Banners
The promo carousel on your storefront's home screen — artwork, what a tap opens, and the ordering that decides what shoppers see first.
Banners are the carousel at the top of your storefront's home screen. They're the first thing a shopper sees after opening your store, and the only surface where you choose what to show rather than the catalog choosing for you.
Manage them on the Banners page.
The fields
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Image | The artwork. Landscape. |
| Title | Overlaid on the banner. |
| Subtitle | A supporting line under the title. |
| Tapping it opens | Nothing, a product, or a category. |
| Position | Sort order in the carousel. Lower is earlier. |
| Active | Off keeps the banner without showing it. |
Artwork
Landscape, and readable at phone width. Templates render banners full-bleed or as a peeking card depending on the template, so:
- Keep the subject centred. Edges get cropped differently per template.
- Leave the left third emptier — that's where the title and subtitle sit.
- Avoid baking text into the image. It won't match the overlaid title's font, it can't be edited, and it won't translate for a shopper reading in another language.
Photography of the actual products beats an abstract graphic. A shopper scanning a carousel is deciding whether you sell what they want.
What a tap does
Three options:
- Nothing (display only) — announcements, hours, service messages.
- A product — opens that product's details screen. Right for a single hero item.
- A category — opens that category. Right for a sale across a range.
A banner advertising a discount should link to the thing that's discounted. A "40% off fruit" banner that opens nothing makes a shopper hunt for the offer, and most won't.
Position and how many
Position orders the carousel — lower numbers first. Leave gaps (10, 20, 30) so you can slot one in later without renumbering everything.
Three to five active banners is the useful range. One is a static image nobody registers as a carousel; ten means the last five are never seen.
Active, instead of delete
Toggling Active off keeps the banner — its artwork, copy and target — but removes it from the carousel. That's what you want for anything seasonal: a festival banner switched off in January and on again next year beats recreating it annually.
Delete only what you'll never run again.
A rhythm that works
One evergreen
What your store is, always on. New shoppers see it whenever they arrive.
One current offer
Linked to the category or product it discounts. Swap it when the offer ends.
One seasonal
Switched on and off by date. Reused every year.
Next
Deleted one by mistake? Recently deleted on this page holds the last 30 days, restorable with one tap.