Beacon
$100one-time
For: Stores with a big catalog: many departments, brands and products.
- General stores
- Toys & games
- Beauty
- Electronics
- Home & garden
Made for Shopify
Beacon
For stores with a bit of everything.
Built for shops with big, varied catalogs — thousands of products, hundreds of brands and prices that change fast. An always-open search, a mega menu that grows with your departments, and a slideshow that schedules itself keep shoppers moving.
- Price $100
- Current version 1.2.1
- 5 color palettes
- What's new
Selling to trade buyers? Beacon for Wholesale
- Seasonal Marketing Calendar
- Mega Menu
- Designed for Shopify
Comes in 5 color palettes
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Features
What's in Beacon.
Built for stores with hundreds of products and brands. Here's a quick look — each feature has its own section below.
Five color palettesRecolor the whole store in one click; your fonts, corners and content stay put.
Every page typeProduct, collection, search, Brands, contact, help, blog, 404, gift card and password pages.
Designed for ShopifySubscriptions, swatches, B2B pricing, pickup availability, gift card recipients and Follow on Shop.
Accessible and fastKeyboard and screen-reader friendly, respects reduced motion, AA contrast in every palette.
5color palettes, one click
Megamenus with price shortcuts
365days of self-scheduling slides
AAWCAG contrast in every palette
Slideshow
A slideshow that runs your marketing calendar.
Beacon's slideshow is your marketing plan for the year. Make custom slides for every holiday, month, campaign or event, tell each one when to show, and it switches itself — this year and every year after.
- Custom marketing slidesYour own image or animated GIF, a separate phone image, heading, text, button and color scheme on every slide.
- By holiday, month, campaign or eventPick from 20 US holidays, a month, or set your own start and end dates for a sale, a launch or an event.
- Start and end, your wayExact dates (2026-11-20 to 2026-12-02) for a one-off campaign, or month-day (12-15 to 01-10) to repeat every year — even across New Year.
- Repeats every yearHolidays that move, like Easter, Mother's Day and Thanksgiving, are worked out automatically each year.
- Weighting for overlapsWhen several slides are live on the same day, priority decides the order: Urgent, High priority, Priority, Preferred, Normal, Low.
- Preview any dateIn the editor, pick a date to see exactly which slides show that day, with the whole schedule listed.
Where: Home page → Slideshow → each slide's Show during and PriorityHow to set it up →
Free shipping, every day
Always on
New Year's Day
Dec 18 – Jan 1
Valentine's Day
Jan 31 – Feb 14
Easter
2 weeks before · moves every year
Summer sale campaign
Custom · Jul 1 – Jul 20
October
Month · all October
Halloween
Oct 17 – Oct 31
Black Friday
2 weeks before · moves every year
Gift guide launch
Custom · Dec 1 – Dec 24
Mega menu
Room for every department.
Built for stores with lots of departments. Your main menu becomes a mega menu on computers and a tidy list on phones — no matter how long it gets.
- Many departmentsDepartments, their categories, and a third level shown as groups inside each panel.
- Columns that wrap themselvesWhen a department's list would run off the screen, it flows into a second column automatically. You choose how many links per column.
- A featured find in every panelEach department can show a featured product beside its links.
- Under $X quick linksUnder $5, Under $10 and more in every department panel — set your own amounts.
- Category chips on phonesA swipeable row of departments under the header.
Where: Online Store → Navigation → Main menu, and the Header sectionHow to set it up →
Search
A search bar that's always in reach.
On a store with thousands of products, search is how people shop. Beacon keeps a full search bar in the header — never hidden behind an icon.
- Live suggestionsProducts, collections and pages appear as shoppers type.
- Popular searchesQuick suggestions before anyone types, like “headphones, candles, lego”.
- A results page with filtersResults with price, availability and brand filters, and tabs for products and pages.
Where: Header → Popular searchesHow to set it up →
Collections
Filters, plus Under $X in one tap.
Collections built for browsing big ranges: a filter sidebar, sub-category links from your menu, and price shortcuts for shoppers who start with a budget.
- Under $X quick filtersUnder $5, Under $10, Under $25 — or any amounts you like, one tap each.
- Real filtersAvailability, price, brand, product type, color and size from Shopify's free Search & Discovery app.
- Shop by price tilesUnder $5 / $10 / $25 tiles on the home page that link to price-filtered collections.
- Quick addAdd to cart from any card, with quantities that never exceed stock.
Where: Collection page → Price stepsHow to set it up →
Brands
Every brand, found as you type.
A Brands page that lists every name you carry. Shoppers type and the list filters instantly — no Enter key, no page reload.
- Search that reactsThe brand finder filters the list on every keystroke.
- Logo gridFeatured brands from your menu's Brands item, each with its logo.
- A–Z for every vendorEvery brand in your store, by letter, with a jump bar.
Where: Online Store → Pages → Brands, with the brands templateHow to set it up →
Cart
A free-shipping goal shoppers can see.
Shoppers see how close they are to free shipping, and small add-ons to get there are one tap away.
- Free-shipping progressIn the cart and on product pages, updating as items are added.
- Add-onsSuggest small extras from a collection you choose.
- Drawer or pageA cart that slides in, or a full cart page — with order notes, discount codes and express checkout.
Where: Theme settings → CartHow to set it up →
Back to top
Back to the top in one tap.
Big catalogs mean long pages. A back-to-top button appears once shoppers scroll down, so they never have to swipe all the way back up.
- Shows when it's neededAppears on long pages after half a screen of scrolling.
- Yours to switchTurn it on or off, and pick its color scheme.
Where: Theme settings → Interactions → Back to top button
Color palettes
5 color palettes, one click.
Pick a palette and the whole store recolors. Palettes change colors only — your fonts, corner shapes and content stay as you set them.
Beacon
Deep navy header over a lighter navy menu bar, bright orange buttons. Uses your color schemes, so it's fully editable.
Every palette passes WCAG AA contrast out of the box.
Merchant guides
Run a store with a big catalog.
Checklists you can work through, one at a time. For every setting, see the documentation.
Launch day checklist
Everything to check before you publish Beacon.
- 01Pick a color palette (Theme settings → Colors → Color palette), then your fonts under Typography.
- 02Add your logo and favicon under Theme settings → Logo.
- 03Build your main menu: departments, then categories, then groups.
- 04Install Search & Discovery and choose your filters.
- 05Set the free-shipping goal and an add-ons collection under Theme settings → Cart.
- 06Replace every section's sample content, preview on a phone and a computer, then publish.
Two editions
What's included
Beacon and Beacon Wholesale are sold separately, each with its own license.
- The theme file to upload to your store
- Its color palettes
- Seven languages, with right-to-left support
- Full documentation
- 12 months of updates and email support
- Use on one live store, plus development and staging copies
- The theme keeps working after the 12 months
Read the full Beacon license.
Beacon Wholesale
$130one-time
For: Wholesalers and trade suppliers: reordering by the case, trade accounts, B2B pricing.
- Wholesale
- Trade suppliers
- Restaurant supply
Documentation
Set up Beacon, section by section.
Colors and fonts, header and mega menu, the slideshow, filters, product pages, cart and more, with the exact setting names.
Read the docs SupportHelp with this theme.
Send us your question and we'll reply within 2 business days, from the people who built Beacon.
Get helpBeacon 1.2.1