Hi,

I have a client that is opening a location in Quebec, and would like a French version of Adagio installed at that location. Is Adagio available in French?

Thank you,

Hello R Pope,

No, there isn’t a French version of Adagio.

Ok, thank you.

Does this include report customization? Is it possible to edit reports (Invoices, etc) to output in French?

You can create a specific file(s) so that the form is in French but the fill in field where the data comes from Adagio will be in English though.

In AR & AP you can enter specific customer and vendor names & addresses in French.

Not perfect by any means but your client's customers will appreciate the effort. I believe the Quebec's French language laws still allow English for technology and with few exceptions amongst that older generations, everyone speaks and reads both English and French.

Hello R Pope,

Yes, to confirm what Doug has said, you can create CustomReports or ModifiedReports.

For form printing, you can make the labels French. However, except for the language setting on a Payables Bank that controls the printing of the check amount, form printing will be in English.

Thank you...appreciate it.

Converting the Standard Reports to Modified Reports to change the language would be a big job. You would also have to redo those reports every time Softrak updated them. I would suggest this would be an expense your client is unwilling to take on.

Most certainly:) Report wise, they are looking for anything that they would supply to a customer or a vendor to be in French....like invoices and cheques.

Invoices and cheques are both customizable and can be provided in French. Additionally, customers and vendors can have specific forms attached to their records, making the selection of the correct form more likely.

If you ever need boots on the ground in Quebec, there are very few knowledgeable consultants left in Quebec for two reasons: (1) Quebec language laws make English-only software less desirable in Quebec and (2) Softrak has never acknowledged that with dealer sales requirements being the same in Quebec as in the rest of Canada.

Having worked with Adagio for many years in Quebec before retiring, I concur with all the suggestions and advice provided above. Most of what you send to customers and vendors (invoices and purchase orders) could be entirely in French. Statements and cheques take a bit of Crystal tweaking, not necessarily needing extensive, if any modification with each Adagio upgrade (assuming that there will be future Adagio upgrades.) It would only be your internal people required to work with English software. Clients and vendors would never know that their French language documents were created with English software.

Before going ahead, I strongly suggest that you discuss French language legislation - especially Bill 96 with your client. Bill 96 was recently adopted in Quebec, but many of the associated regulations have not yet been defined or implemented.

Before Bill 96 in Quebec, the regulations said that if software was available in French, that option must be available to any user. This effectively gave an exemption to Adagio, especially in work environments that were predominantly English. Bill 96 could change this as its associated regulations are defined and implemented. For an example of how confusing this is and how, as recently as this week, there has been confusion, check this link.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2905316