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Requirements for public Site templates

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All Site templates built for publishing must meet the list of requirements described below before submitting for technical review.

Text localization

Lightspeed eCom (Ecwid) officially supports English, French, and Dutch languages. Although more languages are available in the control panel of E-Series, you are only required to keep your localization requirements for three official languages:

  • The main dev store for developing templates must be in English.
  • Any documentation provided with the template must be available in official languages.
  • The description of the template or any non-name words inside the template name must be available in official languages.
  • All settings for your custom sections users can see in Instant Site Editor must be available in the three official languages.
  • Any major updates to the template should be referenced in a changelog available in official languages. The changelog can be published on your side or in the template description visible in the website editor.
  • When displaying product prices, templates must use the correct currency symbol or currency code and support any active advanced discounts and "Compare to" prices.

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Find the actual product price in the defaultDisplayedPriceFormatted field in our GET Product endpoint.

Storefront availability

Requirements for website design ensure Ecwid users do not miss website functionality and their customers can navigate storefronts without problems.

  • The following storefront elements must be available directly or through the menu on all pages: Cart icon, Search bar, "Sign in" link, Legal Pages links, and supported languages list/selector.
  • All storefront elements should have sufficient contrast — 4.5:1 or better as per W3C AA standards.
  • All storefront elements must be properly aligned.
  • Any text fields added by the template must be able to handle long text values.
  • The website design must be responsive and optimized for mobile view: button and text sizes should adjust automatically to make mobile navigation easier.

If the app has several templates, every template must:

  • Use different color palettes.
  • Have a configured navigation bar with working links (categories, website sections).
  • Use some of your custom sections. In total, all of your custom sections must be used in at least one template file.
  • Have its own preview store, where merchants can check its feels and looks.

Instant Site Editor

Requirements for the Instant Site Editor ensure that users have great UX while building websites:

  • All settings have titles, descriptions, and placeholder texts where possible. Such texts should explain the setting clearly and in a detailed manner.
  • All colors in section settings must be customizable through section design settings.
  • Design and content settings inside your section should have a clear outline and categorization.
  • If the app has several templates, every template must have a clear screenshot for the Instant Site Editor listing (cover_image attribute inside the template file).

Storefront performance

All templates must meet performance requirements to ensure applying the template doesn't slow down the website.

  • All sections used in the template must be W3C validated. Link to the validator: https://validator.w3.org/
  • Google PageSpeed score should be above 70, preferably in the Pass category. Link to the PageSpeed Insights: https://pagespeed.web.dev/
  • The template and its sections must not cause any errors in the browser console upon rendering. This includes warning messages on JS or HTML errors.
  • If the template adds structured data, there should not be any Google Structured Data errors in it. Link to the Structured Data test tools: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data

Updated 3 days ago