Translation agencies + Shopify integration

What Translation agencies is

A translation agency provides professional translators and reviewers. On Shopify the hard part is technical: getting every piece of text to them with context, and back into the right field.

How we would approach Translation agencies with Shopify

Text lives in many places: products, metafields, the theme, apps and email. We inventory it, export it in a format your agency can work with, keep product codes and variables safe from translation, track source changes made while translation is in progress, and import into the right fields. The agency owns language quality; we own the hand-off and the storefront checks.

What the work involves

• An inventory of all customer-facing text, including apps and emails
• Exports with context and stable identifiers
• Variables and product codes protected from translation
• Imports checked on the live store in every language

Ways to connect Translation agencies and Shopify

• Built in

  Shopify's translation exports

  Settings › Languages exports translations as CSV (all, outdated, untranslated or metafields) and imports them back. The export uses internal IDs, so check matching before importing.

• Existing app

  Translation apps with export

  Apps such as Langify or Weglot support exports, imports and machine-translation drafts for agencies to review.

Where these projects go wrong

• Translations imported against the wrong field after the source changed.
• Variables such as {{ price }} translated and broken.
• Long translations overflowing buttons and mobile layouts.

Questions

Who checks translation quality?

Your agency or a native reviewer. We make sure it lands in the right place and displays correctly.

Before we scope the work

• Which data or customer journey needs to connect, and which system owns it?
• What access, plan features or API permissions are available?
• Does an existing connector cover the requirement, including failures and updates?
• Who will maintain the connection, and how will you know it is working?

Send your current setup and one real example of the flow you need. We'll tell you whether it can be done and what it would take.