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source: https://docs.restoman.com.ar/en/guia/traducir
language: en-US
updated: 2026-11-01
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# Translate the menu

> The menu in English, dish by dish: what you translate shows on the English menu, and anything else shows as you wrote it.

Every menu can be read in English: under `/en`, customers see the names and descriptions you translated. Anything you don't translate shows as you wrote it. Prices, photos and what is sold out don't change.

**Who can:** everyone sees it. The owner, the admins and anyone with a [custom role](https://docs.restoman.com.ar/en/guia/roles.md) that has "Product catalog: Edit" translate.

## Translate a menu

1. In **Menu**, open the menu and tap **Translate**.
2. You'll see **English translation**: every category, product, option group and option on the menu, with what you wrote in Spanish beside it.
3. In each row, write the **Name in English** and, for categories and products, the **Description in English**. Left empty, the description in Spanish shows.
4. Tap **Save** on that row. It shows on the English menu as soon as you save it.

Each row is saved on its own: what you typed in the other rows stays. **Remove** deletes that row's translation, and it shows in Spanish again.

A product on several menus is translated once: the translation shows on all of them. The location's cuisine translates itself, and its tags are translated in [Settings](https://docs.restoman.com.ar/en/guia/ajustes.md#tags-in-english).

## With an assistant

A [connected assistant](https://docs.restoman.com.ar/en/guia/asistentes.md) (Claude or ChatGPT) can translate the whole menu at once, if you allowed it **Translate the menu into another language (its text only)** when you connected it. What it writes shows at once and appears here as **Automatic translation**: check it with **Automatic** and save it to make it yours. What the team already translated it leaves alone, unless you ask.

## What each row says

| Label                 | What it means                                                                                                                                             |
| --------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Not translated        | It shows in Spanish.                                                                                                                                      |
| Translated            | Someone on the team wrote it, and it shows.                                                                                                               |
| Automatic translation | A machine wrote it. It already shows; once you save it, even unchanged, it's yours.                                                                       |
| Outdated              | The Spanish name or description changed after it was translated. It doesn't show, so as not to describe what the dish no longer is: check it and save it. |

At the top, **Not translated**, **Outdated** and **Automatic** show only those rows; **All** shows every one.

## Orders

An order placed in English keeps the names as the customer read them: that's how they see them on their order, their receipt and Mercado Pago. On the counter, the kitchen and the summary, orders always show the Spanish names.

## What each message means

| Message                               | What happened and what to do                                      |
| ------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Enter the name.                       | The name in English can't be empty.                               |
| Enter a name of up to 120 characters. | The name is too long: shorten it.                                 |
| Check the details and try again.      | The description is too long, or the row changed: reload the page. |