Introducing Sidecar, a fresh and innovative template designed to showcase your products in the best possible way. With its various product display options for the home page and a fixed sidebar that remains visible as customers navigate your store, Sidecar offers a seamless and engaging shopping experience.
Quick Look: Sidecar at a Glance
Ideal for: Sidecar is perfect for sellers who offer a wide range of product categories and prioritize easy navigation for their customers.
Core features:
- Responsive design: Optimized for a flawless performance on any desktop or mobile device.
- Product inventory display: Showcase product inventory bars on product pages. Background image: Display a repeating background image on every page.
- Product image display: Choose from adjustable grid sizes to showcase your products.
- Fixed sidebar display: Keep the sidebar in place as customers scroll down the page for easy access.
- Secondary product images: Utilize an image carousel on the product page.
- Text and translations: Customize buttons, navigation labels, and other system text—or translate your shop into different languages.
- Product search: Include a search field in the shop dropdown navigation for convenient searching.
- Social Media integration: Add links to Instagram, Tiktok, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and YouTube in the footer.
Explore more about Sidecar below.
Image Specs
.png, .gif, .jpg .jpeg are all supported image file types. Be sure your images don't exceed 10MB -
Logo | 180 x 180px square logo recommended |
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Slideshow image size | Use same-sized images, minimum 900px wide. |
Template Essentials
View a full list of everything Sidecar 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 Image | 180 x 180px square logo recommended |
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Show search | Shows a search link in the sidebar |
Products per page | The number of products displayed per page |
Product grid image size | Sets the size of product image thumbnails |
Product grid image style | Sets the display of thumbnail images |
Product grid info | Shows a product's name & price on hover or under the image |
Hide Big Cartel logo in footer and menus (premium feature) | Choose whether to show attribution to Big Cartel in your shop design |
Footer text | Show a custom message in your shop's footer. Accepts HTML for links and styling. |
Homepage
Design and control your homepage layout to spotlight your brand just the way you envision it.
Slideshow | Adds slideshow to the homepage. Use same-sized images, minimum 900px wide. |
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Auto-play homepage slideshow | Automatically advances slides in the homepage slideshow |
Slideshow speed | Controls how quickly slides advance in the auto-playing slideshow |
Welcome message | Displays a message on the Home page |
Featured products | The number of products displayed on 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 |
Show sold out product variants | Shows sold out product variants in the product page dropdowns |
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 |
Related products | The maximum number of related products to show on Product pages |
Related products order | Top sellersThe order of related products on the Product pages |
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.
Background image | Adds a repeating background image |
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Rounded corners | Controls the rounded corner style on images and other site elements |
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 Sidecar template.
- Log in at my.bigcartel.com.
- Go to shop designer.
- Click the Themes tab in the top left corner.
- Click Sidecar.
- Click Done, then Publish to apply the changes or Exit to leave without saving.