Ecwid Expands Its Global Accessibility in 15 Languages and Gives Merchants Increased Visibility to Consumers Around the World

Encinitas, CA, December 17, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Ecwid, a leading e-commerce solution that enables retailers to add an online store to any web presence and to multiple sites simultaneously, today announced that it once again has extended its global accessibility. Now, more merchants can access the Ecwid homepage in their native language from among 15 additional translations. The newly translated homepages allow customers to discover Ecwid, sign up and manage their storefront completely in their own language. For consumers from around the world who patronize Ecwid merchants’ stores, the Ecwid platform intuitively detects their web browser settings and automatically translates the store to their preferred language. Consumers are now able to shop in their native language in more than 45 countries, including Italy, Hungary, Norway, Romania, Germany, the Czech Republic, Turkey, and many more.

Strong ties to the global development community enabled Ecwid to draw upon crowd-sourcing to support the vast number of languages available to Ecwid merchants. Ecwid developers created a special translation tool for the Ecwid community to use to help translate the platform into new languages, by adding new phrases or correcting issues with existing translations. Ecwid plans to roll out additional language options over the coming year to increase accessibility to customers and merchants across the globe.

According to Jesse Ness, Marketing Manager of Ecwid:

“We are extremely excited to announce the unveiling of even more language translations to the Ecwid storefront, adding to the already extensive library. Our aim is to make our e-commerce platform available to shoppers and online merchants all over the world, and with the help of the talented Ecwid community of users and our team of developers, we’re now closer than ever to making that goal a reality.”

By automatically translating the storefronts of online stores, Ecwid creates a streamlined shopping experience for both customers and merchants, saving time, effort and the need to translate pages manually. Among the 45 languages available to customers, Ecwid allows customers in France, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, and many others, to shop using their native language.

In addition to the automatic storefront translations, Ecwid also allows merchants to use the e-commerce platform in their own language with the help of over 16 backend translations. Current available languages include Russian, French, German, Dutch, Hungarian, Spanish, Korean, Turkish, Chinese, and many more. Similar to the front-end translations, Ecwid invites users to add a new language to the available options or amend any issues they may find with current translations.

To learn more about Ecwid’s online store language translations or other features of the e-commerce platform, visit: http://www.ecwid.com/. Or, to participate in Ecwid’s crowd-source translation project, visit: http://translate.ecwid.com/.

About Ecwid:
Ecwid is a full-featured, cloud-based e-commerce platform that allows SMBs to create professional online stores and embed them into any web presence in minutes, and operate multiple online stores with mobile point-of-sale integration simultaneously. Ecwid, available directly or through trusted partners, has over 600,000 registered merchants in 175 countries, and is available in 45 languages. For more info, visit http://www.ecwid.com/.