# E-commerce Translation: Feeds, Pages and Reviews | Vitra.ai > A storefront is six formats pretending to be one website. Which of them carries your revenue, and what each needs before it is translated as well. **Canonical URL**: https://www.vitra.ai/e-commerce/translation-for-e-commerce **Source**: This is the Markdown rendering of https://www.vitra.ai/e-commerce/translation-for-e-commerce, generated at build time from that page. --- 4 min read # E-commerce Translation: Feeds, Pages and Reviews A storefront is six formats pretending to be one website. Which of them carries your revenue, and what each needs before it is translated as well. [Samhitha J Bhatt](https://www.vitra.ai/author/samhitha) Senior Product Manager , Vitra.ai Updated Aug 17, 2026 ![E-commerce Translation: Feeds, Pages and Reviews](https://www.vitra.ai/static/images/blog/translation-for-e-commerce.jpg) Table of contents [Six formats, one storefront](#six-formats-one-storefront) [The feed fails silently](#the-feed-fails-silently) [Attribute values are not prose](#attribute-values-are-not-prose) [Creative is where the volume hides](#creative-is-where-the-volume-hides) [Packaging has no undo](#packaging-has-no-undo) [Where to start](#where-to-start) [The formats that are pixels, not fields](#the-formats-that-are-pixels-not-fields) [FAQ](#faq) Contributors [Samhitha J Bhatt](https://www.vitra.ai/author/samhitha) Senior Product Manager Subscribe to our newsletter Subscribe > **Quick answer —** E-commerce translation is a format problem before it is a language one. Structured feeds, product pages, user reviews, creative, packaging and app strings all behave differently, and the feed is the one that silently fails. ## Six formats, one storefront Format What it is What translation must preserve **Product feed** XML, CSV or JSON for marketplaces and shopping ads Schema, field lengths, IDs and prices untouched **Product page** Title, description, attributes, size guides Structure, and attribute values as values **Reviews** User-generated, unpredictable, high volume Meaning over polish; volume over perfection **Creative** Banners, lifestyle images, seasonal campaigns Layout across every placement size **Packaging and inserts** Print, long lead time, hard to correct Regulatory text exactly, and print-ready layout **App strings** Checkout and account flows String length, placeholders, plural forms ## The feed fails silently A product page with an awkward sentence still sells. A feed field two characters over its limit is rejected, and the listing simply does not appear in that market. Nobody gets an alert. Revenue is missing rather than wrong, which is the hardest kind of problem to notice, and it is why feed validation belongs inside the translation step rather than after it. ## Attribute values are not prose "Colour: Navy" has a translatable label and a value that may or may not be translatable depending on the marketplace's taxonomy. Translating a controlled value breaks the filter it feeds. Decide field by field. It is tedious once and free forever after. ## Creative is where the volume hides One campaign is one design and forty renders: every placement size, every market, every promotional variant. [image personalization](https://www.vitra.ai/features/image-personalization) generates those from the source rather than rebuilding them, and [image translation](https://www.vitra.ai/features/image-translation) handles the text baked into the artwork. ## Packaging has no undo Print lead times mean an error found after production is a write-off. It is the one e-commerce format that deserves full review. ## Where to start Feed validation, then [product pages](https://www.vitra.ai/solutions/e-commerce-localization). Both before creative, because a rejected listing costs more than an unlocalized banner. The capability view is in [AI for e-commerce](https://www.vitra.ai/e-commerce/ai-for-e-commerce). ## The formats that are pixels, not fields A feed carries text. It does not carry the words inside your images, so a fully translated listing can still show an English size chart. [Product image translation](https://www.vitra.ai/e-commerce/product-image-translation) covers that baked-in text and what expansion does to a tight layout. [Amazon A+ content](https://www.vitra.ai/e-commerce/amazon-a-plus-content-translation) is the same problem at module scale, with a separate approval per marketplace. [Product video](https://www.vitra.ai/e-commerce/product-video-dubbing) needs the script reviewed per market before anything renders. Two mechanical ones sit underneath all of it: [Amazon's image requirements](https://www.vitra.ai/e-commerce/amazon-product-image-requirements) and [resizing for every channel](https://www.vitra.ai/e-commerce/bulk-product-image-resizing). ## FAQ **Which e-commerce format causes the most hidden losses?** The product feed. A field two characters over its limit is rejected and the listing never appears, so revenue is missing rather than wrong and nobody receives an alert. **Should product attribute values be translated?** It depends field by field. A label like Colour translates; the value behind it may be a controlled marketplace taxonomy term, and translating that breaks the filter it feeds. **Why is packaging the strictest e-commerce format?** Because print lead times mean an error found after production is a write-off. It is the one format in the mix that has no undo and therefore deserves full human review. **How much creative does one campaign actually generate?** One design and dozens of renders, once you multiply placement sizes by markets by promotional variants. Generating them from the source beats rebuilding each one by hand. Our blog ## Lastest blog posts Tool and strategies modern teams need to help their companies grow. 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