Dress the storefront tonight
Studio → Collections groups products into aisles. The rail shows tonight’s merchandising move first. Nothing mutates Featured, a hero, or a banner until you confirm.
The merchandising hub
Collections group products. They are flat — there is no collection-group type. A published empty collection is the emergency: shoppers can open the page and find nothing. An unpublished empty collection is a draft. Off-menu is not an alert: shoppers can still arrive from a link, a campaign, or search.
Tonight’s rail
Read the gesture rail — tonight’s card first. Extra eligible cards sit beside it. “The storefront holds” stays one card: trust it. Confirm. Then Featured fills, other collections land, the header menu can merge, sale prices snapshot so you can undo.
The merchandising acts
The hub picks one of these merchandising acts. It is not the seventeen SKU gestures.
- Dress — Hang collections on the storefront and propose the header. Nesting Women → Shoes finishes in Appearance → Menus, not here.
- Organize / brief / fill — Group products into aisles, keep collections your brief named, or fill a published empty page from the catalog — or unpublish until it is ready.
- Prepare a sale — Snapshot prices, hang a Sale collection, pin the menu. One live sale per store.
- Restore prices — The sale is live. One click puts every price back.
- Refresh Featured — Home Page titles drifted from what ranking would hang. You confirm the refresh — Featured stays curated, it does not live-reorder.
- The storefront holds — Hero, collections, menu — nothing to force tonight.
Aisles, theme hero, menus
Three desks, three jobs:
- Collections — products in an aisle, optional collection hero on that page.
- The homepage hero lives on the theme index template (Appearance → Theme editor), not on the Home Page collection image. Do not force a dress gesture when the hub says the storefront holds.
- Menus — header and footer trees, mega from nested children. Open Menus from the hub only when you want nesting, not as a missing-piece alert.
Menus and the theme hero live on Appearance. — Hanging a SKU in an aisle is also a product gesture (not in a collection)..
One collection hero
A badge on a tile can mark an aisle that needs a hero tonight. It still opens the collection sheet, where the hero editor sits. That is not the homepage dress.
What you skip tonight
Nothing hangs until you apply. Do not treat an off-menu collection as broken. Sale prices use compare-at (strikethrough); coupons stay optional.