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Software development in France

Softwise builds ERP integrations, AI workflow automation, mobile apps, and SaaS platforms for clients in France. The work is done by 20+ in-house developers covering iOS, Android, data, and AI, with no subcontracting, delivered remotely from the head office in Tunis in French, English, or Arabic. France is one of the markets behind Softwise's 100+ delivered clients, alongside Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Canada.

What we build

What we build for French clients

The same catalogue as every other market, delivered by the same in-house team of 20+ developers.

  • ERP and CRM integrations
  • AI workflow automation
  • SaaS and multi-tenant
  • French-language delivery

ERP, CRM, and back-office data

ERP integrations, custom CRM builds, and Salesforce or HubSpot wired into the systems around them. An integration layer means each system integrates once, so replacing one of them later does not break the others. Data engineers sit on the same team as the application developers.

AI inside the workflow you already run

Automation and AI added between an inbox, a form, or a queue and the system of record you already use, writing through the interfaces your staff use today. The judgment stays with people: extraction is reviewed or sampled before it commits, and accuracy is measured before anything is trusted.

SaaS platforms and mobile apps

SaaS platforms covering authentication, roles, billing, dashboards, and multi-tenancy, plus native iOS and Android applications built by in-house mobile engineers. Work ships in tested increments, so the product can be steered while it is being built.

Regulatory

Where GDPR meets the architecture

The parts of the regulation that change how a system is built, and how we approach them.

Where the data lives

The GDPR governs how personal data is collected, stored, and transferred, including outside the EU. That is answered with architecture rather than a policy document: which region the database runs in, what crosses a border, what a backup replicates, and which third-party service sees what. The decisions are made with you and written down, so where your data lives is a fact rather than a guess.

Data subject rights as features

Access, rectification, erasure, and portability are requests your system has to be able to answer. Built in from the start they are ordinary features: find everything about one person, export it, correct it, delete it. Retrofitted into a schema that never planned for them, the same requests turn into manual database work every time one arrives.

Collect less, log carefully

Data minimisation is a design constraint, not a compliance checkbox: fields that are not collected cannot leak, and logs that do not record personal data do not need a retention policy of their own. Retention windows and what gets written to application logs are decided during the build, with you, not discovered during an audit.

Work

Delivered in Lyon and Paris

Two French engagements: an ERP integration that ended double data entry, and AI put inside a claims workflow without replacing it.

The project

A B2B distributor near Lyon selling through a web storefront, with ERPNext running purchasing, inventory, and invoicing, and a third-party warehouse shipping the orders.

The outcome

Re-keyed orders eliminated, stock on the storefront near real time instead of day-old

Systems

ERPNext (Frappe framework), e-commerce storefront, 3PL warehouse API

The project

An insurance services firm in Paris processing claims at volume. Every claim arrived as a bundle of PDFs and photos by email. Staff read each document, typed fields into the claims system, and routed the file to the right handler.

The outcome

Intake cut from days to hours, staff hours moved from transcription to claim handling

Approach

AI extraction with human review, shadow-mode validation before go-live

How we work

How we work with French clients

Working with us

Language, hours, and travel, stated plainly rather than implied.

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Working in French

Requirements, reviews, and day-to-day questions run in French, with the same in-house engineers who are building the product. English and Arabic are available on the same team, so a mixed-language stakeholder group is not a problem.

  • French
  • English
  • Arabic
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Working hours

Tunis matches Paris in winter and runs an hour behind it in summer, so a French working day and a Tunis working day are effectively the same day. Calls, reviews, and answers land inside your hours rather than a message behind them.

  • Within an hour of Paris
  • Full-day overlap
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Travel and the office

Remote by default, with travel to your location when a project calls for it. One office, in Tunis, and no office in France.

  • Remote, with travel
  • Tunis head office
  • No French office
FAQs

France questions

Straight answers, including where the answer is no. Ask us directly.

Yes. France is one of the markets Softwise has delivered in, out of 100+ clients across Tunisia, France, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Canada. Delivery is remote from the head office in Tunis, in French, English, or Arabic, with travel to France when a project calls for it.

Yes. Softwise delivers in French, English, and Arabic. Requirements, specifications, reviews, and day-to-day communication run in French with the same in-house engineers who are building the product. French-language interfaces are scoped as part of the build rather than treated as a translation task added at the end.

Data location is an architecture decision made with you, not a default: which region the database runs in, what crosses a border, what backups replicate, and which third-party services see what. The GDPR governs how personal data is collected, stored, and transferred, so those choices are documented against your requirements and reviewed with you before launch.

Yes. Softwise connected a Lyon distributor's ERPNext instance to its e-commerce storefront and third-party warehouse, so orders, stock, and invoices flow automatically in both directions. A middleware layer owns every flow, which means each system integrates once and replacing one of them later leaves the others untouched.

Yes. The pattern is an AI layer between an input and the existing system of record, writing through the interfaces the current process already uses. Softwise built exactly that for a Paris insurance firm: documents are extracted automatically, a person approves each one, and the claims system never changed.

No. Softwise has one office, in Tunis, Tunisia, and no French entity, SIRET, or local phone number. Delivery is remote, in French or English, with travel to France when a project calls for it. Tunis matches Paris time in winter and is an hour behind in summer, so the working day overlaps almost entirely.