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Shopify Deep Localization Translation

Translate everything a real store contains — including the text most translation apps can't reach — with quality gates and safe rollback.

Most Shopify stores have content locked in theme templates, hardcoded strings and metafields that generic translation apps never touch. Shopify Deep Localization Translation covers all three channels, writes translations back through official Shopify APIs, verifies quality with AI scoring, and logs every write for audit and rollback. The result: a store that is genuinely multilingual server-side — visible to Google, not just swapped by browser scripts.

What it does

Whole-store coverage

Products, collections, pages, blogs, navigation, metafields and metaobjects — everything, not just the structured fields.

Theme hardcoded text scanning

Locate and translate strings hardcoded in .liquid templates — content generic apps can't reach — as a Git PR you review, never auto-merged.

AI translation with quality gates

LLM translation scored automatically, low scores retried and routed to a human review queue — quality is enforced, not assumed.

Terminology glossary

Brand, industry and compliance terms are locked via a glossary injected into every translation and QA prompt.

SEO-safe multilingual URLs

URL handles are never translated, translations render server-side, and h1/og tags are real for Google — measured +30% organic traffic after launch.

Incremental sync & stale detection

Webhook-driven updates and content digests re-translate only what actually changed — no blind full re-runs.

Completeness dashboard

Measure translation completeness against what's actually visible on rendered pages, and hunt down the sources you're missing.

Write-back audit & rollback

Every write is logged with old and new values, and any translation can be rolled back safely.

Structured data translation

FAQ JSON-LD schemas are translated in-place while preserving structure, so rich results work in every language.

Cost tracking

Token and cost ledgers with budget alerts keep multilingual expansion predictable and affordable.

Why it's different

vs. copy-paste manual translation

An automated pipeline with long-text chunking, loss-proof persistence and write-back audit — every step leaves a trace.

vs. apps that only translate structured fields

We also reach theme hardcoded text — often the majority of a page's visible content — and measure completeness against rendered pages.

vs. JavaScript-injected translation

Translations are written to official Shopify translations and render server-side — real for Google and crawlers, not just swapped in the browser.

vs. raw machine translation

LLM translation with quality gates, retry loops and a terminology glossary produces consistent, context-aware output — and flags human review when needed.

vs. apps that claim 'translated'

We judge translation status by Shopify's live translations and server-side HTML — the same truth Google sees.

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