Translations

The Translations page lets you write each text of a bundle once per language your store sells in. A shopper browsing in French sees your French text. A shopper in a language you haven't translated sees your original text.

Before you start

• Publish your languages in Shopify (Settings → Languages in your Shopify admin). The language list here is your store's published languages. Markets don't change it.
• Set the bundle to Active. The page lists active bundles only. With none, it shows No bundles to translate.
• Save the original text first. A row appears only once its field has text.

Translate a bundle

Nothing is saved until you click Save, and leaving the page first discards your edits. Save writes every bundle and language on the page together. Translations belong to one bundle, so translate a sentence in each bundle that uses it.

What you can translate

A row's label is its group, a dash and the field, such as Offer #2 - Subtitle. Rows exist only for fields that have text and for add-ons that are switched on.

The eight Mix & Match - rows have no text of your own. Original text shows the built-in English wording that shoppers see until you translate it.

Not on this page:

• Highlight lines on an offer. They show as you typed them. See Highlights.
• Product names, option names and prices. They come from your products.
• The discount name at checkout. It comes from the offer's original Title.
• A few built-in messages. For example, Sorry, this is not currently available. shows in English when the selected variant isn't available.
• Bundle Builder. This page covers Quantity Break bundles only. A bundle builder shows the text you typed whatever language the shopper uses, and a few built-in words on it, such as Total and the item counts, are English only.

Auto-translate

Click Auto-translate in a bundle's header to fill every row of that bundle for the language in Translate into.

• Google Translate does it. The bundle's original texts are sent to Google, which treats them as English.
• It overwrites. Every row of that bundle, A/B versions included, gets the new text — even rows you typed or saved earlier. Other languages and other bundles are untouched.
• It doesn't save. Auto-translation completed means the boxes are filled. Check them, then click Save. To undo, reload without saving.
• It's free to use. It's part of your plan, with no credits and a daily limit of about 500,000 characters per store.

Each text is translated on its own, without the offer around it, and variables aren't protected. Check that every {{variable}} is intact and that short labels, such as the Mix & Match rows, read correctly.

When Auto-translate fails, a red banner at the top of the page says why:

For any other message, try again later or translate by hand.

What shoppers see

• The language of the page they're on. Shopify tells the offer which language the page is in, and the offer uses the translation saved under that code, such as fr or pt-BR (case doesn't matter). Shopify and your theme choose the page's language, not this page.
• Your original text where there's no translation. This works row by row, and an empty box counts as none.
• Variables still work. A translation is processed like the original, so {{saved_percentage}}, {{timer}} and other text variables fill in. Copy each exactly and translate only the words around it. The boxes have no variables icon, so type or paste them.
• New text is live when you save. Reload the product page. Storefront pages can stay cached for a few minutes.
• The editor preview never shows translations. To check, open a product page, switch to the language with your theme's language selector and read each text on the offer block.

A/B tests

While a bundle runs an A/B test, its rows are grouped by version, with a line between groups. Labels start with Variant A (Control) -, Variant B - or Variant C -.

• The block title and the offers, with their gift and upsell texts, are listed once per version.
• Everything else (progressive gifts, subscriptions, timer, social proof, scratch text, sticky bar) is shared. It is listed once, under Variant A (Control), and applies to every version.
• The Mix & Match rows have no version.

If version B or C wins when you end the test, it becomes your bundle but its translations don't move with it. Open Translations and check every row of that bundle: some may be empty, and the block title may still hold the translation of the old one.

When you change a bundle later

A translation belongs to an offer's field, not to its wording or position.

If it isn't working