Neat is a theme that focuses on photography, while easily grouping products into collections. It’s a versatile theme with features that encourage beautiful customization and will complement any shop with high-quality images.
Quick Look: Neat at a glance
Ideal for: Sellers looking for a fun, fresh, and visually bold theme with a built-in lookbook to beautifully present a curated collection of their products.
Core features:
- Style & Branding: Choose from preset palettes or tailor colors to match your unique branding.
- Bold Header Display: Showcase a large header image with adjustable height to make a strong visual impact.
- Feature products branding: Choose which products to feature and customize homepage greetings and button text.
- Dynamic Slideshow: Upload up to 50 images to create a homepage slideshow and set the speed for seamless transitions to visually narrate your brand story.
- Social Media Integration: Add links to your social profiles, making it easy for customers to connect with you.
- Custom Banner Messaging: Add announcements, slogans, or promotional messages to highlight key info on your shop pages.
- .Product image zoom: Let customers get a closer look at your items.
- Localize: Translate your shop's buttons and text into your preferred language.
Explore more about Neat below.
Image Specs
.png, .gif, .jpg .jpeg are all supported image file types. Be sure your images don't exceed 10MB - Neat supports a small logo image.
Header image | 208 x 65 px |
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Slideshow images | 900 x 500px recommended |
Template Essentials
View a full list of everything Neat 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.
Logo | Transparent background recommended. Minimum size 208 x 65 px. |
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Header logo size | Controls the maximum size of your header logo. |
Show search | Toggles the product search bar visibility in the header. |
Navigation items | The number of custom page links shown in the main navigation. |
Product grid image style | Set how images appear in the product grid. |
Maximum products per row (desktop) | The 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 total number of products shown on the Products page at one time. |
Enable category collections | Switches from a traditional product list to category-based collections. |
Show categories navigation on category pages | Shows a list of categories below the heading on category pages. |
Hide Big Cartel logo in footer and menus | Toggle to hide attribution to Big Cartel in your shop's footer and menu. |
Footer text | Add a custom message in your footer; HTML allowed for links and formatting. |
Homepage
Design and control your homepage layout to spotlight your brand just the way you envision it.
Slideshow | Adds a full-screen slideshow to the homepage |
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Auto-play homepage slideshow | Automatically advances slides in the homepage slideshow |
Slideshow speed | Controls how quickly slides advance in auto-play |
Welcome header | Welcome header for the Home page |
Welcome subheader | Welcome subheader for the Home page |
Welcome button text | Displays under welcome text and links to the Products page |
Featured subheader | Subheader underneath the Featured header on Home page |
Slideshow overlay effect | Enhances legibility of menu items and headers |
Featured products | Number of products shown on the homepage |
Featured products order | Defines how products are ordered |
Product page
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 | Display price on product grids and pages even if the item is sold out |
Show prices for coming soon products | Display price on product grids and pages for upcoming items |
Enable product image zoom | Allows users to click and enlarge product images on the Product page |
Desktop product page images | Defines the layout for the desktop Product page gallery |
Mobile product page image carousel | Option to show/hide image thumbnails in mobile view |
Show inventory bars | Displays remaining stock for products if inventory tracking is enabled |
Show sold out product variants | Enables visibility of sold out variants in dropdown selectors |
Show related products | Displays additional product suggestions on the Product page |
Related products | Maximum number of related items shown |
Related products order | Sort order for displaying related products |
Show product stock alerts | Notifies shoppers when stock is running low |
Low stock alert | Triggers alert when stock drops below this threshold; "Almost sold out" message shows at 5 |
Buy Now, Pay Later Messaging | Promotes available payment options before checkout on product and cart pages |
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 a message on the top of every page. Accepts HTML for links and styling |
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Contact page | Displays a message on your contact page. Accepts HTML for links and styling |
Cart page | Displays a message at the top of your cart page when there are items in the cart. Accepts HTML |
Maintenance mode message | Message shown in Maintenance Mode. Accepts HTML |
Social media
Customers can easily find you on social media
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.
Text and translations | Customize system text like buttons and navigation labels, or translate your shop into different languages |
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Translation mode | Automatic or manual translation supported |
Miscellaneous
Adjust extra template options to fine-tune your shop’s design and layout.
Shop Sprinkles | Adds a fun, animated emoji sprinkle effect to your shop |
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Steps
Heads up! If you are switching from another template, follow this guide to help you seamlessly switch to the Neat template.
- Log in at my.bigcartel.com.
- Go to shop Designer.
- Click the Themes tab in the top left corner.
- Click Neat.
- Click Save to apply the changes or Exit to leave without saving.