Language redirects

LangShop allows displaying different version of your multilingual store. You can bring customers from Canada or France to the French locale, as well as visitors who have Italian browser language to the Italian version.

There are three types of language redirects:

• store language
• browser language
• visitor country

Store language 🇮🇹

Steps:

1. From your LangShop admin, go to Settings > Languages.
2. Open Mapping.

When customers visit your online store for the first time, they see your store language which is set by default in app settings.

You can find your store language in Shopify Settings > Store languages > Default language.

This information is also available in LangShop Settings > Languages > Original language. 

Browser language 🇧🇻

You can redirect visitors automatically to the language based on their browser language.



Steps:

1. From your LangShop admin, go to Settings > Languages.
2. Open Mapping.
3. Select browser language detection type.
   If you want to enable automatic redirection, select Force redirect checkbox and save changes.

Please pay your attention that Google recommends avoiding automatic redirection. Read the full guide in Google docs here.

You can add more browser languages and link them to each language you manage in your online store. For example, customers who have French browser will get automatically redirected to the French version, if browser language is Italian, then visitors get to Italian locale.

NOTE 🇧🇶

If the Visitor redirect section is missing, make sure to turn off Recommendations.

Steps:

1. From your LangShop admin, go to Settings > Languages.
2. Open Selectors.
3. At the left sidebar panel, find Recommendations.
4. Change the status mode to Disabled.
   Recommendations help customers switch between versions manually. Therefore, you can't enable force redirection in Mapping. 
   
   
5. Click Save. 

Visitor country 🇨🇾

Another option to redirect customers automatically is to enable visitor country detection type. LangShop Mapping feature allows redirect customers automatically using geo IP detection. When customers visit your store for the first time from Spain or Mexico, they will get to Spanish version  directly.

Steps:

1. From your LangShop admin, go to Settings > Languages.
2. Open Mapping.
3. Select visitor country detection type.
4. Check the box - Force redirect.

You can add more countries to the default list of countries that you want to enable for automatic redirection based on user location and link them to each language you have in your online store. 

If you want to stop using language redirects, you will need to change settings to default in Mapping.

Steps:

1. From your LangShop admin, go to Settings > Languages.
2. Open Mapping.
3. Select store language as a default detection type.
4.  Click Save.