Every app costs money each month, adds scripts to your pages and takes a piece of control. We check what the theme can do itself, build the rest into your code and keep only the apps that earn their place. Run the numbers with your own figures.
What do your apps cost per year?
apps
Listed in the Shopify admin under “Apps”.
€/month
Per month. Free apps count as 0.
€/month
Such as Weglot or Langify. No service: 0.
Starting values are examples. Only subscriptions are counted, not load time or effort for theme updates.
Translation on autopilot: we set up your markets, translate the catalog against your glossary and keep it current from then on. Every hour the bot checks what is new or has changed and writes the translation straight into Shopify.
The Shopify-Check counts, per language, what is missing or wrong today.
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Glossary
You decide what is never translated and which technical terms apply. We bring the template and go through it with you.
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Markets
Shopify Markets, separate URLs per language, hreflang, theme texts and the languages of your apps.
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First run
The whole catalog, native in Shopify. Whatever fails the check stays in quarantine instead of the store.
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Running
Every change logged and reversible, plus a report per language every month.
Translation runs on an AI model through your own account. A language review by native speakers and legal texts are not included.
What you can rely on.
Check commitment
No translated text goes live if its numbers, links, placeholders or the terms your glossary keeps untranslated differ from the source. If you still find one, we correct it within two working days at no cost and extend the check, provided your glossary is in place and nobody edited the text by hand.
Fixed monthly amount
You get a fixed monthly amount for the agreed scope up front. We only charge more if you commission additional work. Third-party costs, such as hosting or AI, are listed separately in the offer.
For businesses only. The written offer sets out the details, and your statutory rights remain in place.
Translate & Adapt is free, comes from Shopify and writes translations where Shopify serves them itself. That makes it the best foundation for a multilingual store. Where it stops is the automatic part: glossary, checks, update frequency and a way back. What the app does, where its limits are and when it's enough on its own.
A frontend of your own in front of Shopify sounds like more work than a theme. For most stores, it is. At whyraw it was the right call: live after five days, without third-party app scripts, with features no theme offers. How to tell which route fits your store.
Shopify can store and serve translations itself. At LOULEX, a bot of our own fills those fields every hour in seven languages, with a glossary, checks, a log and rollback. The 299 € a month translation service is gone. This is how it's built.
Every app costs you twice: on the invoice and in load time. At LOULEX we replaced six apps and a translation service costing 299 € a month. What Shopify apps really cost, how to review yours in 30 minutes and which ones may stay.
When the shop is part of the brand and a theme can no longer express it. Shopify stays catalog, cart and checkout; the frontend on Next.js talks to the Storefront API and belongs to you. At whyraw that meant a cam booth, an out-of-cam gallery and a release countdown, with no third-party app scripts, live five days after the first storefront commit. The trade-off: the theme editor and theme app extensions no longer apply, so what they did lives in the frontend. If a theme is enough, it is the cheaper route. Headless Shopify: when it's worth it
What happens to our existing apps?
We go through them one by one: what does the app do, how often is it used, what does it cost? Whatever the theme can do itself, we build in. The rest stays. You decide what gets cancelled. Replace Shopify apps
Does the store stay online during the rebuild?
We work on a copy of the theme and only switch over once you have seen and approved the new version. The live store keeps running until then.
Can we still edit content ourselves?
Yes. Product pages, legal pages, FAQ and contact are built so your team can change them in the theme editor, without us.
How do you handle several languages?
As native Shopify translations, maintained from one source text, so the shop serves translated content instead of swapping it in after load. At LOULEX, a translation bot of our own took the place of the external service; it now keeps new and changed products translated on its own. Translate Shopify without an app
How long does it take?
An audit of the store takes two weeks. A theme rebuild or a headless storefront is a product build, so weeks rather than quarters. If a single question is open, a 10-day pilot answers it.
Let's talk.
Tell us what it's about and Kevin Ludwig gives you a first assessment of whether and how it can be built.
“You can simply rely on him.”
Judith Hickel, Gloria Kollektiv e.V.
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