Store Templates: Restyle Your Whole Store in One Click

Open the Store templates picker from the Store Editor, preview a template on your own storefront, apply it as a draft, review what changes, publish everything together with Publish all, and undo the whole thing from History.

A store template is a complete look for your whole store: every page, plus the header and the footer. Where a theme pack changes colours and typography, a store template restyles the layout and design of each page in one go. It keeps what is yours: your products, menus, text and images stay.

The ten templates

The gallery offers ten templates, one for each of ten industries. The names and descriptions below are exactly what each card shows. The full-screen picker lays every card out in one grid, with the industry written above each card name, in the order Fashion, Beauty, Jewellery, Electronics, Home, Grocery, Bakery, Salon, then Ethnic and Family Fashion, which follow the fixed list. Above the grid, the All button and one button per industry filter the cards; those two buttons read Ethnic Wear and Family Fashion. The narrow Theme hub column groups the cards under an industry heading instead.

Aadhya Family Fashion: what you get

Pick this one for a shop that sells sarees, menswear, womenswear, girls' clothing and handloom home linen under one roof. It uses DM Serif Display headings with Inter body text, a near-black primary colour and a green accent. The header shows a scrolling announcement bar ("Festive wear for the whole family | Free shipping on orders over 999") above a centred menu, with search, cart, wishlist, account and a Login button. The footer has link groups and a newsletter box.

The home page, top to bottom:

The template also contains a Lookbook section, switched off. Turn it on from the page's section list if you want it.

Sample catalogue. When you leave Add sample products on, the template adds 22 products in 4 categories, with images and no variants: Women (9: six sarees, two kurtas and a salwar suit), Men (5 kurtas), Girls Clothing (4 outfits) and Home & Living (4 linen items). The category circles, carousels and promo tiles link to these. Prices and names are placeholders; replace them before you take real orders.

Pick it. Open Store Editor, click the Templates tile in the left rail, find Aadhya Family Fashion (or click the industry button above the grid, which reads Family Fashion), then Preview and Apply as described below.

Find the Store templates picker

The picker is a full-screen window titled Store templates. There are four ways to open it:

On a page that has its own layout choices, the inspector's Change theme button opens the same picker on its Landing page layouts tab (see below). A store editor address that ends in ?gallery=true also opens the picker.

Skip for now and the close (X) and back arrow buttons all close the picker. If the picker opened by itself, closing it with any of them remembers that in this browser, so it does not open by itself again on later visits; open it from the Templates tile whenever you want. Pressing Escape also closes it.

Preview a template on your own store

Every card has a Preview button next to Apply template. Preview shows the template's own sample products and images (sample content), so you can judge the design with a full-looking store. It does not show your catalog, and your products are not changed. After you apply the template, your storefront shows your real products in the template's layout.

Preview saves nothing and changes nothing on your live store or your drafts. The preview link works for about 15 minutes; after that, click Preview again for a fresh one. If the frame cannot load, the window says "The preview could not be loaded." with a Retry button.

On a template marked as needing a storefront upgrade you can still open Preview, but Apply template is disabled. Preview itself is disabled only when no storefront address is configured for your store.

Apply a store template

Screen: Store Editor → Templates tile (left rail) → Store templates tab, or Store Editor → Theme → Store templates tab.

Sample products and category menus

The apply dialog reads what the template would add before you confirm. The options block appears only when there is something to choose; if the dialog cannot read the plan, the block stays hidden and the apply uses the server defaults.

Add sample products

Each template ships a small catalogue of sample products with photos, in a few categories, so a new store has something to show. The Add sample products switch says how many products and categories ("N products in M categories, with photos") and notes that samples stay hidden until you Publish all.

What samples are:

• They are real products. Once published, customers can add them to the cart and order them. Each sample has a stock of 10.
• Until you click Publish all they are hidden from your storefront.
• In Products (the product list or grid) every sample carries a Sample tag, and while any sample is live a notice at the top reads "N sample products are live and can be ordered. Delete them when you add your own." Delete them, or edit them into your own products, when you are ready.
• If you edit a sample, or it has orders, undoing the template later keeps it (see Undo below).

Create category menus

When the template has category links to add, the Create category menus switch is shown. It adds those category links to your header menu and a Shop column to your footer ("Adds N category links to your header and a Shop column in your footer."). If you built your own menu, the switch reads Replace my menu with category menus, is off, and says your menu is kept unless you tick it; Undo restores it.

The Landing page layouts tab

When you open the picker from a page that is being edited in the page composer, a second tab, Landing page layouts, appears next to Store templates. It holds the older ready-made layouts for the single page you are editing: a Search templates box, an industry filter (All plus one button per industry), and cards with Use this template. Choosing one on a page that already has sections asks Replace existing page? ("Applying this template will replace all of them. This cannot be undone from here.") with Cancel and Replace. Some layouts are locked to a higher plan and show Upgrade to use, or are blocked when the layout has more sections than your plan allows.

This tab replaces the sections of that one page only. It does not restyle your whole store. When the picker is opened from the Templates tile, the first-run prompt or the setup checklist it opens on Store templates. On screens with no page composer open, only the Store templates tab is shown.

Applying never touches your live store. Visitors keep seeing your current store until you publish.

The draft banner: preview, publish or discard

While a store template draft is waiting, a banner titled Store template draft sits at the top of the editor with the line "Continue editing any page. Your live store stays unchanged until Publish all." It has three buttons:

You can keep editing any page while the draft is waiting. Those edits are part of the draft and are included when you publish.

Review and publish with Publish all

If the review cannot be loaded, the dialog says "The detailed change review is unavailable. Save pending edits and refresh. Publishing stays disabled until the review can be loaded." and shows a Retry button. Publish all stays disabled until the review loads, so you can never publish blind.

What your customers see

• Before you publish: nothing changes. Customers see the store exactly as it was, even while you preview and edit the draft.
• After Publish all: every page, plus the header and footer, shows the template's design. Your products, categories, menus, text and images are the same ones you had, laid out in the new style.

Undo a template from History

Screen: Store Editor → Template History button in the top bar → Version history dialog → Store templates tab. When the top bar is crowded the button shortens to History; on very narrow windows it moves into the More actions menu (three dots) as Template History.

The dialog has two tabs: Page versions (the saved versions of one page, opened first) and Store templates. Selecting Store templates retitles the dialog Store template history.

Undo store template live is disabled on any row the system does not mark as undoable, so you cannot restore from it.

The sign-in page after you apply a template

A store template also sets your customer Login page. Each industry template picks a login design and switches on a few look-and-feel options for it. Your store name and logo from Branding are handed to the sign-in page, so a design that shows a brand mark can show yours.

The wording above is the template's sample copy. It replaces the default login text when you apply, so edit it afterwards in the Store Editor (Pages → Login) to match your own brand.

The four options a template can switch on are:

Set the logo and name the sign-in page uses

For the full branding workflow see Store Branding.

Change the sign-in design

To use a different login design, go to Pages → Login in the Store Editor, open the Design tab of the inspector and click Change template. Pick a design from the gallery.

Edge cases

• Applying while a draft already exists. Only one store template draft can wait at a time. The dialog shows a warning, "Your existing store template draft will be discarded before this template is applied. Your live store stays unchanged.", and the confirm button reads Discard draft and apply.
• Template needs a storefront upgrade. A card whose template is not compatible with your storefront shows "Needs a storefront upgrade before applying." with the missing feature names, and its Apply template button is disabled. See Storefront upgrade.
• Pages you already customised. The dialog states that these are restyled too, while your text, images, menus and products stay. The snapshot lets you undo.
• Custom CSS. A template replaces a page's custom CSS only if it ships CSS for that page. See Page Custom CSS.
• Buttons disabled while busy. While a store template action is running, Apply, Publish all, Discard and Undo are all disabled so two actions cannot overlap. If your edits cannot be saved first, the action stops with an error and nothing changes.

Edit the About and Contact texts after you apply a template

Some store templates use the Founder Letter (2026) design for About Us and the Atelier Contact (2026) design for Contact Us. After you apply one, open Store Editor → Pages → Browse, pick About Us or Contact Us, and use the Content tab to change the texts. The step-by-step guides are in Founder Letter (2026) letter body and Atelier Contact (2026). Remember to Publish all or publish the page afterwards.

Header style and product page by template

Each template ships its own header layout. Applying a template replaces your current header with the one below (your logo, store name and menu links are kept).

Things that apply to every template-applied store:

• No announcement bar by default (except the two ethnic and family templates above). The announcement text is not switched on for you. To add one, open the Store Editor header, select Announcement Bar and type a Message, as described in the troubleshooting note below.
• Signed-out account shows as an icon. When a visitor is not signed in, the account control in the header is a plain person icon that opens the sign-in page, not a pill-shaped Login button. Stores that have not applied a store template keep the pill.
• Utilities: words or icons, depending on the template. Heirloom Jewellery shows plain text links, Search, Account, Wishlist and Bag, with no icons. Atelier Fashion, Botanical Beauty, Studio Home and Circuit Electronics show each icon with its label beside it. Fresh Grocery, Neighbourhood Bakery, Studio Salon and Saanjh Ethnic Wear keep icons only. When the cart has items, the count follows the label, for example Bag (2). The count appears only when the cart is not empty.
• Utilities on a phone (about 390px wide). On Jewellery the bar shows the menu button on the left, your brand centred, and only Bag on the right. On Fashion, Beauty, Home and Electronics the bar shows the menu button, your brand centred, and Search and Bag on the right (icon plus label). Account and Wishlist are not in the phone bar. Icon-only templates keep their usual phone layout.

On the product page of a template-applied store:

• One pincode checker. The delivery checker sits inside the product information. Stores that have not applied a template keep their existing layout, including the checker above the buy box.
• Breadcrumb aligned with the page content. On desktop the breadcrumb lines up with the left edge of the content below it.
• Jewellery product page is quieter. On the Heirloom Jewellery template there is no "Maison collection" eyebrow line and no SKU line under the product title or in the sticky add-to-cart bar. A brand or vendor name still shows if you have set one.

Edit the header utility labels

The utility words are editable on Jewellery (Masthead header) and on Fashion, Beauty, Home and Electronics (Serif Luxury Bar header). Icon-only templates have no such fields.

1. Open Store Editor and select the header, Header Navbar.
2. On the Content tab, find the label fields: Search label (text utility style), Account label (text utility style), Wishlist label (text utility style) and Cart label (text utility style).
3. Type your own words, for example Basket instead of Bag. Defaults are Search, Account, Wishlist and Bag.
4. Publish all, then reload the storefront.

The Account label is also what the storefront shows on the account control. A signed-out visitor sees that word (or icon plus word) which opens the sign-in page; it follows the same text you typed. The cart count is added after your Cart label automatically.

Troubleshooting

Next steps

• The Theme Hub: colours, fonts and type pairings.
• Page Custom CSS: fine-tune a page after applying a template.