Translating your shop and listings
Write in your own language. Artlimes translates your titles and descriptive content so buyers can discover your work in English, French and Greek.
Choose the language you write in
In Shop Manager → Settings, choose the language you write in. English is the default. Changing this setting also switches your browsing language. Afterwards, you can choose a different language in the footer without changing your shop content language.
List once
Add your title, description and other details as usual. Product translations are prepared after listing approval. Existing shop text, the linked biography and shop captions are translated when your shop is verified, then updated on save. Your original content stays intact. While a translation is unavailable, buyers see the original.
Review or edit a translation
On a product, select Translations beside the edit controls. For a biography or shop introduction, use the small Translations button beside its label. Exhibitions and Awards each have a Translations button beside their heading. Choose a language, adjust the wording and save. Captions are translated automatically; edit their original text to make changes.
What we translate
Titles, descriptions, medium and technique descriptions, shop introductions and biographies, artist biographies, exhibition and award titles, supported shop section text, image captions and existing alternative text, and search-engine titles and descriptions. Names, brands, identifiers, measurements and prices remain unchanged. Product titles appear once, in the viewing language.
Search-engine information
Artlimes automatically prepares the titles and descriptions used by search engines in each language, based on your content. These are managed separately from your editable translations. You do not need to enter or edit meta tags.
When you change the original
Only missing translations and translations based on older text are updated. Product changes wait for approval; verified shops’ text, biographies and captions are checked on save. If you update both the original and its translation, we keep your wording. Unchanged fields are not translated again. Outdated translations are not shown to buyers.
Natural language, faithful details
Translations use the context of your listing. Check important wording, names and specialist terms when reviewing a translation. Video links and text embedded in images or externally hosted videos are not translated by this feature.
