Automatic translation module for Zen Cart

Translate instantly your Zen Cart website using our automatic and high-quality translation module

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Enable dynamic translation for Zen Chart

Zen Chart website has numerous products, so it’s crucial to accurately translate all product pages. Linguise uses advanced translation technology, including AJAX, to instantly translate content as visitors view the site. This ensures smooth navigation for customers, even with regular updates, making the website accessible to people worldwide.

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Use a stable and tested extension for Zen Cart

Linguise translation extension for Zen Cart is currently running on more than a thousand websites all over the world. The extension is setup with many language pairs and most of the time, a 30-minute setup is enough to install and configure a 10 language high-quality translation.
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Are you ready to rock your Zen Cart SEO?

Content is king in SEO, and Linguise can manage all the high-quality content on your site. With the ability to handle thousands of products updated weekly, our cloud AI translation system steps in, offering seamless translations that enhance your website’s SEO. Imagine translating 10 new product pages into 20 languages; you could instantly generate 200 indexed pages with translated URLs and alternate links. What’s even better? Linguise is fully compatible with the Zen Cart CMS, giving you enhanced capabilities to optimize your website’s content.

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Cloud AI translation or Linguise AI model for Zen Cart

Linguise enhances its Zen Cart automatic translation capabilities with the launch of Linguise AI Translation—a powerful new solution powered by advanced AI LLMs (Large Language Models) optimized for high-quality translations.​​ This innovation delivers superior translation accuracy for Zen Cart store owners, developers, and web agencies handling eCommerce sites where precision matters most.​

Linguise AI Translation integrates seamlessly with the existing Google Cloud AI in the Zen Cart module, providing greater flexibility and enhanced results for multilingual online stores.

A flexible language switcher with visual configuration

Once your website translation is activated, you’ll need to display a language switcher with flags and language names. Our PHP and JS automatic translation script offers various integration designs. Depending on your language requirements, the front-end language switcher can be displayed as a pop-up, drop-down, or as a side-by-side.

But also very advanced features for a better website integration

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All Zen Cart translations in a single place

Zen Cart websites typically have a large number of products, which can make translation more complex as you need to locate the relevant content to edit. However, with a unified administration panel, you’ll have a single central location to access all your Zen Cart translations across multiple languages. This streamlined process allows you to easily edit any translation or apply translation rules such as “text replace” or “text ignore” to all your products with just a few clicks, saving you time and effort”.

Fully compatible with all Zen Cart module

Zen Cart extension offers various customizations, including product pages, category pages, shopping cart views, headers, and footers. Linguise simplifies all process translation by translating all elements into a single step. There is no need for one-by-one editing!

Furthermore, if you’re using the Zen Cart default translation system, let’s say used for one language, you can add Linguise over it temporarily.

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Edit your Zen Cart translations from the front-end

Zen Cart automatic cloud AI translation can be supplemented by additional human translation. To get a perfect translation for your website, a professional translator will need to check between 10% and 20% of your content. Linguise makes it easy with advanced global translation exclusions and replacement rules, as well as with a front-end translation tool.

Discover the super light Zen Cart translation module

All eCommerce CMS systems are complex, contain numerous pages, database requests, and image processing, which results in slow loading times, especially when using the local translation feature.

Linguise uses a unique approach using remote caching to prevent local content duplication. It delivers instantly translated multilingual content without compromising database performance. Offer smoother experiences for both users and search engines with best optimizations.

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Translate your Google Merchant Center product feed

Google Shopping is connected to a Zen Cart product data feed which then becomes your Google Shopping feed. You’ll need to translate all product information if you sell products to particular countries or want to expand your eCommerce reach. Linguise is integrated with Google Merchant Center product feed and will do that for you, automatically!

Other features of the Zen Cart automatic translation

AMP and Google Shopping pages

Linguise is fully compatible with Google AMP and Google Shopping. Automatically load all your Zen Cart multilingual pages with their AMP version and add your multilingual product feed to Google Shopping!

Zen Cart product catalog search

The Zen Cart product catalog search is available for multilingual pages, meaning that you can run a search query in Zen Cart content and get search results in your language. It also works with 3rd party search extensions.

Zen Cart sitemap translation

Linguise generates XML sitemaps based on your Zen Cart sitemaps. It’s automatically updated when a bot crawls and indexes your new multilingual eCommerce pages.

Inline Zen Cart translation

Inline code is complicated to handle by automatic translation tools. It has to be regrouped as an individual sentence to keep the content context. Linguise uses a custom tool to brings an accurate translation of the HTML inline content.

Fast Zen Cart page display

The Linguise multilingual translation has a dedicated cache server. Once a translation is made or needs to be updated, we first check if we can serve an instant HTML cached version as a Zen Cart translated page.

FAQ about the Zen Cart translation integration

Installation uses a lightweight PHP script and takes around 30 minutes for a 10-language setup. You upload the linguise folder to your Zen Cart root directory, add rewrite rules to your .htaccess file, and insert the language switcher script inside tpl_header.php, located at /includes/template/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/tpl_header.php. The integration is compatible with Zen Cart 1.5.x and above on Apache and NGINX servers.

Yes, Linguise has recently updated its integration to fully translate the entire Zen Cart checkout flow, including previously untranslated elements like the shipping “Estimator” button. This ensures a consistent, end-to-end multilingual experience for your international customers, from product browsing all the way to payment confirmation, which directly improves conversion rates and customer trust.

Yes, this is a standout feature for Zen Cart store owners targeting international markets. Linguise is integrated with Google Merchant Center and automatically translates your Zen Cart product data feed, so your product listings appear in the local language in Google Shopping campaigns. This eliminates the need to manually maintain separate product feeds per language.

Linguise generates a significant SEO advantage by automatically creating dedicated, indexed URLs per language, translating metadata (titles and descriptions), and implementing hreflang tags. Translating 10 product pages into 20 languages instantly generates 200 new indexed pages, multiplying your organic visibility. Linguise recommends adding languages gradually (max 5 at first) to avoid overwhelming Google’s crawl budget.

Yes, Linguise provides a unified administration panel where you can access, search, and edit all translations across multiple languages from a single interface. You can apply global rules like “text replace” or “text ignore” across your entire product catalog in a few clicks, avoiding the need for one-by-one editing across thousands of product pages.

Pricing is based on the number of translated words, starting at $15 per month (or $165/year) for up to 200,000 words. All plans include unlimited languages, unlimited page views, and access to both Cloud AI and Linguise AI LLM translation engines. A one-month free trial is available to test the full integration on your Zen Cart store.

How to get started?
1. Create your account and register your domain here >>
2. Follow the related documentation to activate the translation here >>