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Multilingual E-commerce

June 03, 2012 12:40pm

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  • #1 / Jun 03, 2012 12:40pm

    Jeremy Bise

    77 posts

    Hi folks—

    I’m hoping for some opinion or guidance here.  I have a project I’m working on a proposal for and there is a requirement for e-commerce, but also multilingual.  I see EEHarbor’s Transcribe out there and it looks like it would take care of some things, but I have my doubts it would play nice with Expresso Store, BrilliantRetail, or CartThrob.  But maybe I’m wrong.  I don’t see that any of those three e-commerce modules state they’re multilingual capable.

    Does anybody have any experience or guidance with this?  Anything would be greatly appreciated!

  • #2 / Jun 03, 2012 2:01pm

    Bhashkar Yadav

    727 posts

    Hi Jeremy,

    In my opinion you can manage it by 2 ways:

    1) Using MSM. As all these e-commerce modules are compatible with MSM. So it can be done by setting up separates website for each language in same root directory.

    Let you have 2 languages English and French. Setup 2 sites
    i) http://yousitename.com/en/ or http://yousitename.com for English
    ii) http://yousitename.com/fr/ for French

    In this way, both sites will have its own language contents. But products need to be updated for all the sites from CP


    2) Expresso Store and CartThrob use products as channel entries (I ‘m little unsure about Expresso Store if it uses channel entries as product items).
    You can create as many product’s channel custom fields as many languages for an attribute. Let for products description create 2 field description_en and description_fr. While switching the site language or accessing site for a specific language set language code either en or fr as global variable.

    Now you can populate description field as {description_{language_code}}. Same logic can be applied for other channel contents also.

    I hope above suggestions may help you.


    Best Regards,

  • #3 / Jul 23, 2012 10:05am

    Tom Jaeger

    449 posts

    Sorry I’m a little late to the party here 😊 but I though it would be worth chiming in real quick… There have been several multilingual stores built out using Transcribe in conjunction with CartThrob and Expresso Store.  We’re also currently looking into BrilliantRetail support as well.

    I hope this helps!

  • #4 / Jul 24, 2012 9:28pm

    43north

    9 posts

    +1 for Bhashkar’s method, works well with Expresso Store.

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