Case Study: Yelp achieves 100 developer-hours/year in maintenance savings and streamlines localization with Lokalise

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Yelp faced a growing maintenance burden from a five‑year‑old, patched‑together localization setup that required about 25 developer hours per quarter just to keep running. Wanting to outsource translation platform upkeep and give translators a modern interface, Yelp selected Lokalise as their translation management system (TMS).

Lokalise delivered a keys‑based TMS with an extensive API and modern UI that integrated with Yelp’s developer tooling so strings are submitted, translated, and exported seamlessly. The Lokalise implementation streamlined workflows, gave 30+ translators features like translation memory and spell‑check, and cut maintenance by ~25 hours per quarter (about 100 developer‑hours per year), letting Yelp engineers focus on core product work.

Yelp

Chris Kuehl

Yelp