translation & localization · es · pt-BR · ja · Monsey, NY
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Three things we localize — interface strings, help-center articles, onboarding emails — into three languages. Below is every line that can appear on one of our invoices, what it costs, and what it doesn’t cover. If it isn’t on this page, we don’t sell it.
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Kelp & Quill · invoice draftproject: settings + onboarding · locale: es-419
| base package, 4,820 words | $1,140.00 |
|---|---|
| second native read | included |
| overflow report · 6 strings | included |
| glossary + style sheet | included |
| register call · usted | included |
| rush | not asked for |
| machine pre-translation | none used |
| total | $1,140.00 |
50% at kickoff · 50% on delivery · Visa, Mastercard, Amex or ACH
02base package
Same package on every job. The only thing that changes between columns is the language — and, for Japanese, the price. We’d rather show you why than bury it in a “custom quote.”
| line item | spanishes-419 or es-ES | portuguesept-BR | japaneseja-JP | all threeside by side |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Translator who uses your product first | included | included | included | included |
| Second native reader, no English in view | included | included | included | included |
| Register decided once, up front | tú or usted | você | です・ます level | all three, documented |
| ICU plural, gender and {placeholder} checks | included | included | included | included |
| Overflow report with shorter options | included | included | included | included |
| Glossary + style sheet you keep | yours | yours | yours | one shared file |
| Revision round inside 30 days | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 per language |
| Source words included | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 each |
| Base turnaround | 7 business days | 7 business days | 7 business days | still 7 |
| Per word past 5,000 | $0.19 | $0.20 | $0.29 | same rates |
| from | $1,140 | $1,190 | $1,760 | $3,690 |
| Request a quote | quote es | quote pt-BR | quote ja | quote all |
Why Japanese costs $620 more: fewer reviewers can judge politeness register and dense UI layout in the same pass, and that pass takes longer. That’s the entire reason — there’s no “complexity surcharge” hiding in it.
Not in any column: right-to-left languages, legal documents, slogan transcreation. Ask and we’ll refer you to someone who does them well — we won’t stretch to fake it.
03three surfaces
A base package can mix these freely — the 5,000 words can be all UI, all help center, or some of each. The price stays the same. What changes is what we check, and what we’ll hand you back.
The words customers touch a hundred times a day. We sign up, click every screen we can reach, then translate with that context in our heads — not a spreadsheet of orphaned keys.
the trade-offNo staging login? We still deliver, but expect more questions and a few strings we have to guess at. We’ll mark which ones.
billing-03.png "Upgrade" en invite-01.png "Invite" en export-02.png 10/15/2026 → 15/10 3 to re-shoot · rest clear
An article that says “click Upgrade” above a screenshot of an English button is worse than no translation. We work with your screenshots open and list every image that still gives the game away.
the trade-offWe don’t re-shoot screenshots ourselves. Your team has the staging data; we’d only be guessing at it, and you’d pay for the guess.
Your first week of email does more selling than your pricing page. Subject lines get rewritten to the length each inbox actually shows, preheaders checked, and the register set once and held.
the trade-offWe don’t load them into your ESP. Shipping is your job; getting the words right is ours. We do flag merge tags that break word order.
04à la carte
For when a whole package is too much, or you need one specific thing done right. Priced per language unless it says otherwise. Same two native readers wherever words get written.
Up to 1,000 words, both native reads, no glossary. For teams who want to see our work before committing to a package. Reasonable. $295 es, $310 pt-BR, $460 ja.
start a pilot →Your English articles changed; we compare against the last translated version and redo only what moved, at the per-word rate. Small batches carry a $90 minimum per language.
send the changes →We walk one flow — up to 30 screens — in your localized staging build and log every clipped, untranslated or wrong-locale string, each with a screenshot and a fix.
book a qa pass →Title, subtitle, description and keyword field for the App Store or Google Play — written to the character limits, not translated past them and trimmed with a cleaver.
quote a listing →No translation — just the terminology decisions and a style sheet. For teams with in-house translators who keep arguing about whether “workspace” gets translated at all.
settle the glossary →Forty-five minutes to decide tú or usted, você, or keigo level for your brand, plus a one-page decision memo. free in every base package
book the call →Five business days or fewer, on any package or extra. We squeeze translation time. We do not squeeze the second read — that’s the part you’re paying for.
call about a deadline →New copy on your side after the revision window gets quoted at the per-word rate before anyone starts. Our mistakes, found any time, get fixed without a line item.
send the edits →05the week
Every base package runs on this calendar. It isn’t padded, and it isn’t a minimum we’ll quietly blow through. If something moves, you hear it from us the day it moves.
Thirty minutes with whoever wrote the English. Then the translator signs up and clicks around.
First draft in your own file format. Questions go into one shared doc you can answer in a batch — not a drip of emails at 6pm. Glossary decisions get written down as they’re made, so the second job starts from them.
A second native speaker reads only the translation. If it sounds translated, it goes back.
Plurals, placeholders, character limits. The overflow report gets written.
Files back as a pull request or a zip, with the glossary and our notes.
Rush (+22%) compresses days 2–4. It never touches day 5 — skipping the cold read is how “translated” turns into “sounds translated.”
Buying all three languages? They run in parallel with separate readers, so the bundle still lands on day 7, not day 21.
Attach your en.json or a link to your help center. Within one business day you’ll get the line items we’d actually bill you for — and the ones you can skip.