Shopify goes international...

Until now, you could only translate your Shop’s frontend but the checkout was always in English. With the new internationalization feature, Shopify users can create checkouts in any language they want and share those translations with other Shopify users.

Here’s how it works. In the General Settings section of the Preferences Tab there is a dropdown menu for Checkout Language.

From that menu, you can either select a checkout language that someone else has already translated or you can create a new language translation. When you create a new language you are presented with a translation editor that shows all of the existing phrases (strings) from the checkout in English and allows you to translate and save them. Once the majority of your new language is translated, it will be available for all other Shopify users to use.

We are all waiting to see who will be the first to translate Shopify’s checkout into Klingon!