Venue 9.0: Supercharge your Shopify store
Venue is not just another Shopify theme - it's a time-tested, proven success story.
With tens of thousands of happy entrepreneurs using Venue to successfully power their Shopify stores, what really sets it apart is that when people make the switch the Venue, they rarely look back.
So what is it about Venue that makes merchants want to stick with it for the long term?
It’s the constant delivery of new features and optimizations with each update that allows their stores to evolve and meet the ever-changing demands of the e-commerce landscape.
And now, we're excited to announce that Venue has just received its biggest update yet! Venue version 9 introduces a host of new and improved features, Venue is better than ever before and ready to supercharge your Shopify store.
Here are some highlights:
Enhanced Search
Your customers will love you for this one, with an enhanced search feature, the products your customers are looking for are easily within reach.
Your search drawer will be packed with each of these powerful features:
Predictive and suggested search terms
Recent search list
Select products displayed within the search drawer
A mega menu-style dropdown to give more space to display more features
Incidentally these features have also been added to the search field on the search PAGE too.
Multiple Announcement Bar
First impressions count, get your message across with a stylish, flexible announcement bar.
Got more than one message? Auto-scroll has got you covered - Say what you need to say.
Plus you’re no longer limited to the header of your store, display your message in any key area of your site.
Auto-scroll messages on one carousel
Selection of beautiful pre-crafted icons
Open a useful pop-up from links in the text
Link to other parts of your store
Display one or multiple announcement bars anywhere on your page
Section Groups
There is a reason why Venue is known as one of the most intuitive themes to set up.
We always keep you in mind when developing Venue, we know that entrepreneurs don’t have time for complex and confusing settings so we keep simplicity at the heart of things and now we are pushing that even further.
Group sections (including app sections) together within your Header and Footer groups and implement them globally across your website, keeping your design consistent and shaving hours off store set-up time.
Tabbed Featured Collection
Instead of only highlighting one collection, put your best out there and thrill your customer with a simple way to navigate up to 3 featured collections.
Customers love to browse and tabbed collections allow them to do so at the click of a link.
Tabbed Collection paired with Quick Shop equals a smooth shopping experience.
Display up to 3 featured collections in one section
Beautifully smooth carousel for larger collections - or show the items in a grid
Color options to highlight certain tabs i.e make your ‘Sale’ collection tab red
Product Page Redesign
Your customer has landed on a product page - it’s make or break time.
Venue now gives you an unrivalled amount of flexibility when it comes to designing your product pages, giving you the opportunity to completely wow your customer and stand out from the competition.
With a range of brand-new design blocks as well as the functionality to send certain blocks to the right or left of the page the only limit is how far you want to take it!
New design options include:
Pre-crafted icons with pop-ups
Drop shadows on the ‘buying’ part of the page
Discount labels
Product story blocks
Integrated size charts
Improved image gallery thumbnails
Image gallery ratios
Everything Else
Those were just some of the highlights, now feast your eyes upon all the other improvements made to Venue, each one a little boost to your Shopify store, all adding up to a supercharge!
Features Added
Section groups
Query suggestions & predictive search in search modal
Query suggestions & predictive search in search page
New search modal with recent searches option
Side drawer option for Quick Shop
Side drawer cart with icon announcement bar
New icon link options in the header
New store header - transparent header option, second promo image in mega menu, collections mega menu
New 'Image with text' section
New 'Multicolumn with icons' section
Pre-crafted icons for use in sections and PDP blocks
New announcement bar with multiple blocks, icons and popups - also added as a section
New custom swatch options with multiple variant triggers
Option to send PDP blocks to form or gallery column
Drop shadow option on PDP
Sticky form option for 'Clean' PDP layout
New PDP product variant combination - custom swatches combined with dropdowns
Variant pop-up with trigger on PDP (i,e 'Size guide' popup link on Size variant)
Discount label on PDP
Improved PDP blocks for product title, vendor, price and description
Main gallery image ratio control on PDP
New blocks on PDP - product story, SKU, tags, pop-up with icon, line item. custom html/liquid, product inventory
Completely rebuilt 'Featured Collection' section - with collection tabs and desktop carousel navigation
New 'Image and text banner' section to replace 'Image with text overlay'
Optimizations
Redesign of blog section and blog landing page
Redesign of 'Multicolumn with images' section
Updated logos in the 'Delivery' section
Improved design of the 'Events' section
Renamed 'Image with text' to 'Image with text overlap'
Redesign of header icons
Changed product grid titles to H2 from H3 to help with SEO
Improved PDP thumbnails - added a carousel and image ratio and position options
Improved zoom animation on slideshows and other sections
Added 'Reduce bottom margin' to various sections
Dynamic JS filters on collection page - i.e no page refresh needed when filtering
Multiple labels on product grid
Semi-opaque option on 'Image with text overlay' (previously 'Image with text')
New collection filter checkbox and swatch options
PDP product form headings - size and style options in global typography
'Slideshow' section improvements - text container alignment, text container colour, navigation dots, navigation arrows, additional buttons, button types
Added blocks to the contact form section
New header logo alignment options
Breadcrumb alignment option in PDP
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