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Who the Online Store template is for

The general-purpose online store: product grid, categories, cart and Stripe checkout all working on first publish, seeded with demo products you replace. For anyone selling physical or digital goods without platform fees per sale.

Make it yours

Replace the demo products with your own (square photos, honest short descriptions, compare-at prices only when true), set shipping rates in the shop settings, and rewrite the hero around your best-selling category. Enable abandoned-cart recovery once orders start.

A Working Shop Beats a Beautiful Catalogue

Most small store sites fail at one of three points: the product page does not answer the question, the shipping cost appears too late, or the checkout asks for an account. Everything else is decoration.

Categories people would actually use

Organise by how customers shop rather than by how you stock. Ten products in three sensible categories beats a flat grid, and it gives every category page something specific to rank for. Product categories and variants covers the structure.

Say the delivery cost before the checkout

Unexpected postage is the most common reason a full basket is abandoned. Put the rule where the basket is, even if it is only a line about free delivery over a threshold.

Let people buy without an account

Guest checkout removes a step that protects nothing and costs orders, particularly from first-time buyers. Payments are connected as described in taking payments.

Replace the demo products with your own, write descriptions that answer the question you get asked most, and the store is trading. The wider sequence is in how to open an online store.

Questions and answers

Is the Online Store template free?

Yes - you can start building and customizing the Online Store template for free. The Online Shop features need a paid plan (included in Starter), and the 14-day Starter free trial covers everything in this template.

What pages does the Online Store template include?

It comes with 6 ready-made pages: Home, Products, About, Contact, Product, Cart.

What can the Online Store template do?

It is set up for Online Shop. Those are built in rather than add-ons, so they work from the moment the site is created.

What is the Online Store template set up with?

It arrives with 6 demo products across 4 categories, so you are editing a working business rather than filling in an empty layout. Replace the demo content with your own as you go.

What fonts and colours does the Online Store template use?

Bricolage Grotesque for headings and Figtree for body text, on a palette built around #1b1b1b and #c1272d.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. The Online Store template is edited visually in the drag-and-drop builder - no coding at any point.

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