How to add multiple languages in Shopify Store

How to have multiple languages on Shopify??

Does Shopify support multiple languages??

How to add Language Switcher in Shopify??

Are you struggling to find the solution to these queries?? Then you are in the right technical article.

I will help you in How to add multiple languages in Shopify store by following the below steps one by one.

If you are running an eCommerce website, it should support multiple languages to provide an easy shopping experience to the different geography users.

It’s not necessary that every user should understand English, French or Hindi, or any other language as per your website’s native language.

It’s an advanced approach that eCommerce sites should support multiple languages. so that you can grab the maximum number of customers and convert sales.

It’s very easy to add a Shopify language switcher, so today we are going to learn:

How to add multiple Languages in Shopify Store

Step 1 – To add Shopify multiple languages, Login into your Shopify store admin center and click on “Settings”, you can find this option at the left bottom of the admin center (Refer to the below image).

Shopify store admin settings
Shopify store admin settings

Step 2 –  in the admin settings popup window, click on the “Langauge” button (you can find this option in the left bottom in left navigation panel) and click on the “Add Language” button to add Shopify multiple languages (you can find it at the top right corner), refer to the below image.

How to add multiple languages to the Shopify store
How to add multiple languages to the Shopify store

Step 3 – After clicking on the “Add Language” button, you will get an adding language popup, now you can select the language that you want to add to your website and click on the “Add” button.

Here you can see Shopify language support, all the languages which are showing in the dropdown are supported by Shopify.

Select the language in Shopify Store
Shopify language support

Step 4 – After adding all the languages you will see all the languages under the “Unpublished languages” tab same as listed in the below image.

Publish the added Languages to Shopify Store
Publish the added Languages to Shopify Store

Step 5 – After adding the languages to the Shopify store, you need to click on the “Publish” button and that language will be listed in the Published Languages section (Refer to the below image).

So, This is the process of how to add language switcher in Shopify store front for customers.

in my case, I have added Dutch and French language for my Shopify store, if in case you want to remove any language, you can simply click on the “Unpublish” button and that language will be removed from your Shopify store.

Publish the language to the Shopify store
Publish the language to the Shopify store

You have added multiple languages to the Shopify store successfully, you can see a language drop-down on the home page of your store to switch the language at the run time and it will automatically translate the website text to the selected language.

This is how you can add a Shopify language switcher in the store successfully to make the customer buying experience in their native language.

Shopify Admin Languages

You can have different languages in the admin as well as your storefront. 21 Languages are available to change in Shopify admin languages and the rest of the languages are considered for the future.

You can change your account language from the below and it will be only displayed to the admin center only not to online storefront customers.

To change the admin languages of your store admin

  • click on your profile
  • and click on “Manage Profile” 
  • Click on “Preferred Language”, select your language, and save.

So this is how you can change Shopify admin languages for your staff’s work comfort.

Shopify Admin Languages

FAQ About Shopify Language Switcher

Does Shopify support multiple languages?

Yes, Shopify support 125+ languages, you can build your store in almost every language exist in the world.

How to add language switcher in shopify?

Add multiple languages in the Shopify store and you can see a Language switcher in Shopify store home page.

How to add multiple language in shopify?

Go to the Shopify admin center -- settings --Languages-- add language--publish language.

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