Shopify is the best platform for creating a multilingual online store, as it offers the translation option with the help of different translation apps. Merchants are allowed to choose the most suitable one, which meets their needs and financial capabilities.
This practical guide is designed to help you navigate the process of seamlessly adding new languages to your Shopify storefront. We’ve collected the best online store translation practices on Shopify, providing you with clear, actionable steps to enhance your store’s appeal and communicate effectively with customers in their preferred languages.
Numerous language translation apps are available on Shopify App Store, both free and paid. Consider key features like full-store translation, multi-language support, diverse translation methods, and localization tools to choose the best fit for your needs.
Today, we will explore how to use these automatic translation apps to translate a website. By doing so, businesses can expand their reach to new markets and connect with customers from around the world in a way that was once impossible. However, it's important to understand the limitations of this technology and how it can be optimized for the best possible results.
One of the features that makes Shopify so versatile is its ability to allow merchants to add custom fields to products, collections, and other entities within their store. It's called "metafields". Here, you can find information on how to translate Shopify metafields for your multi-language store without a need to hire a Shopify expert for it.
It happens that your current language translation app is no longer sufficient – it is limited in the things that another translation app provides. So if this situation sounds familiar to you, this small guide can be helpful. Here, you can find how to migrate translations from the two multilingual apps, Shopify Translate & Adapt and Transcy, to LangShop.