Installing XStore Theme

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Step 1: Installing Required App and Extension
  • Installing Arena Shopify Admin Chrome Extension
  • Installing Arena Dashboard Shopify App
  • Installing Arena Dashboard Importer Chrome Extension
• Step 2: Adding Your License Code
• Step 3: In order to add more theme License Keys, repeat Step 2.
• Step 4: Install the theme
• Step 5: Publishing Theme

Step 1: Installing Required App and Extension

In order to install the XStore theme or the other themes in our store, you will need to install 3 essential app and extensions. They also play a pivotal role in helping you navigate and customize our theme swiftly and effectively. They are:

• Arena Shopify Admin Extension
• Arena Dashboard App
• Arena Dashboard Importer Extension

To install them, please follow the step-by-step instruction below:

Installing Arena Shopify Admin Chrome Extension

Arena Admin Chrome Extension support to import our Demo Store Menu (Navigation) to your store. To enable it:

1. Go to Google Chrome Store link
2. Click Add to Chrome to install this extension.
3. Click Add extension.
4. Arena Shopify Admin Extension is now ready to work with the to-be-installed Arena Dashboard Importer.

• Installing Arena Dashboard Shopify App

1. Go to Arena Dashboard App
2. Input Your Shopify Store URL, click Login.
   Shopify Store URL form are usually: [examplestore].myshopify.com.
   
3. Click Install Button.
4. Sign in to your Shopify account.
5. Click Install unlisted app.

Installing Arena Dashboard Importer Chrome Extension

Arena Dashboard Importer helps in installing our theme to your Shopify store. To enable it:

1. Go to Arena Dashboard Importer
2. Click Add to Chrome to install this extension.
3. Click Add extension.
4. Arena Dashboard Importer is now ready to install your theme.

Step 2: Adding Your License Code

1. From your myShopify Admin Homepage, go to Apps, click Arena Dashboard.

2. Click Add Your License Key.

3. Insert the Purchase code and click Active License Key. You can copy and paste the code from the License certificate & purchase code you downloaded through ThemeForest (Envato).

• After your license code was added, a confirmation banner will appear:

4. Your purchased theme will now show in the ‘Licensed’ board.

Step 3: In order to add more theme License Keys, repeat Step 2.

Step 4: Install the theme

To begin working on your store, you will need to unapck and upload the theme pack.
To do that, you can install the theme via the Theme Installation Wizard by doing the following:

1. From the Arena Dashboard app admin, click the second tab Theme Installation.
You can also click on the Theme Installation button on the XStore theme tab in the License board.

2. Then when the ‘Installing New Theme’ screen appear, click Setup Wizard.

3. Select Theme package & click Next.

4. When the ‘Select Preset Demo Style’ box appear, select Version and Preset.
You can choose from XStore’s 68 presets ranging from Fashion, Sport and Beauty to Medical, Law and Corporation, the posibilities are endless!
Please take a look at our list of presets, or Demos here. Preview of each preset will also appear on the left of the box with each preset you click on to help you better grasp what each Demo offers.

• Click Install Preset. The app will install this theme package to your store right away!
  For this tutorial I will install the preset ‘default’ of the version ‘1.0-fashion’ as seen below.

If you have already has your own materials, click Skip to pass the import Theme Package step. This will stop import new theme package process to your store.

5. Check the Content Component you would like to import & click Import.

• Installation and activation of the Arena Dashboard Importer Extension is essential to import the Demo theme. If you had not install and activate the extension, you can click on the Install button to add the extension to your browser.
  Please be aware that this is a Chrome-only extension and it is advisable that you install the theme and import the Demo on Google Chrome.

  • Wait for tasks to finish.
  • While importing, a dialogue box will appear and request to open Navigation. Click OK.
  • A new window displaying Navigation section will appear. Click Arena Menu Import.
    
  • Wait for the task to finish and close the window.

• ***If error were to occur during import process, there are 2 possibilities:***

  1. You may not have installed and activated Arena Dashboard Importer Extension on Chrome.
  2. This is a result of a duplication in materials due to a previous unsuccessful theme install attempt or simply duplicate materials between installations.

For the first posibility, the error screen will be as followed:

• When import task finish in this manner, just click Skip.
• Make sure you have installed and activated Arena Dashboard Importer Extension on Chrome. After that, when you click Skip, the ‘Uploading sample files & images to your website’ dialogue box will appear. Please go to the next step to continue.

For the second posibility, the error screen will be as followed:

• When import task finish in this manner, just click Next. The ‘Uploading sample files & images to your website’ dialogue box will appear. Please go to the next step to continue.

6. Upload sample images and files to your store

• Click Download images.

• Extract / Unzip the files. If you don’t know how to extract, please follow the link below for further details.

  Read more: How to extract file.

• Go to Files in the Settings button locate at the lower left corner of the myShopify Admin Homepage.
  

• Upload all files in the folder you have extracted. Then close the window.

  How to upload files on to Shopify:

  • From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Files.
  • Select all the files in the folder you have just extracted.
  • Click Upload files.
  • Select one or more files to upload. Click Open.

7. Integrating Shopify App into XStore theme

• You can choose to Install all the suggested apps into your Shopify at this point by clicking the Install button on each app, or finish the theme installation process here by clicking the Finish button.
• The Integrating Shopify App details will be covered in the next article. You can access it by clicking here or scroll to the end of this page and click Integrating Shopify App at the lower right corner.

Step 5: Publishing Theme

• Once the installation is finished, you can publish the theme to see first hand how it will play out on the web.
  If you have installed the Demo Shop, the theme will now be lively with demo images to help you understand further the functions of each section.
• If you have installed multiple XStore Demo Shops, the theme you choose to publish will be the one customers actually see when your store goes live.
• To publish a theme, simply go to the Arena Dashboard app in the App section of your myShopify Admin Homepage > choose the Theme Installation tab > scroll down to the list of Installed Themes > Click More actions... button on the theme you want to publish > Click Publish.
  
• After publishing the theme, you can view the theme in action on your domain [your chosen name].myshopify.com

In the next step, we will go through the installation and integration of useful Shopify apps that will help boost customer’s engagement and ease their buying process. You can access it by clicking here or click Integrating Shopify App at the lower right corner.