🌐 Make your Shopify site multilingual

🌍 1. Enable additional languages

1. Go to Shopify admin → Settings → Markets
2. Click on “Primary market”(or a specific market)
3. Scroll down to “Languages and domains”
4. Click on “Add language”
5. Choose the language (e.g. English, German, Spanish, etc.)
6. Click “Add”

🌐 2. Install a translation app

Shopify does not automatically translate all your content.

You must use a translation app.

🔧 Recommended:

Shopify Translate & Adapt (official)

• ✅ Free
• ✅ Manual + automatic translation (DeepL)
• Langify, Weglot, GTranslate(paid but more powerful)

✍️ 3. Translate your content

With the Translate & Adapt app:

• Translate manually or use automatic translation

You can translate:

• Product pages
• Titles
• Menus
• Payment pages (partially)
• SEO (meta tags)

🌐 4. Enable the language selector

1. Go to Online Store → Themes
2. Click on “Customize”
3. At the top, in the drop-down menu, click on “Header”
4. Enable the language selector
5. You can display:

• • 🌍 Available languages
  • 💱 Currency (if configured)

🔁 Example: French + English

URLs become:

• mysite.com/fr
• mysite.com/en
• Shopify automatically redirects based on the browser language if enabled

📝 Summary

Updated on: 05/08/2025