Logo, colours and the announcement bar

Drop your logo into Logo image, or press Upload or Choose from library. A PNG with a see-through background works best, as it sits on any colour.

Without a logo, your shop shows its name instead, in your template’s lettering. That looks good too, so don’t wait for a logo to open.

A square logo also becomes your shop’s icon in browser tabs.

Your shop makes its own icon. If your logo is square, or close to it, the icon is your logo. Otherwise it’s the first letter of your shop’s name, dark on a pale tile.

There’s nothing to set: change your logo or your shop’s name, and the icon follows.

Slide along the colours, or pick one of the Colour ideas. The shop works out lighter and darker shades for day and night, and the Day and Night previews show how buttons and links will look.

Use the template’s own colours goes back to how your template comes.

Under More options. Email apps can’t read the shop’s colour, so emails use a colour code, like #2F6F6A. It follows your shop colour unless you type your own Colour code.

Match the shop colour goes back to following it.

Under More options. It shows when your shop is shared on Facebook, WhatsApp, Pinterest and so on. 1200 × 630 pixels is the ideal size. How a shared link looks shows it with your homepage title and description from search engines.

Without one, your shop makes its own picture in your template, from your name or logo, your words and your photos. Products and journal posts use their own photos when they’re shared.

Switch on Show the badge in my shop’s footer if you’d like it. It stays off unless you switch it on, and How it looks shows it first.

In Settings, Announcement bar, switch on Show the announcement bar and write up to 10 messages. Each one has What it says and an optional Link, like /shop or a page’s address.

In the shop each message shows for five seconds. Use the arrows to reorder them, and the preview to see them in turn. Switching the bar off keeps your messages for next time.

Tick Only show it between certain dates on a message and choose when it Starts and Stops, in your shop’s time zone. Leave Starts blank to begin straight away, or Stops blank to keep it showing.

Each message says where it stands: Starts and a date, Showing until a date, or Finished, so it isn’t showing. A finished message stays in your list until you remove it.