How to Auto-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.
Before starting your translation journey, you might want to take a look at our Glossary feature and include your brand/brands name to prevent the AI from translating it.
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
Updating statistics
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 Translations 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translate dropdown, you may select whether you wish to translate resources that don't have tranlsation, resources with outdated translation or all resources: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Outdated - resources that have previously been translated, but afterwards, their primary language text has been modified
Not-translated or Outdated - both #1 and #2
Translated - translate only resources that have existing translation (and are not outdated)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:
You can now keep using the app to translate other languages manually by going to the "Translations" tab and chose a language & resource category to continue translating.
Translation Lab will also provide you with a running task tracker that allows you to easily monitor your progress of the ongoing translation task for your other language:
by pressing the "Go to task" button, you will be able to see the full details for you running task in case you were not sure how you set it up initially.
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 -> 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.
Our "Custom Translations" feature can be used in such cases as a workaround, you can learn more about how to use it to your advantage here.
If you have any trouble or you are unsure how to proceed, don't hesitate to contact our support team for assistance!
The Translations page also includes a more detailed overview of the transletable resources in your store, for each language, you can update the statistics and track your translation progress by updating the statistics:
You will also see a bar that will allow you to track the status of your task:
You can keep using the app and translate while the update is running, but note that your statistics might be outdated if you make changes in the targeted language.
Once the task finishes, you can see your up-to-date statistics:
Some resource categories that are "optional" such as the translation of "Images" - they will not have a progress bar.
Whether you translate automatically, manually or by importing a CSV - you would have to "update statistics" in order to see up-to-date representation of the current progress.
Before starting your translation journey, you might want to take a look at our Glossary feature and include your brand/brands name to prevent the AI from translating it.
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
Updating statistics
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 Translations 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:
You can now keep using the app to translate other languages manually by going to the "Translations" tab and chose a language & resource category to continue translating.
Translation Lab will also provide you with a running task tracker that allows you to easily monitor your progress of the ongoing translation task for your other language:
by pressing the "Go to task" button, you will be able to see the full details for you running task in case you were not sure how you set it up initially.
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 -> 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 [Third Party Apps / Custom HTML/Liquid blocks]
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.
Our "Custom Translations" feature can be used in such cases as a workaround, you can learn more about how to use it to your advantage here.
If you have any trouble or you are unsure how to proceed, don't hesitate to contact our support team for assistance!
Updating Statistics
The Translations page also includes a more detailed overview of the transletable resources in your store, for each language, you can update the statistics and track your translation progress by updating the statistics:
You will also see a bar that will allow you to track the status of your task:
You can keep using the app and translate while the update is running, but note that your statistics might be outdated if you make changes in the targeted language.
Once the task finishes, you can see your up-to-date statistics:
Some resource categories that are "optional" such as the translation of "Images" - they will not have a progress bar.
Whether you translate automatically, manually or by importing a CSV - you would have to "update statistics" in order to see up-to-date representation of the current progress.
Updated on: 19/12/2024
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