Change your store's design

Use the design editor to change your pages, colours and fonts. Changes go live on your store as you make them.

Updated 12 Oct 20262 min read

Open Design
On this page

The design editor shows your real store and lets you change it in place. In your admin, go to Online store → Design. It opens full screen.

The top bar

PartWhat it does
ExitTakes you back to your admin.
Page menuPicks the page to edit: Home or one of your pages.
Desktop and phone buttonsShow the page at desktop or phone width. Check both before you finish.
Save statusWhen you change the theme: Saving…, then Saved · live on your store. If it says Not saved, click Try again.
View storeOpens the page on your store in a new tab.

Sections and Theme

The panel on the left has two tabs.

Sections lists the parts of the page from top to bottom, between the Header and the Footer. Click a section to change it. You can also edit right on the page: hover over a section to see its toolbar. See Add and arrange sections and Logo, menu and footer.

Theme sets the look of the whole store, on every page:

SettingWhat it changes
Main colourThe colour of buttons and highlights. Pick a swatch, or + (Another colour) for any colour.
BackgroundLight or Dark, each with a few shades.
FontsThe font pair for headings and text. There are 12 to pick from.
CornersSquare, Soft or Round buttons and cards.
Product cardsStandard, Tinted, Minimal or Lifted.
Ambient lightPictures and buttons glow softly on the page. On or off.
Product picturesThe shape of product pictures: Portrait, Square, Landscape, Tall or Whole picture.

Write text with AI

In a section's text box, click Ask AI, or press ⌘J on a Mac (Ctrl+J on Windows). It can improve, shorten, lengthen or fix the grammar of what you wrote, or write new text. Then choose Replace selection or Insert, Try again or Discard. Ask AI uses AI credits.

On a phone

Use the Sections and Theme buttons at the bottom of the screen. Click Done to close the panel.

Next in Online storeAdd and arrange sections
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