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Lifestyle Banners

Menu Location: Products > Lifestyle Banners

Overview

Lifestyle Banners are full-width promotional banners - a heading, body copy, an optional button, and either a background color or a background image. They appear on the account Welcome page, rotating in after every third shoppable category row, when Shoppable product rows on the Welcome page is turned on.

The page has two views: a list of all banners as preview cards (with Shown/Hidden status and reorder/delete controls), and a single-banner editor for adding or changing one banner's content and look. Banner content and copy can also be generated with AI instead of writing it by hand.

Primary Features:

  • List view: preview cards showing exactly how each banner will render, with a Shown/Hidden badge
  • Reorder (move up/down), edit, and delete banners directly from the list
  • Single-banner editor with a live preview as you type
  • Heading, body copy, button text/link, background color, text color, background image
  • Upload a background image, or generate one with AI
  • Generate with AI - Claude writes a complete new banner (heading, copy, button) grounded in your business name, shop categories, and brand color, with an optional prompt to steer tone or focus
  • Enable/disable a banner without deleting it

Where Customers See It

Banners appear on the account Welcome page (home/welcome) when Shoppable product rows on the Welcome page (config key welcome_shop_rows, set on the Store Settings page) is turned on, rotating in after every third product-category row as the page loads more rows. A background image always wins over a background color; leave the image blank to use the solid color instead.

Managing Banners

The List Page

Go to Products > Lifestyle Banners. Each banner shows as a card with its live-rendered preview (heading, copy, button, and background) plus:

  • A Shown or Hidden badge (a hidden banner's preview is dimmed)
  • Edit - opens the single-banner editor
  • Move up / Move down - changes rotation order
  • Delete (with a confirmation prompt)

Click New banner to open the editor with a blank banner.

The Editor

Opened via New banner or Edit on a card (?edit=<key> or ?edit=new). Fields:

  • Banner heading and Shown checkbox (a hidden banner is kept but never displayed)
  • Body copy - one or two sentences
  • Button text (leave blank for no button) and Button link
  • Background color and Text color (color pickers, or type a hex value)
  • Background image - type a filename, Upload image, or AI image (see below)
  • A live preview that updates as you edit

Click Save banner to save and return to the list, or Cancel to discard changes.

Reordering, Hiding, and Deleting

Use the Move up / Move down buttons on the list page to change rotation order, or the Shown checkbox in the editor to hide a banner without losing its content. Delete on the list page removes a banner permanently after a confirmation prompt.

Generating a Banner with AI

Click Generate with AI on the list page. Claude already knows your business name, real shop categories, and brand color, so it writes copy specific to your business rather than generic filler. You can optionally type a prompt in the modal to steer it - for example, "Promote our summer stone fruit, warm and playful tone, link to the fruit category" - or leave it blank for a grounded default banner.

The generated banner (heading, copy, button text/link, and a color scheme) is appended to your banner list, and you're taken straight to its editor to review, adjust, and save.

If generation fails ("Could not generate a banner - try adding a short prompt describing what you want"), your store doesn't have enough to ground the copy in yet (no company name and no shop categories) - add a short prompt describing what you want, or make sure your shop categories are set up, then try again.

Generating a Background Image with AI

Inside the banner editor, click AI image next to the background image field. Describe the scene you want (e.g. "Fresh sweet corn on a rustic wooden farm table, warm morning light"), then click Generate image. It produces a photographic image sized to the banner's wide aspect ratio (so less gets cropped away than a standard square image would), with no text or lettering baked in, and drops the result straight into the background image field. The banner is auto-saved so the new image isn't lost if you navigate away.

If image generation isn't available, the store's Stability API key isn't configured - contact support to enable AI image generation.

Common Use Cases

Add a banner by hand

Click New banner, fill in a heading, copy, and optionally a button and colors or image, then Save banner.

Quickly generate a themed banner

Click Generate with AI, type a short prompt describing the promotion or season, and let Claude draft the heading, copy, and button - then fine-tune it in the editor before saving.

Refresh a banner's look without rewriting the copy

Open the banner in the editor and use AI image to generate a new background photo, or pick new background/text colors, without touching the heading or copy.

Temporarily pull a banner from rotation

Uncheck Shown in the editor (or note its Hidden badge on the list) instead of deleting it, so it can be re-enabled later without recreating it.

Troubleshooting

"Could not generate a banner - try adding a short prompt describing what you want"

The AI has nothing to ground the copy in - your business name and shop categories are both unset. Type a prompt describing what to promote, or set up shop categories first.

"Image generation is not configured (no Stability API key)"

AI background-image generation isn't enabled for this store - contact support.

A banner isn't appearing on the Welcome page

  • Confirm the banner's Shown checkbox is checked (not Hidden)
  • Confirm Shoppable product rows on the Welcome page (welcome_shop_rows) is turned on
  • Banners rotate in after every third category row, so with few categories a banner may not appear on every visit
  • Store - shop categories, which feed the AI banner generator's grounding context
  • Store Settings: Shoppable product rows on the Welcome page (welcome_shop_rows) - controls whether banners appear on the Welcome page at all

Recent Updates

2026-07-22

  • Reworked the page from a single long all-banners form into a list view (preview cards, Shown/Hidden badge, move up/down, delete) plus a dedicated single-banner editor
  • Added Generate with AI - Claude drafts a complete new banner (heading, copy, button) grounded in the store's name, shop categories, and brand color, with an optional free-text prompt to steer tone or focus
  • Added AI background-image generation inside the editor - describe a scene and it generates a photographic image sized to the banner's wide aspect ratio and saves it automatically