Units
Square feet or square metres for areas, inches or centimetres for tile dimensions. Units are set once for the whole store in the app's settings.
Units are store-wide. Open Settings in the app and pick:
- Area unit: square feet or square metres. Coverage per box and coverage per gallon are entered in this unit, the buy boxes ask shoppers for an area in it, and the spec rows show tiles per square foot or per square metre.
- Dimension unit: inches or centimetres. Tile length, width and thickness are entered and shown in this unit. By default it follows the area unit (square feet gives inches, square metres gives centimetres); choose the other if your catalog mixes them.
There is no unit switch for shoppers on the product page. A tile store in the United States shows square feet and inches everywhere; a store in Europe shows square metres and centimetres everywhere.
Changing the unit later
Areas are stored as plain numbers in the unit you chose, so if you switch the area unit after entering coverage you need to re-enter or re-import the values (the CSV export gives you every number in one file).
Dimensions are different: each stored dimension carries its own unit, so switching the dimension unit only changes how they are displayed and converted on the product page, never what was saved. A tile saved as 10 x 10 cm shows as 3.94 x 3.94 in after the switch, and the tiles per area figure stays right.
The theme editor defaults
Each block also has an area unit and dimension unit setting in the theme editor. Those are only the defaults the block uses before the app's settings have been saved once; after that, the app's settings win.
Setup guide
The three steps on the dashboard: set the values on your products, add the four blocks in the theme editor, and test a product on the storefront.
Products and values
The Products page: tile dimensions, pieces per box, coverage per box, coverage per gallon, container sizes and the sample link, edited in bulk across every product.