Dynamic content for multilingual replies

Plan requirement

Subscription Suite Growth or higher, Support Professional or higher
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Dynamic content is one piece of text with a version per language, so a trigger sends every customer their own language.

How it works

You create a piece of dynamic content and give it a version in each language you support. Wherever you would have typed the text, you put a placeholder for the content instead.

When a message goes out, Zendesk picks the version matching the customer's language. One trigger, one macro, one template, every language.

What to use it for

  • Every automatic notification. Confirmations, updates, satisfaction surveys.
  • Macros your team uses across markets.
  • Email templates, including the footer and signature.
  • Agent status names and other interface text your customers may see.

Dynamic content or AI translation

Different jobs, and worth keeping straight.

  • Dynamic content is for text you write once and send many times. Translated by a person, in advance, and exactly right every time.
  • AI translation is for the individual conversation you could not have predicted.

Anything automated should be dynamic content. Machine-translating a message you send ten thousand times is paying repeatedly for something you could have got right once.

The fallback

Each piece has a default language, used when the customer's is not available. Worth checking what that produces, because the fallback is what a customer in a language you have not translated actually receives.

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