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Footer

The footer is the bottom-most section of your store. Use the footer to share a short description of your store and add additional navigation menus that help customers quickly find out more information about what you do.

On mobile devices, the footer takes up much more vertical space and can take up an entire screen::

Configure the footer

STEPS

  1. From your Customize theme editor, select the Footer section.

  2. Check the Show newsletter signup setting to enable a clean form block where customers can subscribe to your newsletter.

    Newsletter subscribers are added to your "accepts marketing" Shopify Customers list. You can learn more about how to manage Shopify customer emails from their Email subscriber list management and Using Shopify Email for email marketing article.

    Note that the Popup feature and Newsletter section also include newsletter signup blocks, so you might want to check those out, too.

  3. Show language selector and Show currency selector checkboxes to enable these special footer features.

    You can learn more about offering your store in multiple languages by reading Shopify's Selling in multiple languages guide.

    You can learn more about offering your store with multiple currencies from Shopify's Sell in multiple currencies with Shopify Payments documentation.

  4. Check the Show payment types checkbox to display icons for each payment method your store accepts.

  5. Return to the list of home page sections and click the arrow beside the Footer section to edit the footer content. markdown:shopify-footer-content.md

  6. Add up to four footer content areas using the Add block button.

    There are two styles of content area: Text and Links. For more information see the Add content to the footer.

  7. Click Save.

Settings reference

The footer has the following settings:

Show newsletter signup

Enable a form block at the top of the footer where customers can subscribe to your newsletter.

Newsletter subscribers are added to your "accepts marketing" Shopify Customers list. You can learn more about how to manage Shopify customer emails from their Email subscriber list management and Using Shopify Email for email marketing article.

Note that the Popup feature and Newsletter section also include newsletter signup blocks, so you might want to check those out as well.

Show payment icons

Enable icons for each of the payment methods your store accepts.

No additional configuration is required. This setting reads the list of payment methods currently active on your checkout page.

Show language selector

Enable the language selector in the bottom of the footer.

Multiple language shops are a Shopify feature. See Shopify's Selling in multiple languages for more information.

Show currency selector

Enable the currency selector in the bottom of the footer.

Adding multiple currencies is a Shopify feature. See Shopify's Sell in multiple currencies with Shopify Payments for more information.

To learn about the settings for the Text, Links, and Newsletter content areas, see the Add content to the footer section.

Add content to the footer

Your footer can include up to three distinct content areas. The areas are:

Text: An area for a sentence or two about your store. Links: A menu of links to other pages.

You can see the content areas enabled in the image below::

Configure the footer content areas

STEPS

  1. From your Customize theme editor, select the arrow beside the Footer section. markdown:shopify-footer-content.md

  2. Use the Add block button to add either Text, Links, or a Newsletter.

  3. For Text: Enter Heading and Subheading text.

  4. For Links: Enter Heading text and choose a Footer menu to bedisplayed.

    For more information about how menus work on Shopify, see their Menus and links article. You can use the Edit menu link to go edit the menu if it's not quite right.

  5. Click Save.

Settings reference

The Text and Links content areas have the following settings:

Text

Heading

Add heading text.

We recommend to keeping this to less than 7 words.

Text

Add text, displayed below the heading.

We recommend keeping this to a sentence or two.

Links

Menu

Select a menu to be displayed in the footer. The Footer menu linklist is displayed by default, but you can change it.

Menus are a Shopify feature. See Shopify's Menus and links to learn more about them.