Translate a Shopify store

What you need

A Shopify store and an account that can edit theme code.
A theme you own. Shopify will not let you edit the code of a paid theme you are only trialling until you have bought it.

Where the snippet goes

Copy your snippet

Open your site in the Verbafy dashboard and copy the embed snippet.

Your page, before </body>

<script
  src="https://cdn.verbafy.app/widget.js"
  data-site-id="site_abc123"
  data-api-key="pk_live_your_key"
></script>

Open the theme code editor

From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store, click the … menu on the theme you are using and choose Edit code.
Paste it into theme.liquid

Under Layout, open theme.liquid. That file wraps every storefront page. Paste the snippet immediately before the closing </body> tag and click Save.

Check it is working

Open your storefront. The switcher is in the bottom right corner.
Switch language, then open a product page. The choice is remembered and the new page arrives translated.

Worth knowing on Shopify

App content is translated too

Reviews, size charts, upsell blocks: anything an app renders into the page is text in the DOM like any other, picked up as it appears.

The Shopify-hosted checkout is not yours to script

Shopify renders checkout itself, outside your theme, so a theme snippet does not reach it. Everything up to the checkout is covered. Shopify translates checkout from your store's own language settings.

Duplicate the theme first if you want a safety net

Shopify keeps theme versions, and the change is one paste you can undo. Duplicating the live theme and editing the copy is still the calmer way to do it.

Steps taken from Shopify's own documentation

Read on 11 October 2026. Platforms move their menus; if a step no longer matches, their page is the one to trust.