Language redirects
LangShop allows displaying a different version of your multilingual store. You can bring customers from Canada or France to the French locale, as well as visitors who have Italian browser language to the Italian version.
There are three types of language redirects:
Store language
Browser language
Visitor country
When customers visit your online store for the first time, they see your store language, which is set by default in app settings.
This information is available in LangShop admin > Settings > Languages > Original language.
Steps:
From your LangShop admin, go to Settings > Languages.
Open Mapping.
Select Store language option in the detection type section.
You can redirect visitors automatically to the language based on their browser language.
Steps:
From your LangShop admin, go to Settings > Languages.
Open Mapping.
Select Browser language detection type.
NOTE
You can add more browser languages and link them to each language you manage in your online store. For example, customers who have French browser will get automatically redirected to the French version, if browser language is Italian, then visitors get to Italian locale.
Steps:
In the Browser language section, from the dropdown menu, select a language, which you want to redirect visitors to.
Click Add button to specify languages that will be linked to this chosen language.
NOTE
If the Visitor redirect section is missing, make sure to turn off Geolocation popup.
Steps:
From your LangShop admin, go to Settings > Switchers.
At the left sidebar panel, find Geolocation popup.
Change the visibility to Disabled.
Geolocation popup is based on auto detection mode and helps customers switch between versions manually.
Click Save.
Another option to redirect customers automatically is to enable visitor country detection type. LangShop Mapping feature allows redirect customers using geo IP detection. When customers visit your store for the first time from Spain or Mexico, they will get to Spanish version directly.
Steps:
From your LangShop admin, go to Settings > Languages.
Open Mapping.
Select Visitor country detection type.
NOTE
You can add more countries to the default list of countries that you want to enable for automatic redirection based on user location and link them to each language you have in your online store.
Steps:
In the Visitor country section, from the dropdown menu, select a language, which you want to redirect visitors to.
Click Add button to specify languages that will be linked to this chosen language.
If you want to stop using language redirects, you will need to change settings to default in Mapping.
Steps:
From your LangShop admin, go to Settings > Languages.
Open Mapping.
Click the Reset to default button.
Click Save.
There are three types of language redirects:
Store language
Browser language
Visitor country
Store language
When customers visit your online store for the first time, they see your store language, which is set by default in app settings.
This information is available in LangShop admin > Settings > Languages > Original language.
Steps:
From your LangShop admin, go to Settings > Languages.
Open Mapping.
Select Store language option in the detection type section.
Browser language
You can redirect visitors automatically to the language based on their browser language.
Steps:
From your LangShop admin, go to Settings > Languages.
Open Mapping.
Select Browser language detection type.
NOTE
You can add more browser languages and link them to each language you manage in your online store. For example, customers who have French browser will get automatically redirected to the French version, if browser language is Italian, then visitors get to Italian locale.
Steps:
In the Browser language section, from the dropdown menu, select a language, which you want to redirect visitors to.
Click Add button to specify languages that will be linked to this chosen language.
NOTE
If the Visitor redirect section is missing, make sure to turn off Geolocation popup.
Steps:
From your LangShop admin, go to Settings > Switchers.
At the left sidebar panel, find Geolocation popup.
Change the visibility to Disabled.
Geolocation popup is based on auto detection mode and helps customers switch between versions manually.
Click Save.
Visitor country
Another option to redirect customers automatically is to enable visitor country detection type. LangShop Mapping feature allows redirect customers using geo IP detection. When customers visit your store for the first time from Spain or Mexico, they will get to Spanish version directly.
Steps:
From your LangShop admin, go to Settings > Languages.
Open Mapping.
Select Visitor country detection type.
NOTE
You can add more countries to the default list of countries that you want to enable for automatic redirection based on user location and link them to each language you have in your online store.
Steps:
In the Visitor country section, from the dropdown menu, select a language, which you want to redirect visitors to.
Click Add button to specify languages that will be linked to this chosen language.
If you want to stop using language redirects, you will need to change settings to default in Mapping.
Steps:
From your LangShop admin, go to Settings > Languages.
Open Mapping.
Click the Reset to default button.
Click Save.
Updated on: 01/12/2023
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