Cloudshelf features for customising the experience

Everything you can customise: branding, categories, product grid, content, stock, filters, screen format, checkout and add-ons.

Last updated
July 25, 2024

You can customise most elements of your Cloudshelf experiences. Here is what you can change, with links to the step-by-step guides.

General look and feel

  • Fonts (headline, sub-header and body text)
  • Brand colours (main colour, text colour, purchase colour etc)
  • Shapes (square or rounded corners)

Learn more: Get started: adjust the theme to your brand

Home page categories

  • Upload category (“product group”) images that represent your brand
  • Modify the size of category tiles
  • Upload your logo

Learn more: Get started: home page categories

Product grid

  • Adapt the product grid (wide, tall, hero, mixed etc)
  • Modify the size of product tiles
  • Choose image anchoring:
    • zoom-to-fill images
    • anchor (top, centre, bottom)

Learn more: Get started: product tile customisation

Content on each Cloudshelf

Select which content appears on each Cloudshelf, and create as many Cloudshelves as you wish.

  • Choose which product groups to include
  • Smart tiles for links to reviews, newsletter signups, Instagram or custom
  • Banner pages for full-screen promotions and links to product groups, individual products or even external webpages (via QR)
  • Adapt the call to action
  • Select fields and metafields (including images and videos) to include on the product page
  • Change the order of fields, choose whether expandable or fixed, open or closed
  • In display mode:
    • Choose how many products per collection
    • Choose how many images per product
    • Set durations

Learn more: Select which content appears on each Cloudshelf

Type of stock to include

  • Available stock
  • Products available on order
  • Sold out products
  • Show product levels in the current store vs online

Learn more: Get started: choose what type of stock to include

Shopper navigation and filters

Adapt how shoppers navigate products by adding breadcrumb filters in whichever order matches that Cloudshelf’s product type.

  • Use or hide any set of metadata in filters
  • Re-order filters (eg for shoes put size before price)
  • Merge filters (eg colour and color)
  • Rename filters (eg vendor to brand)

Screen format

Cloudshelf automatically adapts to your chosen screen format:

  • Portrait or landscape
  • Touchscreen or display only
  • Screen size (from handheld 8 inch to wall-mounted 55 inch)

Checkout

  • Choose your checkout flow:
    • use your eCommerce flow
    • use a custom checkout flow
  • Use a chip and PIN reader (Viva, Stripe)
  • Use chip-on-glass to tap the screen (Viva, Softpay.io)
  • Remove checkout to have ‘digital catalogue’ mode
  • Choose to have a basket icon only or make the basket tray always visible
  • Choose whether to allow online discounts in-store

Accessories

  • Chip and PIN payment (see above)
  • Barcode scanner (and soon RFID scanner) for instant add to basket
  • Receipt printer

Add-ons and options

Frequently asked questions

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