[Shopify] Languages
Add new languages
You can add additional languages in LangShop to your Shopify store.
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adding new languages
publishing languages
connecting languages to domains
Adding new languages
Steps:
From your LangShop admin, go to Settings Languages.
Click Add language.PopularManage languages
After you add languages in LangShop (first installation) to your online store, by default, translated languages have published status, and they are visible on your storefront.
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Publish languages
Unpublish languages
Delete languages
Publish languages
When you add a new language to your online store, recentlyFew readersInternational domains
You can connect additional languages to a primary domain myshop.com/fr, myshop.com/es, or connect languages to regional domains or subdomains (third-party domains).
For example, you can connect English and French locales to myshop.com and sell products for the North American market. Meanwhile, myshop.es (or es.myshop.com) will display translated content for Spanish-speaking countries.
NOTE
International domains are not available to stores on the Shopify Lite planSome readersLanguage 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
Store language
When customers visit your online store for the first time, they see your store langPopular
[Shopify] Currencies
Add new currencies
You can add additional currencies to your online store for customers to convert prices.
Note
LangShop currencies are unavailable for stores with two or more Markets.
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Adding new currencies
Editing money formats
Adding new currencies
Steps:
From your LangShop admin, go to Settings Currencies.
Click Add.
Select currencies from the list.
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You can enable LangShop currencies in your online store, convert and display prices to international customers.
Make sure to set up LangShop currency formatting in your Shopify admin.
Steps:
Go to Shopify Settings Store details Store currency.
Click Change formatting
It opens four available currency formatting types that you can use in different parts of your online storeFew readersManage currencies
You can manage currencies in LangShop, set custom exchange rates using Fixer API, which integrates directly into LangShop, change currency formatting, and delete currencies you no longer use in your online store.
Note
LangShop currencies are unavailable for stores with two or more Markets.
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Setting up custom exchange rates (1-setting-up-custom-exchangFew readersEdit currencies
If you operate your store in multiple currencies, you can edit each currency’s title and icon.
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Editing currency title
Changing currency icon
Editing currency title
You can ediFew readersCurrency redirects
LangShop allows set up automatic currency redirects. You can display Euro, the official currency, for customers from European countries. Otherwise, link each currency you manage in your Online Store to a browser language.
Note
LangShop multi currency feature, as well as a currency switcher and redirects are unavailable for stores with 2 or more markets.
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Store currency
Browser language
Selected languageFew readers
[Shopify] Language & currency switcher
Adding a language and currency switcher
You can add a language and currency switcher to your online store and allow your international customers to change language and/or currency for convenient shopping on your website.
But first, you need to ensure LangShop app is enabled in App embeds for your current theme.
Note
Stores with 2 and more Markets can’t add LangShop currencies, as Shopify takes currency management via Shopify Markets. It meanPopularCustomizing a language and currency switcher
You can style the language and currency switcher by changing the colors, applying new fonts, adjusting the switcher's position, and applying some extra customizations for the button to perfectly match your store design.
Note
For users with old switcher design (customized before November 2022), the switchers will look and work the same as before, until you add and save any changes to switchers or geolocation popup (autodetection).
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Switcher visibility (1-switcher-vPopularSwitcher tag (DEV MODE)
You can adjust the switcher to a custom position (header, footer, navigation menu) in your online store using switcher tag.
A switcher tag allows you to display the switcher on a non-default place in your store, for example, navigation or sidebar menu, most commonly used for mobile devices. Each switcher you add to the store has its unique identification number, which generates automatically.
Steps:
From your LangShop admin, go to Settings Switchers.
At the left sidebarFew readersGuide to the new language and currency switcher
LangShop introduces a new design of language and currency switchers. In this article you can learn what has changed.
Note
Old switchers’ and redirects' customizations stay unchanged, unless any new changes are added and saved. It means that your already customized switchers will look and work the same as before, until you add and save any changes to switchers or autodetection (previously language and cSome readers
Translation Engines
DeepL Pro
You can translate your Shopify store with a DeepL Pro translation option.
NOTE 🇨🇳
Currently, DeepL Translator supports English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmål) and Chinese (Simplified) languages.
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getting API key (1-getting-aPopularOpenAI
How to Use OpenAI (ChatGPT) Translation 😉
We are excited to announce that LangShop now supports OpenAI translation, in addition to Google Translate and DeepL.
How to get API key from OpenAI?
How to enable API key in the app?
How to get API key from OpenAI 💡
Log in to your OpenAI Account by following the link: https://platform.openai.com
Choose Settings =Limit =Check if your ratFew readersGoogle Cloud Translation
You can translate your Shopify store with a Google Cloud Translation option instead of using more than five automatic options, which may cause incorrect spelling, meaning, or grammar mistakes.
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getting API key
enabling API key in the app
Getting API key 🤔
You can translate your Shopify/Magento store with LangShop with one pro translation option. For this, you need to have a paid account on the Google CloudFew readers
[Shopify] Flow Translation
[Shopify] Abilities
Export & Import
It's much easier to work in spreadsheets with multilingual content having hundreds of products in your online store. LangShop offers a paid export & import ability that gives you access to export translations in CSV or PO file formats and import them back after you've managed your translated texts in one file.
TIP
Get to know the app better, learn more about exporting product translations (https://laFew readersPRO Translation
LangShop integrates with Google and DeepL pro translation engines that can improve the quality of your translations. Using only one pro engine, you can get a greater output of your multilingual content with accurate translations, fewer grammar mistakes, and spelling errors.
TIP
Get to know the app better, learn more about Google.
TIP
Get to know the app better, learn more about DeepL (https://langshop.crisp.help/Few readersTranslation suggestions
If you are using an AI machine translation tool and automatic translation, LangShop offers translation suggestions where you can select the most efficient translation for your online store.
NOTE
Translation suggestions are not available on the LangShop Free plan.
LangShop uses multiple translation engines. These engines help you faster complete the translation process in your online store. However, some of them may cause incorrect spelling or meaning, bring mistranslations to yourFew readersAgency Translation
The Agency Translation ability gives you access to submit orders to native speakers from the TextMaster agency, who will be in charge of your translations. You will receive high-quality translations within 48 to 72 business hours which you can import directly to your Shopify store.
TIP
Get to know the app better, learn more about Agency Translation.Few readersAI Translation
AI Translation tool plays an essential role in translating store's content using a bulk action. This ability significantly faster completes the translation process in your Shopify store, and you don't have to spend a lot of time on manual editing.
Having hundreds of products in your inventory that require translation into multiple languages, LangShop uses machine translation engines that autoFew readersTranslation history
LangShop keeps the translation history of all changes that you've made to your multilingual content. Whenever you edit your product title, description, metadata, the home page, navigation menu, the app will save your translation adjustments in its database.
NOTE
The translation history ability is not available on the LangShop Free plan.
If, for some reason, you launched automatic translation for products, manually edited the collection's description, and you need to get previous trFew readers