Crowdin is a popular agile localization management solution available in two versions: Crowdin.com (Community edition) and Crowdin Enterprise. BeLazy's integration allows you to manage Crowdin translation and proofreading tasks in both systems. Crowdin's tasks are bilingual, and BeLazy's bundling functionality merges these into multilingual projects when necessary.

Use cases:

BeLazy supports integration with Crowdin and Crowdin Enterprise through a comprehensive connector that enables seamless localization project management. There are three main use cases where the Crowdin integration comes in handy:

  • You need to coordinate translation and proofreading resources across multiple Crowdin projects while maintaining centralized business management and delivery tracking.
  • Your customers create localization projects in their Crowdin instances and assign tasks to you, and you want to automatically manage these assignments in your business management system,
  • You are using Crowdin's extensive and affordable content integration capabilities, for example with content management systems.

BeLazy connects Crowdin with any business management system or tracker, and allows:

  • Task listing with all project details, including workflow and file information,
  • Project creation in a business management system or tracker from Crowdin task assignments,
  • Linguist assignment monitoring in Crowdin, and reassigning linguists in the business management system or tracker,
  • Linguist assignment monitoring in the business management system or tracker, and reassigning linguists in Crowdin,
  • XLIFF file export and import for offline translation workflows,
  • Delivery monitoring and bidirectional task completion tracking.


Integration type:

The Crowdin integration utilizes the official Crowdin API with project-level access permissions. This API-based approach ensures reliable connectivity and comprehensive feature support while respecting Crowdin's permission system and project security settings. Crowdin's policy is feature parity between the user interface and the APIs.


Requirements:

You need an API token with at least the Projects scope fully selected. API keys are available for every Crowdin user and can be generated through your account settings.


Expected URL format:

  • Crowdin.com (Community edition): https://crowdin.com
  • Crowdin Enterprise: https://{enterpriseid}.crowdin.com where enterpriseid is your organization's Crowdin Enterprise identifier


Crowdin-specific configuration:

API authentication:

  • API token setup: Generate an API token in your Crowdin account by navigating to account settings / API. Click New Token, give it a name in the Token Name field, select at least the Projects scope from the list, then press Create and copy the Access Token value to BeLazy.

Task filtering options:

  • Create opportunities only from tasks assigned to you: Enable this option to filter and only synchronize tasks specifically assigned to your user account. This prevents processing tasks that other team members are handling. Note: if you don't see the tasks you are looking for, you probably need to start by removing the checkbox here.
  • Create opportunities also from tasks with In progress status: Enable this option if your customer sets tasks to "in progress" status when outsourcing work to you. This allows BeLazy to pick up tasks that are already in progress rather than just newly assigned tasks.

Workflow processing:

  • Enable XLIFF workflow: Configure XLIFF-based workflow processing to allow BeLazy to export bilingual files for offline translation and import completed translations back to Crowdin.

Functionalities and connector-specific information:

  • Unit of acceptance: Task (bilingual translation or proofreading assignments)
  • Multiple target languages: Supported through project bundling functionality
  • Specialization, end client, workflow: Only workflow/project name are extracted/available
  • Project exclusion: Only supported through task assignment filtering
  • Download files: Bilingual XLIFF files supported for offline translation workflows
  • Upload files: XLIFF import supported for completed translations
  • Delivery: Task completion monitoring and automatic status updates
  • Linguist assignment: Available with user right-specific limitations
  • Vendor creation: Not supported - members must be manually invited and registered
  • Project bundling: Supported for merging bilingual tasks into multilingual projects
  • 2-factor authentication: Supported through the use of the API key
  • Pricing: Not supported, must be calculated in the business management system
  • Analysis creation: Analysis brackets can be mapped between systems. BeLazy supports custom analysis brackets.

Connector-specific data extracted: See here.


The integration provides comprehensive automation for agile localization workflows, enabling enterprises and translation companies to efficiently manage distributed Crowdin projects while maintaining centralized business operations and resource coordination across both Crowdin.com and Crowdin Enterprise platforms.