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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Troubleshooting

If you run into issues during any step of the demo store setup, contact support for help.