---
title: Multilingual store
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k8/multilingual-websites.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).

Kentico allows you to have your website content translated into multiple languages. In your multilingual stores this applies to [products](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/products.md), which can have different language versions. The system can display to your [customers](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/customers.md) different language versions of your on-line store content automatically based on various settings. Your customers can also switch between languages manually using dedicated [web parts](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/developing-websites/developing-websites-using-the-portal-engine/using-and-configuring-web-parts.md).

## Multiple language versions

If you enabled multilingual support in your on-line store (in **Sites -> Edit (\*\*\*\*) _site_ -> Cultures**), you can see a dedicated section with language selection options above the [product sections tree](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/products.md). Using these options, you can switch between available language versions of the currently selected section or product. The **Languages** column in the products list indicates which language versions (cultures) are currently available on your site.

![On-line store with multilingual support](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/multilingual-store/store_with_multilingual_support.png "On-line store with multilingual support")

## Language version comparison:

You can click **Compare** to switch to the [language version comparison](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/multilingual-websites/editing-the-content-of-multilingual-websites/comparing-language-versions.md) mode and edit language versions side-by-side. However, currently you can localize only product fields in [General tab](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/products.md#general-tab) **-> Custom properties** (except for those added to the _Ecommerce - SKU_ table), and the following fields in **General tab -> General**:

- **Product name**
- **Short description**
- **Description**

Besides, you can localize the **Section name** field when editing a product section.

![Comparing different language versions of a product](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/multilingual-store/comparing_different_language_versions_of_product.png "Comparing different language versions of a product")

> **Info:** Only a product that you [created](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/products/adding-new-products.md) the recommended way (i.e. that you created as SKU + associated [product type](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/products/managing-product-types-and-product-section-types.md) document) can be localized.
>
> This means that a separate product object (i.e. [stand-alone SKU](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/products/managing-stand-alone-skus.md)) cannot have different language versions.