How Do I Configure My Site To Be Multilingual?

Hello. My name is Alison. Welcome to Hopps help where we answer common questions in two minutes today, our question that we're going to be answering is how to change the language of your Shopify store?
There are different things we can do here. And I'm going to just show you what these settings are in the backend, and there are different levels to that question.
So, let's dive in here. If you go into your backend down to settings is kind of where everything lives. We're going to open up the store languages section here, let's start from the bottom up, keep it simple.
This is the language that you see when you're working into the account. If you change this from English, everything you see here will also change.
So that's really just for you and for your staff. If you go up to here, the default language, this is where you change the language that customers see.
So, I'm going to give a quick disclaimer that everyone really should have a native speaker go through after a translation has been done, because there's so much local dialect that doesn't come through in one of these just basic computer program translators, there's just too many little issues that, and you'll notice it.
If you're on Amazon or sites, you can tell the product detail pages that have just been auto-translated. They're missing something they don't, they don't read easily.
It kind of shows a less professional side. So, Shopify recommends this to everyone who really should have a native speaker and there are tons of people out there that do this and offer this service.
So, let's dive back in here. If we're changing the theme language, this is the actual theme of your store. This also affects coding.
You have to be super careful. You can break the site pretty easily. If you go in and start changing language.
And then if it messes with the coding always recommend hiring a professional for this, unless this is your thing. If you go in here and you change up, I'm not going to change it just so that we can keep it for ease of reading, but I'm going to cancel this.
You'll see all of the things in here that you have the ability to change. When you're inside of this cart, collections content, all of this will be translated.
You can change up any of this in the different languages that you want to go with. If you come back out of here, you'll see, this is going to start taking you into the coding.
This will start taking you into the actual coding for your theme. Again, this is kind of where you don't want to just play definitely worth getting a professional to do this.
The third thing which I did want to mention search function will only work in the primary language that you have for your store tags and URLs can't be translated.
So just something to keep in mind. Some people that it isn't really an issue for. One last thing here. This is where you would bring in the app translators.
And those are the things that really do the work. They will go through, translate the site and make it a little more accurate.
I guess again, doesn't also does not replace the need for a native speaker to review the site. Really quick Shopify does, you know, there is the option that people use to have multiple sites in different languages.
They do offer discount pricing for that. So just keep that in mind, that's for bigger companies, with a bigger team able to manage that kind of backend, but just know that that's available.
Okay. Thanks. Hope that helped. If you need, one-on-one help with Shopify hop on https://app.hopps.io/session/create to work with a live expert today.

How Do I Configure My Site To Be Multilingual?

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