Hi, I’m building a storefront in react.js using the Shopify Storefront API. Everything has been setup to work with the base store, including pulling collections, products and cart interactions. However, the site is multi lingual (two languages), and I need the shopify products, collections and chec…

After further investigation, I am pleased to report that this feature is working as described in the documentation here: https://shopify.dev/tutorials/manage-app-translations-with-admin-api#storefront-api-translation-header My mistake was to initially not use a sufficiently recent version of the St…

Hey @malthemilthers , I believe I answered your question here: https://community.shopify.com/c/Shopify-APIs-SDKs/New-Translation-API-is-available-from-which-API-version/m-p/565482/highlight/false#M37550 . TLDR: the translation API is only available in our admin API currently.

Right thank you, So i just need to clarify that it’s not possible in anyway to serve translated storefront API data. Even if you combine the two APIs? Sorry for running this in two threads. probably more appropriate to continue here.

No problem! Yea, let’s stick to this thread for now. There’s no way to serve translated storefront API data currently. You could potentially come up with a solution using different products for each different translation, but it would be a workaround for sure. Translation support for our storefron…

Alright, It definitely feels like a necessary step towards headless e-commerce to be able to translate product data, so that the products in cart reflects the chosen language. None of the Shopify translation apps deals with issue as far as I can tell. They only work with regular Shopify themes. On…

Hi again @malthemilthers , The plan is for translations to be served by the API initially. Native translation fields are a possibility in the future, but the opportunity will be given to our app ecosystem initially regardless of the direction we go after.

I ran into the same problem since I have to build a headless multilang store using nextjs. But there is a workaround, you can make your shop a multilang json endpoint if you let liquid render json theme.json.liquid (you have to leave in some of original content in comment-tag because shopify valid…

i Devkai, Does that also work for the checkout pages? Are you able to get the product titles translated in the checkout flow? I agree. I’m baffled that multi-language is not a build in feature in Shopify. Also baffled that no other platform have taken that market yet. Can’t believe we’re stuck wit…

Right so produkt titles will still me one language only in checkout, correct?

I did not find the docs for the direct checkout links but if you do a POST to “/de/cart” and checkout param is set you get redirected /checkout but with german translations. I tried it in standard template on the cart page by editing changing the cart-form-url from “/cart” to “/de/cart”.

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puh for the checkout I have no headless-hack, I’m going to use the shopify checkout.

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