Store navigation
Store navigation on Orbit starts with the header you build: dropdowns that sell, and the same menu on a phone.
On every plan from £25 a month
Phone menu from your header
A drawer, full screen or dropdown
Phone menu from your header
A drawer, full screen or dropdown
Product cards in dropdowns
Hand-picked or your newest products
What shoppers see
Your header menu becomes the phone menu on its own, so there is one menu to keep right, not two, and its dropdowns can carry more than links.
A dropdown in the Menu Builder takes columns of links, product cards with a photo and price, and banners with a heading and a button. A custom dropdown takes any block at all.
Keep the header pinned, hide it as people scroll down and bring it back on the way up, or switch sticky off on phones. Pick the slide or the fade.
Turn on suggestions and the header search offers matches while the shopper is still typing.
The currency and language switchers sit in the header as blocks, so a shopper in Paris can see euro prices and your menus in French, if you sell that way.
Runs without you
Six things a header and footer need, ready to drop in.
The cart icon counts what is in the basket and opens it as a drawer, a pop-over or a dropdown, or goes straight to the cart page. It can open on its own when something is added.
Signed-out visitors go to sign in; signed-in customers go to their account, with a dropdown for their orders, addresses and settings.
Category and product breadcrumbs are blocks you drop in, so a shopper can see where a page sits and step back up.
Footer columns are menus too: edit a theme’s in the page builder, or drop in a Menu block that shows one of your lists. Social icons and a newsletter sign-up can sit beside them.
Menus are translated for each language you switch on, and a language switcher sits in the header.
Switching theme keeps the Navigation lists you built and only adds the ones the new theme needs.
The details
Everything a menu can do, named the way the editors name it.
Link types
In a Navigation list, type a name or paste an address in the Link field. The picker offers what your shop has, grouped under Store and Account, or keeps the address as a custom link.
Dropdowns
A Menu Builder dropdown is columns of links with product cards and banner tiles underneath; a tabs layout puts the column titles in a rail. A custom dropdown accepts any block.
Phones
By default, a header menu folds into a hamburger on a phone. A page-builder header opens it as a drawer from either side, full screen or as a panel under the bar, from tablet width or on phones only. The built-in header, drawn here, slides its drawer in from the left. Items with children open as an accordion.
Header
The Header Builder lays out a row of blocks: the logo, the menu, search, the account icon, the mini cart, the wishlist and the currency and language switchers. Full width or boxed, it can sit transparent over the page, under an announcement bar that rotates its messages.
Sticky
The Header Builder’s sticky settings, one switch each, with scroll effects that shrink the bar as the page moves.
Who sees what
Any block, a menu included, can carry display conditions and per-device visibility. A trade menu that only customers tagged trade see is one rule on one block, and a menu for phones alone is the same block hidden on desktop and tablet. Ask Nebula and it will suggest a menu from your categories, pages and blogs, then fill in the new list for you to check and save.
Three levels
Room for a big range
Navigation lists go three levels deep, from Shop to Office chairs to Mesh chairs: room for a big range, and quick to use on a phone.
Where you place it
Menu blocks show your lists
A Navigation list shows wherever you put a Menu block that points at it: a header, a footer column or any page.
One phone menu
By default
The phone menu is your header menu. If phones need their own, add a second menu and hide it on desktop.
Plans
£19
a month, billed yearly, ex VAT
Included: Menus, headers, footers and the phone menu
14 days free, no card
£64
a month, billed yearly, ex VAT
Included: Menus, headers, footers and the phone menu
14 days free, no card
£187
a month, billed yearly, ex VAT
Included: Menus, headers, footers and the phone menu
14 days free, no card
£749
a month, billed yearly, ex VAT
Included: Menus, headers, footers and the phone menu
14 days free, no card
Every plan includes as many menus as you need, three levels deep, with the Header Builder and every dropdown type.
FAQ
Depth, dropdowns, phones, switching theme and moving in, in plain words.
Related
Guide
What to put at the top, how deep to go, and why the phone menu matters more than the desktop one.
Page builder
Your header and footer are page-builder templates, made from the same blocks as your pages. Start from a free or premium theme.
Selling abroad
Prices in the currency for where a shopper is browsing from, and your menus and pages in their language.
Included on every plan
Menus three levels deep, dropdowns with photos and products, and a phone menu that follows, from £25 a month.
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