Navigation, Header & Footer

Before you publish anything: premium defaults, not a blank chrome

If you've never published a Header or Footer design, your store doesn't show a bare, unstyled navbar and footer — since the 2026-07-12 premium-by-default rollout it automatically renders a premium default instead: a centered logo, split navigation header and a centered minimal luxury footer, both built from your real branding (logo, store name, and navigation links) rather than placeholder content. This also applies if your store's saved header/footer design ever fails to load. Publishing your own Header or Footer design here replaces the default immediately and permanently for that surface — there's no way to intentionally revert to the automatic default once you've published something.

All 7 header templates require a paid plan

Every header template in this picker is a flagship design, so on the Free plan every card in the Templates tab shows a lock icon and an Upgrade badge instead of the usual Selected state — clicking a locked card does nothing. Hover a locked card to see "Upgrade to a paid plan to unlock flagship templates." The moment your store is on any paid plan — Starter, Growth, Pro, or Max — every template unlocks; you don't need Pro or above specifically. Go to Billing → Plans & Billing to upgrade (see Plans & Billing). If a template still shows locked right after you upgrade, reload the Admin Panel — the picker reads your plan from a subscription check that runs when the page loads, so it can lag a freshly-completed upgrade by a page refresh.

Default: Centered Logo Split Nav, Centered Split

If you've never published your own header design, your store's default is the centered logo, split navigation layout (see Before you configure anything in Page-Layout Pickers) — the same look you'd get by explicitly picking the Centered Logo Split Nav template with the Standard variant.

Two places can hide an icon — both must be on for it to show

These Config-tab toggles work together with the classic Store Branding switches in the Header editor's Desktop mode below (Show cart / Show wishlist / Show user-menu icons): an icon renders only when both its Config-tab toggle and its Store Branding switch are enabled. If you turned on Show Cart Icon here and the icon still doesn't appear on your storefront, check the matching Store Branding switch — either control alone can hide it, and remember the change reaches customers only after you Publish (Save Draft keeps it in the editor).

All 7 footer templates require a paid plan

Just like the header, every one of the footer's 7 premium templates is a flagship design — on the Free plan each card in the Templates tab shows a lock icon and an Upgrade badge, and clicking one does nothing. Any paid plan (Starter, Growth, Pro, or Max) unlocks all 7; upgrade from Billing → Plans & Billing (see Plans & Billing). If a template still shows locked right after upgrading, reload the Admin Panel so the picker re-checks your plan.

Why don't I see my footer tagline?

The About text field above is what shows as the short description/tagline under your logo in the footer — it's blank until you set it, so a store that hasn't filled it in simply shows no tagline (not an error). If you've never published a Footer design at all, the copyright line is generated automatically from your store name (for example, “© 2026 Sage & Still. All rights reserved.”) rather than using whatever is saved in the Copyright text field above — publish a Footer design to take control of the exact copyright wording.

Newsletter sign-up is a real subscription

When a customer submits the footer's email field, they must also check a GDPR consent box before the button becomes clickable — this applies to every footer design, not just one look. Submitting saves them to your subscriber list — it isn't a decorative form. New subscribers, tagged with source Store, show up in Marketing → Newsletter alongside subscribers captured from your landing pages and hosted sites — see Forms & Newsletter for how to review, filter, and broadcast to your list.

Some footer designs don't show an email field at all. A handful of the more minimal footer looks are deliberately text-and-links only — toggling Newsletter sign-up on has no visible effect for those designs. If you've enabled the toggle and still don't see the email field on your live storefront, switch to a different footer template from the Templates tab and check again; most designs do include it.

All footer templates now show the same content

Every premium footer template (Templates tab above) renders the same set of content your classic footer settings define: your About text, the newsletter sign-up description (the line of copy above the email field, editable wherever your newsletter copy is set), the payment-method badges when Show payment icons is on, and the language switcher (if you've enabled multiple storefront languages). If your footer previously looked like it was missing your tagline or payment badges after switching templates, that's fixed — every template now shows the same content, just arranged in that template's own visual style. Stores on plans that include the BillionBiz platform badge also see a "Powered by BillionBiz" link in the footer automatically; it isn't a setting you toggle here.