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The world’s leading Language Intelligence Platform

· for enterprise

Phrase handles the translation and localization pipeline for ecommerce teams shipping product catalogs, storefronts, and marketing content across dozens of markets. It orchestrates machine translation, human linguist review, glossary enforcement, and delivery back into connected systems like Shopify, Contentful, or GitHub. Localization managers and globalization leads at multi-market retailers use it to cut turnaround on PDP updates, campaigns, and support content while keeping terminology consistent across every locale.

> pick this if

Pick this if you're running localization across 5+ markets with a mix of MT and human linguist review, and need a TMS that plugs directly into your CMS, PIM, and code repo rather than living in email threads.

> look elsewhere if

Look elsewhere if you're a single-market brand, only need occasional ad-hoc translation, or expect a lightweight AI-only tool — Phrase is a full localization platform with the implementation overhead that implies.

> Phrase is built for

  • platform-agnostic

> what it does for ecommerce

  • Automates translation workflows across 50+ connected CMS, PIM, and repo tools
  • Routes content between machine translation engines and human linguist review
  • Tracks translation quality, throughput, and vendor cost via built-in analytics
  • Supports custom localization workflows for PDPs, marketing, and support content
  • Combines TMS, MT, and glossary management in one connected platform

> how you'd use it

  • Multi-market fashion retailer, $80M+ GMV, 3–5 localization managers plus external linguist pool
    Connecting Shopify Plus and a headless PIM into Phrase to push weekly PDP updates and campaign drops across 12 European locales, with MT-first drafts routed to freelance reviewers per language
    → PDP localization turnaround drops from 5–7 days to under 48 hours, with glossary enforcement catching brand-term drift before publish
  • Global DTC beauty brand, $150M GMV, 2-person globalization team overseeing 20+ markets
    Using Phrase to centralize translation memory across Contentful marketing pages, Zendesk help articles, and product copy, replacing a patchwork of agency emails and spreadsheets
    → 30–40% reduction in per-word vendor spend via TM leverage, plus audit visibility on which linguists and MT engines perform best by locale
  • B2B industrial ecommerce operator, $50M GMV, engineering-led team with no dedicated localization staff
    Wiring Phrase into a GitHub-based storefront and internal PIM to automate string extraction, MT pre-translation, and linguist review on a continuous delivery cadence
    → Ships new SKU catalogs into 8 languages on the same sprint as English, without adding headcount

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