Change the language of your workspace and your website

There are two separate language settings: the language of the screen you work in, which each person chooses for themselves, and the languages of your public website, which your visitors switch between. Both draw on the languages that are active in your account.

1. Add a language to your account

A new workspace starts with English. To use another language anywhere, activate it first:

1. In your workspace open Website > Configuration > Languages and choose Add languages.
2. Under Languages to activate pick one or more languages. Dolcefy offers Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK and US), Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
3. Add to websites lists your websites. Leave it as it is to offer the new languages to your visitors too, or clear it to add the languages to your account only, for example for your own screen.
4. Choose Add languages. The language is activated and its translations are loaded; this takes a few seconds per language.

[SCREENSHOT: the Add Languages dialog]

2. Your own screen language

1. Click your name in the top right corner and choose Preferences.
2. On the Preferences tab pick your Language and save. The screen switches at once.

Each team member sets their own language; your choice does not change anyone else's screen. Where a translation does not exist yet, the text is shown in English.

3. The languages of your website

The Languages page (Website > Configuration > Languages) lists the languages offered on each of your websites and marks the default one, the language visitors see unless they switch. The page also shows how many languages your plan allows per website: one on Free, more on the paid plans.

• Set as default on a language's row makes it the website's default.
• Remove from website takes a language off the website. It stays active in your account and nothing is deleted. The default language cannot be removed; set another default first.
• Change website language does the common case in one step: pick the language, keep Make it the default language ticked, and tick Remove the current default language from the website when the new language replaces the old one, for example to turn the English site of a new workspace into a Finnish one.

[SCREENSHOT: the Languages page with one website and two languages]

When a website offers more than one language, visitors get a language switcher. In the website editor you can show or hide it: select the header and use the Show/hide language selector button, or set the footer's Language Selector option.

4. Translating your content

Browse the page in the other language with the website's language switcher, choose Edit and then Translate: every text on the page can now be written in that language. Texts you have not translated yet are shown in the default language until you do. Products, courses and email templates are translated the same way, in the language you are viewing them in.

Good to know

• Characters such as ä, ö, å, ñ, ç or ß work everywhere, including product names and addresses.
• Emails sent by automations go out in the language of the template you built. Build one email per language if your audience is mixed.