Works in your language
Multi-language business software for you and your staff
You use Esplanda in your language, each staff member in theirs, and customer messages arrive translated, with replies in their language.
Works in
- English
- US Spanish
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Simplified Chinese
Language changes the words on screen; your currency, tax and time zone stay exactly as your business sets them. Every language is included, with no per-language or per-translation charge, and Esplanda POS is free.
Why one answer doesn't cover it
Four problems wearing one word
Treat multi-language as one problem and you get the familiar failure: a translated menu around untranslated content, text that reads like a machine wrote it, brand names mangled, and a storefront of thin copies that search engines won't rank.
| What | Who reads it | How Esplanda handles it |
|---|---|---|
| The screens | You and your staff | A full set of screen text for each language; a missing piece fails a check before it can reach a screen |
| Answers written for you | You | Written in your language from the start, not translated out of English |
| Content written for customers | Shoppers, and search engines | Written per language and published per language, with the search side handled properly |
| What real people wrote | Everyone | Translated on demand, in both directions, with the original always kept |
The second row is the one that matters most. Translated prose keeps English rhythm and English idiom, and a native speaker feels it at once. An owner reading a briefing that is plainly an English sentence in Spanish words can tell the software wasn't written for them. Writing it in Spanish costs nothing extra, because the text was being written anyway.
The four rules underneath all of it
These are properties of how the system is built, not preferences about how screens look, which is why they hold in the places nobody tested.
The original is always kept
A translation is a view of the original, never a replacement for it. That's enforced in how the data is stored, so no path through the product loses the source text.
Every translation knows it's a translation
Which language it came from, what produced it, when, and against which do-not-translate list.
No sentence is built from fragments
Word order isn't the same everywhere: a sentence assembled in English order is broken in Chinese or Portuguese. Building one that way fails a check before it ships.
Nobody sees a raw code
Every screen shows complete, readable text: in your language, or for a brand-new screen in correct English until its translation lands, then it switches, with nothing to install.
Brand and product names stay exactly as written. They sit on a do-not-translate list and come through unchanged in every language and every script. A bourbon brand rendered as a description of an animal makes a product page nobody trusts.
Customer messages
A customer writes in Spanish, you answer in yours
- It arrives in your language. A small marker says what it was translated from, and one tap shows exactly what she wrote. The original is never gone and never more than one tap away.
- You reply in yours. Esplanda drafts a reply, you change a word in your own language and send. The customer gets it in Spanish, and your thread shows both: what you wrote, and the exact text that left the store. A promise about a Friday pickup is still a promise when you couldn't read the sentence that made it.
- Reviews and supplier email work the same way. A review in Portuguese shows in your language; the draft response is written in Portuguese, and you see what it says before you approve it. More in our review management software.
- Short messages come with the original. A four-word message can fit more than one language, so it's labeled "we think this is Portuguese" with the original right beside it.
Mostly, this is work that wasn't getting done at all: messages pasted into a translation site, reviews in a second language left unanswered, supplier email waiting for the one bilingual employee. Replies that need your OK wait in the same approval queue as the rest of your work, in the language you read; see the AI business assistant.
Translated from Spanish · Show original
Do you still have the Rioja from last week? I can pick it up on Friday.
Yes, we'll hold two bottles for you until Friday.
Sent in SpanishSí, le guardamos dos botellas hasta el viernes.
Illustrative example
Your staff
A bilingual POS and staff app, one language per person
Language is a per-person setting, not a business setting. You run the system in one language, a weekend manager in another, and the person receiving Tuesday's delivery in a third. Nobody has to agree on anything.
- The jobs with a number in them. Receiving against an invoice, counting stock, reading an age-check prompt, checking a deposit line, following a shift task. In a second language they go slower, and a line gets accepted without being fully read.
- The staff app follows the same rule. Their language, their choice, changed by them. The app staff hold during a shift uses the same screen text as everything else. See our employee scheduling software.
- A bilingual POS at the counter. The register uses the same screen text as everything else, so a cashier can ring sales and read the age-check prompt in US Spanish while you run the reports in English. See our POS system with inventory management.
Your storefront
A storefront per language, every one worth reading
A Spanish product page competes in Spanish search, and it competes badly if it's a machine translation of an English one. So Esplanda writes the Spanish storefront in Spanish: a wine description written the way a Spanish speaker would write one.
- The search side, done properly. Each language has its own address, the pages point to each other so search engines know they're versions and not duplicates, visitors in other languages get a default, and each language has its own sitemap and declares its language in its structured data. More in our local SEO software.
- Every language it publishes is worth reading. When a language's pages would be thin, Esplanda explains why in plain words and offers a smaller set of good pages instead. Six machine-translated pages earn nothing and can drag down the pages that were working.
- Two separate decisions. Supporting a language for your staff and publishing a storefront in it are different choices. See what the online store covers in our POS with online ordering.
What stays yours
Your words change, your money and time stay put
Changing your language changes wording and formatting. Your money, your clock and your week stay exactly as your business sets them.
Changes with your language
- The words on every screen, message and report.
- Date and number formatting, and month and day names.
- The language Esplanda writes in, for your briefings and answers.
Stays with your business
- US dollars, in every language.
- Your time zone, week start and business day.
- Your prices and your catalog, the same in every language.
- The tax and legal rules where you trade.
An owner in Massachusetts who reads the system in Brazilian Portuguese still sells in US dollars, on Eastern time, with their own week and business day. Getting this wrong is the most common defect in multilingual business software, and it fails quietly: a figure formatted by language instead of by business ends up disagreeing with the register by a rounding step.
Built for US businesses serving many languages. One currency, one catalog and one set of prices, with the tax and legal rules where you trade, in every language your staff and customers use.
Which languages
Four languages, chosen for US trade areas
The list was chosen against the languages spoken in US local-retail trade areas, not global speaker counts. Those two lists aren't the same, and the difference is the point.
| Languages | Why these |
|---|---|
| English | The base language, and the one a brand-new screen shows in correct, readable text until its translation lands |
| US Spanish | US Spanish rather than a European or Mexican variety, because US Spanish has its own retail vocabulary |
| Brazilian Portuguese | Because that's the variety US speakers use |
| Simplified Chinese | A non-Latin script, handled end to end: screens, written content and customer conversations |
Confidence shown, language by language
The product labels its confidence for each language, so you always know how much weight a translation carries.
The list grows with demand
Adding a language is a data change, not a rebuild. Demand from real businesses decides it, and a native speaker reads a sample before a new language reaches the picker.
- Every languageIncluded
- Per-language chargeNone
- Per-translation chargeNone
- Esplanda POSFree
Language is part of Esplanda itself, with no version of the product that is only available in English. See Esplanda pricing.
Questions
Language questions owners ask
What is multi-language business software?
It is a system whose screens, written content and customer conversations all work in more than one language, rather than an English product with a translated menu. Esplanda treats those as four separate problems: the screens you and your staff use, the answers written for you, the content published for customers and the messages real people send.
Which languages does Esplanda support?
English, US Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified Chinese. The list was chosen against the languages spoken in US local-retail trade areas rather than global speaker counts, which is why it is US Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese rather than the European varieties.
Can my staff use a different language from mine?
Yes, and it's the normal case. Language is a per-person setting, so an owner can run the whole system in Brazilian Portuguese while the weekend staff use Spanish and a manager uses English. Nobody has to agree on one language for the business.
Does Esplanda POS work in Spanish?
Yes. The register uses the same screen text as the rest of Esplanda, so a cashier can ring sales in US Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese or Simplified Chinese while the owner reads the reports in English. Each person picks their own language.
If I reply in English, what does the customer actually receive?
Your reply in their language, and your thread shows you both: what you wrote, and the exact text that left the store underneath it. The customer's original message is kept too, always one tap away.
Is this just machine translation inside the product?
No. Answers Esplanda writes for you and content it writes for your customers are written in the target language from the start, not translated out of English, because translated prose keeps English rhythm and reads wrong to a native speaker. Messages real people send are translated, since their words can't be rewritten, and there the original is always kept.
Does changing my language change my prices or my hours?
No. Language changes wording and formatting only, and your currency, time zone, week start and business day stay with your business. An owner reading the system in Simplified Chinese in Massachusetts still sees US dollars on Eastern time.
What does this cost?
Nothing extra. Language is part of Esplanda itself, and Esplanda POS is free. There is no per-language or per-translation charge, and no version of the product that is only available in English.
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