Festive Decorations

Festive decorations dress your storefront for the season: snow drifting down the page, string lights along the edges, a soft glow around the screen, art in the corners and a trail behind the shopper's cursor. Each decoration is a ready-made scene that switches itself on and off on its dates, so your store can be ready for Black Friday, Christmas or Halloween without touching your theme. Decorations are included from the Starter plan.

Adding a decoration

Open Festive decorations from the app menu or the dashboard. The scene gallery lists every occasion, the next one first, with its dates and how many days until it starts. Click Add on a scene and it is scheduled for its next window: added in December, Halloween waits for next October.

The Black Friday decoration dresses up your storefront and is included from the Starter plan. It is not the same as Seasonal Autopilot's Black Friday (Max plan), which switches your confetti effects for the same dates; the two can run together.

A scene that is running today (Diwali in early November, for example) says Running now and is added for its current dates.

Civic holidays (Fourth of July, Canada Day, Bastille Day) are suggested in their own country only. Click Show more occasions from other countries to see them all.

Editing a decoration

Click Edit on a decoration to change:

• Name and dates - When it runs. Leave both dates empty to keep it on all year
• Falling effect - Snow, snow that settles, leaves, hearts, gifts, sparkles, fireworks and more
• String lights - Strands of lights down the left and right edges, clear of your logo and menu
• Edge glow - A soft tint around the edges of the screen
• Corner art - A small cluster in the bottom corners
• Cursor trail - Follows the shopper's mouse; off by default
• Where it shows - All pages, or only the page types you pick (home, product, collection, cart and more)

Switch any part off with its toggle, and use Pause or Resume on the decorations page to stop or restart a whole scene. When two decorations overlap, each part is taken from one of them only, so shoppers never see two snowfalls at once.

Previewing a decoration

Click Preview on a decoration, or on any scene in the gallery, then Preview again in the note that appears. Your storefront opens with that scene on, whatever its dates. The link works for 10 minutes and only for you: every other visitor sees your store as it is. If the note says the app isn't on in your theme yet, click Finish setup to turn on the Confetti & Holiday Decor app embed first.

Your own emoji and glow colour (Pro)

On the Pro plan, choose Custom emoji as the falling effect and type up to three emoji, or Custom colour for the edge glow and enter a hex colour such as #7B2FF7. The emoji or colour field appears once you pick the custom option. On a lower plan these show the nearest preset instead.

What shoppers see

Decorations never cover buttons or links. A small pause button in the bottom-left corner lets any shopper switch them off, and the choice is remembered on later pages. If another app's popup covers it, move it: in your theme editor open App embeds, select Confetti, and set Decorations pause button to Bottom right or Bottom left, raised. The first time, a short note at the bottom of the page says seasonal decorations are showing and offers Keep or Turn off. Shoppers who ask their device for reduced motion see a still version.

Moving from Pasilobus Seasons

If you used the Pasilobus Seasons (Holiday Decorations) app, the same scenes are here, and your own scenes can come with you. Open Festive decorations: when your store has scenes in Pasilobus Seasons, a note offers Import scenes. One click copies each scene with its name, dates, parts and pages; a scene whose dates have passed is moved to the same dates next year, and a scene you already have is skipped.

Then turn off the Pasilobus Seasons app embed in your theme editor (or uninstall Pasilobus Seasons), so your store doesn't show two sets of decorations.