Send a theme

Download and upload today; a direct send once Shopify grants the theme-write path. Publishing is always the merchant's.

Download

Download on a store's row compiles the theme for that store — design, overrides, words, brand logo — and gives you a zip. In Shopify: Online Store → Themes → Import → Upload zip file. The theme appears in the library as a draft. Preview it, then Publish when ready. Nothing goes live until that click.

Send

Once the API path is on, Send creates or updates a draft theme in the store directly. It never publishes. The project page shows preview and editor links for the draft.

What survives a re-send

Before rebuilding, EverStorefront reads the theme sitting in the merchant's admin and keeps everything the merchant changed in Shopify's editor: their words, their images, the order of sections, any setting they touched. Only the theme's own files move. Design-owned choices — type, layouts, features — come from EverStorefront; content-owned ones stay with the merchant. It finds that theme by name — the one matching the zip you downloaded, or the newest of ours if there are several — so a theme you imported by hand is picked up without linking it first. The History row for each download says which theme was merged, or that there was nothing of ours in the store yet.

Theme credit and support

Under Settings → Workspace, the theme credit and support link flow into the compiled theme, so the merchant sees your studio's name and where to ask for help in their Themes list.