Customizing Your OnRez Storefront
We’ve had a few questions come in regarding how to customize the new Shop OnRez storefronts, and so we’d like to provide some insight into getting your new storefront customized quickly and easily.
Much like the storefronts on SLB, your OnRez storefront URL will look like this:
http://shop.onrez.com/Seller_Name
Your storefront is available to view as soon as you have items listed for sale on the web. Even if you haven’t customized it yet, other Shop OnRez users will still be able to browse and purchase items from within your store.
At present, we offer a few different ways to customize your storefront to reflect your brand and make the shopping experience a bit more personal for your customers.
If you’ve logged into Shop OnRez, you can access your storefront(s) by clicking on “My Home > Seller Tools > My Storefronts”. For each identity you’ve linked with your account, you’ll have the opportunity to customize a unique storefront specifically for their items by clicking the “Edit” link next to that identity’s name.
On the Edit Storefront screen, you’ll be able to customize the following items if you choose to do so:
- Name: This is the name of your store. It will show up in the “Seller Information” box in the right-hand column of your item pages.
- Tagline: If you store has a tagline, or special phrase you associate with your in-world business, you can enter it here. Your tagline will show up in both the “Seller Information” box, and at the top of your storefront in bold italicized text.
- Description: Here is your chance to tell buyers a little bit about yourself, and the products that you sell! Your description shows up in the “Seller Information” box, and below your tagline (above your items) on your storefront.
- Theme: From this dropdown box, you can select a color palette for the background of your storefront. Presently, we offer four pre-defined themes (see below).
- Banner: If you’d like a custom graphical banner to appear above your storefront, you may upload a 724×130 pixel web image (JPG, GIF, or PNG) of your choosing. You may also upload an image with different dimensions, but please be advised that they will be resized (without cropping) to fit in the allotted 724×130 pixel space.
Once you’ve saved your changes, click on the “View” link next to your identity’s name to see your new custom store!
We expect to be rolling out a much more robust and customizable version of the storefront in the future, and welcome any feedback or feature-requests you may have for this section of Shop OnRez.
July 26th, 2007 15:09
[…] Complain that I want customisation options for my webshop. Tagline, banner, order of the items, … . You know, the usual. Ok. Sometimes I should just keep my mouth/keyboard. My mistake. Although. It was fairly well hidden? ;) […]
July 26th, 2007 17:20
Hmm ok, my comments don’t appear to be showing up at all… that’s a real bugger.
July 26th, 2007 17:22
It would be nice, if when we choose a color scheme we get a little preview of what it would look like, or just the colors themselves being shown like they are in this blog post, as opposed to drop down list we have now. Also, the “Show Mature Items” button, think we could get that moved up into the blue horizontal bar where the search box is to save some vertical space? Just have the “Show Mature Items?” on one row, and the ON/OFF buttons on a second row beneath inside the blue bar.
I haven’t tried it yet, but it would be nice if we could have some simple formatting in the description box, bolding, italics, hyperlinks etc. You could allow simple HTML or do what forums do and use the brackets thing…
It’s nice having it show all our items at once, but it would also be nice to have categorization in the sidebar on the left (Perhaps you already do this, I don’t sell too many items on the site yet). It would also be nice to pick 3 featured items that get listed at the top of all the lists, or just at the top of the category their in (Within the confines of our shop).
The amount of horizontal space we have for naming our products is pretty short now, so I may change the name on my things so they don’t wrap so badly. That being the case, it would be nice to have a SHORT description field under each name, where we can put in a short description (Different from the long one on the product page) to describe our product when people are looking at its thumbnail.
Additionally, since we have store banners, why not store logos? Notice on the product page where it says… “View Seller’s Store” why not have a store logo beneath that where you list the store name etc? I’m thinking a square image around 125×125 pixels.
Oh and two other things I noticed, the formatting for all my item descriptions got lost in the transition, specifically the “new lines” were not caried over so I’ll have to rewrite those. Also the “Show Mature Items” toggle does not appear to be sticky through different logins.
July 26th, 2007 17:22
There we go, I don’t know if it was the brackets I had in the comment, or the partial url as an example, but something was not getting past the filters there…
July 26th, 2007 21:02
ZATZAi, sorry to see you were having problems commenting! It does appear to have been the brackets that were tripping the spam filters.
Thanks for all of your constructive feedback on Shop OnRez and the storefronts, especially. A lot of new features have been under consideration by our team, and while we plan for functionality in future versions, it’s great to be able to incorporate this kind of feedback from our users. Storefronts are still in quite an early stage of development, and we hope to be able to improve their value and usability for both sellers and buyers alike!
We hope to be able to get some of the helpful tips from this blog post up on the Shop OnRez website in the near future, to help make the storefronts easier to configure for sellers in the meantime.
Thanks again for taking the time to get in touch with us!
July 27th, 2007 11:55
Another feature I would like to see on the storefront site is a dedicated “beam button” that would open a SLURL to the shops SL inworld location.
July 27th, 2007 19:45
Ah Marcus that’s exactly why I wanted to be able to put HTML in the decriptions, so we can put in a SLURL if we want. A button certainly would stand out more though…
July 29th, 2007 15:38
How do we remove the store front banners if we want to change them. I tried delete and everything else i could think of.
July 30th, 2007 10:31
Ana - Sorry to hear, it does appear we have a bit of a problem. If you wouldn’t mind filing a quick bug report at http://support.onrez.com, a developer can then look into the issue. Thanks!
August 1st, 2007 01:29
I would be nice if this article were incorporated in the help pages! I spent ages looking for the correct size of banner!
August 1st, 2007 05:12
Thanks for answering so quick Amanda, and thanks Jade for such fast service…
August 1st, 2007 07:18
Not Nefarious — we’ll get that added into the support.onrez.com knowledge base. Thanks