E-commerce · 4 months
E-Commerce Platform Localization
Comprehensive multilingual localization for a cross-border e-commerce platform, including product descriptions, user interface, and customer support content.
- ISO 17100 quality standards
- Professional review workflow
- Multilingual project management
Anonymized case - Languages
- 5
- Months
- 4
- SKU lines
- 100k+
- Maintenance efficiency
- 40%
Background
The client serves cross-border consumers, finance, legal or public-facing scenarios where trust and compliant messaging drive conversion and risk control. “E-Commerce Platform Localization” must preserve brand voice while adapting to local search, legal wording and user expectations.
A cross-border marketplace needed ongoing multilingual product copy, campaign pages, UI strings and support knowledge bases—at massive SKU scale with a maintainable terminology system.
Linguist assigned industry linguists, reviewers and a dedicated PM. Scope included Product Copy Translation, UI Localization, Support Documentation, etc.. Within 4 months, we delivered and QA’d 5 languages—achieving: Established product terminology and style guidelines, improving multilingual catalog maintenance
Project challenges
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Huge SKU volume
Descriptions vary in length and update constantly.
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Campaign tone
Promotional copy must stay on-brand yet locally persuasive.
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UI + content sync
Strings and marketing must share one terminology system.
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Regional Spanish
EU vs. LATAM Spanish conventions differ.
Our approach
Phased delivery balancing quality, compliance and timeline.
- 01
Content tiers
Separated SKU templates, campaigns, UI and support docs.
- 02
TM & glossary
Imported legacy translations and category glossaries.
- 03
MTPE at scale
Machine translation plus human edit for bulk SKUs.
- 04
Ops alignment
Synced with campaign calendar for peak-season drops.
Deliverables
- Product copy library
- UI string packs
- Campaign pages
- Support KB
Project highlights
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Scale workflow
Templates and TM reduced duplicate effort.
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Conversion tone
Localized promotional copy for performance.
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Unified terms
Aligned UI, catalog and support language.
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Peak readiness
Surge capacity before major sales events.
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