# Send To Many — Translation Prompt for Merchants

Copy everything below the line into your AI tool of choice (or hand it to a translator), attach or paste the spreadsheet/strings, and state your target language.

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You are translating the storefront text for **Send To Many**, a Shopify app that lets shoppers buy one order and ship it to many recipients at once — commonly used for corporate gifting, client appreciation, and holiday gift campaigns. Translate the English strings I provide into **[TARGET LANGUAGE]**.

## What the shopper sees

These strings appear on two surfaces:

1. **Multi-recipient cart page** — the shopper reviews their cart, then adds one or more recipients. Each recipient gets a card with name, address, and email fields, their own product selection and quantities, a shipping date and shipping rate, and an optional gift message. Shoppers can add recipients one at a time, duplicate a recipient, or bulk-upload hundreds via a CSV file. An order summary sidebar shows subtotal, tax, shipping, discount codes, and a checkout button. There is also an "inquiry" path where instead of paying, the shopper submits a request for the merchant to review (used for B2B quotes).
2. **Customer account pages** — after purchase, the logged-in customer sees their past "sends." A **send** is one multi-recipient purchase: it has one **parent order** (the payment) and one **child order** per recipient (each with its own delivery address and tracking). These strings cover the sends list, the send detail table (recipient, order, total, tracking, delivery status), and banners shown on individual orders explaining they belong to a send.

## Key terminology — keep it consistent

- **Send (noun)** — the app's core concept: one purchase shipped to many people. Choose ONE natural word in your language for it (think "shipment/dispatch," e.g. German "Sendung," Spanish "envío," Japanese "送付") and use it everywhere. Do not leave it in English.
- **Recipient** — the person receiving a gift, not the buyer. Use your language's standard word for a delivery/gift recipient.
- **Parent order / child order** — translate as "main order" and "sub-order" equivalents if a literal parent/child reading is unnatural.
- If your word for "send" collides with your word for "shipping costs" (it does in Dutch and Polish), pick a distinct term for the shipping cost lines (e.g. "Verzendkosten," "Koszt wysyłki") so the two never blur.
- **Variant** — Shopify's term for a product option (size, color). Use the same word your language's Shopify stores use.

## Hard rules

1. **Never change placeholders.** Anything in curly braces — `{count}`, `{n}`, `{maxRecipients}`, `{maxMb}`, `{maxMp}`, `{maxQty}`, `{expected}`, `{totalOrders}` — must appear exactly as-is in your translation, repositioned wherever your grammar needs it.
2. **Preserve special formatting:** the `←` arrow in "← Keep shopping," the leading space and em-dash in `" — Sold out"`, the leading space in `" (included)"`, parentheses, and trailing punctuation on error messages.
3. **Plural pairs:** slugs ending in `_one` are the singular form ("1 recipient") and the base slug is the plural. Fill both. If your language doesn't distinguish (Japanese, Chinese), use the same text for both. If a string like "items" or "orders" follows a number, make sure it reads correctly after any number — use counters/abbreviations if needed (e.g. Japanese 件, Chinese 个订单, Polish szt.).
4. **Leave blank rows blank** — empty English cells are merchant-configurable slots.
5. **Address fields must follow your locale's conventions,** not literal English: use your country's natural terms for zip/postal code, state/province/region, and apartment/suite (e.g. PLZ, CAP, CEP, 郵便番号).
6. **Match your locale's standard ecommerce checkout register** — the formality shoppers expect at checkout in your language (e.g. informal du in German ecommerce, vous in French, polite です/ます in Japanese). Be consistent across every string.
7. **Buttons and labels stay short.** Prefer standard ecommerce phrasing over literal translation — use the words shoppers already see in Shopify checkouts in your language (e.g. "Zur Kasse," "Finalizar compra," "ご購入手続きへ" for Checkout).

## Context for tricky strings

- "Send order" (a sort option) = sort recipients by their original sequence in the send, not an order that was sent.
- "Make an inquiry" / "Submit inquiry" = ask the merchant for a quote instead of paying now.
- "This is a gift" = a checkbox enabling a gift message.
- "Upload recipients" / "Download template" = the CSV bulk-import flow.
- "Tracking added" / "No tracking yet" = shipment tracking status per recipient.
- Strings starting with "Staff" are seen by store staff placing orders on a customer's behalf, not by shoppers — same register is fine.

Output the translation next to each English string, keeping the original slug/row order. Flag any string where you were unsure or where your language needs a plural form the sheet doesn't support.