- Does Delam support Quebec French (fr-CA)?
- Yes. The patient app and dashboard ship in English and Canadian French out of the box. All automated messages (SMS, email, push) respect the patient's language preference, and the AI front desk handles bilingual calls.
- What is the best software for medspas in Canada?
- Delam is the best medspa software for Canadian clinics, the only medical spa software purpose-built for PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25 (P-39.1), PHIPA, and Quebec R-22.1 with data residency in Canada. You get first-class bilingual (en-CA + fr-CA) support, Interac payments, Canadian tax (GST/HST/QST), and CAD pricing from CA$299/month.
- Is Delam PIPEDA and Quebec Law 25 compliant?
- Yes. PIPEDA is live today with Canadian data residency. Delam meets Quebec Law 25 (P-39.1) for explicit consent, 72-hour breach notification, and automated-decision transparency, and handles PHIPA consent capture for Ontario clinics.
- Does Delam support Interac and Canadian payments?
- Yes. Delam uses Stripe Canada with Interac Online, Interac e-Transfer reconciliation, Visa Debit, and all major cards. Clinic payouts are deposited in CAD to Canadian bank accounts, and tax configuration handles GST, HST, PST, and QST automatically per province.
- Does Delam handle Quebec French (fr-CA) natively?
- Yes. The patient app, staff app, and dashboard ship bilingual out of the box. SMS, email, push notifications, and receipts respect the patient's language preference. The AI front desk handles bilingual calls and escalates to French-speaking staff when configured.
- Where is my clinic and patient data stored?
- Patient data lives in Canada (ca-central-1 region). Any cross-border transfer (say, to AI services based in the United States) follows a documented privacy impact assessment (PIA), sits under standard data-protection clauses, and gets disclosed in the clinic privacy notice.
- Does Delam work in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, and Alberta?
- Yes. Delam serves clinics in every Canadian province and territory. Provincial tax rules (HST in ON, GST+QST in QC, GST+PST in BC, GST in AB) are configured per location, and provincial health-information regulations (PHIPA in ON, Quebec R-22.1 in QC, PIPA in BC/AB) are honored by default.
- Can I migrate from a US-based medspa tool to Delam?
- Yes. Delam imports patients, appointments, memberships, notes, and payment methods from most major medspa and PMS platforms. Migration typically completes within one week with zero patient re-onboarding required.
- Do I need a Canadian business number to use Delam?
- You need a Canadian business number and Canadian bank account to accept CAD payouts through Stripe Canada. Delam's onboarding team helps you configure Stripe Connect, GST/HST/QST registration in your tax settings, and Quebec Law 25 consent flows before go-live.
- Is Delam AODA and WCAG 2.1 AA compliant?
- Yes. The patient booking portal, business dashboard, and mobile apps meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA as required by AODA. That includes semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, screen-reader labels, sufficient color contrast, and 44-pixel minimum touch targets.
- How much does Delam cost in Canadian dollars?
- Delam Starter is CA$299/month for a single location up to 500 clients. Growth is CA$499/month for multi-location and unlimited clients. Enterprise is custom. All pricing is quoted and invoiced in CAD. Setup fees are waived for early Canadian partners.
- Does Delam support bilingual SMS and email?
- Yes. Every workflow in Delam's medspa automation software ships in English (en-CA) and Canadian French (fr-CA). Patient communication, segmented SMS, email marketing, push notifications, and abandoned cart recovery all read the patient's preferredLanguage field, never guessing. The AI front desk handles bilingual calls in the same session, so a French patient gets French copy across every surface.
- Does Delam support Canadian payroll?
- Yes. Delam exports to Wagepoint, QuickBooks Canada, and ADP Canada. Stat holidays, provincial overtime thresholds, and Quebec-specific pay rules are built in.
- Does Delam's data stay in Canada?
- Yes. Delam stores all clinic and patient data in AWS Canada (Central), the ca-central-1 region. Backups, file storage, and the PIPEDA medspa software audit trail live inside Canadian borders. Anonymized data routed to cross-border AI services only runs after a documented privacy impact assessment, with identifiers stripped and standard contractual clauses in place.
- What happens if there's a breach?
- PIPEDA's Breach of Security Safeguards Regulations require notifying affected individuals and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada for any breach with real risk of significant harm. Delam ships the notification workflow built in: a 72-hour internal escalation clock, a prewritten patient notice template, and a breach register with retention of two years. Quebec Law 25 follows the same 72-hour outer bound, so the strictest rule wins.
- Can patients request their records?
- Yes. PIPEDA Principle 9 and Principle 10 grant patients the right to access and correct their personal information. Delam exposes a patient access workflow in the branded app and a clinic-side handler in the dashboard, so staff can export a patient's full record in CSV or JSON within thirty days. Every access request is logged to the PIPEDA medspa software audit trail.
- Does Delam meet Quebec's stricter rules?
- Yes. Quebec Law 25 (P-39.1) is stricter than PIPEDA on consent, automated-decision transparency, and breach notification. The strictest rule wins, so Delam's PIPEDA medspa software stack also satisfies Law 25 by default. Quebec-specific surfaces, automated-decision disclosures on AI calls, bilingual fr-CA consent templates, cross-border PIA, ship with the platform.
- What is Quebec Law 25?
- Quebec Law 25, also known as Bill 64 and P-39.1, is Quebec's private-sector privacy law. It rolled out in three phases: September 2022 (designated privacy officer, breach notification), September 2023 (consent rules, automated-decision transparency, cross-border PIA), and September 2024 (data portability). Any Quebec Law 25 medspa handling personal information of Quebec residents has to comply, even if the clinic sits in another province.
- What about data transferred out of Quebec?
- Law 25 requires a documented privacy impact assessment before any personal information leaves Quebec. Delam runs the PIA before enabling any cross-border feature, evaluates the foreign legal regime, applies standard contractual clauses, strips direct identifiers before AI inference, and discloses the transfer in the clinic privacy notice. The PIA is retained in the Quebec Law 25 medspa audit trail for regulator review.
- Does Delam support Canadian French?
- Yes. Delam is bilingual medspa software built on en-CA and fr-CA from day one, not a late-stage translation layer. The branded patient app, staff mobile app, business dashboard, booking flow, consent forms, SMS, email, push notifications, receipts, invoices, and AI front desk all ship in both languages out of the box. Every surface respects the patient's preferredLanguage field.
- What about Bill 96?
- Quebec Bill 96, the 2022 update to the Charter of the French Language, requires French-as-primary service in Quebec. Bilingual medspa software has to present French as equally prominent, not buried behind an English default. Delam respects Bill 96 by defaulting Quebec clinics to fr-CA primary across the booking flow, staff dashboard, and patient app, with English available on request. Receipts print in French with English translations available.