Case Study: Vestiaire Collective achieves faster product uploads and 82% lower translation costs with Google Cloud Platform

Vestiaire Collective Pre-owned luxury site saves 82% on translation

Vestiaire Collective, the Paris-based global marketplace for authenticated pre-owned designer fashion, needed a faster and more cost-effective way to translate thousands of daily item descriptions for its multilingual users. Before switching vendors, translation took several hours and cost about €500,000 a year, creating delays and adding expense to uploads.

Using Google Cloud Platform’s Cloud Translation API, Vestiaire Collective automated translations from six languages into English and migrated in just two days. The result was near real-time publishing, reduced upload time from hours to minutes, and an 82% cut in translation costs, dropping spending from about €500,000 to €90,000 with no negative impact on conversion rates.

Vestiaire Collective

Patrick Hermann

Chief Technology Office