebec SMBs in line with the Charter of the French Language (Bill 96), and lays the groundwork for any future language we ship.
+
+All fr-CA copy has been reviewed by French-speaking reviewers, so the language reflects real Quebec banking terminology rather than generic machine translation.
+
+## What's included
+
+This release covers four client-facing surfaces. fr-CA is gated by a language toggle and the client's Link configuration — existing English-only deployments see no change.
+
+### Link journey
+
+Full fr-CA translation of the SMB-facing connect flow, including:
+
+- Platform selection
+- OAuth handoff copy
+- Error states
+- In-modal language toggle (top-right, globe icon and locale code)
+
+![Link platform selection in fr-CA, with the locale toggle visible](/img/updates/260522-fr-ca-link-select.png)
+
+![Link OAuth consent screen in fr-CA](/img/updates/260522-fr-ca-link-consent.png)
+
+Supported integrations in this release:
+
+- QuickBooks Online
+- QuickBooks Desktop
+- NetSuite
+- Sage Intacct
+- Dynamics 365 Business Central
+- Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations
+- Workday
+- FreshBooks
+- Xero
+- All intelligent upload flows
+
+### Portal UI
+
+The Spend Insights, Companies, and Create Company surfaces are translated end-to-end, with locale-aware date and number formatting. The most-used advisor pages are now available in French.
+
+![Spend Insights in the Codat Portal rendered in fr-CA](/img/updates/260522-fr-ca-portal.png)
+
+### Spend Reports
+
+Customer-facing Spend Reports are localized — field names, labels, section headers, and static copy all render in fr-CA when the report is generated for a French locale client. The underlying data remains language-independent, and CSV exports stay locale-neutral for downstream pipelines.
+
+### Payment method inference
+
+Payment method mapping inference now handles fr-CA source data, so ERP exports with French account names, categories, and descriptions map correctly into Codat's canonical schema without manual cleanup.
+
+## Why it matters
+
+- **Compliance, not just translation.** Bill 96 requires that French experiences be available with comparable quality to English across customer-facing digital products. This release meets the customer-facing bar.
+- **Ready for Canadian FIs.** Any client with Quebec operations now has a fr-CA-ready stack to launch against — no per-client translation effort.
+- **Foundation for multilingual.** The localization infrastructure built here — string catalogs, locale toggle, and the client review workflow — is the platform for any future language we ship.
+
+## Who is this relevant for?
+
+This update is relevant for any client operating in Canada, and especially for financial institutions onboarding SMBs in Quebec who need to meet Bill 96 requirements.
+
+## How to get started?
+
+fr-CA is opt-in per client at the configuration level. To enable it for your deployment, [contact Codat support](mailto:support@codat.io). We'll work with you to align on the pages and integrations in scope before enabling.

blog/authors.yml

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   title: Technical Lead
   url: https://github.com/annasavinovacodat
   image_url: https://github.com/annasavinovacodat.png
+
+avanjani:
+  name: Amit Vanjani
+  title: Principal Product Manager
+  url: https://github.com/avanjani-codat
+  image_url: https://github.com/avanjani-codat.png