Empire
Empire is a powerful Shopify theme built for merchants managing large catalogs and high-volume sales. Designed with scalability at its core, it gives you the tools to organize thousands of products while maintaining a fast and intuitive shopping experience.
With advanced collection filtering, robust navigation, and a marketplace-inspired layout, Empire helps customers quickly find what they’re looking for. Its structure is optimized for stores with extensive inventories, making it easier to manage complexity without sacrificing usability.
Empire also supports promotional content, featured collections, and dynamic merchandising, allowing you to highlight key products and drive conversions across your storefront.
Engineered for performance, it ensures fast load times and smooth browsing, even for stores with large inventories and heavy traffic.
Best for
Large catalogs, dropshipping stores, marketplaces, high-volume ecommerce
Key benefits
- Manage and scale large product catalogs efficiently
- Improve product discovery with advanced filtering and navigation
- Support high traffic and high-volume sales
- Balance performance with complex storefront needs
Marketplace-inspired theme optimized for large product catalogs
When you try Empire, you also get access to all the other presets under the same theme family (Empire, Depot, Forma, and Circuit). This gives you the freedom to explore different looks and switch between them whenever you like.
Colossal capacity
Command over any catalog with robust features for product discovery, comparison, and conversion.
Above-average order value
Get more out of every order with powerful tools for merchandising, upselling, and cross-selling products.
Industry acrobat
Adaptable, agile, and packed with app-level functionality, Empire is perfect for your brand and business model.
Features Learn more about the features this theme has to offer.
Optimized for large catalogs
Empire is specially built for high-volume online stores with a large number of products and collections.
Live search
Empire's advanced live search lets you show search results and quick links for products and store pages.
Homepage menu lists
Display menu lists on your store's homepage to let customers easily navigate large catalogs.
Advanced product filtering
Allow customers to filter products by type, and sort by best sellers and price on collection pages.
Quick buy
Allow customers to quickly and easily add items to their cart without leaving the collections page.
Customizable promotion tiles
Promote sales, discounts, and featured products on your homepage with special promotional tiles.
New: Instagram-inspired shoppable images
Showcase your products using shoppable images with up to five quick shop hotspots.
New: Unique variant management
Control product variant selection with more options and define how your customers interact with product forms.
All of our Shopify themes come with the following features
- Free customer support
- Free theme updates
- Mobile-friendly design
- Customizable layout
- Built-in styles and color palettes
- Modular design
- Integrated social feeds
- Social media icons
- Search engine optimization
- Drop-down navigation support
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Answers Get answers to common questions about this theme.
Can I customize the theme styles? Or can I use one theme style on one page and another style on a different page?
Yes and yes! We created these presets to show the diversity of Empire's features, but you can pick and choose however you want. Think of the presets as jumping-off points.
Can I use our company's font?
Maybe. If your company's font is available in the Shopify font library or through Typekit, you can use it in the theme. If it's a Typekit font, you will need to edit your theme's code
Can you help me customize the theme?
We can help you get set up and familiarize yourself with Empire's features, but we can't guarantee support for extensive customizations. That said, we'll do whatever we can to help you find a viable solution.
Does this theme integrate with all Shopify apps?
Not all, but many! All Pixel Union themes integrate with Pixel Union apps. If you're using an app from another developer, please contact them to see if it plays well with Empire.
