hey what's up guys so i logged into my
merch by amazon dashboard today and i
saw
a pop-up related to amazon merch doing
automatic translations
of our text content into the
proper language for international
markets now i know that's relative when
i say international and i live in the
united states i think of other markets
as international but if you live in
those countries
you think of the united states as
international anyways it sounds like
merch by amazon is going to
basically make our lives a lot easier by
doing automatic translations
i haven't read the faq page i figured
we'd do that together in this video so
why don't we jump right into it
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jump over to the faq i did want to
just show you guys that my account has
already been enabled with
the translation options i believe on
that pop-up that we saw
it said that they're going to roll this
out to accounts like over time they
typically
it seems like they typically uh start
with the highest tier accounts so my
accounts in tier 200 000
and when i checked my create product
page today this is what i noticed so it
says translation options
do you want amazon to translate your
product details from english
to other languages and the default was
yes translate my product information
however i can also
opt to switch that and say no i'll
provide my own translations now
i'll be honest like i wish i was
bilingual um i took what three years of
spanish in high school
and outside of speaking spanish to my
micro chihuahua pablo who's sleeping
next to me
i don't really i'm i'm not bilingual
let's just put it that way it's a joke
my spanish is not going to impress
anybody it would honestly just embarrass
me
so i'm going to leave that enabled and
let amazon's ai
translate my product information but
let's go and jump over to the faq
and read exactly what's going on all
right we're here on the translations faq
page in the merch resources i will drop
a link in the description in case
anybody wants to follow along or read it
for yourself
alright let's read through this
translations frequently asked questions
what's changing
merch by amazon is offering an option to
translate product information without
needing to manually enter it for each
locale at the time of product creation
you'll see translations option
under product details section on the
create products page which i just showed
you
if you choose the translations option
you will only need to add product info
in your language or preference after
publishing merch by amazon will
translate the content
i.e the product title bullets and
description to other languages
for example if your language of
preference is english you choose to
publish a design on amazon.com and
amazon japan you can enter the product
info in english
select the translation options which i
just showed you is defaulted to yes so
you don't actually need to select
anything
and we will translate the content from
english to japanese when you publish
alright next question once i submit for
translation how long will it take for
products to translate
the translation may take up to 12 hours
on the manage page products being
translated can be filtered using
translating status interesting that's a
pretty long time i wonder why that is
will merge by amazon review my
translated products
after products are translated they will
be reviewed for content policy
compliance you can track each product
status on the manage page
for example the status of a product
submitted for translation will switch
from
translating to under review to live
after it's published okay so there's
going to be a new status on the manage
page
for translating that's interesting to
note
i extended a live design to another
locale and used translation feature
why do i see a rejected status there may
be instances when
when a translation is rejected because
it does not meet our policy requirements
for example an acceptable phrase in one
language may translate to a phrase
protected by local trademark law
in another locale now they also
simplified their content policy
page at least recently i can't say
content policy because i can't see the
algorithm
but there used to be like notes of
specific content policies to specific
countries where
something would you know be fine on most
of the international marketplaces but
then get rejected in um
one one place you know and if you've
uploaded enough international products
you've probably had this experience
where you might push it to
all you know six marketplaces and then
the next thing you know you've got a
rejection in just one of them so it's
one of these things that
i don't worry about too much um as long
as you know but you know me i play it
safe with my evergreens and whatnot so
if i get like one rejection it's very
rare
it's not something that happens often
enough where i would even feel the need
to really warn you guys where i think
it's gonna be a problem
can i use translation options for my
live designs wait sorry did i miss one
will a content policy rejection due to a
translation affect my account standing i
did this one
and this is good to note okay look at
this no action taken as a result of
product info translated using merch by
amazon service
will not impact your account standing
alright perfect so it's rare
and it won't count against your good
standing so perfect
can i use translations option for my
live designs yes you can use
translations option
for your existing published designs
while editing a design select get in
tr get a new translation before
publishing to enable your design across
additional locales
choose the desired listing options under
select products so they're making it
easier for us to go back in time
like i got into merch by amazon in early
2017 i can go back to my earliest
designs
um manage them enable international
marketplaces enable more products
enable the auto translation and then
bring that up to
speed and make it available on new
marketplaces in 2021.
i think that's what they're aiming to
allow us to do and i also think that's
why they
put stricter limits on daily product
uploads for the time being i think it's
because there's a lot of server load
going on
while they roll out this sort of thing
can i use translations option for my
live yes can all right
can i edit translated content yes you
can edit translated content once
translations are processing
are complete the option to edit is
available on the manage page after
clicking edit you'll be navigated to the
edit page on the edit page
choose the don't translate option to
edit translated content before
publishing so that's when you would
probably want to hit the don't translate
so you can make manual revisions if you
speak other languages
languages other than english unlike me
do i need to use merch by amazon
translations
no you can add your own translations by
selecting no i'll provide my own
translations during product creation
can i save opt out as my default setting
yes you can save the no i'll provide my
own translations as your default
preference by clicking the
or clicking on save publish settings
button which i think is in the top left
corner if i remember correctly
merged by amazon will automatically
default your to your preferred option
in future product creation sessions you
can use that for any settings that you
use
including like what products to enable
what marketplaces et cetera you can even
save like content as a content template
so
i have the products with translated
content can i choose the opt out of
translate
can i choose the opt out of translations
while editing an existing design yes you
can select the don't translate option
while editing your design
your existing product info will not be
changed and last question i do not see
the translations option
on the create page where can i find it
if you don't see the translations option
it could be due to two reasons
one you selected locales that only
support your language of preference like
united states and uk if you select
locales supporting other languages the
translation options will be displayed
under product details
two we have not yet enabled your account
this may take a few weeks all right guys
that's it for the faq let me know your
thoughts in the comments below if you
think this is good or bad
i can't really think of a reason this is
bad unless the uh
translations are like really poor
quality and because of this one right
here this one bullet by far the most
important one
that i'm pointing to that i've
highlighted will a content policy
rejection due to a translation
affect my account standing they said no
that is the biggest takeaway of this
video i'm glad that they
are um not gonna count that against us
and uh yeah
this is uh this is a step in the right
direction before i head out i just
wanted to remind you guys i wrote a full
merch by amazon course the most thorough
one you're gonna find on the internet
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tier two hundred thousand you'll find
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