Connect and translate your BigCommerce website with Smartcat

Overview

Smartcat connects to your BigCommerce website and AI-translates its pages in up to 280 languages. This guide walks you through previewing the translation, reviewing it in the CAT editor, and publishing it to your live site with a JavaScript code snippet.

Set up and preview your translation

1. Open your Workspace and click the Translate a website shortcut

2. Specify both the source and target languages. You can select multiple target languages if you need

3. In the Website URL field, paste the URL of your BigCommerce page

4. Click Preview my website

5. Smartcat opens the translated version of your BigCommerce page

6. Use the toolbar above to switch between languages

Your translated BigCommerce page is now ready to preview and fine-tune.

Adjust preview and publish settings

Use the gear icon in the upper-right corner of the screen to open the settings.

1. In the Translation mode section, specify how the translation is rendered for your website visitors

2. On the Language selector tab, choose how the language selector best fits your BigCommerce page design

3. In Preview settings, specify how you want to view the translated page

4. In Publish settings, select your Published Languages and copy the JavaScript code for publishing your translated page

Your publishing preferences are now configured.

Review the translation

1. To review the translation, click Edit. This opens the Smartcat CAT editor

2. Review your translation, which is split automatically into segments. Make any edits here, and confirm each segment translation before moving to the next

3. To return to your website preview, click Back

Your translation is reviewed and ready to publish.

Publish to BigCommerce

1. From the website preview, publish your website translation by clicking the button next to the address field

2. Click Copy code to save the code to your clipboard

📌 Add the Smartcat code snippet to the header of the page to ensure the Smartcat website translator operates correctly.

1. Open BigCommerce and add your code to the website header of your page

2. As soon as the code has been added, click Validate and continue in Smartcat

Your BigCommerce website now serves Smartcat translations to your visitors.