About v7.1 release

The new Broadcast 7.1 release introduces several new features to improve your merchandising and store settings. Here are some of the updates and changes you'll see in Broadcast by category.

Product pages

New updates to the product default page (PDP). Here's what's new with product pages in Broadcast:

Pre-orders at the Variant level

Now with Broadcast, you can set pre-orders at the variant level. Previously, we supported product metafields that assigned a pre-order button to the entire product. You can now create a variant metafield and assign a pre-order button to any variant in your product catalog. Both options, the product as a whole and the new variant-level pre-orders, are available for you to choose from and customize pre-order products.

Full details

Learn all about pre-order variants in Broadcast and how to set up the variant metafield here:

Bundle and Save

Promote product bundles on product pages and the cart drawer with automatic discounts and precise product matching with metafields. Broadcast will display bundle promotions alongside the upsell block, giving you two promotional options.

Cart drawer promotions

Customers can add a bundled item right from the Cart drawer. A new block called 'Bundle products' has been added to the Overlay > Cart drawer to display bundle promotions.

• When using a list of products in the cart drawer, the promotions will be displayed in a slider carousel.

Full details

Learn all about the 'Bundle and save' feature in Broadcast:

Accordion drawer

A new option has been added to the Accordion block in the product form. You can now choose to display the accordion details in a drawer:

Use the block settings to toggle between Colapsible and Drawer:

Popup block now uses a drawer

The Popup block in the product form will now display the content in a slide-out drawer, similar to the drawer option for the accordion block:

Previously, the Popup block was displayed as a modal. The new design helps improve the user experience.

Estimate delivery block

A new block you can use to display the estimated delivery or shipping date to help customers know how quickly products are sent out or expected for delivery:

• Use the Label and Slider to specify your shipping or expected delivery date. Broadcast will convert the days into a date value.

• Use a metafield to customize each product.

Settings

Here's what's new with the Theme settings in Broadcast:

Badges

You'll now find all the badge settings in a new category in the Theme settings under Badges:

You can customize and configure all the badges included in Broadcast here, including badges for the PDP and Product Card.

Color opacity

Shopify has introduced a new opacity slider in the color picker. Broadcast now uses this slider to adjust transparency, including overlays:

Pagination

An infinite scroll option has been added to Pagination in the Theme settings. Now, you can enable continuous scrolling or toggle it off for regular page-style pagination.

Shopping Cart

Here's what's new with the Cart and Cart drawer in Broadcast:

Discount code

Shoppers can now add a discount code directly in the Cart before proceeding to checkout, greatly enhancing the user experience for adding more items and encouraging impulse purchases.

The discount amount is shown, and the subtotal is updated right in the cart. Add the new 'Discount code' block in the Overlay section under the Cart drawer:

Bundle and save promotions

Use the new 'Bundle products' block in the Overlay section under Cart drawer to display bundle promotions right in the cart. View additional information here:

Payment icons

We've added a grayscale option to the payment icons block in Broadcast. The payment icons block is found in the cart, cart drawer, and footer.

Sections

Here's what's new with theme sections and section blocks in Broadcast v7.1:

Product section

We've brought back the original clean Product section in Broadcast, now called 'Product'.

In addition to the 'Featured product', which has a modern design, the new classic 'Product' section can be used to build product promotions throughout your shop quickly:

To add the 'Product' section, choose it from the Products group:

You can now choose from two different section styles:

1. Featured product - Modern design section.

2. Product - The original simple section, ideal for quick promotions.

Image with text overlay

A new block type has been added to the Multicolumn and Collection list sections called 'Image with text overlay'.

Now you can overlay text and call-to-action buttons over an image in various positions:

Use the new 'Image with text overlay' block when you want to position content over your images, or use the 'Image' block to place text outside of the image.

Press logos - Mobile

The press logo slides will now auto-rotate for mobile devices:

Section categories

Shopify now groups sections in the Theme Customizer. When you add a new section, you'll find the sections in Broadcast grouped in these new categories. Here's a breakdown on where to find our sections:

Try Broadcast 7.1

For additional examples and to try Broadcast for free, visit our demo stores and download the latest version of Broadcast:

Shopify Theme Store - Broadcast

Existing customers can update for free. To preserve your live published theme, use the Shopify Update tool. The update tool will download an additional theme to your theme library and only copy the settings from your live theme. This is the safest and easiest method of updating your theme.