Find this setting
Open App Settings, select Global settings, then open Localizations.
What this reference covers
Localization controls which languages Order Editing can show to customers and the translations used for each published locale. It also shows your default language, country restrictions, and a preview of how a customer locale is resolved.
Language options
The Language Options table shows each available language and its status.
Status | What it means |
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Default | The language Order Editing uses when a customer's locale does not match a published language. Only one language can be the default. |
Published | The language is available to customers whose locale matches it. |
Not published | You can configure the language, but customers do not see it yet. |
Select Configure beside a language to manage it. You can publish it, set it as the default, restrict it to selected countries, or edit its translations.
Simplified and Traditional Chinese
Order Editing treats Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese as separate locales. Each has its own translations and can be published or configured independently.
Language option | Locale used by Order Editing | Customer locales that select it |
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Chinese (Simplified) |
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Chinese (Traditional) |
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The language code zh does not identify a writing system. Order Editing never assumes that it means Simplified or Traditional Chinese, even when only one Chinese variant is published. A bare zh locale uses your default language.
If you serve customers in both writing systems, publish both options and review their translations separately. Editing one Chinese locale does not change the other.
Supported languages
Order Editing supports English and regional English variants, French and regional French variants, Japanese, Spanish and regional Spanish variants, German and regional German variants, Italian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Korean, Danish, Dutch and regional Dutch variants, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Swedish, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Finnish.
Regional variants let you tailor customer-facing text for a market without changing another locale in the same language family.
Languages summary
The Languages Summary panel shows:
- Enabled Languages, the number of published languages.
- Country-Locked Languages, the published languages restricted to selected countries.
- Default Language, the fallback used when no published locale matches the customer.
Language preview
Use Language Preview to check how Order Editing resolves a country and browser locale.
- Select the customer's country.
- Select a Browser Locale.
- Review the resolved language and the reason shown in the preview.
For Chinese, preview an explicit locale such as zh-CN, zh-TW, zh-Hans, or zh-Hant. A bare zh preview always uses the configured default language and never selects a Chinese writing system automatically.
The preview confirms language selection. To review the translated customer experience, open an existing eligible order using the same locale.
How language selection works
Shopify supplies the customer's locale from their browser or current market. Order Editing first looks for the matching published locale, then applies any relevant country restriction. If it cannot select a published locale safely, it uses your default language.
This means an unpublished language is never selected for customers, and an ambiguous Chinese language code never causes Order Editing to choose a writing system on its own.
