Powerful image enhancements

Image size correction, multiple product and collection tile styles, and photo breathing room adjustments combine to help you create a consistent, professional look across multiple product lines.

Extensive multi-column menus

Expanse's easy-to-use mega menu feature will automatically create and smartly lay out menus with large numbers of columns.

Professional color schemes

Make your sections, popups, and promotions stand out with 3 customizable color schemes designed with 6 carefully crafted textures.

Compact mobile design

Mobile users have less patience for scrolling so we’ve kept the mobile design as compact as possible, with simple expandable areas for those that want more.

Clean, minimal design

Keep the focus on your products and messaging with Expanse’s clean and minimal design style.

Typography-driven

Free access to Shopify's 250+ premium and open source fonts lets you differentiate your brand easily and effectively. We’ve designed Expanse with large, simple typography that will put your style front and center.

Snappy animations

Expanse is designed from start to finish to smoothly and quickly animate your content into view for a premium, polished look and feel.

Multiple slideshow types

Split slideshows are great for longer text, smaller images, and product promotions. Hero slideshows beautifully showcase full frame photography. Image slideshows are perfect when you've already designed your own banners. Use them with a single slide or as a slideshow, all with separate mobile controls.

Blog overview

Perfect for brands with strong content marketing, highlight your popular and recent posts and let customers easily dive into categories by tag.

Full single product section

Showcase a product for purchase right from the homepage, complete with reviews, video and any other extra tabs you have set up.

Everything else and more

Every template can also include engaging testimonials, brand logo lists, maps, text columns, video heroes, a custom layout builder and more.

Product templates (NEW)

Choose from 5 alternate templates or create your own: Cross Selling, Brand Story, Product Landing Page, Gift Card, or Pre-Order.

Collection templates (NEW)

Choose from 4 alternate templates or create your own: Promotions, No Promotions, No Sidebar, and Collection Landing Page.

Page templates (NEW)

Choose from 4 alternate templates or create your own: About, FAQ, Contact and Full-width.

Product templates (NEW)

Choose from 5 alternate templates or create your own: Cross Selling, Brand Story, Product Landing Page, Gift Card, or Pre-Order.

Collection templates (NEW)

Choose from 4 alternate templates or create your own: Promotions, No Promotions, No Sidebar, and Collection Landing Page.

Page templates (NEW)

Choose from 4 alternate templates or create your own: About, FAQ, Contact and Full-width.

Powerful promotional grid designer

Highlight your most important content with exceptionally flexible promotions on your homepage and on your site-wide footer.

Six flexible promotion types

Mix and match from a number of easy to setup promotion types that work seamlessly together: try the Simple, Banner, Product, Sale Collection, Image and Advanced promotion types.

Site-wide footer promotions

Keep customers browsing by using your footer to highlight your most important promotions at the bottom of every page of your store.

Multiple announcements

Announce multiple promotions or policies in our prominent announcement bar with options to either rotate between announcements or display them side-by-side.

Landing page template (NEW)

Create engaging landing pages using the 20+ modular sections with our new "landing page" alternate product template.

Newsletter popup

Collect customer contact information by offering them promotions in a popup. Set a delay so that the popup doesn’t interrupt their experience.

Footer newsletter

Collect email addresses and provide an enticing message sitewide on your footer.

Fully featured blog

Engage and educate your audience with our beautiful blog design with popular post and featured product sidebar widgets as well as prominent tag categories.

Product video

Show autoplaying product videos inline with the rest of your product images. Mobile-friendly with support for YouTube, .MP4 and Vimeo.

Additional templates (NEW)

Use our alternate cross selling, brand story, product landing templates or create your own from 20+ sections to get the most sale potential out of every product view.

Shop by brand

Automatically showcase more products from the current product's vendor with a link to a full collection view, no setup required.

Longform descriptions

Optimized for long descriptions, initially collapsed within its own tab.

Mobile-friendly zoom

Customers can quickly look closer at a product image in our thumb-friendly zoom popup.

Color swatches

Let customers choose their color variant by showing either a solid color or a textured image swatch.  Learn how to set swatches up in our Support area.

Related products

Showcase related products from the same collection below your featured product or from a custom collection of related products below your featured product.

See Conversion Features for review integration and more.

Sidebar filter groups (NEW)

Build a multi-category collection filter that lets customers instantly filter by size, price, color, and more.

Grid/list view toggles

Customers can switch between list and small or large grid views depending on their shopping preference.

Subcollections

Allow customers to quickly narrow their search with our powerful subcollections feature which adds prominent links to any collections within the current collection at the top of the page or in the sidebar.

Collection promotions

Use our advanced promotion designer to show custom promotions across either all your collections or only show specific promotions on specific collection templates.

Additional templates (NEW)

Use our alternate Collection Landing template or create your own from 20+ sections to tell your collection's story.

Image switching on hover

Customers can quickly see a second product image by hovering their mouse over a product.

Color swatches

Let customers see what colors are available for a product with either a solid color or a textured image. 

See Conversion Features for quick shop and more.

.MP4, YouTube and Vimeo support

Supports all major video formats for flawless high quality video across your store. We recommend .MP4 or YouTube.

Brand video

Take your brand to the next level with autoplaying high quality video built into your homepage, product pages, and sectioned content pages. Your videos will be just as beautiful on mobile as they are on desktop.

Traditional video

Include a full click-to-play video player with video controls and audio right on your homepage.

Product video

Bring the runway to the screen by showing autoplaying product videos right inline with the rest of your product images.

Free support

Get fast and personalized world-class support from our experienced customer team, as well as access to regularly updated detailed documentation.

Sections everywhere

Easily customize your theme with our 20+ drag-and-drop sections. Our minimalist approach to design leaves you plenty of room to add your signature style, with little to no code.

Unlimited free trials

Try our themes for free with your own products, brand colors, and customizations before committing to buying it. Only pay if you publish the theme to your store.

Choose from 3 presets

Create your very own design using one of our free pre-designed preset styles as your springboard. Pick a preset, then start customizing the one you like best to fit your brand perfectly.

Built for conversion

We've studied every major ecommerce trend for the past 10 years. Our designs only use the most proven patterns for conversion and longevity.

Non-expiring license

Your payment entitles you to use the theme on a one single store, and keep it as long as you like.

Mobile-first

Just like your customers. Fast, compact, and thumb-friendly design. Our themes deliver the best mobile experience.

Speed optimized

Our lightning-fast themes meet Shopify’s high performance standards. Created with modern browsers and mobile devices in mind, they use less code to ensure fast loading pages and a faster shopping experience—all without compromising on style or features.

Free theme updates

Get free lifetime updates with every theme purchase. We regularly release upgrades that offer new features, functionality, and bug fixes. Your theme is guaranteed to be up to date with Shopify latest features and ecommerce trends.

Custom events

With exposed events and a standalone file for custom scripts, you can start adding functionality to the theme without editing any unfamiliar javascript files.

Custom Liquid

The Custom Liquid Section lets you add a custom drag-and-drop section using Liquid code directly in the theme editor on any page.

Editable JS

Expanse comes with the original classic build file if you need to make edits to the theme Javascript.

App Extension Compatible

Theme app extensions allow merchants to easily add dynamic elements to their themes without having to interact with Liquid templates or code.