Install Pawsome

You get Pawsome from Pawsome’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 Pawsome

1. On Pawsome’s page on the Shopify Theme Store, choose a preset. Presets describes all five.
2. Click Try theme. Pawsome 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 Pawsome in Draft themes and click Preview.

On trial, you can customize Pawsome 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. You can have up to 19 paid themes on trial at the same time. Shopify’s Adding, previewing, and buying themes page covers the details.

Buy Pawsome

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

A purchase licenses Pawsome 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 Pawsome against your catalog first.

Publish Pawsome

You can only publish a theme you have bought. In Draft themes, click Publish on Pawsome. 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 Pawsome 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

Pawsome arrives set up as the preset you chose:

• The preset’s theme settings: colors, fonts, corner radius, animation style and the rest of Theme settings.
• The preset’s templates and section groups: which sections each page starts with and in what order, with sample headings and text you replace with your own.

What stays on the demo store

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

• Every image setting starts empty. Sections show a placeholder illustration where the image goes until you choose one.
• A Featured collection section with no collection or products chosen shows example product cards.
• The header shows your store name as text until you add a logo in Theme settings > Brand, or in the header’s own Logo image setting.
• The header’s Menu setting starts on your main menu. The footer’s Menu column blocks start on your main menu and your footer menu, which Shopify creates with every store. The Pawsome, Siesta and Tadpole presets add a third column with no menu, which stays hidden on your store until you choose one. Shopify’s Menus and links explains how to edit them.

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