Install Tambour

Tambour comes from its page on the Shopify Theme Store. Shopify runs the trial, the payment and the license, so these steps are Shopify’s.

Try Tambour

1. On Tambour’s Theme Store page, pick a preset: Tambour, Mercer or Linden. Presets shows how they differ.
2. Click Try theme. Tambour appears under Draft themes on your Online Store page, labeled Theme trial.
3. To see it with your own products, open the actions menu next to Tambour and click Preview.

During the trial you can change anything in the theme editor, but not the theme’s code. If you buy Tambour, Shopify keeps what you changed. Shopify’s Adding, previewing, and buying themes has the details.

Buy and publish

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

A purchase covers the store you bought it on. A second store needs its own. Shopify treats Theme Store purchases as final sale, so use the trial to check Tambour against your catalog first.

Once bought, click Publish. Switching themes doesn’t touch your products, collections, menus, pages or blog posts. They live in your admin, not in the theme.

Why your store doesn’t look like the demo

The demo stores’ photos, products, collections, menus and blog posts belong to those stores and don’t come with the theme. What arrives is the preset’s look: its colors, spine colors, header, and which sections each page starts with.

Until you add your own content:

• No photos come with the theme. A Slideshow or Image banner shows a placeholder drawing until you choose an image.
• The home page keeps the demo shop’s headings and text, such as “Ridge Vase” on Tambour’s first slide or “Drop 03: Knitwear” on Mercer’s countdown. Replace them with your own.
• Tambour’s and Linden’s reviews arrive as prompts that say what to write. Paste a real customer’s words, or remove the section.
• Mercer’s Press section arrives with sample quotes from made-up magazines. Replace them with real press, or remove the section before you publish.
• The header shows your store name until you set a logo in Theme settings > Logo.
• Menus are your store’s own. The header uses your main menu, which Shopify creates with every store. Shopify’s Menus and links covers editing it.

Next: the theme editor, to start replacing the demo content.