Setting up your storefront

Your storefront is your public page in the Exchange Directory. You build it from the Partner Console in three stages: choose a template, customise it in the Storefront Maker, then publish it to a domain.

Browse and buy a template

Open Template Store in the sidebar to browse professionally designed templates. Each one is a complete design — colours, fonts, header, product cards, footer, and a homepage made of blocks — that you then make your own.

1. Select “Preview” on any template to open a live sandbox and see how it looks.
2. The “Included” template is free and available straight away; paid templates show a price (for example £50).
3. For a paid template, choose “Buy Template” — you are taken to PayPal to approve the payment, then returned to the store, where the button switches to “Purchased”.

Once purchased, a template is yours to use on any storefront you build.

Customise it in the Storefront Maker

Open Storefront to build it in nine short steps: Basics, Identity, Design, Home layout, Pages, Commerce, Catalogue, Verification and Publish. The live preview below the steps updates as you edit; switch between Desktop and Mobile, or open it full screen. Start in Basics by choosing your template; it gives your storefront that template’s design. Switching to another template later replaces the design and keeps your text, images, and products.

Making the design your own

The template is only a starting point — every part can be changed:

• Identity — set your company name, slogan, and logo, plus the hero headline, subtitle, button text, and hero images.
• Design — your accent colour, dark storefront, fonts, heading size and style, corners, header, product cards, footer, and spacing. Detailed styling below it fine-tunes sizes and colours for headings, sub-headings, body text, and the footer, plus your secondary and accent colours, section background, and logo size; Reset puts a value back to the template’s.
• Home layout — the homepage is a stack of blocks: add, reorder, hide, or remove them, and edit each block’s text and image. Gallery images are added here too.
• Pages — navigation labels, footer note, your About page (story, team members, extra sections with images and videos), contact and delivery details, and your Google Maps link.
• Commerce — choose whether the cart opens as a drawer or as a page. Checkout continues in the Mediery cart.

Prefer to edit on the page itself? Turn on Edit above the preview and click the headline, subtitle, or button to change them inline. Choose Save and continue to save and move to the next step, or Revert to discard unsaved changes.

In Catalogue, choose which of your active products appear on the storefront — toggle each one Visible or Hidden. Add products first in Inventory Control; see “Managing inventory & orders”.

Publish to a domain

Publishing needs a verified business: the Verification step shows your status and lets you upload your documents. When it is ready, open Publish and choose “Publish storefront”. Pick one of your available subdomains or create a new one (lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens), and your storefront goes live at that address. You can change the subdomain or unpublish it later, and manage your subdomains from the Domains section.