Translating Your Products

Overview

Product information translation is manual. You can either translate in the Admin or with a CSV file. Certain things can be translated and others can not. This tutorial will guide you through this process.

What Can And Can Not Be Translated

What Can Be Translated

• Name
• URL Key
• Overview (short description)
• Description
• Images
• Custom Attributes (Type = Text, WYSIWYG or Yes/No)*
• Customization Titles and Select Options
• Bundle Item Titles
• Downloadable Item Titles
• SEO Meta Data
• Some 3rd Party Product Attributes

* Values for DropDown and Multi-Select attributes can be translated in Products>Attributes

What Can Not Be Translated

• SKU
• Prices
• Inventory
• Categories
• Related Products
• Design Template*

* The Design Template itself can be translated in Edit My Design

Translating Product Information in the Admin

Step 1

Start by going to Products > Product List then clicking into a product.
You then change the Language view in the top right hand corner to the language that you want to add translations for.

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What is "Default"?

Default is the Default Language as specified in Setup > Localization > Manage Languages. We call it "Default" because if your other languages do not have translations, it will fall-back and display the data from the "Default" language.

Step 2

Once a language is selected, the product edit screen will show you only the information that you have the ability to translate.

Recommendations

If you have a multi-language store, we highly recommend the translation of your product data. Specifically we recommend ensuring each product have the following information translated:

• Name
• URL Key
• Overview & Description
• SEO Meta Data

Furthermore, we highly recommend using our Multi-Language SEO Feature to further improve the reach of your store to your Multi-Language and/or Mult-National audience.

Importing Translations via CSV File

Any of the above product data can be translated with a CSV file. The format is the same as can be found in the Importing Products tutorial series but to translate a row, you must add the column header _store

The value for _store must be the "Language Code" found in Setup > Localization > Manage Languages

See below for sample CSV

Translation by Google

NOTE: This does not "Translate" your store and provides no SEO benefit.

If you do want your users to have a rudimentary way of translating your store, Google offers it's Language Selector as a widget that can by copy/pasted into an HTML Block in Edit My Design.

https://support.google.com/translate/answer/2534601?hl=en