New Features: Themes And Sections
We’re working hard to keep on improving Payhip, building the features that will help you make your store a success.
We’re happy to be announcing some new features that will help make your store better match your branding.
1) New Themes
For the longest time you’ve only had 1 theme to work with which was far too limiting. We’ve now introduced 7 new themes that you can choose between to help put your branding front and center.
Visit this page to see all the available themes and if you’d like to switch themes please see this article.
2) New Sections
We’ve also added some new section types:
Embed Code Section
Embed HTML/JS code from any third party platform on your store – from instagram posts, music players, video embeds and much more. This section helps make your store more interactive by integrating embeds from any service online. The only requirement is that you would need to have a custom domain enabled on your store.
Ticker Section
Do you have some information for your store visitors that you’d like to make prominent? The ticker section would be perfect for this. You can display some text that will continuously scroll across the page, making it easy to notice. You’ll also be able to link to a page from this ticker to provide a clear call-to-action.
Video Section (V2)
With the newer version of the video section you’ll be able to display a high quality thumbnail of the video which fits in naturally with the rest of your store. Visitors can click this thumbnail to reveal the video in a slick way. A far better approach which is more responsive than the older video section.
Collage Section
A collage section lets you place products, collection, images and videos in a side-by-side approach which gives your store a nice design flair. Here’s an example of how it can look like:
You can preview this section type on the Cream Theme
Double Image Headline Section
This is another type of section that helps make your content stand out. Your content has a background of two images which can complement eachother. Here’s an example below:
You can preview this section type on the Echoes theme
3) Header Call To Action Button
Sometimes you might want to immediately draw the attention of visitors to something on your store. For example you might have launched a new product, or would like to make it super clear to visitors that they can book your services. Now you can add a button to your header to help with these kinds of scenarios.
You can visit your store builder, click on the header section, and then next click on the “Elements” link. Finally you can check the “Show call to action button” checkbox.
4) New Languages
We now have support for Arabic, Norwegian and Swedish. We’ll be working on more languages in future for sure – watch this space!
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Good afternoon,
I love the new added editions. However, I would like to make a request for CREATING YOUR OWN NEW DOMAIN.. If this is already available, can you please direct me to it.
Thank you and yes! This feature is available here. You can connect any domain or subdomain to Payhip: https://help.payhip.com/article/206-custom-domain
I love platforms that evolve
Thank you Marina! We are always trying to improve 🙂
great stuff.
Thanks
Jay
Thank you Jay 🙂
Hello, love these new features, been waiting for them.
I would like to request for feature that is not yet available. An audio player for products that are in audio format. This would let customers preview the product more quickly that just using an embedded audio player.
Hi Ric, thank for your kind words! 🙂 I have taken note of your feature request and will pass this on to the team. I know you said an “embedded audio player” won’t do the job – can you let us know more by sending an email to contact@payhip.com please.
thanks for doing this. i am enjoying working on my humble Payhip store
Thank you Jameson! Great things always have humble beginnings 🙂
Awesome modern designs. Great stuff 🙂
Thank you Tom! 🙂
Love these updates. Thanks
Wohoo! Thank you Darowan! 🙂
You guys are giving the very costly services some serious competition! I love it!!
Thank you Michele! 😊
This is awesome!
Thanks for the updates. Definitely worth brainstorming new shop ideas now.
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Thank you Igor 🥰
Awesome, updates. Great news all round. Well done, guys!
Thank you 🙏
Hi,
My customers buy digital products without creating an account. After a few days, they create an account and ask me to add the products that were purchased earlier to the email ID. But I need to learn how to do it from the dashboard. There are options, where the customers can do it from their side to list the products.
Can the seller link the previously purchased product to the newly created account?
Hi Hema,
At this time, only the buyers have the ability to associate those older products with their newly created customer accounts. They can do this by visiting one of their old download pages, then they’ll see a light blue box there asking them to add this product to their customer account. More on that here: Customer Accounts
Great job everyone at Payhip! Looking forward to testing out both the new themes and blocks.
I’m not sure if this is an option, but can I create and save my own themes? And could those themes be downloaded/uploaded back into Payhip? If not, I’d love to reaquest that as a feature! I will be designing pages for clients and the ability to provide them with a template would be fabuous. Thanks, all.
Hi Mike, thank you and great idea! This is a plan we have too to allow themes to be downloadable and uploadable and shareable! We will get to this after a few more iterations. 🙂
Thank you!!!! So glad I have this.. Keep the good work up!
Thank you Bonita! We’ll keep on improving! 🙂
Hi Abs;
I just sent an email asking about opening multiple stores. I am excited about the new themes. When I created my store there were no themes available and I had to be even more creative than usual. I am thinking of creating a store from scratch using the new themes rather than trying to replace a theme.
Hi Rick, I think that’s a good idea. You can create multiple stores even to just test out the new themes and if you like it, you can stick with that store/account. 🙂
YES!! I love it. I’ve been with PayHip for so long, to see the changes and additions in the past year alone is amazing! Kudos to you!
Thank you for the kind words Dana! 🙂
Can you add the image feature in product reviews, meaning that the customers can put pictures in their review
Not at this time, I’m afraid. Although I think it’s a great idea – more than happy to pass it on as a feature request so our team can consider this in the future. 🙂
I’m sure to look at these new roll-outs as time goes by. In the meantime, please understand that I feel that this is the best platform on the entire internet. I can’t say enough good things about it; and believe me, I try to talk it up all the time!
Great work, guys!
Thanks so much, Abs and Kahin! Love it when I sign in and there’s a msg about new features.
Thank you Sandi! 🙏🏻 🙂
Look forward to trying these new features!
Thank you, Sam! Please don’t hesitate to send us your feedback via email. 🙂
hey..
cool feature.. I am really waiting for great themes like those.. thanks man. Btw, if everyone needs some cool item, just go to my shop getboostock.com powered by Payhip of course.
thanks
This is a great site Harry!
Great Updates Love It,
My question is is there a option where you can have a mail order product page and have a digital download button on the same page to choose from than seperate page option for the same product?
Hi Zak,
We’d love to hear more about what you’re trying to achieve here – can you send us an email at contact@payhip.com with more information? We may have a solution/workaround for this.
I’m new to PayHip and have to say that I’m truly loving it. I’ve used SO many other e-commerce platforms but they’ve never been exactly right and cost more than I’m currently bringing in.
I love the simplicity of using PayHip and that it directly connects to my PayPal account. Brilliant.
Now, to see that you are growing and adding new features and obviously truly interested in what your users have to say is inspiring to me.
I will definitely be sending people to this amazing platform. Thank you for providing such a great service to those in need.
Thank you for your kind words, Christie! I’ll be forwarding this to our product team – they’ll be happy to hear this for sure. 🙂
Wow! A good one, Payhip! The Themes are a game changer! I’ve been using Payhip for a good while and it is wonderful to see and feel the changes the team’s rolling out.
A question though. Is it possible to change the colours of the theme after installing it? Can I add my brand colours instead of using the default theme ones?
Thank you, Kohs! I’ll make sure to let our product team know you’re loving the new features. 🙂
And yes, it’s possible to change the colors of the theme even after installing it to match your brand.
I absolutely love you guys over here at Pay Hip! Thank you so much for this! and right on time for the holidays and the new year!
Thanks for the love, Empress. Our product team put a lot of time and effort into this project. 🙂
Happy holidays!
Awesome ✨🙏
Thanks Christine 😊
You guys are the best. I’m building my site right now, and I was just thinking I need that header CTA button. I requested the embed code option, so thanks for being so responsive to our feedback! I’m also very excited about the ticker option. Thanks so much.
Hi Spurgeon, perfect timing from us! 😉 You are most welcome and thank you for the kind words.
This is why I continually recommend you to other small business owners. I love the attentiveness to customers and continual improvements/growth!
Thank you very much Ruth! Really appreciate it 😊
Very pleased that I found you back in 2015 when the EU VAT was giving me a major headache and loving the way that PayHip is going from strength to strength. Just never, ever change your amazing customer service.
Thank you so much Helen 🙏
I love all these new features and Payhip in general – thank you!
A couple of things I’d love to see: 1) The ability to offer payment plans or multiple payment options for standalone digital products, not just courses or memberships, 2) the ability to copy an entire store when you’re going to create another – I love what I’ve created, but I hate that I have to redo the entire thing when creating a new store.
Hi Ally, thank you very much for the feedback! 🙂
For suggestion 1 – you can do this with product bundles now! Essentially create a bundle within Payhip (it can be for one digital product) and then set the payment plan and then add your digital product to this bundle! See here for more info: https://help.payhip.com/article/212-product-bundles
For suggestion 2 – totally understand and will feed this back to them team!
Thank you for the kind words too.
Thank you so much for the development! This is great.
Thank you Elen! 🙂
Loving PayHip! Excited for these new features. If you could also simply add the ability to add a simple headline without a subhead for use as page dividers? Also the ability to upload audio clips and post as an audio player, like for the release of a music album, would be amazing for musicians which would open up your demographic;) Many of us are trying to get away from SoundCloud, but the embed feature is helpful.
Hi Joseph,
Glad you’re loving your Payhip experience so far! 🙂
Seems like these features would definitely help sellers, especially musicians or anyone in the music industry. This definitely has been asked before so I’m going to add you as another vote for that.
Hi Kim, just getting started with setup here, and as a record label we’re also looking at internal audio player options… so you can add my vote to the list too!
An audio preview player feature, however simple or basic, would be enormously helpful to labels and artists alike.
Cheers
Hey there, Francis! Thanks for letting us know. We’ll definitely add your vote to the list as well. 🙂
for type foundry, plugin for font preview it would be great! 🙂
Great suggestion! I will submit this as a feature request. 🙂
Where do I find the ticker section?
Hi David,
Sellers can add the new ticker section by visiting the store builder and clicking the “Add Section” button. It will then show you all the section types – please select the “Text” category on the left side and you should see the ticker section option there. 🙂
These are great improvements to Payhip! Thank you for continuously innovating for us, the Payhip account holders!
Thank you, Arthur! Feel free to try out the new features and themes. 🙂
Yes! Thank you for this.
Thank you Saul 🙂
I love the new changes. When will the blog have an easier way to get to the page and a faster way to upload a video to the blog? ASAP! I hope I absolutely think that would increase membership engagement.
We’re happy to hear you love the new features, Denise! 🙂
Unfortunately, we don’t have a definite timeline for when we can support it. Sorry about this! For now, sellers can only add videos by embedding from video hosting platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo, and a few other more for their blogs.
Will Payhip be creating an APP for this platform?
Hi Denise,
It’s a fairly common request so it may be something we build in the future. I’ve added you as a vote for that so that our product team can keep it in mind. 🙂
Kudos on the upgrade!
I can’t wait to check out the templates!
Did you say I can bury my code in the background or is it already an available feature?
Thank for the kind words! 🙂
Yes, you can embed code via our new Embed section. You can also add code to every page in the background via an existing feature you can find in the “Change store style” -> “Advanced” area of the store builder.
Love these updates! These will definitely make my store better. But I’m not seeing the “ticker” as an option to add. Where can I find that and is there something I need to do on my end to make that appear? Out of all the features mentioned I only see the “collage” one actually available to me. Thank you!
Hi Teralyn, glad you like the new updates!
For the ticker, it’s essentially an extension of the Text section. So you’ll find it under there. 🙂
Great Work, It’s so easy to operate. New Themes will help a lot for conversions.
For Affiliate Marketing of products on store – How and what can be done to manage the affiliate payouts. Something needs to be done like JVZoo or similar online platforms. Because the Affiliate marketing is very powerful but the trust from Affiliates cannot be build if they do not have access to payout system directly linked to the store page. Or to connect to some other available platform with seamless reports and information available to the affiliates.
This will be win-win situation for all involved in marketing and sales of the products.
Look forward. Please explore this option as it would create high value to Payhip platform as well.
Thanks, Sandesh!
And yes – it’s an area we’re definitely looking forward to exploring and improving in the future so we really appreciate your suggestions here. 🙂
I love these updates! Thank you. I don’t know if it is a feature that we will see in the future bit I would like a password-protected area for my store because there is some information and products I only want to sell B2B. The memberships don’t suit me right now, but a “private” shop option would be nice 🙂
Right now I have a Squarespace page with a password-protected page linked to my payhip store. So I can control to whom I give the password and who sees my designs.
Thanks, Laura! As for your suggestion, I have taken note of it and submitted it as a feature request to our product team. I’m not able to say when or if it’ll get picked though! 🙂
Love Payhip since I found you in 2015!
When creating a course, I would love the option to have course content as AUDIO only.
Thanks for the love, Kara! And we’ll take note of that as a feature request. For now, you can use the embed lesson and embed audio from streaming/hosting platforms first such as SoundCloud or Podcast.co. 🙂
Hi Payhippies! Wondering if your ‘search products’ UI implementation can be made to look like the one on this page (blog), beautifully opening in full screen? Thanks, L.
Thanks for sharing this with us, L. We definitely love to hear more if you have other suggestions. Every little feedback like this is important to us! 🙂
Love Payhip products always 🙂
Thank you Julie 🙂
Hello,
Congratulations on these updates. Payhip.com is the best e-commerce platform I can find.
I notice that a few months ago you added the certificates of completion feature for courses. It’s interesting. However, could you not also insert the possibility of adding the signature of the Director and the Trainer at the bottom of these?
For the courses, if we want people to take them for free, they can. But if they want to get a certificate of achievement and we want them to pay a fee. Is there an option for this?
Hi Prosper,
Thank you so much and you are right – there’s definitely a lot more room for improvement when it comes to our course certificates. I’ve noted these all down for our product team and hopefully, they’ll get picked in our future developments.
Payhip is going from strength to strength. Looking forwarding to trying out the new themes
Thank you! Please give it a try and let us know your feedback. 🙂
May I ask if there is an option for Traditional Chinese in the language option? thanks
Hey there, Vick. We don’t yet support Traditional Chinese, but it’s a common request so we’ve added you as another vote for that. 🙂
Hi, love the themes! I am seting up my shop, I choose Echoes Theme, but I am not sure what size is better for header? Can you tells me what is the header image size, please? 🙂
Hi there, Claudia! 🙂
There aren’t specific dimensions that we can recommend for images since you can play around with the settings, specifically different aspect ratios on Payhip via the Store Builder to find the one that works best. If you’re still having trouble with this, don’t hesitate to reach out to Payhip support at contact@payhip.com.
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