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This guide walks you through setting up a demo store on Layers. Most of the heavy lifting — importing historical searches, drafting a brand description and autocomplete prompt, and running a baseline evaluation — happens automatically on install. You only need to handle the two steps below.
Step 1: Install Layers
Follow the installation guide to install Layers on your Shopify store. When the app installs, Layers automatically:
- Syncs your product catalog.
- Seeds the last 30 days of historical search terms from your Shopify storefront.
- Drafts a brand description and autocomplete curation prompt from your storefront content and seeded searches.
- Runs catalog analysis and a baseline search evaluation once the catalog is indexed.
See What Layers seeds automatically for the full list. You can review and edit anything Layers drafted once onboarding completes.
Step 2: Create a crawler signature
To speed up the sync of product media, set up a crawler signature. See Creating a crawler signature for instructions.
Optional: Provide additional search history
If your store is new on Shopify or has limited recorded searches, the automatic import may seed only a small set of terms. To supply a larger sample, see Exporting search data for the manual ShopifyQL export and how to send it to Layers Support.
Next steps
Once onboarding completes, Layers notifies you and unlocks the full dashboard. Review the auto-generated content under Settings → General (brand description) and Settings → Autocomplete (curation prompt), then continue with Dashboard home.
Troubleshooting
If you run into issues during any step of the demo store setup, contact support for help.