Introduction

This guide explains how to translate your Shopify notifications.


Please follow the other guide if you want to translate your customer account notifications.

The customer account notifications are for example:

  • Customer Account Activation
  • Customer Account Welcome
  • Customer Password Reset


Step 1

Navigate to the "Translations / Shop / Notifications" section in langify to open a template that you can use to translate your Shopify notifications:



The Notifications can be found from langify -> Theme translations -> Shop -> Notifications


Step 2

Open a Text Editor of your choice and copy over the langify notification template:



The notification template pasted on a text editor of choice


Step 3

Navigate to the "Settings / Notifications" section in your Shopify backend:



The Notifications section in the Shopify backend


Step 4

Open the notification that you would like to translate and copy the HTML email content:



Find and open the notification and then copy the HTML from there


Step 5

Back in your Text Editor, search for the mention of your store's base language. If the base language is English, then look for "TEXT FOR English HERE". Replace this text with the HTML email content from your Shopify notification like in the example below.



HTML from the notification added inside the text editor of choice


Step 6

Now replace the other "TEXT FOR ... HERE" occurrences with the HTML email content of your Shopify notification and translate it into the corresponding language. In this example I've replaced "TEXT FOR German HERE" with the original notification translated into German (You must not translate any liquid code in between {% %} or {{ }})



The "Text for...here" part is replaced by the one you originally added a few images ago


Step 7

Finally, after you've replaced every occurrence of "TEXT FOR ... HERE" with the corresponding translations, replace your current Shopify HTML email notification with the content of your Text Editor:



Copy and paste in the Shopify backend the new edited HTML content for the notification


Step 8

Click "Save" to store your new, translated, notification.

Your customers should now receive the translated notification matching their currently selected language.



Translating the notification subject:

You can use the very same translation template to translate the subject of your notification.


Simply replace "TEXT FOR ... HERE" with the corresponding subject translation so that you end up with something like:


{% case attributes.language %}

{% when 'ly2315' %}

Bestellbestätigung

{% else %}

Order Confirmation

{% endcase %}


Afterwards, replace your Email subject in Shopify with the translation template including your subject translations:



The same translation template can be used to translate the title of the notification


Translating Draft Orders:

Draft Orders must be tagged with the correct language id manually: https://help.shopify.com/manual/orders/create-orders#add-tags


So if ly2315 is your German language id and you want to send a draft order in German, you will have to tag the order with ly2315


The Draft Order Notification can be translated using the following template:



{% if tags contains 'ly2315' %}

Bestellbestätigung

{% else %}

Order Confirmation

{% endif %}