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Your storefront menu is built from your collections. Every item in the menu bar is a collection: a top-level collection becomes a tab, such as New In, Men or Women, and collections placed inside it become its dropdown items. You manage the menu in the Menu module (its address is /menu; old /collections links open it too).
Most menu items list products, but an item can also be a heading that groups others, open one of your pages, or open any link.
Build your menu on a phone or tablet#
On a phone, a tablet or a folded screen (narrower than 1024 pixels), Menu and the Arrange your menu setup step open a short guided flow instead of the full builder. On a computer you get the full builder described below.
- Choose how to start: From my product categories (recommended) builds the menu from the categories of the products you already added; From my collections starts from a ready-made set for your kind of store, such as New In, Eid Gifts and Sale. Tap What is the difference? See how each works for two short demos.
- Switch off what you do not want, and move items with the dots or the up and down arrows. The live preview shows the menu bar shoppers will see. With collections you can also add your own item.
- Tap Create menu. The setup step is ticked.
Come back to Menu any time to rename, reorder, hide or nest items (two levels at most), then tap Save menu. A menu built from product categories updates itself: products you add to a category appear in it automatically, and new categories show up in the list ready to save.
See your menu#
Open Menu from your desk. The Your storefront menu card shows a What shoppers see strip with the tabs in your menu bar, in order.
The cards at the top count:
- Menu items: the tabs in your storefront menu bar.
- Products grouped: products placed across all collections.
- Empty collections: collections with nothing in them yet.
Switch between List and Map to see the menu as an indented list or as a tree you can drag.
Start from a ready-made menu#
If your store has no menu yet, you can start from a preset that matches your kind of shop:
- In Menu, click Start from a ready-made menu.
- Pick the shape closest to your shop. The Menu bar preview shows the tabs you will get.
- Click the Create these collections button. It shows how many collections it will create.
Nothing is final. You can rename, reorder or delete any of the new collections afterwards.
Add a menu item#
To add an item to the menu:
- In Menu, click Add menu item.
- Enter a Collection Name. This is the wording shoppers read in your menu.
- Under Where it sits in the menu, choose Top level — a tab in the menu bar, or choose Inside another item to make it a dropdown item.
- Under What it does, choose the item type (see below).
- Fill in the fields for that type and save.
To add an item directly under an existing one, open the item's menu and choose Add item inside this.
Item types#
| What it does | What shoppers get |
|---|---|
| Collection of products | A page listing the products in the collection. The usual choice. |
| Heading only | A label that groups the dropdown items under it. It is not clickable. |
| Opens a page | One of your store pages, such as About Us or FAQs. |
| Opens a link | Any address: another website, or a path inside your store such as /search. |
Menu levels#
The menu has three levels:
- A top-level item is a tab in the menu bar.
- An item inside a tab is a dropdown item.
- An item inside a dropdown item is a sub-item.
An item that already has its own dropdown items can only sit at the top level, so the menu never goes deeper than three levels.
Reorder and move items#
You can change the order and nesting of your menu in several ways:
- Set Menu position on an item. Lower numbers appear first, left to right.
- Use Move to… in an item's menu to place it under another item, or at Top level. Everything under it moves with it.
- In Map view, drag an item onto another to nest it there. You can also rename items in place and add items under any node.
Hide an item from the menu#
Sometimes you want a collection that shoppers reach only through a link, such as a campaign page, or one you use only for reporting. To keep it out of the menu bar, edit it and turn off Show in storefront menu. The item is marked Hidden in your list and stays reachable by its link.
A menu item that opens a draft page also stays hidden until you publish that page. See Pages.
What shoppers see#
The storefront builds its menu from your collections automatically:
- A tab whose dropdown is a plain list of items opens as a compact dropdown under the tab.
- A tab whose dropdown includes headings opens as a wide menu, with each heading as a column title.
- On phones, the menu opens in a drawer. Shoppers tap through the levels and can go back one level at a time.
- A collection image, if you set one, appears in the menu and on collection tiles.
The header style that holds the menu is set by your theme and can be changed in Design Studio.
Delete a menu item#
To delete an item, open its menu and choose Delete.