Transcy: AI Langue Traduire

The app works good on the frontend with the switcher.

But when you use the app as a backend translator for Shopify languages, it works randomly for different languages, translating some parts of strings, and leaving others without translations.

The frontend switcher causes CLS issues.
The app support doesn't know that their app can work without the switcher, and I needed to explain the same thing to a new person again and again for two weeks already. The support is not competent in most of the cases. As for now - they are not able to resolve not translated parts via their app.

If the issues are fixed, I'll upgrade my rate for this app.

Issues keeps getting worse and it seems be a lot of bugs. Hopefully they will fix it all soon.

Cris did a great job!!!!! Quick help when we need it most.
UPDATE: we've been using Transcy for a while now and the support is very responsive. No issue there. However, it seems like we've had issues every other week or so. The app is very buggy and needs constant attention. Also, every time there is an update, you'll find out because there will be issues in your store. VERY frustrating!!!
This app works but it needs constant attention. It tends to work in spurts and regularly will break your store and cause massive 404 errors and redirects.... User be ware.

The app works good. But I am having terrible issues with the help agents. They made my problem worse. I just needed help with ONE word translated and now I have to pay to fix their mistake! I am really feeling helpless at the moment.

Customer service is very active (even if resolutions are pretty long -time for the devs to fix the issues) but my God...issues are countless when it comes to translating : coloring, spacing, hyperlinks...If you want something clean and proper you have to go over it and over it this is a real time-losing app, do not recommend.

I'm very frustrated with the guys here at Transcy. When it comes to SEO they are very vague in their answers. I have asked several times about why we aren't ranking very well in other languages ie spanish, dutch, swedish etc and they keep saying there's many reasons. I fully understand this however I have since found out that image alt text or hreflang is important and these are two things this app doesn't offer. I feel frustrated as I have asked numerous times about their app and it's ability to help rank in SEO within chosen countries and I feel they haven't been fully honest about the capabilities of their app. It is vitally important that we rank for other languages as we are a Spanish company, english speaking, based in Spain. So the spanish translation HAS to perform well in SEO but there are things this app doesn't offer that is essential for this to happen. Yes, it does offer content translation, page title translation & meta tag translation but it doesn't offer image alt text or hreflang translation! I just wish they were honest when asked about this as i would have been able to move to weglot a long time ago!

I have been using this app for some time now, and we are using it because of the features it provides, although, I am making this review in hopes that further action will take place to improve the app, as I don't feel activity to elevate the app is currently in place. I haven't seen any improvements in the past 5-7 months.

Since using this app, there are multiple technical glitches and the app is not very user-friendly. It is easy to click their "translate" button and all the backend work that we completed would be erased. That makes me very nervous.

Once, I spent a lot of time adjusting the switcher placement and the next day it moved to a new location on its own.

When I cannot find a solution on my own, I reach out to the support. They try really hard to help, but it will take at least half a day to find a solution, if they find a solution. If they do not find a solution, they will pass the project to another team. Sometimes I wonder if there is another team... Waiting until the next day to implement a simple feature like changing the link on a banner on our French page, is not ideal when working with customers on a live site.

All the concerns I am addressing here I have addressed to the support team. I don't see any elevation in place to prevent the multiple technical glitches, or to create a more user-friendly app. I hope activities to create a stronger performing app will take place in the future.

In addition to your response: Thank you for the update. Your support team is great. They try their best. I feel it is the technical team that needs to spend more time elevating the app so that the support team does not need to fix as many problems that are not necessary. Also, the tech team tried to resolve an issue that was already fixed. Now we are back to square one, and I was informed that I need to reach out to my theme for a solution. That does not make sense. I am leaving this note in hopes that you see where the app can be elevated. Please spend time elevating the tech team rather than your active support, because they are great!

We have been using Transcy several months now (altough it says 5 days for some reason). There's 1000 product limit and we have 3300 products, but there's no way to translate only the products that are online. You'd have to search them manually by using the info from Shopify customer front. We use Prestige theme and the categories don't work. Transcy replied "We're so sad to hear no further support from theme and if theme cannot support on this case, this issue cannot be resolved". We asked help from the theme maker but they replied that they don't do support for third party apps.

The Transcy team has very responsive, hands-on support team. However, this did not translate into a working app. Ultimately, it failed to consistently translate the content on the page after hours of me working with their team to try and troubleshoot the reason. They sent me a video saying "see it works" and, in the video itself, it didn't work.

There are a few things to watch out for before getting this app.

1. You can't place the switcher wherever you want.

This meant that, even though I'm a fully capable developer, I had to wait 2 days for them to place the switcher on my header since my "automatic" Venue theme installation was broken.

Once completed, it was not well place and the font size was different to my other nav links. It was also incorrectly configured since I don't support different currencies. And as soon as I turned off the currency setting, it broke again.

You are powerless here. If you're not tech savvy and don't mind waiting for support. You're good to go.

2. You can't turn off translations once they go off. Seriously. No backsies.

We had 500+ products translated to Spanish all at once and there was no way of saying "hey, I actually don't want those, let's put those translations back to the default language and only keep the home page translations for Spanish" or "I actually only want these 10 products translated to Spanish, ignore the rest". Nope, you are done my friend. You see those 400,000 translations we've made? Yeah, now go one by one and correct the translation mistakes (Who has that kind of time?). So yeah, you got me. Keep your – as stated repeatedly – non-refundable $60 bucks, I'm out!

Please beware. I think the reviewers here are not seeing how devastatingly awful this app can be as you scale your business, since most of their stores are so early-stage. If your business is serious about translations, this is NOT the app for you.

Who is this app is for?

If you have 1-10 products on your store and can afford fixing all the translations as soon as you "translate all products", this app is perfect for you.