Here at Elegant Themes, we might make WordPress themes and plugins, but that doesn’t mean we’re blind to eCommerce trends. Shopify is growing rapidly, with 75% revenue growth year over year. That growth is, obviously, fueled by more and more people turning to Shopify to manage their store. So to stay on top of the trends, we decided to round up some of the best Shopify themes out there.
Sorry, folks – these won’t work with your WordPress site. But if you’ve been itching to launch a store on Shopify, consider one of these Shopify themes for your next project. Plus, just because you’re managing your store with Shopify doesn’t mean you can’t still use WordPress for other parts of your site!
Top Shopify Themes for 2017
In collecting these 20 Shopify themes, I was looking for a couple of things:
- High review ratings – if a theme fared poorly in reviews, it didn’t make the list.
- Developer support – either evidenced through recent updates or through the text of customer reviews
Beyond those two criteria, I also tried to find themes with different uses and styles so that all types of stores can get value from this list.
And finally, you’ll find both free and premium Shopify themes at different price points.
Let’s dive in…
1. District
District is a clean, grid-based Shopify theme that comes in three different style palettes. The large promo banner lets you promote your latest deals at the top of the page and it also includes galleries and sliders to promote your latest products further down.
You can also bring in a bold, full-width Instagram feed. And the built-in marketing popup gives you another avenue to share promotional offers.
Better yet, District has maintained a 100% positive rating on over 247 reviews.
Key Features:
- Promotional banner and marketing popup
- Slideshows and collection galleries to promote products on homepage
- Full-width Instagram feed
- Home page video feature
- Responsive design
- Great reviews
Price: $160 | More Information
2. Parallax Theme / Aspen
As you might have been able to guess from the name, one of Parallax theme’s defining features is its long-format, parallax homepage. Grab your shoppers’ attention with full-width images that look gorgeous with the parallax scrolling effect.
Key Features:
- Full-width parallax scrolling images
- 15 homepage sections including a video banner
- AJAX add to cart
- Built-in currency converter to dynamically convert prices
Price: $180 | More Information
3. Supply
Supply is a free Shopify Theme built with a minimalist design specialized for displaying and filtering large inventories. It’s not especially creative, but it is well-suited for stores selling more practical products.
It comes with 2 different color styles, detailed filtering options, and a homepage slider to showcase multiple products on your homepage.
Key Features:
- Built for stores that need to display large catalogs
- 2 different color themes
- Detailed sidebar filtering options
- Homepage slider
Price: Free | More Information
4. Narrative
Whereas the previous theme was built for large catalogs, Narrative takes the opposite approach and focuses on small catalogs and product storytelling.
Narrative accomplishes this by giving you a bold hero video on your front page, as well as customizable image blocks, quote slides, and more on the product page.
It also comes with 3 different color styles, a neat vertical slideshow feature, and a full-width layout.
Key Features:
- Built for small catalogs and storytelling
- Hero video on the home page
- Customizable image blocks, quote slides, and more
- Full-width layout
- Vertical slideshow
- 3 different color themes
Price: Free | More Information
5. Icon
Icon offers a bevy of bold visuals, sliders, and a stunning parallax effect. If your store is focused on visual content, Icon is built to help you display it in the most effective way possible.
Icon also supports a full-width Instagram feed for even more visual content, and your shoppers can view more details about each product without leaving the page thanks to a product quick view feature.
Key Features:
- Focuses on presenting visual content
- 3 different color themes
- Parallax scrolling
- Product quick view
- Full-width Instagram feed
Price: $140 | More Information
6. Ella
Ella is the best selling Shopify theme at ThemeForest. It’s built on Bootstrap 3 and features a helpful mega menu module, detailed product filtering by tags, custom page layouts, and more.
You can feature your products with a large homepage banner and your store is, of course, fully responsive.
Beyond being the best selling Shopify theme at ThemeForest, Ella has also maintained a solid 4.66-star rating on over 5,250 sales.
Key Features:
- Advanced mega menu module
- Built on Bootstrap 3
- Product filtering by tags
- Homepage slideshow banner
- Drop-down shopping cart
- Newsletter signup module that connects to MailChimp
Price: $56 | More Information
7. YourStore
YourStore is right behind Ella when it comes to best selling Shopify themes at ThemeForest. It comes with 22 pre-made layouts and supports the Shopify Builder.
Beyond that, it also gives you a variety of product listing page and shopping cart variants, as well as built-in support for Google Rich Snippets and lazy loading, among many other smaller features.
Key Features:
- 22 premade layouts
- 8 listing variations
- 3 product variations
- 2 shopping carts
- Google Rich Snippets support
- AJAX search
Price: $60 | More Information
8. Simple
True to its name, Simple is an elegant minimalist Shopify theme that’s available for free at the Shopify Themes marketplace.
It offers a clean design that puts the focus squarely on your products. As a consequence, don’t expect as many bells and whistles as the other Shopify themes on this list.
Key Features:
- Minimalist design
- Accordion-style sidebar menu
- Related products feature
- Product image zoom and animations
Price: Free | More Information
9. Avenue
Avenue is another popular Theme Forest Shopify theme. It features a helpful mega menu, AJAX wishlists and layered navigation, infinite scroll, and tons of other helpful features.
You’ll have a great deal of control over your product listing pages as well as your individual product pages. And you’ll also get a helpful newsletter opt-in popup that connects to MailChimp, as well as behind-the-scenes features like Google Rich Product Snippets and lazy loading.
Key Features:
- Built on Bootstrap 3
- Advanced mega menu
- Newsletter popup
- Product hover and quick view
- Infinite scroll module
- Google Rich Product Snippets
Price: $56 | More Information
10. Foodly
Foodly is a neat food-focused Shopify theme that’s perfect for anyone selling food-based products. It features a drag and drop visual constructor as well as easy 1-click installation.
Beyond that, it also continues with the food theme by including special features to show recipe articles, a nutrition value section, and a helpful mega menu.
Key Features:
- Focused on food
- Recipe article type
- Nutrition value calculator
- Drag and drop visual constructor
- 1-click install
Price: $59 | More Information
11. Mobilia
Mobilia is a beautiful Shopify theme focused on helping you tell the story behind your brand. For that reason, it’s best suited for brands that rely on storytelling, rather than large product catalogs.
Beyond plenty of space on the homepage to tell your brand’s story, Mobilia also featured a full-width home page video, a full-width Instagram feed, multi-level menus, and a customizable sidebar.
Key Features:
- Optimized for large images
- Collection images are full-width
- Single product gallery for large, high-resolution images
- Home page video
Price: $160 | More Information
12. Material
Material is a popular responsive Shopify theme for sale at ThemeForest. As the name hints at, Material is based on material design principles and features a video slider, advanced filtering module, mega menu, and a variety of layouts.
Beyond that, it also helps visitors shop without page reloads with a QuickShop feature, and it offers a variety of helpful widgets, as well as a dedicated lookbook page.
Key Features:
- Follows material design principles
- Built on Bootstrap 3
- AJAX filter module
- Video slider
- Multiple page styles
- QuickShop feature
Price: $56 | More Information
13. Porto
Porto is a popular WooCommerce theme that’s since been ported to Shopify, as well as a number of other content management systems.
It features 20 unique homepage layouts, a variety of category page styles, unlimited header layouts, and tons of other customization options.
If you want a Shopify theme that’s flexible, Porto gives you a great deal of control over how your store looks.
Key Features:
- Responsive and retina ready
- 20 homepage layouts
- Unlimited header types
- Related products
- Parallax category banner
- AJAX add to cart and wishlist
- Touch friendly
Price: $56 | More Information
14. Loft
Loft is an interesting theme that showcases products in an eye-catching masonry grid on the homepage. It’s ideal for stores with large product catalogs and features neat custom promotion tiles that can fit into the masonry grid on the homepage.
Beyond that, it also features a multi-level menu, as well as story-focused product pages with plenty of space for additional text and images.
Key Features:
- Masonry grid homepage
- 3 different color styles
- Custom promotion tiles that fit into the masonry grid
- Full-width Instagram feed
- Multi-level menus
- Story-focused product pages
Price: $160 | More Information
15. Hosoren
Hosoren is a responsive Shopify theme that comes with 14 unique homepages and 6 different header styles.
It also features a carousel product slider, AJAX add to cart, quick product view, and plenty of other helpful features.
Key Features:
- 14 pre-built homepage layouts
- 6 different headers
- AJAX add to cart
- Quick product view
- Built-in mega menu
Price: $56 | More Information
16. Handy
Handy is a Shopify theme focused on stores selling handmade products. Basically, if you’re a craftsman, Handy is built to help you sell your wares.
Handy features a customizable mega menu, responsive design based on Bootstrap 3, multiple sidebar layouts, AJAX live search, AJAX layered navigation for easy filtering, newsletter opt-ins, and lots of other features for your handmade store.
Key Features:
- Built for stores selling handmade products, though you don’t have to use it that way
- AJAX live search
- AJAX layered navigation for product filtering
- Multiple sidebar layouts
- Flexible mega menu
- MailChimp newsletter signup popup
- EU privacy popup
Price: $59 | More Information
17. Venue
Venue is a Shopify theme built for stores that also sell products at physical locations. So if you have physical stores but also want to open up a web presence on Shopify, this is a great theme for you.
Beyond showcasing your products, Venue also helps you promote your physical stores by letting you share store details and events, as well as display multiple locations on a map.
Venue looks nice enough as a standalone eCommerce store, but this brick and mortar functionality is what sets it apart from the competition.
Key Features:
- Promote physical store locations and events
- Pin multiple store locations on a map
- Age checker popup to verify visitor age
- 3 different color schemes
Price: $160 | More Information
18. Electro
Electro is built for Shopify stores selling gadgets and other technology items. It features a modern design with an attractive vertical navigation menu.
It also features both horizontal and vertical mega menus, 4 style options for product listing pages, a variety of collection variations, as well as helpful tools to up-sell your shoppers.
Key Features:
- Built for gadget and technology stores
- 4 product page variations
- 7 collection page variations
- Built-in shopping cart up-sells
- Multiple homepage variations
Price: $59 | More Information
19. Fastor
Fastor is a flexible Shopify theme with a huge variety of pre-made demos. Over 73 of them, in fact!
Fastor is one of the best selling Shopify themes at Theme Forest, supports Shopify Sections, comes with a page builder, built-in wishlist app, and plenty of other helpful features like lookbooks and more.
Key Features:
- 73+ pre-made demos
- 26 custom headers
- Supports Shopify Sections
- Built-in page builder
- Wishlist app
- Supports multiple currencies
- Mega menus
- Autocomplete search
Price: $56 | More Information
20. Palo Alto
Palo Alto is a modern theme built for forward-focused brands with a story to tell. Because of its focus on storytelling, it’s a great option for brands with smaller catalogs.
Beyond plenty of space for extra text on product pages, Palo Alto also helps you tell your story with a bold hero video. And you can also easily bring in customer testimonials to boost your brand’s social proof.
Key Features:
- Contemporary design
- Built for storytelling brands with small catalogs
- Bold hero video
- Built-in space for customer testimonials
- Optimized for large images
Price: $180 | More Information
Wrapping Things Up
I hope you enjoyed our list of Shopify themes! I know most of our readers are WordPress fanatics, but even the most avid WooCommerce supporter can’t deny the appeal of Shopify.
Now over to you – would you ever consider using Shopify over the world’s most popular content management system (that’s WordPress!)?
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