The Default theme's home page is built from your own shop: your banners, categories, products, reviews and contact details. It has up to 14 sections, and each one shows only when it has something in it, so a new shop never shows empty boxes.
Where to find it
Open your shop's address. To change what shows and in what order, go to Admin › Online store › Store design › Home page (needs the Website design tick; the owner always has it). To check you are on the Default theme, see Store design › Store themes.
How it works
From top to bottom, in the first order:
- Banner slider. Your banners from Store design › Sliders. The box takes the shape of your picture, so nothing is stretched. Arrows and dots appear when there is more than one. If every banner has a phone picture, phones show those.
- Why buy here. Short reasons such as cash on delivery and home delivery, only when true for your shop.
- Shop by category. Your Top categories with their pictures: one row on computers (as many as fit, the rest on All categories), one sideways-swiping row on phones.
- Offers, Best sellers, Featured. Rows of product cards you can swipe. Offers can say "Save up to 30% on these" from your real discounts.
- New arrivals. Your newest products, with a tab for each New Arrival category.
- Promo banners, What customers say (approved written reviews, with your average rating once you have three or more), and Brands.
- Recommended for you (three rows at most, no Show more) and All products (20 products, with a Show more products button that loads the next 20).
- Questions before you order? WhatsApp and call buttons, when you have set those numbers.
On computers, your Sidebar categories also show as a menu bar above the banner.
Every product card shows the photo, a "-25%" badge when discounted, the price with the old price struck through, a star rating when there are reviews, "Free delivery" for free-shipping products and Order now. A single product goes straight into the cart; a product with sizes or colours opens its page. With WhatsApp switched on, a green button opens WhatsApp with "I want to order" and the product's name and link. A product out of stock is greyed with Stock out, and its WhatsApp button is hidden.
Good to know
- How many products a row shows. Offers and New arrivals show 12 by default. Change it in Store design › General settings (Best Offer Product Show, New Arrival Product Show), up to 48. Recommended for you is fixed at three rows; Recommend Product Show no longer changes it.
- Best sellers fill themselves. With fewer than four products marked Best selling, the row adds your most ordered products of the last 120 days.
- Blog posts is an extra section, off at first.
- Ready-made themes are different. They draw their own home page.
Common problems
- The page says "New products are coming soon." None of the product rows has anything to show yet. Add products and mark a few.
- A row is missing. It has too little in it (most rows need at least two products). Mark more products or check they are not hidden.