Transcy: AI Tradurre la lingua

Hab heute binnen weiß nicht was, 30 Minuten oder so, den gesamten Jewelry Shop von Hoffnungsträger Yoga Jewelry übersetzen lassen in 5 der meist gesprochenen Sprachen in Europe. Hatte Hilfe von einer Admin namens Flora. Sie hat einen Top Job gemacht. Super schnell und sehr hilfsbereit. War ein wenig anspruchsvoll, weil das alles über den Chat lief und die Bilder dort zu klein sind, um sie zu lesen. Ich hab dann mit rechter Maustaste aber die Bilder gespeichert und in PPT kopiert. Ging dann viel besser, sie zu lesen. Vielleicht würde ein PDF helfen, was Transcy schicken könnte. ;-) Aber der Support an sonsten war echt super und ich hab schon mal reingelesen. Ich glaube, die Texte sind alle total super übersetzt. Wahnsinn, was Tech heute kann. Ich bin tief beeindruckt. Übrigens hab ich mich halt einfach nicht von den schlechten Kommentaren verrückt machen lassen. Die App läuft Hammer und super Ergebnisse!

First 2 weeks: 5 stars:
This is the best service I have ever received on an app. I was very shy with all the different translation apps, and in the end I choose this one because of the price and that you are not charged for the AI translation. I would suggest it is best to have your store base language in english, I unfortunately did not have. But the app easily allows you to manual change the languages on each page. Great app!

Update 4 months later:
Great customer service. But the app itself is lacking a lot. If you are using many theme templates, you are better off with another app. There is no clear way possible of easily managing the translations of your different theme templates. For shopify 2.0 this app is not recommended. The app is messing with internal links often. If you don't pay attention your site is probably unusable and showing a lot of 404 pages in the other language. The customer serivce is fast and good. I guess they have a hard job only working on solving problems.

Honestly? It is pretty chaotic. Yesterday I had one help person who completely messed up the languages on our second shop - though I had specified extremely clearly (twice!) what was needed. Today, someone has simply renamed our theme without letting us know, while they try to fix a bug. They don't seem to understand version control and the importance of informing the shop owner about something as basic as renaming a theme. They also have a habit, when something has clearly gone wrong, of saying that it was someone else at Transcy, not them. So i guess they don't brief each other on a job, or do a clear hand-over if someone else comes in on a new shift halfway through a job? On one help request, it seems you can easily end up with three different people and there is a lot of starting from scratch to explain the issue each time. Finally, they push and push endlessly to ask for a review. I was even asked, "Why don't you have time to write a review for us?" It's not very professional. As I say, the overall impression is that it's pretty chaotic on the help side.

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 uninstalled this app after using 10 months. So many issues occurred and made me so upset all the time. It was just the waste of time and money. But I would like to say thank you to Johnson. He was the only person who tried to understand the issue correctly and help me. But he was busy and not always available. Transcy should hire more advanced customer support like him. He did not hurt my feeling, while other did. But I also know it is not totally their fault. When their shift was over, the issue was transferred to the next available customer support who did not understand what really happened exactly. So I had to explain the issue to the new customer support. But she/he was gone also when her/his shift was over. And then another new support person asked me the same thing. I had to repeat and repeat the same things. Never ending. Transcy should not waste the customer's time like that. They also give the stress to their own support people with this system. If customer has the issue, somebody needs to be responsible until it is fixed. I hope they respect my opinion to improve their support system to make the customers & support team more comfortable.

Worst app I've ever used. It was a good app when I first downloaded 2 years ago. They changed their new UI and it hadn't worked properly until I contacted them.

They especially messed up my international SEO which took me years to get there. Product pages' meta descriptions are completely from different products, same for h1 and h2 either. I gave them a chance to help me but they tell me that I need to update pages manually which is ridiculous because I have over 2k products in my store. It's not possible for me to do it.

They messed up my international SEO ranks and are not willing to help me. Never ever use this app.

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Edit Feb 8, 2023

Response to Peter:

It's not about me getting used to the new version. Your app obviously wasn't translating properly until I contacted you. So it is NOT me, it's you. You should take responsibility instead of trying to look like you're helping me, no you are NOT.

It is mind blowing. They emailed me today and said that 'please let us know if you need further assistance'. Is this a joke? Really?

I already told you what the issue is. Why have you NOT still fixed it instead of keep emailing me and saying that 'please let us know if I need help'.

Total waste.

This is a really honest review from this AWFUL APP. I wish I read the reviews before I BOUGHT THEIR SERVICE. THE WORST PART IS THAT THE 5 STARTS REVIEWS ARE FAKE, AS THEY ASK AND PRESSURE PEOPLE TO WRITE THEIR REVIEWS RIGHT AWAY AFTER PURCHASING.

THEY ALSO HIRE PEOPLE TO LEAVE GOOD REVIEWS:

They are unprofessional their translation is the worst. It changes and sync and does whatever it wants and all your hard-working translations get undone. You have to keep asking them to amend the translation as it gets untranslated.

Their customer service does not even know how to use the app themselves. They sometimes take ages to reply or keep passing the request to one another.

Please, make sure your head the reviews before purchasing with them. It is not worth anybody's money or time. They have increased their prices massively lately... apparently to give a better experience. LET ME TELL YOU IT HAS GOTTEN WORSE AND WORSE AND WORSE.... READ ALL REVIEWS BEFORE PLACING YOUR ORDER.

IT IS THE WORST APP ON SHOPIFY. THEY WILL MISLEAD YOU TO THINK IT IS YOU THAT IS MAKING THE CHANGES AND GASLIGHT YOU. PLEASE BE CAREFUL. I HAVE PHOTOS/SCREENSHOTS OF HOW THEY ARE UNTRANSLATING OUR WEBSITE. AWFUL AND VERY DRAINGING EXPERIENCE.

They ask you to review straight after you set up the account and I've had to come back an edit my review again now. I am a premium user and the app itself is indeed really helpful for me and I will continue to use it but it does have some issues. The customer service is very nice. Super nice. But some of them really don't really know anything if you have a genuine problem. And being nice just becomes annoying after a while. They need to have a proper escalation system where if the customer is not getting a proper solution somebody considerably higher up fixes it. It took 3 days of multiple hours per day and multiple customer service people before I was given the most simplest of answers (so simple that i was annoyed at myself I didn't figure it out but even more annoyed that all these staff members couldn't tell me the answer, really poor. After that I was given somebody who knew what they were talking about but for my business, it had already cost me literally thousands of dollars with mistakes. And in addition, the app doesn't offer HREFLANG functionality, which given how much money they are making is quite annoying, it is the make or break for multi-lingual SEO and I would like to see them add it. I've updated my review a few times and will continue to do so as the app changes. For now I'm very happy with the customer service and the translations are now working very well on my site, but the costly mistakes early on cannot be overlooked and I don't think they are made apparent enough to onboarding customers and there is definitely ways to go for improvements for things like HREFLANGs so that multi-lingual SEO can be an option within the app... otherwise translating your store without HREFLANG can cause you more problems than you wish to have SEO-wise.

EDIT (CURRENT REVIEW):
Transcy really impressed us with their service. Not only did they answer our questions and wishes by providing proper service, but they also listened to us regarding some „issues“ with the app and actually fixed those. I’m genuinely impressed. Great app and great team behind it. Thanks for the service! EDIT:
A big thank you to the Transcy-Team. The customer service reached out to us and provided answers to our question. There's only one issue that is disturbing us, regarding the functionality of the app itself. Specifically the "Translate"-Button, which activates the A.I. Translation-Function. By now, unfortunately it has caused us many enragements at our company, due to it activating the A.I. Translation-Function as soon, as you click on it. Technically that isn't much of a problem, since that is what it is supposed to do. It is very frustrating though when you click on it by accident. The A.I. Translation is a great tool for words or basic sentences, but sometimes it causes a variety of mistakes in the translation, which includes grammatical mistakes, wrong font sizes, etc.. This is understandable and fine, therefore we always edited the mistakes afterwards manually by ourselves. The problem is: as soon as you accidentally click on the "Translate"-Button, the A.I.-Tool starts translating an entire page and completely and overwrites our corrected texts. There's nothing we can do to stop it, no "Cancel"-Button whatsoever. It already has happened 2 to 3 times to us by now. Especially our webpage has a variety of long columns, and due to us accidentally clicking on the "Translate"-Button, the A.I. has overwritten our corrections of those columns several times. I'm willing to give the Transcy-Team a 5-star review, if they can adapt to that problem and solve it intuitvely. OLD REVIEW:
Since the recent update, you cannot edit your translations manually anymore, unless you pay for monthly subscriptions. I had a few rational questions regarding the pricing plans, but the 24/7 support was incapable of answering them. They kept sending me links to Q&A's, which simply didn't answer my questions at all. This app started as being very helpful, but now it's just costly to us and the service cannot deliver answers to our simple questions.

I really wish I could have read all these 1 star review before I made the purchase and I suggest you all do it pls, because all those 5 stars are probably fake from my experience:

1. The function itself did not work & they are making misleading claim and obvious violation of advertising law
- THEY’RE GOOD AT MAKING MISLEADING CLAIM BUT A JOKE IN PRODUCT DESIGH: I was using their growth plan and according to the scheme, I am eligible to use the advanced language feature & auto detect & translate features. However, to use advanced language I have to set up sub folders in Shopify Market and doing so would disable the auto detect & translate feature. It’s really ridiculous to develop two features that clash with each other but to advertise publicly is so low even for them.
- CANNOT TRANSLATE CHECKOUT PAGE: before making the payment, they promised they could achieve auto translate checkout steps. But the reality is if your customers check out with shopify pay, which most of the customers would, the page did not get translated
- SLOW DOWN YOUR PAGE SPEED: my page speed drop from 89 to 83 after installing this app

2. The product experience is trash:
- THIS IS NOT THE PLUG IN & GO APP YOU EXPECT: the setup is really confusing and cannot find a detailed step by step guide to explain how it works and how to set up.
- POOR USER EXPERIENCE: the interface is also trash and not self-explanatory. I had to keep jumping back and forth to get just 1 setup done.

3. The only thing their customer support did was passively responding, lying or trying to passing the buck
- EXTREMELY SLOW IN RESPOND: it took ages for the support to answer just a Yes or No question
- ATTEMPT TO CLOSE MY CASE WITH LIES: I reached out to support on how to set up because this dump app make it extremely confusing. Probably trying to close the case asap, the support guy Bo lied and did not reveal all the steps needed to me at at the first place. He only told the truth after I confirmed with him several times
- ALWAYS TRYING TO PASS THE BUCK: this app is a collection of bugs but every time I asked them to solve them, they were like ‘oh, shopify own the code, you should go ask shopify to deal with it’. Come on, I am paying you guys to do the auto translate, not shopify! If there is some technical problems between you and shopify, it should be you to reach shopify and get it fixed, not your customers!
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Regarding the misleading reply from Trancy:
1. Their support agent Bo, explained in details that setup sub folder on shopify would disable their geolocation app which is required by their auto language detect & translate features. But turn off sub folder would disable advanced language
2. if you cannot translate the checkout step, no matter the reason, you should not advertise and promise auto translate of checkout page
3. I already have more than 10 apps installed and my page speed score was 89 before installing this stupid app. But after installing this app, it was down to 83. This dump app alone slow me down by 6! And you told me it's normal?

The biggest problem with this app is these dishonest guys denied every issues, blame their bug to shopify and tried to build a business on lies