Translate Zendesk Tickets with DeepL Installation Guide

  1. 1. Sign up for a DeepL API/Developer account. If you already have a DeepL API/Developer (!) account, continue with step 3.
  2. 2. Fill in the details to sign up
  3. 3. Once your account is signed up/created, go to your DeepL account and copy the ‘Authentication Key’ into the Zendesk app settings ‘DeepL API/Authentication Key’.
  4. 4. If you also want to use Google Translate for the languages not supported by DeepL, see the Google Translate Installations instructions.
  5. 5. “Allowed Languages”:
    Please add the languages you want to be available for translation in the following format format using ISO 639-1 codes from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ListofISO639-1codes e.g. ‘de’ => ‘German’, ‘it’ => ‘Italian’
  6. 6. If you are on the Growth, Professional and Enterprise, make sure you also enable these languages in https://your-domain.zendesk.com/agent/admin/account => Localization => Additional Languages.
  7. 7. “Agent working language”:
    The language customer tickets should be translated to – this is your language/the language you are working in.
    Allowed language codes are (use the 2 letter code ONLY):
    Chinese (mandarin): zh
    Dutch: nl
    English: en
    French: fr
    German: de
    Italian: it
    Polish: pl
    Portuguese: pt
    Brazilian Portuguese: pt-br
    Russian: ru
    Spanish: es
    Japanese: ja
  8. 8. “Agent working language is agent locale” checkbox:
    If you have agents speaking different languages, check this if the customer tickets should be translated to the current agent's language.
  9. Now the app is ready to use
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