First, you must create an organization within Transifex - where all your translation management activity will happen. Transifex is set up as a directory of projects. Projects contain resources.

You can read more about creating an organization and organization structure here.

Next, you'll need to create your first project by following these steps.

The file-based project works with files (e.g., .po, .yml, .strings) - where you upload the files to Transifex, get them translated within Transifex, and then pull them back to your development environment.

A Live project is a Javascript-based approach, great for translating static websites where Transifex identifies the strings to translate on the front end and serves the translations back to your website.

The Native project is a collection of tools that allow for easy localization of your applications. You can install the SDK provided and push or pull content for localization directly with Transifex without needing a file.

When choosing a source language, ensure that you stay consistent across all your projects: e.g., if you select the generic “en” in your first project, choose it in all subsequent projects that you or your team members create later. This will help such great features as Translation Memory and Glossary work fine and be shared across all your projects.

We recommend choosing a locale-specific target language (e.g., es_ES vs. es) when choosing target languages. Unless you have a particular reason to use generic language codes, it’s better, for the sake of clarity, to specify the locales, especially for dialects such as French (France and Canada), Spanish (Spain and Latin America), Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional).

With target languages, similarly to source languages, make sure to stay consistent when adding languages across your projects in Transifex: if you chose “es” for Spanish-Spain, stick to it across all your projects.

There are a few ways to move your content to Transifex for translation:

You can read more about the supported file formats here.

If you get file upload errors for a supported format, you can send support@transifex.com a sample of the file, and we can help assess why the upload failed and provide further recommendations.
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Here are a few things to keep in mind: