How to keep the same SKU for translated products with woocommerce?

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Last updated by mirnaJ-4 3 years, 5 months ago.

Assisted by: Andreas.

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November 17, 2022 at 3:47 pm #12483785
mirnaJ-4	Tell us what you are trying to do? I am trying to translate my English shop to German using the automatic translation feature. URL: hidden link For now, I hid the German website, my products are translated automatically, but variations and SKUs aren't copied. Whenever I am trying to add manually the same SKU as the English product, I get the error that the SKU is duplicated (my products are the same on the English and German website). I attached some screenshots for reference. Please let me know if you need credentials.
November 18, 2022 at 2:13 pm #12490903
Andreas	Hello there Thank you for contacting us. I am happy to help you. First of all I can see from your debug log, that you are not having WPML String Translation and WooCommerce Multilingual, which are mandatory to work properly with WooCoommerce : https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/woocommerce-multilingual/#required-plugins Please follow the guide and also see how you can use WooCommerce with WPML. The SKU field is indeed copied between languages and you cannot translate it, but you need setup properly the plugins in order to make it work. To sum up please follow the guide I have shared and I think you will not have any issues. I hope this helps. Please let us know how it goes or if you need any further assistance. I'll gladly help you. 🙂 Regards, Andreas