Localizing with Smartling

Our Smartling integration lets you sync your localization workflow between your Dyspatch account and Smartling project.

Dyspatch supports two levels of localization for your email — Email Localization, for editable content that will change from email to email such as text content, and Block Localization, for content that will be consistent between emails, such as headers and footers.

After you've completed the set up Smartling integration process, you will be able to sync both your email and block localizations to Smartling.

Localizing Content

Adding Locales

To get started, navigate to your email or block's Localizations tab and click Add Locale to add any locales that you would like to sync with Smartling. Currently, this is only supported for individual locales, not locale groups if the group was added through the API.

Arrow pointing to Create a Localization button in the Dyspatch Email Builder

Make sure all locales that you are using in Dyspatch are already set up in Smartling before syncing.

Syncing Content to Smartling

When your locales are ready, click Sync to Smartling, enter a name for your Smartling job, and click Confirm & Sync.

'Sync to Smartling' option in the Email Builder

You will now see a progress bar in your editor which shows the current status of your localizations in Smartling. For email localization, your content will now be locked for localization, meaning that no content can be changed.

Once the Smartling process is complete, we'll automatically update each locale in Dyspatch with the translated content and unlock your email. For block localization, you can bulk update your block so that your changes will appear in emails containing a previous version of the block.