Getting started with Advanced translations •
Introduction
Advanced Translations offer a few advantages over Basic Translations:
- All texts are pre-translated and stored in both Shopify and the app, resulting in faster load times.
- All translations are fully editable, offering more flexibility
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Configure Language for Advanced Translation
Configure Language for Advanced Translation
To set up the language to use Advanced Translations, follow these short steps. If the language is currently in Basic mode, you can skip ahead to step 3.
- Add the new languages that you want to your store. You can do this from the Languages page in our app, using the dropdown menu.
- Publish this language to make it available to your customers. You can do this by pressing the Publish button, also on the Languages page in our app.
- Change a language from Basic translations to Advanced from the "More Actions" button on the Languages Page in our app.
- Scan your store with our app. When you change a language to Advanced mode, our app will do this on its own. You can have our app scan your store by pressing the yellow Scan Items button on the dashboard page of our app, as shown below. You will need to do this after adding new text to your store so our app can discover it for you.
Now you are ready to use the Advanced Translation tool to translate your store!
Advanced Translation tools
AI & Autopilot Translation
This is the primary Advanced Translation tool. It is great for translating the bulk of your store. It uses the best available translation technology, including ChatGPT-4, Claude 3.5, and Google AI. The Autopilot tool will create new AI translation tasks for you automatically.
You can find a full guide for AI Translation here
Manual
The Manual Translation Tool is great for editing your AI translations. It has a keyword search feature that you can use to find exact translations to edit.
You can find a full guide for Manual Translation here
Visual Editor
The Visual Editor is the best way to translate text from other third-party apps. You can create AI and Manual Translations with this tool
You can find a full guide for the Visual Editor here
Import & Export
The CSV Import/Export tool can be used to to create an export of your store's translations to s spreadsheet file, and to import new translations from a spreadsheet. This allows you to create a spreadsheet that you can give to a professional translator, and then import the results.
You can find a full guide for the Import/Export tool here
Create an AI Translation
To create a new AI translation of your store, follow these steps
- Go to the "AI and Autopilot Translation" page in our app\
- Select the language you wish to translate and press the "Load Text to Translate" button
- Press "Translate Now" for the "All" text type, which is the first one listed under Shopify Content.
That's it! Our app will now create an AI translation task for this language. Depending on the size of your store, this will take a few minutes to complete.
The Glossary tool can be used to instruct our app to translate certain words or phrases in a specific way. This is useful for brand names that you do not want to translate. We have a full guide for that feature here
The Auto-Coverage feature will allow you to apply a Basic Translation to text not otherwise translated with one of the Advanced Tools. This means you can use the AI translations for some text, and the free Basic translations for the rest. We have a full guide for that feature available here
As always, you can contact us at help@hextom.com if you have any questions!