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Checkout language is the smallest card on the Checkout settings page, a line of text and a button. The button is the reason to read about it at all. Its label says Edit checkout content, and where it actually goes is the Languages settings page, which is not an editor for checkout wording.

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Checkout language is the last card on the Checkout settings page, and it is the smallest thing on it: a line of text and a button. It is also the one whose button is worth understanding before you press it, because the label and the destination do not match.

The line tells you which language your checkout text is in. The button, Edit checkout content, leaves this page entirely and opens your store's Languages settings.

What the section shows

Open Settings > Checkout and scroll to the bottom of the page. The language is shown as plain text (1), reading English in the capture below, with Edit checkout content (2) beside it.

The Checkout language section, showing the current language, English (1), and the Edit checkout content button (2) (opens full size)

There is no dropdown here and nothing to set. The line at (1) is a report, telling you which language a shopper currently reads your checkout in.

Where the button takes you

Edit checkout content does not open an editor for checkout wording. It navigates to the Languages page in your store settings, which describes itself as the place to configure the languages available in your store and manage translations.

That page holds an Add language action and a table of your languages with their status, their domains, and the actions available on each. A store that has never added a second language finds the table empty and Add language as the only thing to do there.

So the practical answer to what the button is for depends on where your store is. On a single-language store there is nothing to edit yet, and the button shows you an empty Languages page. On a store selling in more than one language, it is a shortcut to where those languages and their translations are managed. Store Languages covers that page in its own right.

Note: The button name and the page it opens do not match, so this is worth knowing before you click. Nothing is changed by pressing it; it is navigation, not an action.

What this section does not do

It does not change your checkout language by itself. The line is read-only, and switching a store to another language is work done on the Languages page, not here.

It also does not touch the fields checkout asks for. Those are set by the five sections above it on this page, so nothing you do from this card changes the form a shopper fills in.

Verify the result

  • The section names the checkout language.
  • Edit checkout content sits at the end of the section, and pressing it opens the Languages settings page.

Best practices

  • Check the language named here matches the market you sell to before launch, since it is what a shopper reads at the point of payment.
  • Treat this card as a signpost. The work of adding a language or managing translations belongs on the Languages page.

Common mistakes

  • Expecting a checkout wording editor. The button opens the Languages page instead.
  • Expecting to switch languages from this card. The line here only reports.

Next steps

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