You can translate your website with an embedded store into different languages to reach a broader audience all around the globe. Visitors will be able to navigate between site versions through a language switcher and choose the preferred language for shopping.
Your online store and the site where it’s added are translated separately:
- Store translation includes localizing catalog and SEO tags for products. It can be done from your store admin. We also auto-translate buttons, email notifications and invoices.
- Site translation means localizing site content.
List of available languages for translation
Currently, your store is fully translated into 36 languages: Albanian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German (Germany and Switzerland), Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (Spain and Latin America), Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. Also, it is partially translated into some other languages, and the translation process is ongoing.
You can have only one default (main) language in your store, or you can choose a default language and add additional languages. You can check the default language in Settings → General → Regional Settings:
How translating store works
Store is just a part of your online website, and you can translate it separately from the site. However, we recommend localizing both store and site for a better customer experience.
Creating a multilingual store consists of the manual translation of a product catalog and auto-translation of the store labels: buttons and the default interface text. After you enable additional languages in your store, it detects the preferred language of your customers’ browsers and automatically shows the store labels in that language.
Unique custom text like product names, descriptions, and options requires a manual translation.
Here’s a list of what you can manually translate in your store:
- Product names and descriptions
- Product options
- Product attributes
- Category names and descriptions
- Product ribbons and subtitles
- Shipping methods at checkout
- The Order comments field at checkout
- Product page title and meta description for SEO
- Legal pages
- Custom checkout fields
- And more
To translate a product catalog, you first need to enable additional languages in your store. After that, you will see additional fields in your store admin where you can add a translation. New field will appear near every store element you can localize, e.g., product description, product ribbons, legal pages:
After you add translations of your catalog, your whole store will become multilingual–visitors will see both store labels and your catalog in their preferred browser language.
See the step-by-step instructions on how to make your store multilingual →