Simple Theme - your store's footer

Your store's footer contains the following...

• Links to your social media profiles
• A simple menu
• An email subscribe form
• What payment methods you accept

Each item can be modified, enabled, or disabled in your theme editor. Instructions for each are detailed below.

Links to your social media profiles

Increase your social engagement by linking through to your social media pages. When you enter the URL of your pages, an icon will appear in the footer of your store for your customers to click through.

The Simple Ecommerce theme has support for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Vimeo, and YouTube pages.

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  Adding links to your social media profiles

URL's are entered in the Footer section of your Theme editor.

To add a link to your pages, open the Footer section of your Theme editor, scroll down to the Social media links section, and enter the FULL URL of the page you want to link to.

You can get the URL of a page by viewing the page in a web browser. When you're seeing what you want your visitors to see, copy the address of the page that's in the address bar of your browser, paste it into the related field in your Theme editor, and click the Save Settings button.

Make sure you preview your store and click on the new icon in your footer to make sure it's working properly!

Selecting your footer menu

By default, the Simple theme uses the menu called "Footer" in your store's footer.

If you're switching to the Simple theme from another theme, and have all of your menu items in a different menu, you can select the menu that you want to use in your store's header in the Footer section of your Theme editor. You simply select the menu you want to use and click the Save Settings button.

Connecting your email subscribe form

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  Connecting your email subscribe form

The Simple theme allows you to connect the subscribe form in the footer to your MailChimp, Campaign Monitor or Mad Mimi account. The Default option adds the email address to the "Customers" in your store. Each subscriber is added as a customer with the name Prospective Customer. These customers can then be exported should you wish to use an unsupported bulk email provider.

For any of the services, you just select the service, and then paste the form's URL into the "Form action URL" field in your Theme editor.

To connect your form to your MailChimp, Campaign Monitor or Mad Mimi account, go to your Theme editor. To get to your Theme editor, go to the Design & Assets -> Theme editor section of your store's admin area.

Detailed instructions for setting up each service are below.

MailChimp

To use MailChimp log in to your MailChimp account. If you haven't already created a list there to add subscribers to, create one and then follow the instructions below;

1. Click on "Audience" in the top menu.
   
2. Under "Current Audience", select the list you want to use by clicking on it's name.
   
3. In the "Manage Audience" drop-down menu, choose "Signup forms".
   
4. Choose "Embedded forms".
   
5. At the top of the screen, copy the text in the box labeled "Copy paste into your site" to get your form URL. Paste this code into a text editor, highlight ONLY the "form action" URL and copy the text. It should look something like this...
   

   //hellothere.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=747fc9927e6c1a5894eba5454&id=c9492288d0

   
   Note that it begins with "//" and ends with "id=" followed by a special code.
   
6. Back in your theme editor, choose "MailChimp" in the "Newsletter system" section, and paste the URL into the "Form action URL" box.
   
7. Click the "Save settings" button and test your form in your storefront.
   
8. If entering your email address and clicking subscribe directs you to a MailChimp page asking you to confrim your email address, the form is working. If it doesn't, then you'll need to check the "Form action URL" field to make sure that there aren't any extra or missing characters at the beginning or end of your Form action URL.
9. If you'd like to, you can also modify the design of your form in MailChimp by adding your logo and changing the colours to make it match your site.

Campaign Monitor

To use Campaign Monitor, log in to your Campaign Monitor account. If you haven't already created a list there to add subscribers to, create one and then follow the instructions below;

1. Click on the "Lists & subscribers" tab.
   
2. Select the list you want to use by clicking on it's name.
   
3. Click the Signup Forms link.
   
4. Choose "Paste code onto your site".
   
5. Choose "No Styling".
   
6. Remove the title, description and any other fields. This form should only have an email address field and a subscribe button. The title and description are added in in the theme editor, not Campaign Monitor.
   
7. Click in the "Save and generate code" button, and copy the entire content in the popup.
   
8. Back in your theme editor, choose "Campaign Monitor" in the "Newsletter system" section, and paste all of the code into the "Form action URL" box.
   
9. Click the "Save settings" button.

Mad Mimi

To use Mad Mimi, log in to your Mad Mimi account. If you haven't already created a list there to add subscribers to, create one and then follow the instructions below;

1. Click on the "Webform" link in the top left of your screen.
   
2. Select the list you want to add subscribers to by clicking on it's name in the "Add subscribers to these lists" section on the right.
   
3. Click the "Embed" link above your form preview.
   
4. Choose the "Plain embed" tab.
   
5. In the code window below, copy your form action URL. It should look something like this...
   

   https://madmimi.com/signups/subscribe/12345

   
   
6. Back in your theme editor, choose "Mad Mimi" in the "Newsletter system" section, and paste the entire URL into the "Form action URL" box.
   
7. Click the "Save settings" button.
   
8. If you'd like to, you can also create a confirmation page in your store, and then add a link to it in the "Confirmation Landing Page" section in Mad Mimi. You can also edit the confirmation email that is sent to your new subscriber, by clicking on the "Edit activation message" button.
   

FlashIssue

To use FlashIssue log in to your FlashIssue account. If you haven't already created a list there to add subscribers to, create one and then follow the instructions below;

1. Click on "Lists" at the top.
   
2. Select the list you want to use by clicking on it's name.
   
3. At the top of the screen on the right, click on the "Sign Up forms" button.
   
4. In the "Copy & Paste into your website" section, highlight ONLY the "form action" URL and copy the text. It should look something like this...
   

   https://app.flashissue.com/subscribe/9edtlmQpNp

   
   
5. Back in your theme editor, choose "FlashIssue" in the "Newsletter system" section, and paste the URL into the "Form action URL" box.
   
6. Click the "Save settings" button and test your form in your storefront.
   
7. If entering your email address and clicking subscribe directs you to a FlashIssue page asking you to confirm your email address, the form is working. If it doesn't, then you'll need to check the "Form action URL" field to make sure that there aren't any extra or missing characters at the beginning or end of your Form action URL.

Displaying what payment methods you accept

Payment methods are automatically displayed in this theme. You can set up the payment methods you accept in the Preferences -> Checkout & Payment" section of your store's admin.

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