French Canadian (fr-CA) localization release

blog/260522-french-canadian-localization.md

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+---
+title: "Codat now speaks French"
+date: "2026-05-22"
+tags: ["Product", "Update", "Link", "Portal", "Spend Reports", "Help Hub"]
+authors: avanjani
+---
+
+We're rolling out Canadian French (fr-CA) localization across the client-facing surfaces that financial institutions and their commercial business clients use every day.
+
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+
+## What's new?
+
+On **May 22, 2026**, we are shipping a first-class Canadian French experience across Link, the Codat Portal, Spend Reports, and payment method inference. This enables our clients operating in Canada to serve French-speaking Quebec commercial businesses in line with the Charter of the French Language (Bill 96), and lays the groundwork for any future language we ship.
+
+## What's included
+
+This release covers surfaces across Link, Portal, Spend Reports and Help Hub. Canadian French is gated by a language toggle and the client's Link configuration — existing English-only deployments see no change.
+
+### Link journey
+
+Full Canadian French translation of the commercial business-facing connect flow, including:
+
+- Platform selection
+- OAuth handoff copy
+- Error states
+- In-modal language toggle (top-right, globe icon and locale code)
+
+<div
+  style={{
+    display: "flex",
+    gap: "1rem",
+    justifyContent: "center",
+    alignItems: "center",
+    flexWrap: "wrap",
+    marginBottom: "2rem",
+  }}
+>
+  <div
+    style={{
+      flex: "1",
+      minWidth: "280px",
+      display: "flex",
+      justifyContent: "center",
+    }}
+  >
+    <img
+      src="/img/updates/260522-fr-ca-link-select.png"
+      alt="Link platform selection in Canadian French, with the locale toggle visible"
+      style={{
+        maxHeight: "520px",
+        width: "auto",
+        height: "auto",
+        objectFit: "contain",
+      }}
+    />
+  </div>
+  <div
+    style={{
+      flex: "1",
+      minWidth: "280px",
+      display: "flex",
+      justifyContent: "center",
+    }}
+  >
+    <img
+      src="/img/updates/260522-fr-ca-link-consent.png"
+      alt="Link OAuth consent screen in Canadian French"
+      style={{
+        maxHeight: "520px",
+        width: "auto",
+        height: "auto",
+        objectFit: "contain",
+      }}
+    />
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+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.
+
+![Spend Insights in the Codat Portal rendered in Canadian French](/img/updates/260522-fr-ca-portal.png)
+
+### Spend Reports
+
+Spend Reports are localized — field names, labels, section headers, and static copy all render in Canadian French 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 Canadian French 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 Canadian French-ready stack to launch against — no per-client translation effort.
+
+## Who is this relevant for?
+
+This update is relevant for any client operating in Canada, and especially for financial institutions onboarding commercial businesses in Quebec who need to meet Bill 96 requirements.
+
+## How to get started?
+
+Canadian French 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