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Use Glossary in Transtore

The Glossary lets you control how specific terms are translated across your store. You can provide a preferred translation for a term or keep it unchanged in selected target languages.

Step 1: Open the Glossary​

  1. Open the Transtore app in your Shopify admin.
  2. Go to Language.
  3. Click Glossary.

Open the Glossary in Transtore

Step 2: Create a glossary rule​

  1. Click Add rule.
  2. Select a rule type:
  • Translate as - Use a specific translation for the term.
  • Never translate - Keep the term unchanged.
  1. Enter the term from your default language in the Default content field. The term can contain up to 60 characters.
  2. Enable Case sensitive if the rule should apply only when the capitalization matches exactly.
  3. Under Apply for, select the target languages that should use the rule.
  4. If you selected Translate as, enter the translation to use for each target language.
  5. Click Add to save the rule.

Create a glossary rule

Step 3: Apply the rule to existing content​

Before applying Glossary rules
  • Glossary rules apply only to manual translations generated with OpenAI GPT. They do not apply to DeepSeek or Auto Translation.
  • Existing translations are not updated automatically. To apply a new Glossary rule, re-translate the content with OpenAI GPT.
  1. Go to Language.
  2. Click Manage language next to the target language.
  3. Open the resource containing the translation you want to update, such as Product, Collection, Online store, Theme, or Notifications.
  4. Find the relevant content and click Improve translation with AI.
  5. Select OpenAI GPT and generate the translation again.
  6. Review and save the new translation.

The new manual translation will use any matching Glossary rules configured for that target language.

Block specific content from Auto Translation

To stop Auto Translation for an entire section or a specific element, such as a product name, add the notranslate class to the relevant element. See Exclude specific content from Auto Translation for instructions.

To keep a term unchanged in manual translations generated with OpenAI GPT, create a Never translate Glossary rule and re-translate the content.

If you have any questions or need help creating a Glossary rule, please contact us at [email protected]. Our support team will be happy to assist you.