Executive Theme - Documentation
This page includes the documentation for our Executive theme for Lightspeed.
This page includes the documentation for our Executive theme for Lightspeed.
You can customize the behaviour, content and parts of the header here.
Located under General > Header
Sticky header
Select which parts of the desktop header you want to stick once the top of the browser window scrolls past
Located under General > Header > Header settings
You can customize the behaviour, content and parts of the topbar, the small bar above the main header, here.
Enable topbar
Enable or disable the topbar completely.
USP 1 title / USP 2 title / USP 3 title
The title/text for each unique selling point in the topbar. The title is required for a USP to show. Don’t forget to translate these if your shop is multilingual. Simply copy the full content of each of these fields and add them to custom translations.
USP 1 icon / USP 2 icon / USP 3 icon
The icon for each unique selling point in the topbar. This is not mandatory, but recommended to differentiate them.
This themes works with an icon-set called FontAwesome. This set contains around 8000 icons in different weights and styles.
Show email
Show your contact email in the topbar. You can set this value in General > Footer > Contact details
Show phone number
Show your phone number in the topbar. You can set this value in General > Footer > Contact details
The shop rating element also shows in the topbar, but the settings can be found under General > Advanced > Module – Rating
Located under General > Header > Topbar
Show search
Show a search in the main header.
Search autofill
When typing in the searchfield, show a list of products whilst typing.
Show login
Show a large login icon. It will show a pop-up or redirect to login according to your settings.
Show wishlist
Show a large wishlist icon. It will ask for login when not logged in.
Show cart
Show a large cart icon. It will show a cart summary or redirect to the cart page according to your settings. If you turn this off customers have no way to find their cart.
Located under General > Header > Main header
Enable pop-up login
Enable logging in via pop-up instead of redirecting to a seperate login page.
Pop-up content
Add a sentence to the login pop-up.
Create account content
Add a sentence to the login page above the account creation button. HTML tags are allowed to create a <ul> list with bulletpoints.
Located under General > Header > Login
You can customize the behaviour, content and some elements of the blog archives and blog article, here.
Blog title
Enter a title for the blog archive page.
Blog subtitle
Enter a subtitle for the blog archive page.
Show publish date
Which way to display your publish title (or hide it)
Show author
Show the author below the title.
Show jumplink to comments
Show a link below the title that jumps to the comments (blog comments must be enabled)
Show share buttons
Show a share button that opens a pop-up to share the current page. Make sure you set the location for the button below.
Share buttons location
Control the location of the share button. Make sure share buttons are enabled.
Image width
Set a maximum width for the image container on desktop.
Container width
Set a maximum width for the content container on desktop.
Limit blogpost summary length
Limit the length at 250 characters on blogpost summaries in blogpost previews. For example, in the blog section.
You can customize the behaviour, content and some elements of the cart here.
Enable themed cart
Revert to the Lightspeed native cart template. This might be useful when using a Lightspeed App or customs script that extensively alters the cart page.
Extra information
You can add some addition information here regarding checkout, delivery or returns.
Enable cart USPs
Completely enable/disabled the USPs in the cart. You need to enter USPs below before they show up.
Cart USP 1, Cart USP 2, Cart USP 3, Cart USP 4, Cart USP 5
Enter the USPs you want your visitors to see on the cart page. You can use simple html here such as < b ></ b >, but be careful because incorrect syntax might break the page structure. Always close your tags properly.
Section 1, Section 2, Section 3, Section 4, Section 5
Add sections below the shoppingcart. Keep in mind that Related products will also need to be enabled in Lightspeed settings and there need to be products in the cart, before this section shows.
Enable pop-up login
Enable logging in via pop-up instead of redirecting to a seperate login page.
Pop-up content
Add a sentence to the login pop-up.
Create account content
Add a sentence to the login page above the account creation button. HTML tags are allowed to create a <ul> list with bulletpoints.
In the Executive theme you’ll have access to several modules that provide additional functionality. Most of these add certain functionality onto the Lightspeed native functionalities.
Show a custom alert bar just below the header that will be sure to grab your visitor’s attention. We don’t recommend using too many pop-ups and alerts at once cause it will cause a bad user experience.
Keep in mind that re-enabling the alert after some time won’t delete the cookie in the user’s browsers, we recommend not setting the duration longer than necessary. Rather, use personal calendar alert to reminder yourself to disable the alert when it’s no longer needed.
Custom alert
Show a custom alert on a first visit. Your choice here will determine how long it will not show after dismissing it. Keep in mind that changing this setting does not affect existing cookies. Use browser incognito-mode to test.
Alert content
Write some content for inside the alert. Keep it brief or it will take up a lot of room on phones.
Alert link
If you want the text to link somewhere. Set the URL to which the text will redirect.
Show a custom pop-up just that will be sure to grab your visitor’s attention. We don’t recommend using too many pop-ups and alerts at once cause it will cause a bad user experience.
Keep in mind that re-enabling the pop-up after some time won’t delete the cookie in the user’s browsers, we recommend not setting the duration longer than necessary. Rather, use personal calendar alert to reminder yourself to disable the pop-up when it’s no longer needed.
Custom pop-up
Show a custom pop-up on a first visit. Your choice here will determine how long it will not show after dismissing it. Keep in mind that changing this setting does not affect existing cookies. Use browser incognito-mode to test.
Pop-up title
Pop-up content
Because we like our customers so much, we’d like you to have this discount. Make sure to save it and use it during checkout. You can share it with all your friends as well!
Pop-up discount code
If you want to advertise a discount code. Paste it here. Make sure it doesn’t have a limit and is available to everyone.
Button text
Show a button with this text. Make sure the URL is set as well.
Button link
Set the URL to which the button will redirect.
Use this module to provide free shipping for your customers when their order amount reaches a specific amount. This can provide a large incentive to reach this amount before ordering. When properly set up, this will as a small notification in the header cart and on the cart page that will turn green when the free shipping threshold has been reached.
Enable free shipping
Must be combined with a minimum amount
Free shipping above threshold
Only use whole numbers. Using decimals or non-numeric characters with break this module.
Use this module to give replace the ‘Add to cart’ button from specific products of your choice with a ‘Request a quote’ button that opens a window for visitors to enter contact information.
Enable quote requests
Enabling quotes will change add to cart button to a ‘Request a quote’ button when the product variant name contains the word ‘quote‘. This button opens a dialog window where customers can describe when they need with required email and phonenumber.
Pop-up title
Pop-up content
Facebook Chat – Page ID
Enter the Facebook page ID of your company’s Facebook. Read our documentation for more information.
Opening greeting – Logged in users
The sentence that will show upon opening the chatwindow for users logged in on Facebook.
Opening greeting – Not logged in
The sentence that will show upon opening the chatwindow for users NOT logged in on Facebook.
Rating
Write your current rating in decimals. Don’t use a comma.
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Rating location
Select a location to show the rating
Rating max
Select the maximum rating obtainable at your rating partner.
Review amount
How many reviews have been placed
Rating partner
Select a partner where you moderate your ratings
Partner profile URL
Paste a full URL for the page where the customer will be forwarded when clicking on the widget. Leave empty to keep unclickable.
Show buttons on hover
Show buttons and arrows on mouse-hover. If disabled, they will always show. You can reduce clutter by keeping this enabled.
Section 1 – Section 15
Select the sections you want to show in order. Selecting “None” will skip show nothing in this section.
Sections are explained below.
You can use sections to customise different templates to suit your requirements. You can re-use sections in different templates but changes for a section in theme settings are global for all instances of a section. For example, if you use the Banner blocks section on the home page, product details and cart templates, this section will always contain the same 2 images, text and links on all of these templates.
Here’s a list of available sections for each template:
Home page:
Located under Pages > Home page > Home sections
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Product details:
Located under Pages > Product details > Product sections
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Product listing (Collection):
Located under Pages > Product listing > Collection sections
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Catalog / Brands / Tags:
Located under Pages > Category details > Catalog sections
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Cart:
Located under General > Advanced > Cart sections
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Add top border
Add a border to the top of this section
Background
We recommend “None” or “Alternate” to keep your theme consistent
Title
Subtitle
First tab, Second tab, Third tab
The first tab will be selected by default upon pageload.
Add top border
Add a border to the top of this section
Background
We recommend “None” or “Alternate” to keep your theme consistent
Title
Subtitle
Add top border
Add a border to the top of this section
Background
We recommend “None” or “Alternate” to keep your theme consistent
Title
Subtitle
Add top border
Add a border to the top of this section
Background
We recommend “None” or “Alternate” to keep your theme consistent
Title
Subtitle
Add top border
Add a border to the top of this section
Background
We recommend “None” or “Alternate” to keep your theme consistent
Add top border
Add a border to the top of this section
Title
Subtitle
Main image
Upload an image for the main banner.
Main image hover effect
Select an effect on cursor hover
Banner background color
Banner background transparency
Select the “Fully transparent” value to not show a background at all.
Banner title
Banner content
Button text
Button link
Enter the last part of the target link for this button. Eg. “product/deskchair-e120”
Countdown text
Countdown
Enter a date here. For example ’01-03-2022′. A counter will appear that will count down to a set time for that day. Select that time below. Entering ‘today’ will reset the timer each day.
Countdown to time
Select an hour to which to count down to. If entering today’s date above and 00:00 here, it would mean the countdown will run till tonight.
Connect product ID
If you have a countdown for an offer on a product, you can enter the product ID here. If you do, the countdown will also display on that product’s page. You can find the product ID in the URL when editing a product.
Banner 2 title
Banner 2 text color
Banner 2 background color
Banner 2 background transparancy
Select the “Fully transparent” value to not show a background at all.
Banner 2 image
Upload an image. For optimal results we recommend a minimum width of 680 pixels and using the exact same size on both banners.
Banner 2 image hover effect
Select an effect on cursor hover
Banner 2 button link
Enter the last part of the target link for this button. Eg. “product/deskchair-e120”
Banner 2 button style
Select a button style. You can change these in General > Visual
Banner 2 button text
Banner 2 text align
Banner 2 content align
Align the block containing the content and button. Middle is for used for vertical alignment.
Banner 2 button target
This is an advanced section. It might take some take to learn how to set up it up properly, so carefully read through all the steps
Add top border
Add a border to the top of this section.
Background
We recommend “None” or “Alternate” to keep your theme consistent
Title
Subtitle
Main image
Upload an image for the main banner.
Button text
This button will add all items from Featured Products to the cart.
Position target 1, Position target 2, Position target 3
Enter the X and Y coordinates (double click on the image to get a suggestion)
Add top border
Add a border to the top of this section
Background
We recommend “None” or “Alternate” to keep your theme consistent
Blog link override
If this is empty the button will link to the first existing blog, to change this enter the last part of the blog link without slash.
Background
We recommend “None” or “Alternate” to keep your theme consistent
Container width
Set a maximum width for the container, this is recommended if you don’t use an image and/or don’t have a lot of content
Text align
Image – Desktop
Add an image in a column next to the content. When setting an image for this section, we recommend a portrait scale for desktop and landscape scale for mobile.
Image – Mobile
Add an image in a column next to the content. If empty, no image will be shown
Show tags
Show product tags below the home content
Add top border
Add a border to the top of this section
Background
We recommend “None” or “Alternate” to keep your theme consistent
USP amount
Select how many USPs will show in this section
USP 1 title, USP 2 text, USP 3 text, USP 4 text
Leaving the USP title empty will not display it
USP 1 text, USP 2 text, USP 3 text, USP 4 text
USP 1 icon, USP 2 icon, USP 3 icon, USP 4 icon
Read on the usage of icons in our theme here.
Add top border
Add a border to the top of this section
Background
We recommend “None” or “Alternate” to keep your theme consistent
Instagram Username
Amount
How many images do you want to show
Image height/ratio
Adjust the ratio of category images in the catalog or section. When using portrait ratios it’s recommended to use resize method 3 in the option below.
Image resizing
We recommend method 1 with a portrait or square ratio from the above option.
Grayscale brand images
Set the brand images/logo to grayscale
Image height/ratio
Adjust the ratio of brand images on the brands collection or section.
Image resizing
We recommend method 1 with a portrait or square ratio from the above option.
Section 1 – Section 7
You can add homepage sections here, you can configure these under Homepage settings. These sections will also be added on the Brands and Tags page.
All the sections available here you can find under Sections for more explanation.
Product columns – Desktop
⚠ Advanced setting ⚠ Change how many columns be shown on desktop. This is an advanced setting, product titles and other elements might not have room to show properly. You can also adjust the lightspeed ‘Products per page’ setting to fill rows.
Product columns – Tablet
⚠ Advanced setting ⚠ Change how many columns be shown on tablet. This is an advanced setting, product titles and other elements might not have room to show properly.
Product columns – Phone
⚠ Advanced setting ⚠ Change how many columns be shown on phone. This is an advanced setting, product titles and other elements might not have room to show properly.
Show article code
Show EAN / barcode
Show SKU
Append VAT information
Only for non B2B shops.
Show unit price
Show unit price in product listings
Show currency symbol
The currency symbol will always be shown in the cart and checkout pages.
Enable compare
Enable comparing products globally
Show rating
Show product rating above the product title in product listing
Show brand
Show the brand above the product title in product listing
Show wishlist
Show a wishlist button in the product listing. Wishlist must also be enabled in Lightspeed Advanced Settings.
Add to cart button
Set the content of the add to cart button. You can change the text through Lightspeed translations. This also applies to buttons that replace this button like ‘Sold out’ or ‘Request invoice’
Image height/ratio
Adjust the ratio of product images in the collection. When using portrait ratios it’s recommended to use resize method 3 in the option below.
Image resizing
We recommend method 3 with a portrait or square ratio from the above option.
Show sale sticker
Choose an option to display a sticker over the product image when a product has a old
Show new sticker
Choose an option to display a sticker over the product image when a product has been recently added.
Enable quickzoom
Enable an icon above every product that opens a popup with a the product images carousel.
Enable quickview
Enable an icon above every product that opens a popup with a brief product description and order button.
Quickview carousel
Select a carousel style for the quickview
Simple slider with arrows and dots
Image/carousel width
Set a width the for the quickview image carousel on desktop
Show summary
Show datalist
Show the list with product data like brand and stock
Show product options/action
Show all product options and ‘add to cart’ button
Show product USPs
Add the same USPs from the product page. Enter them under ‘Product USPs’
Show payment methods
Show payment methods at the bottom of the product summary
Category title location
Inside the banner (if there is no banner; fallback to Above productlisting)
Category description location
Category content location
Select a location for the content of your categories. If the title or description location is identical, the content will show below both.
Category text align
The text alignment for any category title, description or content.
Category banner location
Choose a location for the banner to show.
Banner container align
Align the container inside the banner in which the title and/or content will show. Only usable when title and/or content location is ‘Inside banner’
Banner text align
The text alignment for any text inside the banner.
Category banner container
Make the banner the width of the entire window or as wide as the main content. Only used when ‘Category banner location’ is set to ‘Top’ or ‘Bottom’.’
Category banner height
Set the height of your category banners for categorypages
Category banner resizing
Show sorting options
Show a dropdown to sort the current collection.
Show product count
Display the number of products in the current collection.
Show layout options
Show grid/list options
Show filter sidebar
Turn this off to completely disable the filter sidebar and make the productlistings full width. This is also increase columns to 4 (when column override is not set)
Enable price filter
Show a price range slider in the filters list
Enable brands filter
Show a brands filter. Only 1 brand can be selected
Show categories
Select which categories (if any) you want to show.
Section 1 – Section 7
You can add homepage sections here, you can configure these under Homepage or Product listings settings.
All the sections available here you can find under Sections for more explanation.
Image height/ratio
Adjust the ratio of product images in on the product detail. When using portrait ratios it’s recommended to use resize method 3 in the option below.
Image resizing
We recommend method 1 with a portrait or square ratio from the above option.
Zoom image on hover
Zoom in on a part of the image when the cursor is hovering over it
Carousel
Image/carousel width
Set a width the for the image carousel on desktop
Fullscreen pop-up carousel
Show a magnify icon that opens a fullscreen pop-up with an image carousel
Show EAN / barcode
Show SKU
Show currency symbol
The currency symbol will always be shown in the cart and checkout pages.
Show stock level
Only show availability
Low stock threshold
Change the stock level to orange at this level or lower.
Show quantity discounts
Show a write-out of available product discounts product summary
Show categories
Show categories in the product summary
Enable compare
Enable comparing products globally
Show share button
Show a share button in the product summary
Show rating
Show product rating above the product title
Show brand
Show the brand on the product summary
Show wishlist
Show a wishlist button in the product summary. Wishlist must also be enabled in Lightspeed Advanced Settings.
Show payment methods
Show payment methods at the bottom of the product summary
Tabs style desktop
Select the tabs style for desktop. Mobile will always show an accordion (for usability purposes)
Show ‘Specifications’ tab
If enabled, a product will still need to have some specifications entered in the back-end before this tab shows. before this tab shows.
Show ‘Reviews’ tab
Show ‘Product bundles’ tab
If enabled, a product will still need to have available product bundles before this tab shows.
Show ‘Tags’ tab
If enabled, a product will still need to have tags entered in the back-end before this tab shows.
Show ‘Shipping & returns’ tab
The content for this tab will be taken from the native ‘Shipping & returns’ page in Lightspeed.
Enable product USPs
Add USPs below the Add to cart button on a product page
Product USP 1, Product USP 2, Product USP 3, Product USP 4, Product USP 5
Add USPs below the add to cart button on the product page. Using <b>around</b> a word will make it bold and colored.
Social media
RSS
Show an icon that links to the RSS feed.
Facebook
Enter a full Enter a full Facebook URL (including https://) to display a clickable Facebook icon in the footer. URL (including https://) to display a clickable Instagram icon in the footer.
Instagram
Enter a full Instagram URL (including https://) to display a clickable Instagram icon in the footer.
Twitter
Enter a full Twitter URL (including https://) to display a clickable Twitter icon in the footer.
Youtube
Enter a full Youtube URL (including https://) to display a clickable Youtube icon in the footer.
LinkedIn
Enter a full LinkedIn URL (including https://) to display a clickable LinkedIn icon in the footer.
Pinterest
Enter a full Pinterest URL (including https://) to display a clickable Pinterest icon in the footer.
Tumblr
Enter a full Tumblr URL (including https://) to display a clickable Tumblr icon in the footer.
Snapchat
Enter a full Snapchat URL (including https://) to display a clickable Snapchat icon in the footer.
Reddit
Enter a full Reddit URL (including https://) to display a clickable Reddit icon in the footer.