StoreFront Manual

Welcome to the StoreFront Manual. Please select a topic below to learn more about the StoreFronts.

Getting Started

The best introduction to the UltraCart StoreFront is found within UltraCart on the Home page widget named Getting Started. The StoreFronts video will introduce you to the UltraCart templating technology.

If you are not an UltraCart customer, you may watch the StoreFronts videos directly from vimeo here: https://vimeo.com/ultracart/videos

These videos will familarize you with the StoreFront terminology such as Product Pages versus Product Group Pages .

Frequently Asked Questions

General Settings

Creating a new StoreFront

What to do if you cannot see your website

Change Store Web Address

Change your Store Name

Upload a Store Logo

Choosing a Theme to customize your site

Using Site-wide Attributes

Duplicate Entire StoreFront

Pages

StoreFront Image Size Guide

How StoreFront creates pages for your products

The difference between product group pages and product pages.

Adding a product page

Adding a product group page

Using Conditions to automatically assign products to a group page

Creating many product pages quickly using conditions

Deleting a page

Moving a page

Using a different page template

Adding custom content (header, footer, etc)

Adding additional custom content placeholders to a page template

Adding images to a page

Publishing/Hiding a page

Page Permissions

Changing child page sort order

Setting SEO for a each product page

Adding/Removing products from a group page

Changing the sort order of products

An introduction to the Admin Panel

Parent page template does not support child page links and this page is not used in a menu

Integrating Tawk.to Chat Into Your Storefront

Modifying Item Variations in a StoreFront

Themes

Installing a new theme from the gallery

Previewing a new theme before activating it for customers

Fine tune your theme

Select a different theme

Upload a new theme

Upgrade your StoreFronts Theme

Handling merge conflicts resulting from Theme Upgrade

Delete a theme

Create a copy of your theme

Moving a StoreFront from one merchant to another

Copying a theme from one StoreFront to another

Templates

Editing a template

Searching for specific text within your templates

What determines the folder a template is located in within the templates tab

Adding Item Specific Content to the Receipt

Menus

Adding a link to a menu

Reordering a menu

Creating a submenu

Deleting a menu

Creating a new menu in storefront using the Visual Builder

Languages

Adding another language to your web site

Changing the default language of your web site

Changing Checkout Text

Editing a specific line of text for one of the languages

How StoreFront handles static text and multi-lingual support

How to translate Page, Item or Blog Post text

Theme Multi-Lingual Support

How does Multi-Lingual support work for the end customer

Emails

A listing of all the email templates and when they are sent to customers

Changing an email template

Adding item specific content to email

Email Template Variables

StoreFront Emails Delivery Options

File Manager

A brief tour of the StoreFront File Manager

Creating a new file

Deleting a file

Restoring a deleted file

See changes made to file using file manager version history

Seach Engine Optimization

Adding SEO to your web site

StoreFronts Sitemaps locations

Understanding Canonical Links

Page specific SEO

Social

Adding Facebook links to your web site

Adding Google+ links to your web site

Adding LinkedIn links to your web site

Adding Twitter links to your web site

Adding Tumblr links to your web site

Adding Pinterest links to your web site

Adding Instagram links to your web site

Adding YouTube links to your web site

Conversion and Tracking

Storefront Privacy & Tracking

Suppressing or Showing Trust Logos on your web site

Adding Google Tracking to your web site

Bing Ads with UET tags - A guide

Configuring other (non-Google) tracking to your web site

Implementing custom tracking (Advanced)

Using a custom thank you screen

Developer Guide

The StoreFront Template Language

Finding and fixing template Syntax errors

An introduction to the Admin Panel

StoreFront Template File Specification

Page Directive Reference

Programming forms and fields in a StoreFront template

Debugging and logging within a template

Understanding How StoreFronts Processes URLs

Finding a template or snippet in the filesystem

Configuring a Developer Account

-- coming soon --

Developer Reference

StoreFront Template Context Variables

StoreFront Object Model

StoreFront Screen Interfaces

Developer Tutorials

All Themes

Natural Theme

Natural - Hide Continue Shopping and Update Buttons

Mr. Teas Theme

Busy Web Developers Guide to Foundation

Basic Concepts of Responsive Layouts

Adding instructional text to the checkout

TODO: More Examples

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