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Websites and web apps built for the French market
A site that sells in France is written in French from the first draft, accepts the payment methods French customers use, and carries the legal pages French law expects. We build all three in — and you manage the whole project in English.
What "built for France" means in practice
These are the five points where sites made abroad usually fail in front of French customers. They are included in every project, not sold as extras.
Localized, not translated
A French website is not your English site run through a translator. Page structure, wording, examples, even the order of arguments change: French buyers read a site differently and expect different reassurances. Our French-native team writes the site directly in French, for French readers.
E-commerce built for French payment habits
Carte Bancaire is the default way French customers pay online, and PayPal remains a strong second. We configure checkout flows around these habits — payment methods, delivery expectations, VAT-inclusive pricing — so your store feels normal to a French shopper instead of foreign.
GDPR and French legal pages by default
Every site we ship includes what French law and the GDPR require: mentions légales, privacy policy, cookie consent that actually complies, and terms of sale for e-commerce. You do not have to know French regulations; that is our job.
Hosting in Europe
Your site is hosted on European infrastructure. That keeps data transfers simple under GDPR, keeps load times short for visitors in France, and avoids the compliance questions that come with hosting European customer data overseas.
Maintenance after launch
Updates, backups, security patches and small evolutions are covered by a monthly maintenance contract. A French site you cannot update yourself should not depend on someone in your team learning French.
A standard, maintainable stack
We build with Next.js, React and Node for custom projects, WordPress for editorial sites and Shopify for e-commerce. Nothing exotic: if you ever change agencies, any competent developer can take over. Since 2017 we have delivered more than 1,200 projects on this stack.
The same team builds full web applications when a site is not enough — client portals, booking systems, product configurators, internal tools connected to your existing systems. These are scoped and quoted individually, beyond the range of a standard e-commerce project.
How we run a build
Scoping call in English
We go through your product, your existing site, your target customers in France and what the site needs to do: generate leads, sell online, or support a sales team.
Structure and content plan
We define the page tree and what each page must say — decided with the French market in mind, not copied from your home site. You validate before anything is designed.
Design and French copywriting
Design adapted from your existing brand, copy written natively in French. You review English back-translations of the key pages so you always know what your site says.
Development and compliance
We build on Next.js, React, WordPress or Shopify depending on the project, then add the legal pages, cookie consent and analytics setup required in France.
Launch and handover
We deploy on European hosting, connect your domain, submit the site to Google, and hand you documentation in English. Maintenance continues monthly if you want it to.
Frequently asked questions
A site is the first step, not the last
Once the French site is live, it needs visitors. Most of our clients pair the build with SEO on Google.fr for the long term and Google Ads campaigns in France for immediate traffic. If your messaging itself needs adapting before it goes on a French site, that is the job of our brand localization service. And if you are still weighing the opportunity, start with our overview of entering the French market.
Planning a French version of your site?
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