Getting started
Installing the app, turning it on in your theme, and building your first drawer.
1. Install the app
Install PromoDrawer from the Shopify App Store. You start on the Free plan, with no card to enter; Basic and Pro each come with a 30-day free trial when you choose them. See Plans and billing.
Installing adds the app to your Shopify admin and nothing to your storefront. Nothing appears for shoppers until you turn the app embed on, and until a drawer is turned on.
2. Turn on the app embed
The drawer reaches your storefront through an app embed, which is one switch in your theme editor:
- In your Shopify admin, go to Online Store → Themes.
- On your published theme, choose Customize.
- Open App embeds in the left sidebar.
- Turn on PromoDrawer, then Save.
That is the whole installation. There is no snippet to paste and no theme file to edit, and removing the app leaves nothing behind in your theme.
The app’s Overview page says whether the embed is on, with a link to your theme editor if it isn’t.
3. Add a drawer
A drawer is one button on your storefront and the cards that open when a shopper taps it. Go to Drawers → Add drawer and pick a starting point:
- New store: an announcement, an image and your social links.
- Sale weekend: an announcement, a discount code and a countdown.
- Product launch: a product, a video and an email signup.
- Blank drawer: nothing yet, for building your own.
A template fills in what it honestly can and leaves the rest turned off for you to finish. It never invents a discount code or picks a product for you. New drawers start turned off, so nothing reaches shoppers while you work.
4. Add cards
A drawer’s Cards tab is its cards in the order shoppers see them. Add a card, choose its type, then its layout, and fill in its words. Drag to reorder, or use the buttons on each row.
Lead with the offer, and put the cards that ask for something, like an email address or a follow, toward the end.
A drawer holds 3 cards on Free, 5 on Basic and 8 on Pro. Every card type, its layouts and what it needs are in Card types.
5. Watch it as you build
The preview beside the editor is the real drawer, not a picture of it. It runs the same code your storefront does, so what you see is what shoppers get. Your theme’s fonts are in it too.
For a true-size check, open the full preview in a new tab. It shows phone, tablet and desktop widths, and it’s the only place to see a phone’s own button position.
6. Make it look like your store
Design sets how every drawer looks: the button and the drawer’s layout, colors and fonts, shape and spacing, and where the button sits. The drawer takes your theme’s fonts from the start, and four starting looks (Clean, Soft, Bold and Sharp) set the rest in one click. See Design.
7. Choose where it shows, and turn it on
By default a drawer shows on every page, or on Free, on your home page. A drawer’s Targeting tab narrows that to page types, URLs or devices, and can give it start and end dates. See Targeting and scheduling.
Then turn the drawer on, save, and open your storefront.
Only one drawer shows per page. If several fit the page a shopper is on, the highest in your Drawers list wins. Reorder the list to change which one that is.