Venue Shopify theme – Venue preset
Venue
Moderately active Highly rated clothing

Venue Shopify theme

Venue preset

Created by Safe As Milk

Clothing, jewelry, beauty, and home brands are the target of Venue, a Shopify theme offered in five preset styles. Its mega menu, swatch filters, and infinite scroll support browsing, and merchandising tools such as before/after sliders, image zoom, and cross-selling round out the toolkit.
Source Shopify Theme Store Official
★★★★★
★★★★★
4.9 · 537 reviews · 98% positive
PRICE
$ 380,00 USD
PRESETS
5 styles
View on Theme Store
PRESETS INCLUDED Total 5
Venue Sunset Morning Weekend Evening
Theme support
support.safeasmilk.co/contact
Documentation
support.safeasmilk.co

Independently reviewed by the eDIY editorial team

How fast is Venue?

Google PageSpeed Insights scores for the home page, out of 100

The official Venue demo scored 70/100 on mobile and 99/100 on desktop in our October 2026 test. Mobile LCP was 13.1s, CLS was 0.00, and Total Blocking Time was 10ms.

Theme demo store

Official Venue demo, home page
70 /100
Mobile
Needs improvement
99 /100
Desktop
Good

Tested Oct 2026 · Google PageSpeed Insights lab data

MetricMobileDesktop
Largest Contentful Paint 13.1s 841ms
Cumulative Layout Shift 0.00 0.00
Total Blocking Time 10ms 0ms
Speed Index 3.5s 1.2s

Across 8 live stores we tested, the average PageSpeed score was 52/100 on mobile and 73/100 on desktop. Average mobile LCP was 18.9s and CLS was 0.00. These are complete production stores, so the numbers cover more than the theme itself.

Live stores average

Mean across 8 stores running Venue
52 /100
Mobile
Needs improvement
73 /100
Desktop
Needs improvement

Tested Oct 2026 · Results include each store's apps, images, tracking scripts and customizations

MetricMobileDesktop
Largest Contentful Paint 18.9s 2.0s
Cumulative Layout Shift 0.00 0.08
Total Blocking Time 315ms 336ms
Speed Index 10.1s 2.4s

Per-store results

8 live stores · tested Oct 2026
Sharper Image
sharperimage.com
Mobile 42
Desktop 77
Simply Seattle
simplyseattle.com
Mobile 45
Desktop 53
Twinings North America
twiningsusa.com
Mobile 61
Desktop 83
The Rag Company
theragcompany.com
Mobile 43
Desktop 47
Monkey Pen Store
monkeypen.com
Mobile 54
Desktop 73
Mountain Valley Spring Water
mountainvalleyspring.com
Mobile 58
Desktop 89
LightFixturesUSA
lightfixturesusa.com
Mobile 54
Desktop 78
Plant Detectives
plantdetectives.com
Mobile 55
Desktop 84

Features

Built-in features listed on the Theme Store.

Cart and checkout

  • Cart notes
  • Gift wrapping
  • In-store pickups
  • Pre-order
  • Quick buy
  • Sign in with Shop
  • Slide-out cart

Customer accounts and sign-in

  • Account menu

Marketing and conversion

  • Age verifier
  • Blogs
  • Countdown timer
  • Cross-selling
  • Customizable contact form
  • EU translations (EN, FR, IT, DE, ES)
  • FAQ page
  • In-menu promos
  • Press coverage
  • Product badges
  • Promo banners
  • Promo popups
  • Promo tiles
  • Quick view
  • Recommended products
  • Stock counter
  • Trust badges

Merchandising

  • Animation
  • Before/after image slider
  • Color swatches
  • High-resolution images
  • Image galleries
  • Image rollover
  • Image zoom
  • Product options
  • Product tabs
  • Product videos
  • Shipping/delivery information
  • Size chart
  • Slideshow
  • Usage information
  • Combined listing (Shopify Plus)

Product discovery

  • Back-to-top button
  • Breadcrumbs
  • Collection page navigation
  • Enhanced search
  • Infinite scroll
  • Mega menu
  • Product filtering and sorting
  • Recommended products
  • Sticky header
  • Swatch filters
49 features

Venue ranking and satisfaction

Position among all Shopify themes
#51 of 1349
Position among Shopify themes for "clothing"
#22 of 269
Overall satisfaction based on all reviews
98% positive

Release history

LATEST VERSION
v18.2.2
Released June 9, 2026
Moderately active

Venue has received 5 updates in the last 12 months.

Releases in 12 mo 5
Total releases 88
First release June 13, 2017
v18.2.2 FIX

The Health & Beauty preset has been replaced with a brand-new Pets preset. This updated demo showcases how Venue (Morning) can be used for pet brands, featuring colourful product merchandising, engaging lifestyle imagery, product storytelling, FAQs, testimonials, and pet-focused content throughout.

The new preset provides a fresh example of building a distinctive brand experience in the pet category while highlighting Venue’s flexibility across different industries.

Fixes and other improvements

  • Morning preset updated to match Pets demo store
v18.2.1 FIX

Fixes and other improvements

  • New Most Relevant sort order string missing - fixed
  • Only show active media with unavailable variant bug - fixed
  • Combined listings Safari unavailable variant bug - fixed
  • Variant change app compatibility bug - fixed
  • Payment terms message spacing - improved
v18.2.0 FEATURE

Venue 18.2.0 focuses on meaningful improvements driven directly by merchant feedback, alongside a solid round of stability fixes. This release introduces long-requested features like collapsible collection descriptions for better content control, a new newsletter block in the footer, and more flexible add-to-cart button styling, as well as a cleaner account experience in the header, integrating 'Shop' accounts. We’ve also made a range of quality-of-life improvements across sections and layouts, while addressing some bugs. A focused update that makes Venue more flexible, more stable, and easier to work with day to day.

Added

  • Collapsible settings for long collection text - added
  • Shopify account menu component in header - added
  • Custom 'Add-to-cart' button color and style settings - added
  • Newsletter block in the footer - added
  • Pull default header logo from file uploaded in Admin > Branding

Fixes and other improvements

  • Swapped to proprietary video players for external videos (Youtube etc)
  • Unavailable variant bug - fixed
  • Image & text banner button pair layout - improved
  • Cart and variant cache data errors due to Shopify's 503 errors - fixed
  • Increased number of footer blocks
  • Multicolumns sections x 3 - images now clickable when link is present
  • Collection banner text display setting - improved
  • Combined listings safari bug - fixed
  • PDP gallery thumb navigation iOS bug - fixed
v18.1.1 FIX

Fixes and other improvements

  • Label text vertical alignment - improved
  • Focal points on images text bug - fixed
v18.1.0 FEATURE

This update brings some important and powerful enhancements. We now support Shopify’s combined listings, which let you keep products separate in your catalog while grouping them like variants on the product page — giving your store the appearance of a larger, more flexible inventory without compromising control. Infinite scroll and load more options make collection browsing faster and more seamless, especially on mobile. We’ve also lifted the product variant limit to over 2,000 variants, making room for even the most complex product setups. And with 18 new language translations added, your storefront is now more accessible than ever to a global audience.

Added

  • Infinite scroll and load more button on collection page - added
  • Combined listings capability - added
  • Product variant limit extended - mandatory update
  • Gift card date picker - added
  • Gift card page template - image picker and color picker - added
  • Translation support added for 18 new languages - Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Swedish (sv), Danish (da), Norwegian Bokmål (nb), Finnish (fi), Czech (cs), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Hungarian (hu), Romanian (ro), Lithuanian (lt), Turkish (tr), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Thai (th), Chinese (Simplified) (zh-CN), Chinese (Traditional) (zh-TW)

Fixes and other improvements

  • Portrait video container bug - fixed
  • Gift card page template design - improved
  • Footer app block render - fixed
  • RTE bullet point design - improved
  • 'Variant' name changed in custom swatches area
  • Gallery arrow alignment bug - fixed
  • Category tags in URL bug - fixed
  • Menu image load changed to 'lazily'
  • PDP auto-height image bug - fixed
  • PDP gallery on iOS thumbnail overflow bug - fixed
  • Category filter capital letter bug - fixed
  • Quick Shop hover modal URL bug - fixed
  • Tax and shipping notices on PDP individual condition - added

Full changelog

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What merchants say about Venue Shopify theme

We know about 537 reviews · showing 6

Merchant sentiment summary

AI

526 of 537 reviews are positive, 4 neutral and 7 negative. Merchants most often praise the fast, helpful Safe As Milk support team, the clean and mobile-friendly design, and how easy the theme is to customise. The most common criticisms are slow load times on mobile and limited built-in customisation, with few reviewers saying these were resolved.

Generated from all 537 Theme Store reviews ·

Positive 526 · 98%
Neutral 4 · 1%
Negative 7 · 1%
Highly rated

Venue has received 14 reviews in the last 12 months.

Reviews in 12 mo 14
Total reviews 537
First review

We’re very happy with it; the theme runs smoothly and looks great on mobile too. We’d like to have a few more customisation options here and there, but we’ve already managed to sort out a lot using ‘custom CSS’ with the help of the excellent support team.

B
Brauerei Lemke Berlin
Sep 14, 2026

Venue works for our business needs. The Safe as Milk team (Dean R-S and Modestas U) is super prompt and solutions-driven pre and post implementation. They were incredibly responsive and knowledgeable during the configuration process, and made setting it up for our business a breeze.

A
Art Republiq
Jun 3, 2026

This theme works great for my shop and the support has been incredibly helpful the couple times that I've needed assistance. I would definitely recommend!

R
Ritual Colorado
May 5, 2026

Really pleased with the Venue (Morning) theme. Have to give FIVE STARS for amazing communication from the Safe As Milk development team (Misha). I made a suggestion to add a "Send On " feature for eGift cards in the Theme. The developers acknowledged the suggestion immediately and kept in contact to let me know when it was released. That's a brilliant customer experience. Well done!

M
Mystery Day Trips
Mar 27, 2026

This theme is great and offers a lot of customization options. What I really love is their support team, they’re super helpful and reliable. I wish they had live chat support, but their email support is excellent. They always respond within 24 hours, which I really appreciate. Thanks so much!

M
Method Spaces
Feb 25, 2026

The Venue theme is just what our business needed. It has plenty of options to customize the look and feel, keeping our store unique from other shops. Plus the support team is over the top helpful and quick to respond, their customer service is 100% amazing! Anyone on the fence deciding between themes look no further, this theme and support team are incredible.

H
His House Collective
Feb 18, 2026

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