Shopify Internationalization
Multi-currency, multi-language, and region-specific checkout setup.
Shopify internationalization is setting up a store to sell across multiple countries and languages properly, multi-currency pricing, localized checkout, translated content, and region-specific tax and shipping rules, rather than running one store configuration for a global audience. A store that shows the wrong currency or an untranslated checkout to an international customer loses trust and sales at exactly the moment it matters most. Bonsify is a Shopify services company by FetchSky that builds native iOS and Android apps, PWAs, new Shopify stores, platform migrations, custom apps, and more.
What's included
- Multi-currency setup with accurate, localized pricing display
- Multi-language storefront translation, including checkout and transactional emails
- Region-specific tax, duty, and shipping configuration
- Localized payment method support for target markets
- Ongoing management as new markets and languages get added
Why internationalization is more than a currency switcher
A basic currency converter on a store isn't the same as real internationalization. Customers expect prices that look native to their market, not a converted number with the wrong formatting. They expect checkout, shipping options, and confirmation emails in their language, not just the product pages. And they expect the payment methods common in their region, not a default set built around one market. Getting any of these wrong creates the kind of friction that shows up as abandoned checkouts specifically from international traffic.
Bonsify's internationalization work covers the full customer journey in each target market, not just a language toggle on the homepage, so international traffic converts closer to the rate of the store's home market rather than well below it.
How the process works
Internationalization starts with identifying target markets and current gaps through a free audit, then proceeds through currency and payment setup, translation, and tax and shipping configuration for each region. Ongoing management is available as new markets get added or existing ones need adjustment.
Beyond internationalization
Stores expanding internationally often pair this work with a mobile app, since app-based push notifications and localized content work well together for engaging customers across markets, or with a Shopify Plus migration if scale requires it. Bonsify handles all of it under the same team.
Getting started
The free audit reviews the store's current international traffic and setup, and scopes what proper internationalization would involve, in days.
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No. Proper internationalization includes localized checkout, translated transactional content, and region-specific payment methods, not just a converted price display.
That depends on where the store's actual or target international traffic comes from, which the free audit assesses before recommending a scope.
Yes, region-specific tax, duty, and shipping configuration is part of the process.
Timeline is scoped during the free audit based on the number of markets and languages involved.
In most cases yes, though the audit determines whether the current theme and setup can support it cleanly.
A few days, based on the store's current international traffic and setup.
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