Changelog

These notes describe the current development build. Published release entries will include their release date and changes when available.

Mercer has not yet been submitted to the Shopify Theme Store and is not approved or available to buy or install. No release date or feature-delivery date is announced.

1.0.0 — development build

A summary of the features currently implemented in Mercer. This entry is not a dated public-release announcement.

Presets and customization

• Five designed presets: Mercer, Tactility, Confetti, Poise, and Gridline, with their own starting template compositions.
• Style accents → Style changes color, shape, spacing, and interface accents without replacing fonts or section layouts. Shopify’s theme-style selector applies presentation settings, including colors and fonts; preset template layouts are supplied at install time.
• Shopify font pickers for display and body typography.
• Five named schemes: default, editorial-dark, warm-neutral, accent-pop, and soft-contrast. Available on supported sections; see Color schemes for the supported sections.
• Header mega-menu image, collection, product, and promo blocks, attached to a top-level link by its URL. On desktop the header switches to the menu drawer when its top-level links don’t fit on one line.

The preset font defaults are:

Sections and merchandising

• Signature hero sections, slideshow, image with text, featured products and collections, multi-column content, testimonials, and pull quotes.
• Image hotspots, lookbooks, before/after image reveals, press coverage, collection navigation, promotional banners, and promotional tiles.
• Featured blog, video, FAQ, newsletter, and Custom Liquid sections.
• Product, collection, search, cart, blog, article, contact, FAQ, gift-card, password, and standard page templates.
• Collection and search filters, including swatch/image presentation when Shopify supplies that filter data, plus predictive search.

See the Section reference for placement restrictions, settings, and block options.

Product and cart features

• Product image galleries, image zoom, hosted and external video, and interactive 3D models. No separate “View in your space” AR button is implemented.
• Variant selection, Shopify swatches, sale and unit pricing, selling-plan selection, quantity controls, and accelerated payment buttons when eligible.
• Quick view and quick-add, with full-product-page fallbacks for gift cards, required selling plans, and large or incompletely loaded variant sets.
• Pickup availability from Shopify’s selected-variant data, including single-location pickup; a location dialog appears for multiple entries.
• Gift-card recipient fields and scheduled delivery through Shopify’s native gift-card flow.
• Back-in-stock request forms. These collect requests; they do not automatically notify customers when inventory returns.
• Related products and recently viewed products. The product page’s complementary recommendations read custom.pairs_with when populated, with Shopify recommendations as a fallback.
• Cart drawer with quantity updates, notes, and discount display.
• An optional gift-wrap checkbox on the cart page and drawer. It records a cart preference and adds no charge. The cart page also supports a separate gift-wrap product block for merchants who sell wrapping as a single-variant product.
• A tax and shipping note below the cart subtotal on the cart page and drawer. It reflects whether prices include tax and duties, for example “Tax included. Shipping calculated at checkout.” Text in the cart page’s Shipping note block appears as an extra line below it.
• Cart drawer cross-sell reads custom.complementary from the first cart line’s product. This is separate from the product-page custom.pairs_with field and has no recommendation fallback.
• Optional free-shipping progress messaging, shown while the shopper uses the store’s primary currency (the threshold is not converted). Configure actual shipping rates in Shopify; the theme’s threshold does not create a shipping offer.

See Product pages and Gift cards for setup and behavior details.

B2B

• Company/location switcher for signed-in B2B buyers. Shopify determines catalog access and prices for the active company location; there is no separate catalog-switching interface.
• Quantity-rule summaries on the PDP, Quick view, and B2B quick order, with quantity controls respecting the selected variant’s rules.
• Volume price-break display and a merchant-addable B2B quick-order grid.
• Payment-term and purchase-order messaging using the documented mercer_b2b company-location metafields. These display values must be kept in sync with the store’s native B2B configuration.

Available platform capabilities depend on the store’s Shopify plan and configuration. See B2B for requirements and limits.

Markets and languages

• Country/language switchers and an optional first-visit country suggestion prompt, based on Shopify localization data.
• Active-currency price display. The optional round-up disclosure adds a label; it does not round prices.
• Shopify-generated hreflang through the required platform header output; Mercer does not add a second set of alternates.
• French, German, Italian, and Spanish storefront and Theme Editor locale packs alongside English. These are AI-assisted drafts pending native-speaker review.
• RTL direction, drawer motion, and gallery/scroller behavior for recognized RTL locales. Validate your published language and content before launch.

See Markets for publication steps and configuration.

Versioning

Published Mercer theme updates are available free through Shopify to licensed Theme Store customers when released. There is no fixed release schedule.

Mercer uses semantic versioning to distinguish changes:

• Major (1.x → 2.0): breaking changes that can require merchant re-setup.
• Minor (1.0 → 1.1): new sections, blocks, or settings and compatible enhancements.
• Patch (1.0.0 → 1.0.1): fixes and refinements within the existing feature set.

A version number does not guarantee that every customization will transfer automatically. Shopify can preserve compatible code edits in an updated draft, while conflicts may require manual copying. Back up your current theme, review the draft, and preview it before publishing. See Shopify’s theme-update guide .

Custom-code migration and bespoke development are outside standard theme support. Send suggestions through the support form, choosing Feature request; a request does not guarantee a feature or delivery date.