Customising your storefront
Make your store look like your brand — upload a logo, set a hero image, choose your colours and fonts, or let AI set it all up from your website. Changes go live immediately; no developer or rebuild needed.
Customising your storefront
Your storefront should look like your brand, not a generic template. Everything that controls its appearance — your store name, web address, logo, hero image, colours, and fonts — lives in one place, and every change goes live on your storefront the moment you save. No developer, no rebuild, no waiting.
You can fill it all in by hand, or paste your existing website and let Zillo set up your colours, fonts, and logo for you.
Where to set this
Open Settings → Branding. A live preview sits beside the form, so you can see each change before you commit to it.
Let AI set up your brand
If you already have a website or an Instagram presence, the fastest way to a polished store is to let Zillo do the first pass.
- Click "Set up with AI" at the top of Settings → Branding.
- Paste your website URL, an Instagram handle, or a short description of your brand.
- Review the result. Zillo suggests your colours, fonts, and logo. Everything lands in the form below — nothing is saved yet.
- Tweak anything you like, then Save. You stay in full control of the final look.
The AI setup is a starting point, not a straitjacket. Run it once to get 80% of the way there, then nudge the colours and swap the hero image to taste.
Your store name and web address
Two fields at the top of the page shape how customers find and recognise you:
- Store name — shown in your storefront header and on every email your store sends. This is customer-facing, so use the name your buyers know you by.
- Store URL — the address of your store, e.g.
your-store.zillo.app. Use lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens. If you change it later, your old address keeps working — Zillo redirects it automatically so saved links and bookmarks don't break.
Want to sell from your own domain like gifts.your-business.com
instead of a .zillo.app address? That's a separate setting — see
Setting up a custom domain.
Colours
Zillo gives you five colour controls. Use the colour picker or type a
hex code (like #1a73e8) into each:
- Primary colour — your main brand colour. Used for buy buttons, headings, and key accents. This is the one customers will associate with you, so start here.
- Primary text colour — the colour of text that sits on top of your primary colour (for example, the label on a buy button). Pick something with strong contrast so buttons stay readable.
- Accent colour — used for hover states and subtle highlights.
- Page background — your storefront page background. Leave it empty to keep Zillo's default soft gradient.
- Page text colour — the default colour for body text.
Check contrast. Pale text on a pale background — or a dark button label on a dark button — is hard to read and quietly costs you sales. The live preview is the easiest way to catch this before you publish.
Fonts
You can set two fonts independently, both chosen from the full Google Fonts catalogue (thousands of families, searchable in the picker):
- Heading font — applied to headings on your storefront. If you leave it unset, your body font is used for headings too.
- Body font — applied to the rest of your text.
Your storefront loads whichever fonts you choose automatically — there's nothing to install.
Some safe, readable choices: Inter (modern and neutral), Manrope (a touch warmer), and Playfair Display (an elegant serif that pairs well as a heading font for hospitality and upscale brands). A clean serif heading over a simple sans-serif body is a reliable combo.
Highly stylised display fonts (script, blackletter) look striking in a heading but read poorly as body text. If you use one, set it as your heading font only and keep the body font simple.
Logo and hero image
- Logo — sits in your storefront header. A PNG or SVG works best. Aim for a wide image around 800 × 200 px (a 4 ratio) so it sits cleanly in the header without being cropped.
- Hero image — the large banner above your products on your store's landing page. A wide image around 2000 × 667 px (a 3 ratio) looks best. Use a strong, on-brand photo — it's the first thing visitors see.
No logo yet? Leave it blank and your store name shows as text in the header. That's perfectly fine to launch with — you can add a logo later without disrupting anything.
What gets your branding (and what doesn't)
Your branding applies to your customer-facing storefront only — product pages, the cart, checkout, and the emails your store sends.
Your merchant dashboard at dashboard.zillo.app always keeps Zillo's own look, regardless of your storefront branding. That's deliberate, so your admin tools stay familiar no matter which store you're managing.
Preview before you go public
Keep your store in draft while you iterate on the look. You and your team can view it at its normal address; the public sees a "Page not found". When you're happy, switch it to published.