Lokalise_Zendesk

Native Zendesk Guide integration

Translate Zendesk guides in days and serve customers globally

Translate your Zendesk Guide knowledge base in less than a week with Lokalise. Let customers self-serve in their language, improving time to resolution and operational efficiency.

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“Before, it took weeks and months to translate the whole 
knowledge base.”

Mary LagusInternational Customer Care Lead
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Translate your knowledge base in one place
with Zendesk and Lokalise

Make your knowledge base content multilingual when you sync Zendesk with Lokalise.

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    Order translations through Lokalise

    Get instant and accurate translations powered by AI orchestration or order translations directly via integrations with our language service providers.
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    Always up-to-date multilingual articles

    Automatically create keys, and automate translation to make sure customers can always self-serve in their preferred language.
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    Organize translations with tags

    Assign tags to translation keys inside Lokalise, to quickly find and filter content, and keep track of progress.
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    Premium support in more languages

    Translate your knowledge base in as many languages as you need in less time, without compromising quality.

⚙️ Setting up Lokalise and Zendesk Guide

  • Go to the ‘Apps’ dashboard inside Lokalise
  • Search for Zendesk Guide and click install
  • Enter your Zendesk subdomain. For example, mycorp_support.zendesk.com, and authorize

🔧 What you’ll need

  • Enable localization in the Zendesk Admin Center
  • Add languages by navigating to Help Center settings and selecting your languages
  • Create a new project inside Lokalisefor Zendesk localization
See documentation

Managing Zendesk translation for multiple languages

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    Import knowledge base articles to your Lokalise project for translation.
  • Translate

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    Use built-in AI translation for spot-on multilingual content in multiple languages, in minutes.
  • Publish

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    Return to the app page and select the items you want to export to Zendesk.

💡 Tip: Use tags to 
organize translations

Choose the tags you'd like to assign to the created translation keys on Lokalise. Here are some recommendations:

  • Zendesk Guide to specify that this content is related to Zendesk Guide
  • Title or Body to specify which part of the article the key belongs to
  • Article, Section, or Category to specify the item type
  • Name of corresponding post, section, or category

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Translate your knowledge base in less than a week

Schedule a demo to see how to translate Zendesk guides with Lokalise.

FAQs

How do I connect Zendesk Guide to Lokalise?
To set up the app for your project:

1. Navigate to the ‘Apps’ page once logged into Lokalise
2. Find Zendesk Guide in the list and click install
3. Enter your Zendesk subdomain. For example, mycorp_support.zendesk.com, and click ‘Authorize’. Once you authorize, the list of content from your help center will appear.
How do you translate in Lokalise?
You can use built-in machine translations to translate your content inside Lokalise. Options include DeepL, Google Translate, and Lokalise AI.

Alternatively, you can create translation orders inside Lokalise to get translations from one of our translation providers.