Sell in more than one language

Your store can be published in several languages — Hindi, Tamil, Arabic, French — each at its own address, with the same products and orders.

1. Add a language#

1. Go to Languages → Languages & Detection and select Add language.
2. Search the 125 languages (or add A language that is not listed with its code, name, writing direction and flag).
3. Choose Start as: Draft — only admins see it, so you can translate before anyone sees it.

2. Translate#

Languages → Translations shows everything a visitor reads, side by side with its translation — pages, products, categories, menus, buttons.

• Filter and Only untranslated find what is left. Each area shows … / … translated.
• Translate missing sends everything without a translation to a machine-translation service you connected (under Machine translation on the Languages screen). Results are marked Machine — review; your own translations are never replaced.
• Import / export — download an XLIFF, CSV or JSON file for a translator or a spreadsheet, and import it back. Rows are matched by key; empty translations are ignored.

3. Go live#

1. Set the language to Live.
2. Switch on multilingual at the top of the Languages screen. Until then, visitors see only your main language.

Addresses#

Each language gets its own addresses — /hi/… for Hindi — or its own domain (set under the language's Edit; the domain must already be connected to your store). Translated addresses gives pages and posts addresses in the language itself, from their translated titles; old addresses redirect.

Content that is not translated yet — Show the main language while you work, or Hide it (untranslated pages are then not found in that language).

How visitors land in their language#

When someone arrives — detect each visitor's preferred language on every page or the home page only, from signals in your order: Browser languages, Country, Earlier choice. A visitor's own choice is remembered for the days you set. Test a visitor shows what someone would get.

Where visitors can change language — in the header and phone menu, at the bottom of the footer, or a floating button; shown as a dropdown or side by side, as Español, Spanish or ES. Flags stand for countries, not languages — off is usually clearer.

Search engines#

Every page tells search engines about its language versions with hreflang tags. Default for everyone else sets the version for searchers whose language you do not have.

Pair with currencies#

Selling abroad? Set each currency to follow a store language — /fr pages in euros.