# Sell in more than one language

> Add languages, translate your store side by side or with machine translation, choose addresses and how visitors land in their language.

Product: NijeesWeb online store builder · Source: https://www.nijeesweb.com/docs/ecommerce/settings/languages · Updated 2026-10-06

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

![Languages](https://www.nijeesweb.com/marketing/img/docs/ecommerce/admin/languages-1200.webp "Languages: the multilingual switch, your languages, and tabs for addresses, detection, the switcher and machine translation")

## 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.

![Translations](https://www.nijeesweb.com/marketing/img/docs/ecommerce/admin/translations-1200.webp "Translations: everything a visitor reads, with its translation")

- **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](https://www.nijeesweb.com/docs/ecommerce/payments/currencies) to follow a store language — `/fr` pages in euros.