Packaged visual fallbacks demonstrate the intended layout. Shopify resources such as products, collections, menus, policies, markets, reviews and merchant-uploaded media must be connected by the merchant. Replace demonstration content with licensed brand content before launch.
Botanical Ritual / merchant guide
Make the theme yours without losing its rhythm.
A practical guide to configuring Botanical Ritual, connecting real store content and checking the buying experience before you publish.
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Best fit
Botanical Ritual is designed for premium food, drink, wellness, beauty and ritual-led brands with roughly 2 to 100 products.
- Use it when ingredients, origin, flavor, formulation or preparation help a customer decide.
- Smaller catalogs benefit from larger product storytelling; broader catalogs can use collections, filters, sorting and editorial promotion.
- The theme should begin with one strong ritual or product, rather than a crowded wall of promotions.
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Installation and first setup
Keep the theme unpublished until the content, commerce settings and customer journey have been checked.
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Install Botanical Ritual from the Shopify Theme Store and keep the new copy unpublished.
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Open Theme settings and add the logo, favicon, global fonts, colors, button styles and preferred cart mode.
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Connect Shopify navigation menus to the Header and Footer.
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Select real products, collections, articles, images and videos in each section.
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Configure policies, markets, languages, payment methods, pickup locations, selling plans and shipping rules in Shopify Admin where applicable.
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Test navigation, search, product options, unavailable products, cart, forms, localization, accounts and checkout on desktop and mobile before publishing.
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Homepage building blocks
Use sections to create a deliberate sequence: introduce the ritual, help the customer choose, then explain the product in greater depth.
- Ritual stage
- The cinematic opening experience and featured product cards.
- Standards explorer
- An accessible way to explain sourcing, extraction, flavor and serving standards.
- Ingredient hotspots
- An interactive ingredient image with keyboard-accessible detail panels.
- Media feature
- A Shopify-hosted video, YouTube/Vimeo video or image fallback.
- Featured composition
- A product-led editorial story with direct purchase access.
- FAQ
- Expandable practical answers with image, hosted video, external video or questions-only layouts.
- Social proof
- A rotating quotation stage for genuine, permissioned customer, press or professional feedback.
- Custom Liquid
- A flexible insertion point for appropriate Shopify content and app blocks.
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Products, ratings and filters
The theme reads real Shopify product data. It does not invent ratings, urgency, stock or sale information.
- Product cards use Shopify product selections, prices, compare-at prices, inventory and variants.
- Ratings use Shopify's standard reviews.rating and reviews.rating_count product metafields, populated by a compatible review provider or merchant workflow.
- Flavor and other catalog filters are configured through Shopify Search & Discovery using product options or supported metafields.
- Optional custom.badge and custom.preorder metafields may be used only for truthful, current product claims.
- The custom.flavour_profile metafield retains its original key spelling for compatibility, even though visible storefront copy uses American English.
- Long ingredients, nutrition, sourcing, preparation or care content can be connected to product accordions using Shopify dynamic sources.
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Flexible media
Content-led media areas follow one consistent choice so merchants do not need to learn a different workflow in every section.
- Upload an image.
- Select a Shopify-hosted video.
- Paste a YouTube or Vimeo URL.
- Atmospheric background video is silent and looping; story and detail video retains playback controls.
- The logo remains image-only so the store always has dependable, accessible brand identification.
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Living Manifesto About page
Botanical Ritual includes a complete alternate page template named about.
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Create a Shopify page named About or Our story.
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Assign the about theme template to the page.
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Add that page to the main menu.
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Open the theme editor and replace the demonstration wording, media, team profiles, locations, stories and links with verified brand content.
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Test the comparison control, story dialogs, stockist search, map pins and all media on mobile and desktop.
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Cart and checkout
Choose the cart in Theme settings → Cart and keep its promises aligned with the store's real operations.
- Drawer
- A full-height cart that keeps the customer beside the current page.
- Cart page
- Sends the customer to the dedicated cart page.
- Slide-in notification
- A compact confirmation after a product is added.
- Shipping progress
- Set the threshold to the store's actual free-shipping rule.
- Recommendations
- Configure complementary products through Shopify Search & Discovery.
- Accelerated checkout
- Visibility depends on payments, customer device, market, currency and product eligibility.
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Before publishing
A good final check uses real content and deliberately tests imperfect states, not only the polished homepage.
- Check long titles, missing images, mixed image ratios and empty collections.
- Check one-option, multi-option, unavailable and discounted products.
- Check product cards, Quick view, search, filters, localization and customer-account links.
- Check every enabled cart mode, order notes, shipping progress and checkout.
- Check policies, genuine social links, contact details and enabled payment methods.
- Check keyboard use, visible focus, reduced motion and common mobile screen sizes.
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Support policy
Schofield Studio provides an initial response to Botanical Ritual support requests within 24 hours.
- Support includes installation guidance, theme settings, documented features, reproducible theme defects and compatibility maintenance for supported Shopify features.
- Support does not include custom development, store administration, product entry, copywriting, photography or third-party app configuration.
- Resolution time depends on the cause, reproducibility and whether Shopify or another service is involved.
- Never send passwords, customer personal information, payment details or access tokens through the support form.
- If collaborator access is genuinely required, grant it only through Shopify's official process.
Frequently asked questions
Direct answers to the setup and commerce questions merchants ask most often.
Botanical Ritual reads Shopify's standard reviews.rating and reviews.rating_count product metafields. A compatible review provider or merchant workflow must populate those fields. The theme does not generate ratings.
Accelerated methods depend on payment setup, customer device, currency, market and product eligibility. Enable the relevant payment method in Shopify Admin and test with an eligible product.
Collection and search filters are managed through Shopify Search & Discovery and the product data available in the store. Product options and supported metafields can become filters when configured in Shopify.
Create a Shopify page, assign the about template, add the page to a navigation menu and then customize its sections in the theme editor.
No. Core functionality does not depend on an app. Optional Shopify capabilities such as product recommendations, review metafields and app blocks use Shopify's native integrations when enabled by the merchant.
Need a human?
Send the store, the page and what went wrong.
Theme questions receive an initial response within 24 hours. Include an optional screenshot so the first reply can be useful.
Open the support form