Install Fine Print

You get Fine Print from Fine Print’s page on the Shopify Theme Store. Shopify runs the trial, the payment and the license, so the steps below follow Shopify’s own flow.

Try Fine Print

1. On Fine Print’s page on the Shopify Theme Store, choose a preset. Presets describes all three.
2. Click Try theme. Fine Print appears in the Draft themes section of your Online Store page with a Theme trial label.
3. To see the theme with your own products, open the actions menu next to Fine Print in Draft themes and click Preview.

On trial, you can customize Fine Print in the theme editor but you can’t edit its code. If you buy the theme, Shopify keeps the changes you made during the trial. Shopify’s Adding, previewing, and buying themes page covers the details.

Buy Fine Print

In Draft themes on your Online Store page, click Buy on Fine Print. The staff account that buys it needs the Themes, Manage and install apps and channels and Approve app charges permissions.

A purchase licenses Fine Print to the store you bought it on. A second store needs its own purchase. Shopify treats Theme Store purchases as final sale, so we can’t refund them. Use the trial to check Fine Print against your catalog first.

Publish Fine Print

You can only publish a theme you have bought. In Draft themes, click Publish on Fine Print. You can also publish from the theme editor with the Publish button in its top bar. See Shopify’s Publishing themes for the mobile app steps.

Switching to Fine Print doesn’t change or delete your products, collections, menus, pages or blog posts. Shopify stores those in your admin, apart from any theme.

What an install brings

Fine Print arrives set up as the preset you chose:

• The preset’s theme settings: its color palette, the three fonts, the product card style and the rest of Theme settings.
• The preset’s templates and section groups: which sections each page starts with, in what order and in which layout. Headings and text that only you can write, such as how you test, source or ship, arrive as prompts that say what to put there, such as “Name how you check quality”. Replace each prompt with your own words. The presets install no customer quotes: each testimonial shows a prompt in place of its quote, so replace it with a real review and set the rating to match.

What stays on the demo store

The demo stores’ photos, videos, products, collections, menus, pages and blog posts don’t come with the theme. They belong to those stores. Until you add your own content, Fine Print fills the gaps this way:

• Every image and video setting starts empty. In the theme editor, a section shows a placeholder illustration where the image goes. On your store, a Hero or Image with text section without an image shows its text alone.
• A Featured collection section with no collection chosen shows example rows in the theme editor and nothing on your store.
• The header shows your store name as text until you add a logo in the header’s Logo setting.
• The header’s Menu setting starts on your main menu. In the footer, the first two Menu blocks start on your footer menu and your main menu, which Shopify creates with every store. The third has no menu and stays hidden on your store until you choose one. In the theme editor it shows a line asking for a menu, so you can find it. Shopify’s Menus and links explains how to edit them.
• Product specs and how-to steps come from your own product data. Product pages explains how to connect them.

Next, read The theme editor to start replacing the sample content.