BigCommerce - Integration / Setup

1. Create a Weglot account

This account is where you’ll be able to view and manage all of your translations. Simply create a Weglot account here.

2. Choose languages

After you validate the email, you will arrive on the Weglot setup page. Enter your website URL.

Note: You must enter your own domain name, like mywebsite.com.

Then, select the original language of your website (the language in which you originally created your website) and the languages you want to translate into. 

In the example below, the website’s original language is English, and it will be translated into French.

Click on the blue " Next" button to go to the following step.

3. Create language subdomains for improved SEO

Note: If you do not want to setup subdomains now, just click on "you can skip this step" (see the screenshot below) to go to the next step of this guide: Install the Weglot library.

Prerequisite: The subdomain integration method requires accessing the DNS records of your website domain, so you will need to have purchased your own domain name already. If you haven’t bought a domain name yet, do not choose this integration method.

Enter the DNS records that are shown to you in your DNS Record Zone. Depending on where you bought the domain, these records will be accessible to you at one of two possible locations.

• If you bought your domain name directly via BigCommerce, you’ll find your DNS records in Settings > Domain > Email & DNS Records > Web Hosts.
• If you bought your domain name from an external provider (these include sites like GoDaddy, 1&1, Gandhi, etc.), your DNS records will be located in your dashboard on this provider’s website.

At this stage, you should be able to create new entries in the DNS section on your screen. 

If you need any help finding or updating your DNS records, you can send us an email at support@weglot.com. Just provide us with your BigCommerce admin access codes, and we will do the whole thing for you!

Note: If you do not want to share your admin access codes, you can create collaboration access for us by following the BigCommerce documentation here: Adding User Accounts. You can use the support@weglot.com email address to create the account.

4. Validate DNS

Once you have added and saved the entries, go back to the Weglot page. You can click on the blue " Check DNS" button and a green check-mark icon should appear: this means everything has been successfully set up (This can sometimes take a couple of minutes or even 10, so do not be alarmed if the green check-mark icon hasn’t appeared next to your DNS record yet). 

Click " Next".

5. Install the Weglot library

You will need to add the Weglot Javascript library to your website’s code. Copy the Javascript code snippet that is shown to you on your Weglot account, it should look like the one in the screenshot below:

Go to your BigCommerce dashboard > "Channel Manager" menu and click on your store in the "Storefronts" section:

Then, go to the " Script Manager" menu and click on the blue "Create a Script" button:

Enter whatever "Name of script" and "Description" you want, and fill up the remaining fields as follows:

Click on the blue " Save" button:

Finished! Go to your website, and you will see the language switcher button appear at the very bottom right. Give it a few minutes to make sure your subdomains are properly set up, then you can try changing the language, and you’ll see your translated pages.

Check out our getting started video to see all of Weglot’s features.