Translate Label Text

If your shop sells in multiple languages, you can print Custom text slots in the shopper’s language — e.g. a “100% cotton” claim on a product label in English, French, and German. This guide explains how translations work end to end.

How label translation works

A template contains one or more Custom text slots (other fields like SKU, title, or price always print the store data as-is).
On the Translations page, you provide a translation of each custom text for each of your shop’s enabled languages.
When creating a print job, you pick the Label language. The app prints the matching translation — or the base text when no translation exists.

Step 1: Add a Custom text slot

Go to Label templates and open a template with Edit (or create a new one).
Click Add slot, choose the Custom text field, and type your base wording (e.g. “100% cotton”).
Save the template.

See Create and edit a label template for the full editor walkthrough.

Step 2: Translate it

Go to Translations.
Pick the template from the Template selector.
The table shows one row per custom text slot — the Base text column on the left, one column per shop language on the right (the shop’s default language is marked default).
Fill in the translation for each language. Leaving a cell empty means that language falls back to the base text.
Click Save translations.

Step 3: Choose the language when printing

Go to New print job.
Next to the template selector, pick a Label language — Shop default or one of your languages. (The selector appears when your shop has more than one language enabled.)
Continue creating the job as usual — labels print with the translation for the chosen language.

Tips

Keep custom text short: translations can run longer than the base text, especially on small labels like Avery 5167.
You can also use the Combined line slot’s custom text part with translations — it behaves the same way.
Reprint an old job re-uses the language it was created with, stored in its template snapshot.