Create a project in Smartcat

This article will walk you through the typical steps involved in creating projects. Here’s how it works:

1. Open Smartcat and log in with your credentials.

2. On your workspace's home page, select Create a projectin the templates section under your workspace’s name. This will open Smartcat’s project creation workflow.

3. Select a template (not required). To use a premade template, either created by yourself or one of Smartcat’s default templates, or to create a new one, click the Change template button at the top right of the workflow.

4. Enter your name and deadline. These fields are not mandatory. The “project name” field is empty by default

• If you don’t provide a name and don’t upload any files, it will automatically be named “New project” after clicking on “Create a project”. If that name is already taken, a number will be added.

• If you don't provide a name but upload some files, Smartcat will automatically name it “Project: name of the first file without extension” after clicking “Create a project”. If that name is already taken, a number will be added.

• If you provide a name already taken, a number will be added next to it.

5. Select source and target languages. Choose from a list of all languages, dialects, and previously selected languages. Languages that are not supported by AI translation are shown in gray.

6. Upload files (not required). In this section, you can upload files to be translated. Note that you can still add files at later stages in the project.

7. Additional settings. Open this menu to customize your project workflow. You can set a simple AI translation, AI translation with human review (the default setting), manual translation, and manual translation + editing.

8. Click Create project at the bottom of the workflow. Once your project is created, you can upload linguistic resources, assign tasks to team members and freelancers, and control other settings.