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 "id": "langshop",
 "name": "LangShop",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "langshop.io",
 "category": "E-commerce",
 "task": "E-commerce growth",
 "summary": "Shopify translation and currency app (by Aheadworks) that localises products, themes, checkout, SEO and third-party app content with OpenAI, DeepL Pro or Google Cloud Translation, or with professional agency translators, and adds a geolocated language and currency switcher. Glossary and content rules keep terms consistent. Launched September 2016.",
 "best_for": "Shopify merchants selling into several language markets who want machine translation they can correct by hand — glossary rules, brand terms, bulk editing — plus a geolocated language and currency switcher, and whose catalogue and language count fit inside a published tier",
 "skip_if": "you sell in one language; or your translations must land in metafields without checking, which is precisely what the recent one-star reviews say is unreliable; or your catalogue is large enough that the tier you need is one of the unlisted ones — check langshop.app/pricing rather than the Shopify listing before you budget",
 "honest_knock": "Two things sit awkwardly next to each other in the plan table. The headline promise is 'unlimited words', but every tier caps how many products you may translate and how many languages you may run, so the meter you actually pay is catalogue size. The named engines — OpenAI, DeepL Pro, Google Cloud Translation — now start on Basic at $10 a month (they were a $40 Standard feature when we read the page in September 2026), but dynamic content, metaobjects, third-party app strings and export of your translations still start at Standard. The Shopify listing also understates the ladder: it stops at Advanced and links to 'more pricing plans', while the vendor's pricing page publishes Pro at $120, Enterprise at $250 and Unlimited at $500 — and API access, which no listing tier mentions, starts at Pro. The app is old enough to judge (launched 15 September 2016, developer Aheadworks) and most of its 473 reviews are positive (13 October 2026), but 24 of them are one-star, and the recent negative ones are specific rather than vague: a Slovak store reporting that metafield translations ignore both the AI store context and the glossary rules, and a Swedish store of almost three years reporting that products duplicated from another product carry the wrong translation across. If metafields or duplicated products are central to your catalogue, test exactly that during the trial.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$10",
  "entry_price_terms": "a month or $100 a year (5 languages, 250 products, unlimited glossary rules)",
  "from_price_usd_month": 10.0,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-10-13 on apps.shopify.com/langshop and langshop.app/pricing) Seven published tiers, billed in USD. The Shopify listing shows only the first four and links to more pricing plans; the vendor's own pricing page prices the rest. Free costs nothing and covers one language and 50 products, with limited manual and AI translation, the standard language and currency switcher and multilingual SEO. Basic is $10 a month or $100 a year and raises that to five languages and 250 products, with unlimited glossary rules, the OpenAI, DeepL Pro and Google Cloud engines, unlimited editing of translations, bulk editing and removal of LangShop branding. Standard is $40 a month or $400 a year: ten languages, 2,000 products, automatic sync of 50 new items, the advanced switcher, translation of dynamic content, metaobjects and third-party apps, translation history and export/import. Advanced is $75 a month or $750 a year: twenty languages, 5,000 products, sync of 125 new items, ten content-exclusion rules and Shopify Flow support. Beyond the listing: Pro at $120 a month or $1,200 a year adds API access with 10,000 products, sync of 250 and 50 exclusion rules; Enterprise at $250 or $2,500 gives 50,000 products, sync of 1,250, 200 exclusion rules and a customer success manager; Unlimited at $500 or $5,000 lifts products, sync and exclusion rules to unlimited. From Advanced up the language cap stays at twenty. Annual billing is described as two months free, which is the same 17% the listing quotes. Every paid tier now shows a 14-day free trial on both the pricing page and the listing. Between the 10 September and 13 October 2026 readings the bottom of the ladder was loosened at unchanged prices: languages went from one, one, three and five (Free to Advanced) to one, five, ten and twenty, glossary rules went from a cap per tier to unlimited on every paid tier, and the named engines moved down from Standard to Basic.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-13",
  "source_url": "https://apps.shopify.com/langshop",
  "schema_offer": null,
  "source_quotes": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "meter: unit · translated products (and languages)",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-13",
   "source_url": "https://apps.shopify.com/langshop"
  },
  {
   "id": "annual_lock",
   "label": "Annual commitment",
   "evidence": "Annual billing is described as two months free, which is the same 17% the listing quotes.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-13",
   "source_url": "https://apps.shopify.com/langshop"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Hextom AI Translate & Currency, EA • Auto Language Translate",
  "why": "the translation shelf on the Shopify App Store is crowded and the nearest neighbours all publish a free plan, so price is a poor way to choose between them. What separates LangShop is control rather than reach: glossary rules and content rules, translation of dynamic elements (banners, pop-ups, checkout, third-party apps), a professional-agency route for the pages that must be right, and a switcher you can design. What it costs you is that dynamic-content translation only starts at $40 a month, where the free tiers of the alternatives already translate a store after a fashion. Try the cheaper option first if your storefront is mostly static product text; move to LangShop when the wrong translation in a checkout string starts costing orders. (Neighbours read 10 September 2026 on the LangShop listing.)"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/langshop.json",
  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/langshop-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/langshop/",
  "vendor_site": "https://langshop.io"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://platform.shoffi.app/r/rl_K2FnzAjR",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "langshop:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "langshop:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "langshop:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "langshop:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}