You have created a Shopify account but you find yourself faced with a back office in the language of Shakespeare, in English, and you would like to have your Shopify admin site in French ? Do you have people in your team who are more comfortable in the language of Molière, in French?
No problem, Switch to Shopify in French it's extremely simple and fast! And it doesn't cost more.
In effect, Shopify is available in French for several years now. no need to go through a Shopify agency for such a simple setting.
TLDR:
To change the language of the Shopify site, simply go to the top right of your Shopify management interface and click on "Manage account".
You will arrive in your account management interface and at the bottom of the page, you can choose the language of your choice, including French.
Remember to save afterwards and reload the page of your online store (the back office)
What is needed to pass the administration of Shopify in French?
To change the language of your Shopify administration, you will simply need a Shopify account. If you have access to a Shopify online store, whether French or not, you have a .
You don't even need to be an official store owner. Each stakeholder can change their own shop language without affecting the others.
How to change Shopify admin to French?
- It's very simple, first of all, log in to your Shopify store xxx.myshopify.com/admin.
- Then click on the top right on your profile
- Then go to the bottom of the list, you will have an item called " Preferred language" . In the drop-down list, select "French"
- Remember to save at the top right by clicking on the green "Save" button.
Good to know !
The language change is only effective for the personal account you have. It will not change the language that customers see or the language that your colleagues or other collaborators on the site will see.
If everyone in your team wants Shopify in French, then you have to redo the manipulation, simple and fast, on each account.
But you also have the possibility of each choosing a different language if necessary. As long as it's in the list of languages offered by Shopify, no worries!
Why switch the Shopify admin to French?
It can be useful to change the interface language for many reasons:
- One of the collaborators does not speak English
- To increase productivity
- To avoid misunderstandings
- To work in the same language as your partners
Please note, unlike the front office where all text fields are "retranslatable", it is not possible to modify the Shopify back office translation. Some translations therefore sound a little more like French-Canadian or Quebecois. The origin of Shopify being Canadian, this is not very surprising but can sometimes be a bit confusing.
Is it possible to translate the Shopify back office into a language other than French?
Yes of course! Since its internationalization, Shopify has pursued a desire to diversify and for this, translation is available in several different languages such as:
- English
- French
- Danish
- German
- the Italian
- The Norwegian
- Dutch
- The Polish guy
- Portuguese
- The Brazilian
- And Turk
- Vietnamese
- Simplified Chinese
- Traditional Chinese
- Japanese
- Korean
- The Thai
- The Czech
- The Finn
- The Spaniard
That's 20 languages available in Shopify at the time of writing this article. It still lacks a lot of things like Arabic, Greek, Russian, Hindi etc…
This will surely come in the next few years.
And There you go ! You know how to put Shopify in French for you and your team!
If you were looking for how to put a Shopify site in several languages for your customers then it's here!
