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Menus in any language

Write items in the language your customers read, or two side by side. Every plan, no charge.

Any language, any plan

Type item names, descriptions, the hours note and your about text in whatever language your customers read, the way you would on the chalkboard. Korean, Spanish, Armenian, Thai, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Farsi, Chinese: the page shows what you typed, in a font that covers them. There is no setting to turn on and nothing to pay; this is on every plan.

If a character shows up as a blank box, email us the word and we sort out the font.

Two languages side by side

Most shops in Los Angeles serve two languages at the counter. The simplest way to do that on the page is to put both in the same item, with a middle dot between them:

  • Ube Latte · 우베 라떼
  • Pan de Sal · Soft bread rolls
  • Խաչապուրի · Khachapuri

Or put one language in the name and the other in the description. A good rule: the name is what people say at the counter, the description is the other language. The price appears once, so there is nothing to keep in sync.

A bilingual item is still one item, so it counts once toward your item limit. Making two items for the same thing in two languages counts twice, and gives you two prices to keep straight, so write both into one.

Asking for changes

You can ask Spot for page-design and storefront-copy changes in your own language. Item names, descriptions and prices remain catalog data, so edit those fields in the item editor; a design suggestion never silently changes what you sell or what it costs.

What the page does not do

  • It does not translate for you. What you type is what everyone sees.
  • There is no language switcher. Every visitor sees the same page, which is why side by side works better than two versions.

Item and photo limits are the same whatever the language; they are set out in Plans, founding shops, and cancelling.

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