How languages work in Storeep
Language in Storeep is set per market, not per store. Each market has exactly one language. When a buyer opens your store, Storeep matches their country to one of your enabled markets and renders the storefront in that market's language: interface labels, buttons, checkout text, system messages, and your policy pages. If the buyer's country does not match any enabled market, they see your primary market's language instead.
Only enabled markets take part in this match. A market that is deactivated is skipped, so its buyers also fall back to the primary market's language.
Supported languages
Storeep supports 17 languages. You can search the list by name when you pick one:
- Arabic (العربية)
- Czech (Čeština)
- German (Deutsch)
- English
- French (Français)
- Greek (Ελληνικά)
- Spanish (Español)
- Italian (Italiana)
- Polish (Polski)
- Portuguese (Português)
- Romanian (România)
- Russian (Русский)
- Slovak (Slovenčina)
- Swahili (Kiswahili)
- Turkish (Türkçe)
- Urdu (اردو)
- Chinese, Simplified (简体中文)
When you add a new market, its language is chosen automatically from the country's locale. If that country's language is not one of the 17 above, the market is created in English, and you can change it afterward.
Right-to-left languages
Arabic and Urdu are right-to-left (RTL). Storeep applies the correct text direction automatically for these languages, so your layout, fonts, and text alignment all flip to RTL with no extra setup. Every other supported language renders left-to-right (LTR). The direction is decided on the server and is baked into the page source, so it is correct from the first load.
Changing the language for a market
- Go to Settings, then Markets.
- Click the market you want to edit.
- Click Language. The panel header shows the country and the Current language.
- Select the language you want from the Languages list. You can type in the search box to filter by name.
- Click Save.
If you save without selecting anything, Storeep shows "Please choose a language". Only the 17 supported languages are accepted. You need the settings permission to change a language, otherwise the option is blocked.
What the language setting changes
Updates immediately for buyers in that market:
- Interface labels, buttons, and built-in system text on the storefront.
- Checkout wording and system messages.
- The text direction (LTR or RTL) applied to the whole layout.
You must update these yourself, they are never auto-translated:
- Product names, descriptions, and other product content.
- Page content built in the store editor (home page, about us, and other sections). Open each page and edit the text.
- Policy pages (privacy, terms, refund, and shipping). When a market is first created, its policies are generated in that market's language. If you change the language later, the existing policy text stays as it was, so you must rewrite it.
Storeep shows this reminder in the Language panel: "Important note: When changing the language, you must manually modify the language of your products and pages." Until you finish updating that content, buyers may see a mix of the old and new languages.
Things to check
- Wrong language for a country: confirm a market exists for that country, that the market is enabled, and that its language is set correctly. Disabled markets fall back to the primary market's language.
- RTL layout looks off after switching to Arabic or Urdu: clear your browser cache. The direction is set server-side and is correct in the page source.
- After any language change, review your product pages and policy pages on the live storefront to confirm every visible string is in the new language.