diff --git a/plugins/woocommerce-admin/CONTRIBUTING.md b/plugins/woocommerce-admin/CONTRIBUTING.md
index c0ad5beaa73..0dcb30564ae 100644
--- a/plugins/woocommerce-admin/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/plugins/woocommerce-admin/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Hi! Thank you for your interest in contributing to WooCommerce Admin. We appreciate it.
 
-There are many ways to contribute – reporting bugs, feature suggestions, and fixing bugs.
+There are many ways to contribute – reporting bugs, adding translations, feature suggestions, and fixing bugs.
 
 ## Reporting Bugs, Asking Questions, Sending Suggestions
 
@@ -10,6 +10,21 @@ Open [a GitHub issue](https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-admin/issues/ne
 
 If you're filing a bug, specific steps to reproduce are always helpful. Please include what you expected to see and what happened instead.
 
+## Localizing WooCommerce Admin
+
+To translate WooCommerce Admin in your locale or language, [select your locale here](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/woocommerce-admin) and translate *Development* (which contains the plugin's string) and/or *Development Readme* (please translate what you see in the Details tab of the [plugin page](https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-admin/)).
+
+A Global Translation Editor (GTE) or Project Translation Editor (PTE) with suitable rights will process your translations in due time.
+
+Language packs are automatically generated once 95% of the plugin's strings are translated and approved for a locale.
+
+### Testing translations in development without language packs
+
+1. Export the translations strings as a `.po` file from the [translate.wordpress.org project](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/woocommerce-admin).
+1. Rename `.po` file to the following format: `woocommerce-admin-xx_YY.po` (Where xx_YY is your locale, like it_IT)
+1. Use WP-CLI to generate needed JSON files for JavaScript-based strings: `wp i18n make-json [.po file here] --no-purge`
+1. Move `.po` and `.json` files to `/wp-content/languages/plugins`.
+
 ## We're Here To Help
 
 We encourage you to ask for help. We want your first experience with WooCommerce Admin to be a good one, so don't be shy. If you're wondering why something is the way it is, or how a decision was made, you can tag issues with [Type] Question or prefix them with “Question:”
diff --git a/plugins/woocommerce-admin/README.md b/plugins/woocommerce-admin/README.md
index ebdd74f2c1e..e4683005e0c 100644
--- a/plugins/woocommerce-admin/README.md
+++ b/plugins/woocommerce-admin/README.md
@@ -39,4 +39,4 @@ If you have enabled WooCommerce usage tracking ( option `woocommerce_allow_track
 
 ## Contributing
 
-There are many ways to contribute – reporting bugs, feature suggestions and fixing bugs. For full details, please see [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md)
+There are many ways to contribute – reporting bugs, adding translations, feature suggestions and fixing bugs. For full details, please see [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md)
diff --git a/plugins/woocommerce-admin/languages/README.md b/plugins/woocommerce-admin/languages/README.md
index 03e1bebeb0f..d4e7633077d 100644
--- a/plugins/woocommerce-admin/languages/README.md
+++ b/plugins/woocommerce-admin/languages/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
-Languages
-=========
+# Languages
+
+## Contributing a Translation
+If you'd like to contribute a translation, please follow the Localizing section in [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-admin/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
+
+## Generating POT
 
 The generated POT template file is not included in this repository. To create this file locally, follow instructions from [README.md](https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-admin/blob/master/README.md) to install the project, then run the following command: