How to AI Translate your store
With Translation Lab's AI Translator, you may translate all the translatable resources in your store automatically. Not only you can translate all the existing translatable resources with AI in your store, but with the Premium plan, you may also utilize our Auto AI Translations feature, to make sure that newly added products (or updated products) resources are also translated.
How to translate all your resources with AI Translations (One-time)
How to automatically translate new resources with Auto AI Translations (Recurring translations)
Once the AI Translations are done
To translate a given language with auto-translate in bulk:
First, make sure you have enabled the AI Translation for the language, which you wish to auto-translate, in the Languages tab:
Then, go to the AI Translatе tab in Translation Lab
Select the Languages for which you want to run the AI Translate task:
If a given lanuage is grayed out, please enable the AI Translation for the given language in the Languages tab (more details in Step 1)
Then, you can select which sections of your store you wish to translate - Proudcts, Collections, Theme resources, etc. If you wish to translate them all, simply click the Select all button:
If you wish to not translate specific parts of those sections, you may deselect them. For example, if you don't wish to translate the product names, you may click on the title button shown in the screenshot:
Now that you have selected which sections you wish to auto-translate, from the What to translate dropdown, you may select whether you wish to translate resources that don't have tranlsation, resources with outdated translation or all resources:
Not-translated - resources that don't have a translation
Outdated - resources that have previously been translated, but afterwards, their primary language text has been modified
Not-translated or Outdated - both #1 and #2
Translated - translate only resources that have existing translation (and are not outdated)
All - translate all the resources
Once you select this, click on the Translate button at the bottom. This will start the auto-translate task in the background, so you don't have to stay on the page until it's finished. In case your store has a huge amout of resources, it might take some time before it's complete, but you can always come back to the AI Translator page to see it's progress:
The Auto AI Translations feature is available in the Premium plan
With the Auto AI Translations feature, you can set the translations of new (or outdated) translations for your products, product options, product variants and collections on auto-pilot. Go to AI Translate and click on the Auto AI Translation tab. Then, click on the radio button "Run auto AI translate":
And then, just like with the one-time AI Translation task, you have to select:
- Language for which the auto AI Translation task to run
- Resources
- And whether it should auto AI Translate Not Translated, Outdated or both types of resources
Changes to this configuration are saved automatically
If you have followed the instructions in this article on how to AI Translate all your resources, there might be a few other types of resources, that are not included in the AI Translation feature, but are still available for bulk AI Translate:
Shop policies are legal documents and that's the reason why they are not included in the AI Translation feature out of the box. We have excluded them from the feature since those should be translated by a dedicated translator. However, if you are 100% sure that you wish to AI Translate them, you can do that under Translations -> Translation of -> Shop policy. Once there, click the blue arrow near the Shop policy you wish to AI Translate and save the changes:
Not all metafields are simple text and they might be stored in a special JSON format, they could be codewords that some third-party apps that have created them use in their code logic, etc. For that reason, they are not included in the AI Translate feature.
To see how you can AI Translate all your product metafields or product variant metafields in bulk with AI, please check this documentation article.
If a given app does not support the multi-language feature, it's resources would not be translated with the AI Translation task. Apps that have not been updated to support it do not create "translatable" reosurces in the Shopify database, over which our app has control.
There are other ways you can translate such resources, but every case is specific, so it's best to reach out to our support team for assistance.
How to translate all your resources with AI Translations (One-time)
How to automatically translate new resources with Auto AI Translations (Recurring translations)
Once the AI Translations are done
How to translate all your resources with AI Translations (One-time)
To translate a given language with auto-translate in bulk:
First, make sure you have enabled the AI Translation for the language, which you wish to auto-translate, in the Languages tab:
Then, go to the AI Translatе tab in Translation Lab
Select the Languages for which you want to run the AI Translate task:
If a given lanuage is grayed out, please enable the AI Translation for the given language in the Languages tab (more details in Step 1)
Then, you can select which sections of your store you wish to translate - Proudcts, Collections, Theme resources, etc. If you wish to translate them all, simply click the Select all button:
If you wish to not translate specific parts of those sections, you may deselect them. For example, if you don't wish to translate the product names, you may click on the title button shown in the screenshot:
Now that you have selected which sections you wish to auto-translate, from the What to translate dropdown, you may select whether you wish to translate resources that don't have tranlsation, resources with outdated translation or all resources:
Not-translated - resources that don't have a translation
Outdated - resources that have previously been translated, but afterwards, their primary language text has been modified
Not-translated or Outdated - both #1 and #2
Translated - translate only resources that have existing translation (and are not outdated)
All - translate all the resources
Once you select this, click on the Translate button at the bottom. This will start the auto-translate task in the background, so you don't have to stay on the page until it's finished. In case your store has a huge amout of resources, it might take some time before it's complete, but you can always come back to the AI Translator page to see it's progress:
How to automatically translate new resources with Auto AI Translations (or Recurring translations)
The Auto AI Translations feature is available in the Premium plan
With the Auto AI Translations feature, you can set the translations of new (or outdated) translations for your products, product options, product variants and collections on auto-pilot. Go to AI Translate and click on the Auto AI Translation tab. Then, click on the radio button "Run auto AI translate":
And then, just like with the one-time AI Translation task, you have to select:
- Language for which the auto AI Translation task to run
- Resources
- And whether it should auto AI Translate Not Translated, Outdated or both types of resources
Changes to this configuration are saved automatically
Once the AI Translations are complete
If you have followed the instructions in this article on how to AI Translate all your resources, there might be a few other types of resources, that are not included in the AI Translation feature, but are still available for bulk AI Translate:
Shop policies
Shop policies are legal documents and that's the reason why they are not included in the AI Translation feature out of the box. We have excluded them from the feature since those should be translated by a dedicated translator. However, if you are 100% sure that you wish to AI Translate them, you can do that under Translations -> Translation of -> Shop policy. Once there, click the blue arrow near the Shop policy you wish to AI Translate and save the changes:
Metafields
Not all metafields are simple text and they might be stored in a special JSON format, they could be codewords that some third-party apps that have created them use in their code logic, etc. For that reason, they are not included in the AI Translate feature.
To see how you can AI Translate all your product metafields or product variant metafields in bulk with AI, please check this documentation article.
Not translatable resources
If a given app does not support the multi-language feature, it's resources would not be translated with the AI Translation task. Apps that have not been updated to support it do not create "translatable" reosurces in the Shopify database, over which our app has control.
There are other ways you can translate such resources, but every case is specific, so it's best to reach out to our support team for assistance.
Updated on: 21/05/2024
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