Languages

Optan is built for multilingual selling — on both sides of the counter.

The admin — 12 languages

The app’s admin interface is available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Swedish, Danish and Korean. It follows your Shopify admin language automatically, and you can override it any time in the app’s Settings page.

The storefront gate

Free plan: your own words, any language

On the Free plan, the gate displays the text fields from the theme editor (Appearance). The defaults are in English — replace them with your own wording in whatever language your store speaks. For a single-language store this is usually all you need.

Pro: automatic translation in 14 locales

Multilingual stores sell in several languages at once — and a French visitor shouldn’t meet an English age gate. Enable Show the gate in the visitor’s language (Pro) and the gate serves its built-in translations, following the language each visitor is browsing your store in:

Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish, Chinese (Simplified) and Chinese (Traditional).

The translations cover all seven gate texts (heading, message, buttons, date-of-birth labels, declined message) with neutral, compliance-appropriate wording.

Editing the built-in translations

The gate’s locale strings live in your theme as standard Shopify translations, so merchants comfortable with Shopify’s language editor can fine-tune any string per language (Online Store → Themes → ⋯ → Edit default theme content).

Which setup for which store?

Store	Recommended setup
One language	Free plan texts, written in your language
Several languages, standard wording is fine	Pro + automatic translation
Several languages, custom voice required	Pro + automatic translation, fine-tuned via Shopify’s language editor