This article is about the Proxi admin app at app.proxi.co.
The people in your area don't all read English first. A market map, a holiday passport, or a community calendar does its job when the family that just moved in, the grandparents visiting for the weekend, and the crew working the festival can all read it. Proxi makes everything you publish readable in other languages: maps, directories, calendars, boards, program join pages, and your passports, scavenger hunts, guides, and Best Of votes.
It works two ways at once. Every page tells the visitor's browser what language it's written in, so a phone set to Spanish can offer to translate it the way it would any website. And a small globe button in the header lets a visitor switch languages on the spot: the page translates in place, their stamps or check-ins are kept, and the choice is remembered on that device. The globe is new, so you'll see a Beta tag next to it in Settings. If a translation looks off, let us know.
Tell Browsers What Language You Write In
Go to Settings → Languages.
In the Your Language card, pick the language under Your content is written in.
It saves on its own. There's no button.
This part is free on every plan and works in every browser. A map written in a different language from the rest of your workspace can say so from its own editor: open the map, find Viewer actions, and set This map is written in.
Turn On the Language Button
On the same Settings → Languages page, find the Language Button card.
Under Languages to offer, use + Add a language to pick the languages your community reads. They're listed first in the button. Add as many as you like, and remove one with the × on its chip.
Leave Show the language button on. Turn it off to hide the globe everywhere; visitors' browsers can still offer their own translation.
Offering languages is part of Premium. Setting the language you write in is free on every plan. On other plans the globe still appears in browsers that can translate a page on their own, and visitors elsewhere can use their browser's own translate option.
Where the Globe Shows Up
Maps: in the header, on the welcome screen, and on the join card of a map that asks visitors to sign in or buy access first.
Directories: in the header and on the welcome screen.
Calendars: next to Subscribe, on the calendar page and inside the calendar you've embedded on your own website.
Boards: in the brand row on the board page, and top-right when the board is embedded.
Passports, scavenger hunts, guides, and Best Of votes: on the welcome and sign-up screens and in the header while someone is playing.
Program join pages: top-right of the page header.
Each map's own editor has a Show the language button switch under Viewer actions if you want it off on just that map.
What Visitors See
Tapping the globe lists Original, the languages you offer, and the visitor's own browser language if it isn't already there.
Picking one translates the page where they are: place cards, filters, event details, board cards, stop descriptions, prize wording, and the buttons.
Business names, addresses, booth numbers, check-in codes, and a participant's own name stay exactly as written, so nobody ends up looking for "Café Puerta Roja."
A short note under the list says translations are automatic and may not be perfect.
Switching never reloads the page. A stamp earned in English is still there in Vietnamese.
How Translation Is Counted
Some browsers translate a page themselves, right on the visitor's device. Those translations don't count against anything. Everywhere else, Proxi translates the page for you and remembers each sentence, so a page is only translated the first time it's read in a given language. Later visitors get the saved version for free. When you edit a description, only the new wording is translated again.
Your workspace has a monthly amount of text Proxi will translate, set by your subscription level. The counter resets at the start of each month.
You can see this month's usage two places: at the bottom of the Language Button card as Translated text this month, and under Usage on your Subscription page, next to emails and texts.
If you reach the limit, everything already translated keeps working. New text shows in its original language until next month, and visitors see a short note that some of the page couldn't be translated. Text that a browser translates itself keeps working either way.
Need more room? Message us and we'll help.
Good to Know
The embed code for maps, directories, calendars, and boards includes everything the globe needs. If you pasted an embed before the globe existed and it says translation isn't available, copy the code again from Share.
Translation is automatic. For a passport or a map where the wording really matters, read the translated page once yourself or ask a native speaker on your board to.
Emails and texts you send still go out in the language you wrote them in. The globe is for the pages people open.
Setting up your name, logo, and colors? See Your Workspace Name and Branding (What Shows Up Around Proxi).