Foundry is a highly flexible Big Cartel template that adapts beautifully to stores with multiple categories and diverse product lines, offering a clean, customizable layout that fits a wide range of shop styles.
Quick Look: Foundry at a Glance
Ideal for: Foundry has been specifically designed with clothing brands in mind, but can be easily adapted to accommodate any store with multiple categories and a wide range of products.
Core features:
- Responsive design: Optimized for seamless performance on both desktop and mobile devices.
- Home page display: Full-screen welcome image with customizable welcome message and tagline displayed on top.
- Category showcase: Highlight up to 10 featured categories on the Home page.
- Product sharing: Share buttons for Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest on Product pages.
- Logo display: Display your store's logo in the header.
- Search button: Show a search button in the header for easy access.
- Product name display: Option to show product names and prices on rollover or underneath the thumbnail images.
- Convenient cart access: Dropdown shopping bag provides customers with a quick view of their purchases without leaving the page.
- Variant inventory: Choose to show or hide sold-out product variants in the Product page dropdown menus.
- Text and translations: Customize buttons, navigation labels, and other system text—or translate your shop into different languages.
Explore more about Foundry below.
Image Specs
.png, .gif, .jpg .jpeg are all supported image file types. Be sure your images don't exceed 10MB.
Header logo | 200 x 50 pixels |
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Welcome image | 1000 pixel range or larger |
Template Essentials
View a full list of everything Foundry has to offer.
Navigation and layout
Adjust and organize your shop’s header, footer, main navigation menus, and overall page layout to create a cohesive and user-friendly browsing experience.
Header logo | Good for a logo up to 60 pixels high |
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Show search | Shows the product search area |
Transparent header on welcome image | Makes the header background transparent when a welcome image is present, allowing the image to show through |
Shop header menu style for custom pages in desktop view | Choose how your custom pages appear in your shop's header menu. |
Custom pages header dropdown text | The label for your dropdown menu containing custom pages |
Maximum categories per row | The maximum number of Home page categories displayed per row |
Maximum categories per row (mobile) | The maximum number of Home page categories displayed per row on smaller screens |
Product grid image style | Control how product images display in product grids |
Maximum products per row | The maximum number of products displayed per row on larger screens |
Maximum products per row (mobile) | The number of products displayed per row on smaller screens |
Products per page | The number of products shown at a time on the Products page |
Hide Big Cartel logo in footer and menus (premium feature) | Choose whether to show attribution to Big Cartel in your shop design |
Show categories in footer | Display product category links in your footer |
Show custom pages in footer | Display links to your custom pages in your footer |
Footer text | Show a custom message in your footer |
Homepage
Design and control your homepage layout to spotlight your brand just the way you envision it.
Welcome image | Displays a full screen image on the Home page |
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Welcome text | Home page message for your visitors, use this with a welcome image |
Welcome button text | Displays underneath the welcome text on the Home page, links to your Products page |
Welcome overlay opacity | Adjust the homepage welcome image to enhance the legibility of your welcome text and button |
Homepage tagline | Home page tagline, displays above the featured header |
Featured video URL | Displays a featured video on the Home page. Supports YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch and direct video links. |
Featured products | The number of products displayed on the Home page |
Featured products order | The order of products on the Home page |
Display categories on homepage | Displays categories as a grid on the Home page |
Featured categories | The number of categories displayed on the Home page |
Display style of home page featured categories | Sets the display of images in the product grid |
Display position of Home page featured categories | Shows the featured categories at the top or bottom of the Home page |
Products
Control the layout and display settings of your product pages, including image placement, product details, pricing, and how customers interact with your listings.
Price display | Sets how prices appear in your shop |
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Show prices for sold out products | Show the price of sold out products on product grids and product pages |
Show prices for coming soon products | Show the price of coming soon products on product grids and product pages |
Enable product image zoom | Click to open a larger version of the Product page image |
Desktop product page images | Sets the display of the Product page gallery |
Mobile product page image carousel | Choose to hide or show thumbnails on the mobile Product page carousel |
Show related products | Displays related products on Product pages |
Number of related products | The number of related products to show on the Product page |
Related products order | Top sellersThe order of related products on the Product pages |
Show sold out product variants | Shows sold out product variants in the product page dropdowns |
Show inventory bars | Shows a product's inventory amounts (when using inventory tracking) |
Show product stock alerts | Show shoppers alerts on Product pages when it's running low on stock |
Low stock alert | When stock drops below this number, a low stock message appears. "Almost sold out" at half |
Buy Now, Pay Later Messaging | Show payment options prior to checkout on product and cart pages. Learn more |
Shop announcements
Personalize the messages that appear on your shop’s announcement banners, contact page, cart page, and maintenance screen—so you can keep customers informed, on-brand, and maybe even entertained at every step.
Announcement banner | Displays an announcement message on the top of every page. Accepts HTML for links and styling. |
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Contact page | Displays a message at the top of your contact page. Accepts HTML for links and styling. |
Cart page | Displays a message at the top your cart page when there are items in the cart. Accepts HTML for links and styling. |
Maintenance mode message | A message visitors see when your shop is in Maintenance Mode. Accepts HTML for links and styling. |
Social Media
Connect with customers by sharing your social media accounts
Supported social media links | Stay connected by adding your social links to your shop: Instagram, TikTok, Bluesky, Threads, X, Facebook, Snapchat, Pinterest, YouTube, Spotify, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Bandcamp |
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Text and translations
Edit default text across your shop—like buttons, navigation links, and system messages—or translate everything into another language to better connect with your audience.
Language for text in your shop | Language to use for translations |
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Translation mode | Select how text appears throughout your shop. Automatic uses default translations; Manual allows custom edits for improved translation or messaging. |
Miscellaneous
Adjust extra template options to fine-tune your shop’s design and layout.
Rounded corners | Controls the rounded corner style on images and other site elements |
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Shop sprinkles | Add a fun, animated emoji sprinkle effect to your shop |
Steps
Heads up! If you are switching from another template, follow this guide to help you seamlessly switch to the Foundry template.
- Log in at my.bigcartel.com.
- Go to Customize design.
- Click the Themes tab in the top left corner.
- Click Foundry.
- Click Save to apply the changes or Exit to leave without saving.