How to translate Advanced Coupons plugins

Running your store in a language other than English? You can translate the text that Advanced Coupons plugins show to you and your customers. This guide shows how to do it with Loco Translate, including gift card emails, the gift card redeem form, and store credit text.

Check for a language pack first

We offer ready-made language packs for Advanced Coupons for WooCommerce, Advanced Loyalty Program, and Advanced Gift Cards for WooCommerce. Packs are available for a set list of languages. You’ll find them on the Downloads page of your account. To install one, follow How to use language packs.

If there’s no pack for your language, or you want to change a few words in an existing translation, use Loco Translate as shown below.

Find the plugin that holds the text

Each plugin carries its own text. Translate the plugin that shows the words you want to change:

• Advanced Coupons for WooCommerce Free: store credit text, such as “Paid with Store Credits” and “Store Credit Discount”, plus the core coupon features.
• Advanced Coupons for WooCommerce Premium: premium coupon features.
• Advanced Gift Cards for WooCommerce: gift card products, the redeem form, and the gift card email.
• Advanced Loyalty Program: loyalty points text.

For example, the Store Credits dashboard below comes from Advanced Coupons for WooCommerce Free, so that’s the plugin to translate.

How to translate a plugin with Loco Translate

Install and activate Loco Translate before you start. Other tools such as WPML work in a similar way.

Step 1: Add a new language

1. Go to Loco Translate > Plugins.
2. Click the plugin you want to translate, for example Advanced Coupons for WooCommerce Free.
3. Click New language.
4. Choose your language.
5. Under Choose a location, keep Custom selected. Translations saved there are kept when the plugin updates.
6. Click Start translating.

Not sure which location to choose? Loco Translate explains the options in Adding a language.

Step 2: Translate the text

1. Type the text you want to translate in the Filter translations box.
2. Click the source text.
3. Type your translation in the translation box.
4. Click Save.

Step 3: Set your site language

1. Go to Settings > General.
2. Set Site Language to the language you translated, for example Español.
3. Click Save Changes.
4. Open the screen you translated and check the new text.

Translating Advanced Gift Cards

Gift card text is split across a few places. Here’s where each part lives.

Translation works the same on every Advanced Gift Cards plan.

One thing Loco Translate can’t change: the words on the three built-in gift card designs, such as “Happy Birthday” and “Thank You!”, are part of the image. To show your own language, replace the built-in images at Coupons > Advanced Gift Cards > Settings. Pick a new image for Default, Birthday or Thank You, then click Save Changes. To change one product only, open that product and look under Gift Card Design for Or, provide a custom gift card background.

Gift card product and redeem form text

Translate Advanced Gift Cards for WooCommerce in Loco Translate, using the steps above. This covers the gift card product page, the “Redeem a gift card?” form at checkout, and the gift card email body. A French translation already ships inside the plugin.

Using the Advanced Gift Cards Redeem Form block on a page? It shows the translated default text. If you changed any of its text in the block settings, the block keeps your words as typed, so edit them in the block instead.

Store credit and balance text

When a customer redeems a gift card, its value becomes store credit. The store credit text, such as “Paid with Store Credits” on orders, comes from Advanced Coupons for WooCommerce Free. Translate that plugin as well, so the whole gift card journey shows in your language.

Messages about the gift card code itself, such as “The gift card has already expired”, come from Advanced Gift Cards. General cart and checkout messages come from WooCommerce. WooCommerce installs its own translation when you change your site language, for the languages listed in WooCommerce localization.

Gift card email subject and heading

You can also rewrite the gift card email subject and heading in your own words:

1. Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Emails.
2. Click Advanced Gift Card.
3. Type your text in Subject and Email heading.
4. Click Save changes.

• Leave Subject empty to use the default subject, “[{site_title}]: You have received a gift card”. Loco Translate translates this default.
• Text you type into these fields is sent as typed. Loco Translate does not change it.
• The default Email heading is your site title.
• Available placeholders: {gift_card_code}, {gift_card_value}, {gift_card_expire}, {gift_card_receiver}, {gift_card_sender}, {site_title}, {site_address}, {site_url}, {store_email}.

Need a different email layout? A developer can copy the email template to yourtheme/woocommerce/emails/email-advanced-gift-card.php and edit it there.

New to gift cards? Start with the Advanced Gift Cards getting started guide, then see How to redeem gift cards.

Translating with Poedit instead

Prefer a desktop app? With Poedit, you edit the translation file on your computer, then upload it to your site. The translation steps are much the same as in Loco Translate. WordPress has an official guide: Poedit, Translate WordPress.

Troubleshooting

My translation doesn’t show

Check that Settings > General > Site Language is set to the language you translated. Then open your user profile and check the Language field. It sets the language of the admin screens for your account only. Your storefront always uses the Site Language. If you use a caching plugin, clear the cache and reload the page.

My translations disappeared after a plugin update

Add the language again in Loco Translate and keep Custom as the location. Files saved in the Author location sit inside the plugin folder, and a plugin update replaces that folder.

The redeem form block still shows English

Open the page in the block editor and change the text in the Advanced Gift Cards Redeem Form block settings. The block keeps any text you typed there, so Loco Translate can’t change it.

Need help?

If you have a question or run into any issues, we’re here to help.

• Premium users: Open a support ticket
• Free users: Visit our community forum