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Catalog & Navigation

Everything a shopper browses comes from your BigCommerce catalog. This page covers what your storefront reads, how it's presented, and the handful of settings that change that presentation.

What your storefront reads​

From BigCommerceWhere it appears
Categories and the category treeNavigation menu, category landing pages, footer links
BrandsFooter, and optionally the header
ProductsListing pages, product detail pages, search results
Prices, including sale pricesListings, product pages, cart
Stock and availabilityProduct pages and listings
Automatic promotionsCart totals
CurrencyEverywhere a price is shown
Store name, contact details, social linksHeader and footer
Assign everything to your channel

Products and categories are channel-scoped in BigCommerce. If something isn't visible to your Evolve channel it won't appear on your storefront, however correct it looks in the BigCommerce admin. This is the single most common cause of "a product is missing", so check channel visibility first.

Your main navigation menu is generated from your BigCommerce category tree. There's no separate menu to maintain: reorder or rename a category in BigCommerce and the menu follows.

How many levels appear is controlled by the navigationDepth setting, which defaults to three. Raise it to expose deeper subcategories, lower it for a simpler menu. See Store Settings.

The footer is assembled from three sources:

Footer columnSource
CategoriesYour BigCommerce category tree
BrandsYour BigCommerce brands, controlled by the footerBrands setting
PagesYour BigCommerce web pages

Social icons come from your BigCommerce social media settings, and are matched automatically to the right platform.

To add a brands entry to the header as well, enable headerBrands.

Listing pages​

Category and search listings share the same presentation:

  • Facets and filters built from your product attributes, so shoppers can narrow by the things you actually sell.
  • Sorting by relevance, name, best selling, top rated and newest.
  • Add to cart from the listing, controlled by the plpAddToCart setting. It's on for category listings and off for search results by default, which you can invert or override per category.
  • Pagination as shoppers work through a large category.

Search runs against your BigCommerce catalog and includes:

  • Type-ahead suggestions as the shopper types.
  • Faceted results with the same filters as category listings.
  • Voice search — a microphone in the search box on browsers that support it, controlled by voiceSearch and on by default.
Visual search

Evolve Image Search adds a camera icon to the search box, so shoppers can find products by uploading or taking a photo. That helps most in catalogs where shoppers know what something looks like but not what it's called.

Pricing and promotions​

List price and sale price are both read from BigCommerce, and where a product is on sale the storefront shows the list price struck through alongside the current price.

Automatic promotions configured in BigCommerce are reflected in cart totals. The discount line is hidden when it's zero, which you can change with hideDiscountIfZero.

Promo codes are entered at checkout

The storefront's in-cart promo code field is off for BigCommerce stores. Because checkout runs on BigCommerce, shoppers enter discount codes there. Make sure your marketing tells them so. "Enter code SUMMER at checkout" is accurate; "enter code in your cart" is not. See Shopper Accounts & Checkout.

Prices are visible to unauthenticated visitors by default. If you sell to trade only, guestSeePrices hides them until a shopper signs in. Note that this also removes price from social link previews. See SEO.

Currency​

Your storefront displays prices in the currency BigCommerce returns for your channel. Multi-currency selection on the storefront isn't available today. If you need it, talk to us.

See also​