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Languages: Use machine translations

Show your gift option labels in every published language. Your labels are machine translated, and you can add your own translation to any label.

You can show your gift option labels in every language published in your Shopify admin. Your labels are machine translated into each language, and you can add your own translation to any label.

Where to find it

  1. In Wrapped, open Gifting for Products or Gifting for Orders.

  2. Find the Languages card. Every published language is listed, and your default language is marked Default.

  3. Press a language to open its labels. On a language page, press Select language to move to another language.

The Languages card listing English as Default and three other languages, with a Manage languages in Shopify link below the list

The Languages card on the gift option page

The default language

The default language page holds your labels. Edit a label and press Save. Your other languages update to match, usually within 1–2 minutes.

The English labels page with the Gift option and Buttons groups, each label in its own field

The default language page, with labels grouped by where they appear

Labels are grouped: Gift option, Buttons, Gift message, Gift sender, Gift receiver, Notices, and Validation. A label left blank in the default language is blank in every language where you haven’t added your own translation.

Use machine translations

Every other language has a Use machine translations switch at the top of its page. While it is on, each label shows its translation beside the default language label.

The French labels page with the Use machine translations switch on, outlined in red, and each French label beside the English label

Machine translations on: each French field shows its translation

A machine translation has an icon at the end of its field. Hold your pointer over the icon to see when the label was translated.

A French field with the pointer over the icon at the end of the field, and a tooltip that reads Translated from English, about 16 hours ago

The machine translation icon shows when the label was translated

Add your own translation

Type over any label and press Save. Customers shopping in that language read your translation, and it stays when the default language label changes. The machine translation icon does not appear on fields with your own translation.

To go back to the machine translation, clear the field and press Save.

Turn machine translations off

Turn Use machine translations off to show only the translations you wrote, and then press Save. Fields without your own translation are empty, and customers read those labels in your default language.

The French labels page with the Use machine translations switch off, outlined in red, one French field holding a translation and the other French fields empty

Machine translations off: only your own French translation shows

Turn the switch back on at any time. The machine translations return, and your own translations are kept.

💡 The switch is per language. You can keep machine translations for one language and turn them off for another.

Recap

  • The Languages card lists every published language. Press one to open its labels.

  • The default language page holds your labels. Your other languages update to match when you save a change.

  • An icon at the end of a field means the label is a machine translation. Type over any label to add your own.

  • Use machine translations off shows only your own translations. Other labels show in your default language.

Important notes

  • Languages are added and published in your Shopify admin under Settings, and then Languages. Only published languages appear in Wrapped.

  • Gifting for Products and Gifting for Orders each have their own Languages card and their own labels.

  • Some languages can’t be machine translated. Their page has no switch, and labels show in your default language until you add your own translation.

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