Jessar Industries

Shopify Guides

Everything needed to run the day-to-day of jessar.ca. Each guide covers a single job.

Read these two first

Things to Never DoThe short list of actions that cause damage which is hard or impossible to undo. Read this one first.New Product GuideHow to add a product, according to how the Jessar site is built.

Products

New Product GuideHow to add a product, according to how the Jessar site is built.Writing Product CopyThe convention for titles, descriptions and the rest of the copy fields on a product.Publishing and Scheduling a ProductWhich status to use at each stage, how to schedule a launch date, and how to discontinue a product.Editing an Existing ProductUpdating a product that is already live — including the one case where its web address should be changed.

Reference

Product Field ReferenceEvery field on a product record, and what it does to the page. Lookup only — for how to fill them in, see New Product Guide.Metaobject RecordsThe shared content records behind the Features block, the “Also available in” row, the brand block and collection promo cards — and how to update them.GlossaryWhat the words mean — Shopify’s own terms, and the ones specific to this site.

Collections and pages

Collections and Shelf TagsHow products end up in the right places on the website. Collections fill themselves from product type, vendor and shelf tag — nothing is added by hand.Shelf Tag ReferenceEvery shelf tag on the store, the collection it fills, and the kind of product it belongs to.Updating a Collection PageA collection's own banner, copy, tiles and promotion card — everything set on the collection rather than on a product.Homepage and BannersHow to change the homepage — the images, the words, the French versions, and the settings to leave alone.

Working at scale

French ContentHow the French side of jessar.ca works, and what must never be translated.Bulk Changes with MatrixifyChanging many products at once without losing anything — and the backups that make it safe.

How the site works

The Jessar site is assembled from the data on each product and collection. Fill a field and its block appears on the page; leave it blank and the block is skipped — no error, the page is just shorter. That is why these guides spend so much time on which field feeds what, and why previewing before publishing matters.