Guide
How everything in your dashboard works. Skim the table of contents, jump to what you need.
Live Editor
The live editor at Storefront → Live editor is where you tune the look and feel of your storefront without writing code. Edits show in the preview as you make them; nothing is published until you click Publish changes.
The three panels
- Top bar — store switcher, device preview (Desktop / Tablet / Mobile), Discard draft, and Publish changes. The "In sync" / "Unsaved" label next to "Live editor" tells you whether your draft matches what's published.
- Preview canvas (left) — your live storefront, rendered inside the editor. Toggling Desktop / Tablet / Mobile resizes the preview to that breakpoint so you can check responsive layouts.
- Settings panel (right) — edits the brand, colours, typography, and per-block settings. Changes here send into the preview canvas via a private message channel, so the iframe updates without a full reload.
Brand panel
- Store name — shown in the topbar, footer, and tab title.
- Tagline — one short line under the store name; great for "Considered things, well made." style positioning.
- Logo — replaces the wordmark. PNG or SVG. Renders at 28–40px tall — keep horizontal margin in the asset.
- Favicon — the tiny icon in browser tabs. 32×32 PNG or ICO.
Brand assets
Aeonzap ships pixel-perfect brand assets (wordmark, icon, social card) already wired throughout the platform. These are the only approved Aeonzap logo files — please do not upload your own Aeonzap-branded logos in the Logo or Favicon fields above. Those fields are for your store's brand; Aeonzap's own marks are managed for you.
Colours
- Primary — buttons, accents, links. Pick a colour that contrasts with the surface.
- Secondary — supporting blocks, badges, highlight pills.
- Surface — page background. Light surfaces feel airy; dark surfaces feel premium.
- Ink — body text. Should pass WCAG AA contrast against the surface (≥4.5:1).
Saving and publishing
Edits live in a draft until you click Publish changes. The Discard draft button throws everything away and reloads what's currently live. You can leave the editor at any time — your draft is preserved per store.
Troubleshooting
- "We'll be right back" in the preview — the storefront itself errored, not the editor. Open your live store in a separate tab to confirm; if it loads, hard-refresh the editor. If it's still erroring, contact support — the live store is likely affected too.
- Colour change doesn't show up — make sure the colour field accepted your input (the swatch should update). Some browsers require you to press Enter or click outside the input to commit.
- Mobile preview looks wrong — Mobile mode renders at a fixed narrow viewport; your real customers' phones may be wider. Use it as a starting point, then preview on the live store on a real device for final QA.
SEO Bot
The SEO Bot scores every product in your catalogue on a 0–100 scale, tells you exactly what's hurting the score, suggests fixes, and (with your approval) applies them. It runs continuously in the background so you don't have to think about it.
How to enable it
Go to Settings SEO and toggle Enable SEO Bot. The first analysis kicks off within a minute and finishes in a few minutes for most catalogues.
Reading the score
Each product gets one number out of 100. The colour tells you at a glance how that product is doing:
- 90 – 100Healthy. No action needed.
- 70 – 89A few easy wins. Worth a glance.
- 40 – 69Several issues. Review the suggestions.
- Below 40This page is invisible to Google. Fix soon.
The score is the sum of six checks: title, meta description, product description, image alt text, structured data (schema), and internal links. Each is weighted by how much Google actually cares about it.
The review queue
Open the Review queue to see every suggestion the bot has generated. You can:
- Approve them one by one — useful while you're learning what the bot does
- Bulk-approve by check-box once you trust the patterns it suggests
- Reject anything that doesn't fit your brand
Auto-apply
Brand voice & keywords
Under SEO settings you can save a short brand voice description and a list of target keywords. These aren't used yet — they're being staged for upcoming AI features that will rewrite titles and meta descriptions in your store's voice. Filling them out now means those features will work the moment they ship.
What the bot does NOT do today
The bot does not yet use AI to rewrite product titles or meta descriptions — that's planned for a future release. Today's bot is deterministic: it generates missing schema markup, fills in image alt text from product attributes, suggests internal links between related products, and computes the score. Everything it does is predictable and reversible.
Google Search Console
Without Google Search Console (GSC), Google doesn't even know your store exists. It's a free tool that tells Google about your site and tells you which searches are sending people to you. Setup takes about ten minutes and you only ever do it once.
The 7-step walkthrough
The short version: create a GSC property for your store domain, copy the verification meta tag we generate for you, paste it back into the dashboard, click Verify in GSC, then submit your sitemap (we publish it at /sitemap.xml automatically). The dedicated guide below walks through each click with screenshots.
What happens after setup
Google will start crawling your store, usually within 24–72 hours. In parallel, the SEO Bot keeps optimising your product pages, so the version Google indexes is already in good shape. You'll start seeing real impression numbers in the GSC dashboard within about a week.
Common issues
“Verification failed”
Google sometimes checks before our CDN has propagated the new meta tag. Wait one minute and click Verify again. If it still fails, re-open the SEO settings page to confirm the tag is saved, then retry.
“Sitemap status: Pending”
Completely normal for new sites — Google needs time to process the first sitemap fetch. Check back in 48 hours. If it's still pending after that, re-submit the sitemap URL in GSC.