Languages and Currencies

Welcome

In this module, you will be familiar with how to personalize your website for customers by customizing content in their preferred languages and currencies.

After completing this module, you should be able to:

• Identify how to add a new language
• Implement a new currency
• Describe how to add field translations
• Work with the Translation Dictionary

How do I benefit from localization?

Here's how these features benefit different roles:

Marketer:  Tailoring your customers' experience to the languages and currencies they need is another way to encourage them to buy products from your site. The more customized their experience is, the more at home your customers will feel, and the more comfortable they will be navigating and searching for items on your site. Give your customers the option to select the language and currency that is right for them and streamline their experience on your site, making it easier for them to find exactly what they're looking for.

Researcher/Buyer:A website is considered significantly more trustworthy and dependable if the experience is customized to their needs. When your customers can select their language and currency preferences, or if they already pre-selected for them based on their profile, your customers are more likely to find exactly what they are looking for quickly and therefore more likely to purchase from you.

Multi-Language functionality and translations

Optimizely Configured Commerce simplifies multilingual website management by integrating translation features directly into its CMS. From personalized content display to SEO-friendly hreflang attributes, it ensures users access the right language effortlessly.

Read the article below to learn more about languages and translations.

Create a language and add it to a website

To create a language, a user must be an Optimizely Configured Commerce administrator. Visit the link below to see how to manually create a language in Optimizely Configured Commerce.

Now that you have created a language.Click the link below to see the steps for assigning a language to a website.

See it

Watch this quick video to see one way your customers may see languages as they appear on your site.

Create a currency and add it to a website

Click the link below to learn how to create a currency step by step.

Now that you have created a currency, click the link below to learn how to assign it to a website.

See it

Watch this quick video to see one way your customers may see currencies as they appear on your site.

Add field translations

Use the link below to follow the steps for translating fields of commerce objects like Products, Promotions, and Categories in Optimizely Configured Commerce.

Change languages for variants

To provide a more consistent language experience, Optimizely Configured Commerce makes it possible to translate both product variants and attributes to display the chosen language. Use the following instructions to update Variants and Attributes

Link to changing language for variants to go through the steps to change languages for variants.

Try it

It’s time to play in the Configured Commerce sandbox!

The following practice exercises take place in the Knowledge & Learning training site. Before jumping in, please log in to the Training site using the following credentials:

• Username: TrainingUser
• Password: Opticon1!#

After logging in, do the following:

• Create a language
• Assign new language to a website
• Create currency
• Assign currency to a website
• Add field translations
• Change language for variants

Wrap up

Congratulations! You have completed the module. You should now be able to:

• Identify how to add a new language
• Implement a new currency
• Describe how to add field translations
• Work with the Translation Dictionary

Learn more

While we covered a lot, there's always more to learn about Languages and Currencies and how to work with them!

Check out the below link for an up-to-date collection of helpful guides and technical documentation.