FAQ

Welcome to the Frequently Asked Questions section of the Wordbee Knowledge base. Here you will find answers to general questions about Wordbee Translator and Wordbee Beebox. Expand each topic to view the available articles.

Wordbee Translator

Administration

Can I assign individual access rights per person?
Can I easily migrate my legacy translation memories and client database?
Which browsers do you support?

Data security, storage, and backup

Data security & data storage

Does the system automatically save all work conducted in the Translation Editor?

Financial management

Why is there sometimes a discrepancy between monthly invoices total and monthly Jobs cost total?

Integration

Can Wordbee integrated with third-party systems (ex: accounting software?)

License & Logins

What is Wordbee's licensing model?
Can I give free logins to my clients?
Can I add more vendor logins that my subscription permits?
Is the product open source?

Machine Translation

Which machine translation engines does Wordbee support?
How can I use machine translation within Wordbee?

Project management

When can I update my source text with a new version?
How can I manage my translation memories?
How much of an integrated workflow does Wordbee provide?
How can I exclude sections of the text from being translated?
CoDyt project and automatic kick-off of the tasks
Can several vendors work collaboratively on the same document?
Can I see the complete lifecycle of any project executed in Wordbee?
Can I find out if translators are available before assigning jobs?
Can I evaluate the performance of my translators?
How can I share word count information with suppliers?
How can I know when a translator accepts/delivers a translation?
How can I communicate with suppliers?
How to determine which jobs are available/urgent?

Translation

Can I use my own CAT tools?
Can I preview my document during the translation?
Does Wordbee support Indian languages or is it more focused on European languages?
How to split/merge segments in the editor?

Translation memory & Terminology databases

How does the system lookup and retrieve the best translations for pre-translation or during the work in the editor?
How does Wordbee deal with morphology?
Does Wordbee support a multi-column glossary?

Wordbee Beebox

Live Preview

How does Live Preview work?
Why do I get error messages when using Live Preview in Beebox?