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Notes on Shopify localization
Guides, playbooks and engineering deep-dives from the Datora team.
Guide
2026-05-10 · 8 min readThe 2026 Shopify translation checklist
Twelve things every Shopify merchant should ship before going live in a new market – from hreflang to metafields to email templates.
Read postEngineering
2026-04-22 · 11 min readHow we benchmark AI translation quality
Inside the eval harness we run on every model release – BLEU, chrF, human ratings and the brand-specific tests that actually matter.
Playbook
2026-04-05 · 7 min readPlaybook: scaling from one to five locales
How a DTC apparel brand we work with grew from a single English store to five live locales in 90 days – without hiring an in-house translator.