Localization desk for SaaS teams · contact@jigsawlantern.com
167 Pinto Point Place, Spring, TX 77389
Spanish · Brazilian Portuguese · Vietnamese — from Spring, TX
We translate and culturally localize your UI strings, help-center articles and onboarding emails into Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Vietnamese — one fixed package price, $400 to $1,450, agreed before a single key is touched.
Before we translate a word
Most string files arrive as a spreadsheet of orphans — “Save,” “Back,” “You’re all set!” — with no clue where they appear. So the first thing we do is click through your product, from a staging login or a folder of screenshots, and give every key an address: which screen, which component, how many characters it’s allowed. Only then are the Spanish, Portuguese and Vietnamese written, each for that exact spot.
The welcome kit
Send whatever you have and we’ll politely chase the rest. These five make the quote exact.
How a package runs
Every package follows the same path, so you always know which part of the work is happening and who has the file.
We walk your staging build or screenshots, tag each string with the screen it lives on, and flag the tight ones — tab labels, push notifications, toast messages, and the narrow button your designer swore would never change. Translators then work from a map of your product, not a column of loose words.
Files, screenshots, a freeze date. We count the words, pick the package that fits and send one fixed price — nothing is invoiced until you say yes.
Formality is decided with you once — tú or usted, você, bạn or anh/chị — then kept. Dates, currency and number formats follow each market.
We review the translated build or fresh screenshots and catch the overflowing button, the clipped toast, the email subject that cuts off in an inbox preview — then fix it before you ever see it.
Files return in the format they arrived — same keys, same placeholders — with your glossary and a one-page notes sheet for whoever runs the next release.
Prices are per language. Adding a second language to the same files? We’ll quote it in the same reply.
$400 per package
$865 per package
$1,450 per package
You can, and as a first draft it isn’t bad. What it can’t see is the screen: it doesn’t know “Save” is a nine-character button, that “Post” means a blog entry, or which Vietnamese pronoun your users expect. If you already have machine drafts, send them — we’ll review rather than start over, and price the package to match.
Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese by default. Castilian Spanish or European Portuguese on request — tell us at intake and we’ll hold to it across every package.
JSON, YAML, .po/.pot, XLIFF, iOS .strings and .stringsdict, Android strings.xml and CSV for the app; Markdown, HTML or your help-desk export for articles; your email tool’s export for onboarding sequences. Files go back in the same format.
A patch usually takes about a week; the full lantern runs closer to two or three, depending on article count and how quickly screenshots arrive. Your freeze date goes on our calendar at intake, and we plan backwards from it.
Send us the screenshot. Corrections to our own translations within 30 days of hand-back cost nothing — consider it handled.
167 Pinto Point Place, Spring, TX 77389. Visits by appointment — almost everything happens over email and screen-share.
map a route to pinto point placeInvoiced per package, payable by card or bank transfer:
The house rule
— pinned above the desk at Jigsaw Lantern, Spring, TXA translated string is finished when the reader in Hà Nội, Recife or Monterrey never wonders whether it began in English.