Operations
Which screen owns each value on the Beauty Affairs AU storefront, and how to verify a change.
Operations
These pages are for anyone changing the store without touching code. Each one starts with the screen that owns the value, because the same thing can often be edited in more than one place and only one of them is the source of truth.
Where to change what
| I want to change | Go to | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Free gift thresholds and messages | Theme settings, Rewards Tiers | Cart rewards and free gifts |
| Which products are the free gifts | Shopify Admin, Content, Metaobjects | Cart rewards and free gifts |
| Cart drawer headings and button labels | Theme editor, Mini cart section | Cart rewards and free gifts |
| MediSpa deposit amount and cart wording | Theme settings, Medispa Deposit | MediSpa booking |
| Clinic address, phone, opening hours | Shopify Admin, Content, Metaobjects | MediSpa booking |
| Which treatments appear in the booking calendar | Theme editor, Services Overview section | MediSpa booking |
| Booking availability and toast messages | Theme settings, Medispa | MediSpa booking |
| Email capture popup timing and limits | Theme settings, Popup Manager | Popups and forms |
| Popup creative and copy | Klaviyo | Popups and forms |
| Homepage layout and carousels | Theme editor, Home page template | Homepage and sections |
| Page titles and meta descriptions | Theme settings, SEO groups | SEO and tracking |
| Google Tag Manager container | Theme settings, GTM Tracking | SEO and tracking |
The two editing surfaces
Shopify Admin holds store data. Products, collections, prices, metafields and metaobjects live here. Changes take effect immediately on every theme.
The theme editor holds presentation. Section layout, section settings and theme settings live here. Open it from Shopify Admin at Online Store, then Themes, then Customize on the live theme.
A theme editor change applies only to the theme you are editing. Editing a preview theme does not change the live store.
Before you edit the live theme
The theme editor writes straight to the live theme, and the change is visible to customers as soon as you save. There is no staging step.
For anything customers will notice, ask a developer to publish a preview theme first. They can produce one without touching the live store.
An automated job copies theme editor edits back into the repository, so a developer can merge your work before their next release instead of overwriting it. The detail is in Branches and theme sync.
Verifying a change
Reload the storefront in a private browser window. A normal window can keep showing a cached copy of the old version after a save.
For anything that depends on cart contents, the reward progress bar in particular, add a product and watch the value update rather than trusting the empty-cart state.