If you run a Zen Cart shop that offers products in more than one language, you know how hard it is. You have to maintain your product names, descriptions and meta tag information in all the languages. This is no small task.

Our customers told as about this problem, so we created some new features within ShopAdmin to help in this regard. If your Zen Cart application is configured with more than one language, you will see a dropdown list of languages  in your ShopAdmin menubar, like the one below. (This dropdown will not appear if you store is configured for just one language.)

The language you choose in this dropdown will be used for all display and updates of product data. For instance, if you change the setting in this dropdown to Dutch, the ShopAdmin page reloads, and when you navigate to the Products tab, you will see the product names, descriptions and meta information in Dutch. Moreover, if you export, import or update your product records, the changes you make will affect only the Dutch names and descriptions of the products.

Coupled with the new ShopAdmin feature for model-number-based product lookup, you will likely find it much easier to maintain your product information regardless of how many languages you need to support.

If you wish to use this feature in your Zen Cart system, you will need to download and install an update for your ShopAdmin add-on for Zen Cart. (There is also an updated version available for osCommerce.)

We hope ShopAdmin is useful to you. Please continue to send us your suggestions for features and enhancements, and we will do our best to support them.

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