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Learn how to enable Smart Translations for messages so you can send campaigns and flows in multiple languages based on the language preferences of your audience. Klaviyo can translate email content to 60+ languages.

Localizing your messages is great if you have or plan to expand to an international customer base. Sending emails in each subscriber’s preferred language allows you to reach a wider audience which can increase overall engagement.

Message translation is only available for email.

What can be translated?

What can be translated?

The following can be automatically translated:

  • Text blocks
  • Labels
  • Alt text

The following can be manually changed per language:

  • Links
  • Images

The following cannot be translated:

  • Product feed content

All of this applies to universal and saved content you’ve added to the template.

Supported languages

Supported languages

AfrikaansGujaratiPortuguese (Brazil)
AlbanianHaitian CreolePortuguese (Portugal)
AmharicHausaPunjabi
ArmenianHindiRomanian
BengaliHungarianRussian
BosnianIcelandicSerbian
BulgarianIndonesianSinhala
CatalanIrishSlovak
Chinese (Simplified)ItalianSlovenian
Chinese (Traditional)JapaneseSomali
CroatianKannadaSpanish
CzechKazakhSpanish (Mexico)
DanishKoreanSwahili
DutchLatvianSwedish
EnglishLithuanianTamil
EstonianMacedonianTelugu
Filipino, TagalogMalayThai
FinnishMalayalamTurkish
FrenchMalteseUkrainian
French (Canada)MarathiUzbek
GeorgianMongolianVietnamese
GermanNorwegian (Bokmål)Welsh
GreekPolish
Enable translation

Enable translation

Before you can translate content, you must enable the feature in your account settings.

  1. Navigate to your organization name in the bottom left corner of your screen.
  2. Click Settings.
  3. Select Account > Translation.
  4. Toggle on Translate messages.
  5. Choose a property to use to determine a profile’s preferred language.
  • Locale is used by default, but Country or Language can be used if present.
  1. Click Save.
Configure languages

Configure languages

After enabling the feature, add languages to use for your translations. Your account language will be added by default. 

  1. In the Language section, click the Additional languages dropdown and select whichever language you want to use for your content. Repeat this step for each language you’d like to include.
  2. Choose which of your added languages will be the Fallback language for when a customer’s preferred language is unavailable or unknown.
  3. Click Save.

Any languages you add in the Language section will be automatically populated as options when translating templates, campaigns, flows, and universal content.

Collect preferred language property

Collect preferred language property

The default method for determining a profile’s preferred language is Locale. In other words, Klaviyo looks at a location property to determine which language to use for the profile. Some integrations such as Shopify (via Shopify Markets) and Prestashop automatically populate the Locale property with location information for customers.

You can also collect a preferred language directly from customers. The Language property on someone’s profile does not have a value by default, but one can be collected using several different methods.

Profiles that don’t have a Language property set will receive the original language of the email.

Translate messages

Translate messages

Learn more about translating messages:

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