A guest who can’t read the screen stops. They don’t finish the form, and instead they message you asking what to do.
That’s why we expanded the languages Regi’s check-in speaks. It used to be seven. Now it’s eighteen.
Eleven more languages for check-in
Guest check-in already spoke Spanish, English, French, German, Dutch, Polish and Czech. Now it also speaks Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic.
Catalan is different from the other ten: it’s a full language. A manager who works in Catalan sees their own dashboard, reservations and reports in Catalan too, not just the screen a guest fills in. The other ten are check-in languages: they cover the form a guest fills in. If a screen isn’t translated into one of them, it shows in English instead.
Finding a language by its name
Before, a guest had to recognize the flag or spot the name in a long list. Now a search box sits above the list, and it finds the language whatever they type.
It matches the language’s own name (“Nederlands”), its English name (“Dutch”), or a common way people refer to it even if it isn’t the official one (“Holandés”). If nothing matches, it suggests trying the English name or the language’s own name instead.
On a phone, the list opens at about half the screen first, with the most common languages within thumb’s reach. If the guest taps the search box or scrolls up, it expands to full height.
Arabic reads right to left
Picking Arabic doesn’t just change the text. It flips the whole screen: margins, buttons, reading order.
There’s one deliberate exception. Check-in dates are written in three boxes: day, month, year. In Arabic, those three boxes keep that same order and still read left to right, even though the rest of the screen runs the other way. It’s the same order already used in Spanish or English, so there’s no new order to learn.
The language button is always one tap away
The button to change language lives in the check-in header: the flag, the current language’s name, and an arrow. It stays there the whole way through, not just at the start.
The first time a guest opens check-in, that button glows briefly, once, in case their language isn’t what’s on screen and they don’t know where to change it. After that it never glows again: a button that keeps blinking stops meaning anything.
What this does not do
- The manager’s dashboard is still limited to five languages: Spanish, English, French, German and Catalan. The other ten new languages only cover the screen a guest sees.
- It does not change what’s reported to SES.Hospedajes. Language is how the form reads, not what data goes into the traveller report. That part is explained in the guest check-in post.
- A screen not yet translated into one of the ten new languages shows in English, never blank or half-translated.
- Arabic doesn’t change the order of dates. They’re written the same way as in any other language: day, month, year.