By default, order notifications and automated marketing emails are sent to customers in your store language.
If you have enabled additional languages for your store, customer notifications will be translated automatically to all languages you added. Your customers will receive emails in the same language they browse your storefront in.
It’s also possible to manually translate customer notification templates if the language you need is not yet supported.
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List of available languages for auto translation of email notifications
Сustomer email notification templates can fully be auto translated into:
- Albanian
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- Georgian
- German (Germany and Switzerland)
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Macedonian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil)
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish (Spain and Latin America)
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
Both customer and admin notifications fully translated into Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, and Spanish (Latin America).
Also, notifications are partially translated into some other languages, and the translation process is ongoing. You can always check whether your store language is supported for a particular type of notification. For this, go to Settings → Notifications and click the notification name, then click Preview template on the opened page. This way, you can also check how the notification will look for your customers.
Note:
The language used in your notifications is separate from the language of your store's admin interface. You have the flexibility to use the admin interface in any language you prefer, regardless of whether it matches the language of your storefront.
Adding a custom translation to customer email notifications
If the language that you want to use for your email notifications is not yet available, you can add a custom translation. To do that, go to Settings → Notifications and manually edit the notification template by changing its HTML code.
Each email template in your store has message keys—a short piece of HTML code that contains text messages. When an email is sent, message keys are replaced with actual text. They cover all the text in the notification, except for the values of payment and fulfillment statuses. So to translate the email’s content, you have to replace message keys with the corresponding translations.
Note:
In multilingual stores, the texts that you manually add to the notification template are not automatically translated.