Storefront layout¶
How customers browse your menu online: one long page, a grid of photos, or a compact list.
Where: Online → Storefront → Storefront layout. It saves the moment you tap, and your storefront picks it up within a minute or two.
| Choice | What customers get | Suits |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic | Chosen from your catalogue. See below. | Almost everyone |
| Single page | Everything on one scrolling page | Menus |
| Photo grid | Browse by category, large photos | Shops with real photography |
| Compact list | Browse by category, text-led | Large catalogues without photos |
What Automatic picks¶
The catalogue already knows the answer, and knows when it changes — a shop that adds a hundred products should not have to remember to come back here.
- A short catalogue gets Single page. Up to 120 products and up to 12 categories, it all fits on one page and browsing by category is a step for nothing.
- Past either of those, it looks at photos: half your products or more have a published web photo → Photo grid, otherwise → Compact list.
Little Kite, with a short menu, gets a single page. Marlow & Vine, at over a hundred and fifty products across fourteen categories, gets the grid if the photography is there and the compact list if it is not.
Photos here means published web images, not the small thumbnail the till uses. The grid only offers itself when there are real pictures to fill it.
When to override¶
Pick one yourself when you know something the count does not — a fifty-product shop with a photographer's catalogue genuinely wants the grid, and the product count alone would talk it out of it.
The trap is the other direction: everybody wants the photo grid, and a grid of placeholder squares looks worse than a tidy list. If you are choosing Photo grid, photograph the products first.
Good to know¶
- The layout is a whole-storefront choice. There is no per-category setting.
- It changes nothing about the till.
- An empty catalogue falls back to Single page, so a new store is never broken.
- What comes first inside the layout is a separate setting — see Display order.