How to Remove or Unpublish Target Languages
This guide will help you understand how to remove or unpublish specific target languages from your Shopify store using Transcy. Understanding the difference between these two removal options will help you manage your store's languages more effectively while maintaining a seamless shopping experience for your customers.
Removing the target language on manage language section
Removing the target language on markets section
Go to Markets menu --> Languages tab => Select the needed target language to remove
When you delete a target language that has already been translated in Transcy, this action permanently removes all translations for this language from both our database and your Shopify system.
In case you remove a language which is the default market language of some of your markets, there will be a notification popup like this to direct you to Shopify market setting to manage this action

After setting up language on Markets menu, later then you want to remove a target language out of a specific market so you can do that in Markets menu
Click on a specific market that you want to remove a target language out of this market --> Hover a target language to see the garbage can => Remove the selected target language from this market.
Please note that you cannot remove market's default language in Markets menu but you can only do that directly in Shopify market setting. Also removing the target language out of a specific market, it will not be removed on your store, it's just unpublished on the specific market. In case you want to remove it out of your store, please removing it on manage language section
Should you need further support, please feel free to contact us via live chat or email us at support@transcy.io
TABLE OF CONTENT:
Removing the target language on manage language section
Removing the target language on markets section
1. REMOVING THE TARGET LANGUAGE ON MANAGE LANGUAGE SECTION
Go to Markets menu --> Languages tab => Select the needed target language to remove
When you delete a target language that has already been translated in Transcy, this action permanently removes all translations for this language from both our database and your Shopify system.
In case you remove a language which is the default market language of some of your markets, there will be a notification popup like this to direct you to Shopify market setting to manage this action

2. REMOVING THE TARGET LANGUAGE ON MARKETS SECTION
After setting up language on Markets menu, later then you want to remove a target language out of a specific market so you can do that in Markets menu
Click on a specific market that you want to remove a target language out of this market --> Hover a target language to see the garbage can => Remove the selected target language from this market.
Please note that you cannot remove market's default language in Markets menu but you can only do that directly in Shopify market setting. Also removing the target language out of a specific market, it will not be removed on your store, it's just unpublished on the specific market. In case you want to remove it out of your store, please removing it on manage language section
Should you need further support, please feel free to contact us via live chat or email us at support@transcy.io
Updated on: 20/05/2025
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