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title: Configuring multilingual stores
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/multilingual-websites.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/managing-on-line-stores/maintaining-multilingual-stores.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/multilingual-websites/setting-up-multilingual-websites/setting-default-languages-for-users-and-visitors.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/multilingual-websites/setting-up-a-multilingual-user-interface/working-with-resource-strings.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

Xperience allows you to have your website content translated into [multiple languages](https://docs.kentico.com/13/multilingual-websites.md). The system can display different language versions of your on-line store content to [customers](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/managing-on-line-stores/customers.md) based on various settings.

> **Info:** If you want to offer multilingual products, create them in the default way (i.e. SKU + page) so that you can create separate language versions of product pages. For products created as [stand-alone SKUs](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/managing-on-line-stores/products/managing-stand-alone-skus.md), you need to create [resource strings](https://docs.kentico.com/13/multilingual-websites/setting-up-a-multilingual-user-interface/working-with-resource-strings.md).
>
> You also need to use resource strings if you wish to translate [product options](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/managing-on-line-stores/products/working-with-product-options.md) or [product variants](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/managing-on-line-stores/products/working-with-product-variants.md), and also other e-commerce objects, such as [discounts](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/managing-on-line-stores/discounts.md), [shipping options](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/configuring-on-line-stores/configuring-shipping-options.md) or [payment methods](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/configuring-on-line-stores/configuring-payment-methods.md). To learn more, see [Maintaining multilingual stores](https://docs.kentico.com/13/e-commerce-features/managing-on-line-stores/maintaining-multilingual-stores.md).

## Setting up multiple languages

To set up multiple languages on your website, you need to:

1. Open the **Sites** application.
2. **Edit** () a specific site.
3. Switch to the **Cultures** tab.
4. Click **Add cultures**.
5. Select the desired cultures in the dialog.
6. Click **Select.**

The system now enables you to create content in the selected languages.

> **Tip:** To learn more about setting up multiple languages or setting the default language, see [Setting up multilingual websites](https://docs.kentico.com/13/multilingual-websites/setting-up-multilingual-websites.md).

## Allowing customers to switch between languages

To give your site's visitors the option to choose between different languages, your developers need to implement and design the required functionality.

You first need set up functionality that detects which language is requested by the visitor. See [Setting up culture detection](https://docs.kentico.com/13/multilingual-websites/setting-up-multilingual-websites/setting-up-culture-detection.md). Depending on your preferred solution, you can then add links or other components that allow visitors to switch between different languages.