Multi-Language Support

• Overview
• Supported Languages
• Managing Enabled Languages
• Switching the Language
• Where It Applies
• Adding or Modifying Translations

Overview

Slotara ships with complete UI translations for 8 popular languages. Every panel — Super Admin, Business, and the public-facing booking pages — is fully translated. Users switch language with a single click from the header; the choice is stored in their session and takes effect immediately without a page reload.

Supported Languages

All 8 languages cover the full interface: navigation, form labels, validation messages, button text, notifications, and email template subject lines.

Managing Enabled Languages

Super admins can control which languages are active platform-wide from a single checkbox list.

To change enabled languages:

1. Go to Admin → Settings → System.
2. Scroll to the Language Management section.
3. Check or uncheck languages as needed — at least one must remain checked.
4. Click Save Settings.

The change takes effect immediately across every panel and public page without any cache clear or deploy. Disabled languages disappear from:

• The language switcher in the Admin Panel, Business Panel, and front-end nav.
• The Default Language selector in a business's own settings.
• The locale.switch endpoint (a request to switch to a disabled locale is silently rejected).

{info} Disabling a language only hides it from the UI — its translation files remain on disk. Re-enabling it restores it immediately.

{warning} If a user has a disabled language saved as their profile locale, they will fall back to the app default (en) on their next session.

Switching the Language

The language switcher lives in the top-right header of every panel (shown as a two-letter locale code, e.g. EN, ES, DE).

1. Click the locale badge in the header.
2. A dropdown lists all available languages.
3. Click any language — the panel switches instantly.

The selected language is stored in the user's session, so it persists across page navigations until changed or until the session expires.

Where It Applies

{info} The language switcher controls the panel UI language. It does not change the content your business has entered (service names, descriptions, etc.) — those are business-controlled.

Adding or Modifying Translations

All translation strings live in lang/ under a sub-directory per locale:

lang/
  en/          ← English (default)
  es/          ← Spanish
  de/          ← German
  fr/          ← French
  ar/          ← Arabic
  ru/          ← Russian
  zh/          ← Chinese
  hi/          ← Hindi

To edit an existing translation, open the relevant file (e.g. lang/fr/booking.php) and change the value string. Clear the config cache after saving:

php artisan config:clear
php artisan cache:clear

To add a new language:

1. Create a new directory under lang/ using the ISO 639-1 code (e.g. lang/pt/).
2. Copy all files from lang/en/ into the new directory and translate the values.
3. Register the locale in config/app.php under available_locales:

'available_locales' => ['en', 'es', 'de', 'fr', 'ar', 'ru', 'zh', 'hi', 'pt'],

4. Clear caches and the new language will appear in the switcher automatically.

{primary} RTL support — Arabic (ar) is automatically rendered right-to-left. Any locale declared as RTL in config/app.php (rtl_locales) will receive the same treatment.