BooknBuddy runs your kennel, daycare, grooming salon, training school or dog walking business in Canadian French and English. Your booking page, the client app, your staff screens, the emails, texts and invoices all switch to French, and each client gets their own language. It is built for the French-language rules Québec businesses work under (Bill 96), with GST and QST on French invoices.
It is not a translated home page with an English app behind it. The whole product is in French.
Pension, garderie, toilettage, dressage, promenades, visites à domicile, garde à domicile and more. The client books start to finish in French.
Pets, vaccines, bookings, packages, payments and daily photo updates. There is an English / Français switch on the page.
Desktop admin, the phone app, the Grooming Hub, the walks board, payroll, the time clock and Settings. Your team works in French too.
Confirmations, reminders, payment requests and receipts go out in the client's language. Copies to the shop go out in the shop's language.
French invoices, printable receipts and PDFs, with price lines and tax names in French: TPS, TVH and TVQ.
A Québec shop can sign up for BooknBuddy in French and read our terms and privacy policy in French. Its BooknBuddy bills come in French too.
Montréal shops serve both. A client who picks English keeps English, and the francophone family down the street gets everything in French from the same shop, on the same day.
Bill 96 strengthened the Charter of the French Language. For a business serving Québec clients, it means French has to be there when clients deal with you and when your staff do their work. This is where BooknBuddy covers that.
| What the rules ask for | In BooknBuddy |
|---|---|
| Clients can deal with you in French: your website, booking and the information you give them | Your booking page, client portal and app all run in French. Clients switch with one tap. |
| Invoices, receipts and similar business documents in French | French invoices, receipts and PDFs, with French price lines and TPS / TVQ. |
| Standard contracts and terms offered in French | Our own terms for your shop are in French. Waivers and policies you write show as you wrote them, so write them in French. |
| Software your staff use available in French | The admin, the phone app, grooming, walks, payroll and Settings are all in French. |
| Messages to clients in French | Emails, texts and push notifications go out in the client's language, French by default for a French shop. |
This is general information, not legal advice. What applies to your business depends on its size and what you sell. The Office québécois de la langue française has the official guidance.
Yes. BooknBuddy runs in Canadian French and English: booking pages for every service, the client portal and app, staff screens, emails, texts and invoices. Each client gets their own language.
It covers the software side: French booking, French client communication, French invoices and receipts, and French screens for your staff. Text you write yourself, like waivers and policies, shows as you wrote it, so write it in French. For legal questions about your business, check with the OQLF or a lawyer.
Yes. Each client picks English or Français, and their emails and texts follow that choice. Clients who have not chosen get your shop's default language.
Yes. French invoices and receipts show the taxes as TPS and TVQ, with amounts written the Québec way, like 45,00 $.
Yes. The desktop admin, the phone app, the Grooming Hub, the walks board, payroll and Settings all run in French.
CAD $39.99 a month for every feature, with a 30-day free trial. See Flex Pricing for the details.
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Start a free 30-day trial and sign up in French. Set your shop's default language, and see your first booking confirmation go out in French.
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