Order API: Set customer language / locale for notifications

[fhelger]

Hi,

how can we set the language for email and sms notifications when creating orders through the Shopify Rest API?

The customer_locale seems to be read-only according to the API reference (if that is even the right parameter for it).

Best regards,

Felix

[geraldo2]

I'm having the same issue here...

[NielsLange]

I would love to here an answer on this. 
@Shopify can you please have a look at it. Thanks

[JamesG · Accepted solution]

Hi @fhelger 

You are correct that the REST Order.customer_locale field is read_only.

I can add a feature request for the REST API, but for now you could also try using the customerCreate or customerUpdate mutations to set the correct locale, then creating/ completing draft orders for the customer using the GraphQL Admin API to send notifications in the desired language as a workaround.

Cheers,

[ShubhamDhage]

this did not worked for me, I tried with  customerUpdate mutation and I get a failed message saying --> Error: InputObject 'CustomerInput' doesn't accept argument 'languageCode'.

Please help if there is a solution.

[ShopifyDevSup]

Hi @ShubhamDhage 👋

The notification language is determined by the `Customer.locale` attribute, formatted as an ISO code. The following is an example customerUpdate mutation and variables:

mutation ($input: CustomerInput!) {
    customerUpdate(input: $input) {
        customer {
            locale
        }
    }
}

{
    "input": {
        "id": "gid://shopify/Customer/5790884724854",
        "locale": "fr"
    }
}

The list of locales can be queried with the below:

{
    availableLocales {
        name
        isoCode
    }
}

Hope that helps!