Name the language your recipe steps are written in, add the other languages your crew reads, and let one step carry a version in each.
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Half your crew reads Spanish, the steps are typed in English, and somewhere there's a translated sheet somebody made once that nobody has updated since. Bettr Manager keeps one step and lets it carry a version in each language your floor reads, so the translation moves when the recipe does. You name those languages in Languages, under Settings.
The top card, Recipe steps are written in, holds the language a step is typed in first. It reads English until you change it. Select the word, type over it, and press Enter or click away — there's no save button.
Changing it renames the language your steps are already in. It doesn't translate anything and it doesn't touch a word anyone has written: if you set it to American English, every step still says exactly what it said, and the switch on a recipe now calls that language American English.
Open Languages
In the sidebar, open Settings → Languages. Under the written-in card, Also spoken on the floor lists the other languages your company reads. A company that hasn't added one yet reads No other languages yet.
Type the name and add it
Type the language into the field beside Add a language — Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, whatever your crew actually reads — and select Add a language. It joins the list in alphabetical order.
The name is yours to write; Bettr Manager doesn't hold a fixed list of languages to pick from. It refuses a name the company already carries, in any capitalization — Spanish is already on the list — and it refuses the language your steps are written in, because that one is already there as the written-in language.
Both happen on the row. Select a language's name to type over it, the same way as the written-in card. To take one off, select the trash icon at the end of its row — it goes right away, with nothing to confirm, and it stops being offered on recipes.
Taking a language off doesn't lose the words
Add a language back under the same name and every step instruction written in it comes back with it. So removing a language your floor stopped using is safe, and reversible if that changes.
The list you keep here is what a recipe's steps offer.
Open a recipe's steps
From Recipes, open the recipe and select Steps. Beside the How the batch is made heading, Reading in holds the written-in language and every language on your list.
Switch to the language you want
Pick it, and each step shows what it says in that language. A step nobody has written in it yet reads No Spanish yet where the instruction goes.
Type the instruction in place
Select the step's instruction and type it in that language. Enter commits it, and so does clicking away. What's underneath in your written-in language is untouched — it's one step carrying two sets of words, not two steps drifting apart.
The printed sheet follows the switch. Print while the page is showing Spanish and the sheet comes out in Spanish, with the same equipment, sizes, temperatures and durations beside each step.
On a draft version, switching to one of your languages puts a Draft in Spanish button beside the switch. It asks a machine translator for a first pass at every step in that recipe at once.
What comes back is a draft and stays a draft. Each one lands in the cell of a step that has nothing written in that language yet, marked Draft, not saved. Nothing is recorded on the recipe until a person edits the cell and commits it — read it, fix what the machine got wrong about your plant's words, and the badge goes. A step that already carries a translation is left alone.
A badge beside the button says where the request stands: Drafting while it's out, Drafts ready when the drafts are in the cells, The translator refused it, Stuck when nothing came back and nothing is still trying, or Nothing drafted with the reason — most often that machine translation isn't switched on for your installation, in which case you write the translation yourself in the step.
A draft prints like anything else on the page
The printed sheet is the page as it stands, so a machine draft you haven't edited yet prints with the rest — and the Draft, not saved mark doesn't print beside it. Work through the drafted steps before you print for the floor.
Languages are a company setting, so each company you run keeps its own list, its own written-in language, and its own translations. Everyone who can open Settings can keep the list; writing a step's translation takes the same permission as editing any recipe.