Localization Readiness Scorecard
Most stores translate. Few actually localize.
This free checklist helps you find out exactly where your store stands, across 5 dimensions that determine whether your international visitors feel like your store was built for them, or just converted from somewhere else.
Language, visuals, UX, catalog, and maintenance: each one scored, each one actionable. Takes under 10 minutes to complete.
FAQs
Translation changes the language. Localization adapts the full country experience, including visuals, UX, catalog, and ongoing maintenance.
Our guide to Shopify localization explains why language alone does not make a store feel local. The scorecard shows exactly which of those five dimensions still creates distance for international visitors. Download the localization scorecard and find your weakest dimension.
Ecommerce localization adapts how your store speaks, looks, navigates, merchandises, and evolves for each country.
See what that looks like in our ecommerce localization examples. Then use the scorecard to compare your own store across the same five dimensions, before international shoppers pay the price for a generic experience. Download the localization scorecard.
No. A translated Shopify store can still show the wrong imagery, navigation, assortment, size guidance, payment methods, or shipping information for the country.
Those gaps make a translated store feel imported and create friction at the buying decision. The scorecard checks the parts translation leaves behind. Download the localization scorecard before you launch another language.
It checks language and translation, visuals, UX and navigation, catalog, and review and maintenance.
You score each dimension against your current store, then get an overall result plus your strongest area and primary risk. Download the localization scorecard and turn a vague localization project into clear priorities.
Expansion readiness validates the business case for a country. Localization readiness validates the experience you give shoppers once you enter it.
One protects your model from premature expansion. The other protects conversion from a store that still feels foreign. Download the localization scorecard once the country passes your expansion test.
