Capital Shopify theme

Capital 37.2.0 brings Capital back to your language, puts back the selling tools stores rely on, and fixes the rough edges merchants met in the theme editor. Everything new is off or empty until you turn it on, so apart from the hero change under Sections, your store looks the same after updating until you choose otherwise.

Your language

• Your storefront's built-in text (cart, search, product pages, forms, accessibility labels) is available in 31 languages, and the theme editor's settings appear in 20 languages, including English in both sets. To change any wording, go to Online Store > Themes > ... > Edit default theme content.

Product pages

• Ratings. Star ratings from your reviews app on product cards, the product page, featured products and quick add. They appear only on products a reviews app has rated, through the standard reviews.rating and reviews.rating_count metafields.
• Linked products. Show each colourway as a swatch when every colourway is its own product. Stores coming from Capital 36 can connect the same metafield they used before.
• Personalisation fields. Text, paragraph, dropdown, radio button, checkbox and file upload fields that are saved on the order. A required field must be filled before the product can be added.
• Size guide. Show any page in a pop-up beside your Size option. Collapsible rows can also show a page's content.
• Text with icon. Short lines beside the buy buttons, such as delivery or returns notes, each with an icon.
• Payment icons under the buy buttons.
• Back-in-stock requests. When a variant is sold out, shoppers can ask to be told when it returns; the request reaches you as a contact message.
• Complementary products beside the buy buttons, from Shopify's Search & Discovery app.
• Nutrition and ingredients. A nutrition table with serving size, ingredients and allergens.
• Variant picker. Show options as buttons or dropdowns, and optionally hide sold-out choices.
• Featured products now support stock status, the size guide and personalisation fields.

Product cards and collections

• Badges. Show sales as a label, a percentage or an amount saved, mark pre-order products, and add your own badge from a product metafield.
• Swatches on product cards now switch the card to that colour's image and link to that variant.
• Quick add. Choose options opens a drawer where shoppers pick a variant and add to cart without leaving the page.
• Load more or infinite scroll on collection and search pages, as an alternative to numbered pages.
• Two alternate templates: a basic product template and a basic collection template.

Cart

• Spend goal. A progress bar toward a reward you set, such as free shipping above an amount.
• Product suggestions in the cart drawer and cart page, and products to browse in an empty cart.
• Gift wrap and gift message. Add a gift wrap product shoppers can tick, and a gift message saved with the order.

Store settings

• Age verification. A gate shoppers must confirm before entering, for age-restricted stores. Add it from the Overlay group.
• Log in to see prices. Hide prices and buying from shoppers who aren't logged in, for all products or products with a tag.
• Currency codes. Show the currency code beside every price.
• Typography. Choose heading case, heading letter spacing, and button and menu case.

Sections

• Hero: each slide can have its own eyebrow, heading, text, one or two buttons and a countdown, so every slide can say something different. Add block now offers only Image slide and Video slide: the separate Eyebrow, Heading, Text, Buttons and Countdown blocks are gone. If you're on 37.0 or 37.1 and your hero uses those blocks, their text doesn't carry over, so note it before updating and add it to each slide afterwards. Content can sit on the right or at the top; video slides can play from YouTube or Vimeo, with a poster image and a separate mobile image.
• Headings for galleries, collection lists, mosaics, videos and multi-column sections.
• Countdowns in the editorial statement, and every countdown can show a message when it ends.
• Header: a layout with the logo centred and the menu on the left, and an icon that opens the offers drawer.
• Offers drawer: each offer can have an image, a countdown and a link, and you can feature a product.
• Footer: your own legal text (such as company or VAT number), and a Follow on Shop button.
• Search: suggested links and products before shoppers type.
• Overlap story: each media block can have its own eyebrow, heading, text, buttons and up to 10 accordion rows, and media blocks can play a video. Stories you've already set up look the same after updating.
• Shop the look: write your own text for the "Add the look" button, or clear it to hide the button. The caption under the button is gone. If your store isn't in English, set the button text in your language after updating.
• Video: an ambient mode that plays muted on a loop.
• Marquee: smaller text sizes and a reverse direction.
• Collection list: circle images, and a list built from one of your menus.
• Mosaic: a visible link label on each tile.
• Contact form: checkbox and radio button fields.
• Blog: feature hand-picked articles, and filter a blog by tag.
• Popup: can slide in from the corner instead of covering the page.
• The header logo can now be up to 400px wide, for wide wordmarks.

Fixed

• Add-to-cart errors, image viewer labels and the Offers drawer's default heading now follow your storefront language.
• The theme editor keeps your place on the page when you save, instead of jumping back to the top.
• In the theme editor, a button with a label but no link now previews with a prompt to add one, including on hero slides and Overlap story media. On your live store it stays hidden until it has a link.
• Shop the look's product cards open whole and in view on desktop and phones, including on an iPhone turned sideways, and no longer slide under the header.
• Shop the look now shows on your store as soon as you add it, with a placeholder photo until you choose an image and products. If you saved one without finishing it, it now appears on your store: finish it or remove it.
• On phones, a hero's second button keeps its outline style instead of turning into a text link.
• The Overlap story's progress bars no longer show when Pace is off.
• A product grid pointed at an empty collection no longer shows example products to shoppers.
• A hero with text but no image or video now shows on your storefront as a text-only opener.
• Colour options with no swatch colour, such as "Oat Milk", show as named pills instead of identical blank circles, on product pages and product cards.
• Play restarts the rotation after Pause in the product showcase and the marquee.
• Gallery: the Columns setting only appears for the Grid layout, and captions stay inside circle tiles.
• On mobile, the menu lists your browse links before its promotional panel.
• The product grid shows placeholder cards in the editor until you choose a collection or products.
• The default homepage no longer promises free exchanges. Add your own returns promise if you offer one.
• The price filter's From and To boxes are labelled, show your currency, and show prices in your store's number format.
• A price range typed with From above To is put in order when the shopper leaves the box, even if the products refreshed while they were typing.
• The price slider keeps working after you move the collection or search section in the theme editor.
• With infinite scroll, a loading ring shows while the next products load, instead of the Load more button flashing up.
• A product search with no results shows the no-results message, instead of switching to a partial-match search that listed your whole catalogue.
• After a shopper sends the contact form or a back-in-stock request, the page comes back to the form and shows the thank-you message.
• Animated headings in Shop the look, the Overlap story and the product grid no longer cut off the tails of letters such as g, p and y.
• At Pace off, the pause/play button on the hero and the Overlap story shows only on slides with a video.
• Hero: in the theme editor, a button without a link sits where it will once it's linked; Play restarts the slideshow after Pause; and the Content position options read Top left to Bottom right.
• The Overlap story's Media side setting reads Left or Right.
• Dropdowns on product pages, for options and personalisation fields, show the theme's own arrow, lined up with the text, in every browser.
• In a Mosaic, link labels on media tiles line up with those on content tiles.
• Japanese text no longer starts a line with ー or a small kana.
• Storefront and theme editor text uses one consistent term for each thing in every language, in line with Shopify's own wording.
• Accessibility: clearer heading order on collection pages, product showcases and multi-column sections, and the product showcase's decorative background text no longer counts as page content.

Upgrading from 36

37 is a rebuild, not an update to 36. Settings, templates and section content do not carry over.

Do not use the Update button in your admin. It installs a copy with your settings only partly applied, and the result will not match your current store.

Install 37 fresh from the Theme Store instead, alongside your current theme. Set it up from a preset, then publish it when you are ready. Your current theme is not modified and stays published until you switch.

Already on a 37.0.x release, or installing Capital for the first time? None of the above applies.

Capital 37.0.3 is a fix release. Presets, settings, sections and templates are unchanged from 37.0.2.

Fixed

• Collection and search filters and sorting now work while you are editing your theme. In the theme editor, changing a filter or the sort order left the products exactly as they were, and the filter sprang back to its previous setting. Your live storefront was never affected by this.
• The footer brand column now gives its heading the room it needs, so a long brand name no longer breaks mid-word or leaves punctuation stranded on its own line.

Upgrading from 36

37 is a rebuild, not an update to 36. Settings, templates and section content do not carry over.

Do not use the Update button in your admin. It installs a copy with your settings only partly applied, and the result will not match your current store.

Install 37 fresh from the Theme Store instead, alongside your current theme. Set it up from a preset, then publish it when you are ready. Your current theme is not modified and stays published until you switch.

Already on a 37.0.x release, or installing Capital for the first time? None of the above applies.

Capital 37.0.2 completes the 37 rebuild's preset roster. Nothing else changes: settings, sections and templates are exactly as they were in 37.0.0.

Added

• The fifth and final preset: Off Lead. It ships the composition, copy and palette of its demo store, so a fresh install lands on the page you saw in the Theme Store. All five presets — Capital, Nice Try, Face Value, Mint and Off Lead — are now available.

Upgrading from 36

37 is a rebuild, not an update to 36. Settings, templates and section content do not carry over.

Do not use the Update button in your admin. It installs a copy with your settings only partly applied, and the result will not match your current store.

Install 37 fresh from the Theme Store instead, alongside your current theme. Set it up from a preset, then publish it when you are ready. Your current theme is not modified and stays published until you switch.

Already on a 37.0.x release, or installing Capital for the first time? None of the above applies.

Capital 37.0.1 adds two presets to the 37 rebuild. Nothing else changes: settings, sections and templates are exactly as they were in 37.0.0.

Added

• Two more presets: Face Value and Mint. Each ships the composition, copy and palette of its demo store, so a fresh install lands on the page you saw in the Theme Store. The fifth preset, Off Lead, arrives in the next 37.0.x update.

Upgrading from 36

37 is a rebuild, not an update to 36. Settings, templates and section content do not carry over.

Do not use the Update button in your admin. It installs a copy with your settings only partly applied, and the result will not match your current store.

Install 37 fresh from the Theme Store instead, alongside your current theme. Set it up from a preset, then publish it when you are ready. Your current theme is not modified and stays published until you switch.

Already on 37.0.0, or installing Capital for the first time? None of the above applies.

Capital 37.0.0 is a ground-up rebuild of the theme: a new design system, a smaller and more deliberate settings surface, and presets that each arrive with their own demo store.

Upgrading from 36

37.0.0 is a rebuild, not an update to 36. Settings, templates and section content do not carry over.

Do not use the Update button in your admin. It installs a copy with your settings only partly applied, and the result will not match your current store.

Install 37.0.0 fresh from the Theme Store instead, alongside your current theme. Set it up from a preset, then publish it when you are ready. Your current theme is not modified and stays published until you switch.

Installing Capital for the first time? None of the above applies.

Added

• Two presets: Capital and Nice Try. Each ships the composition, copy and palette of its demo store, so a fresh install lands on the page you saw in the Theme Store. Further presets arrive in the 37.0.x updates that follow.
• Native colour schemes, including a transparent scheme for text over media, two font pickers with a heading scale, and theme-level identity settings for the accent mark, corner radius and section rhythm.
• New sections with add-section presets: hero, statement, story, mosaic, marquee, before/after, shop the look, timeline, proof, FAQ, gallery, image divider and product showcase.
• Product page: app block support, Shop Pay Installments, product structured data, and a variant picker with colour swatches.
• Filtering and sorting on search results, a favicon setting, Open Graph and Twitter meta tags, and a QR code on gift cards.

Changed

• Settings are curated per section and reduced from around 1,600 to under 600, so each control is a design choice rather than a slider.
• The header, footer, cart drawer, search drawer, offers drawer and popup are section groups, edited in place.
• The header uses Shopify's account component; legacy customer accounts are no longer supported.