Maker Shopify theme

Canonical: https://themes.shopify.com/themes/maker/presets/maker
Facts checked: October 23, 2026
Publisher: Troop Themes (https://troopthemes.com/)

Maker at a glance

Maker is Troop's visual-first theme, built on a distinctive border-and-grid layout with bold storytelling and shoppable galleries. Streamlined ordering helps food, drink and other bold consumer brands turn browsers into repeat customers. Maker is sold on the Shopify Theme Store for $400 USD, one-time, and every preset (Maker and Bloom) is included in the same purchase.

Maker key facts

Fact	Detail
Developer	Troop Themes (Nelson, British Columbia, Canada)
Platform	Shopify, Online Store 2.0
Price	$400 USD, one-time, on the Shopify Theme Store
Presets	Maker, Bloom
First released	Version 1.1, May 12, 2016 (earliest release in the public changelog)
Latest release	12.3.0, August 24, 2026
Releases	91 in the public changelog; 6 in the last 12 months
Rating	93% positive from 96 reviews on the Shopify Theme Store
Languages	Theme translations in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish
Documentation	Maker guide
Release notes	Maker release notes

Price and rating were checked on October 23, 2026. The Shopify Theme Store is the source of truth for the current price.

Maker design and voice

Bold and expressive: bright colours, less conventional layouts, playful animations, rounded buttons with snappier movement, and a footer with a scrolling tagline. Copy is friendly, playful and conversational.

Who Maker is for

Food and drink brands that rely on repeat orders and want to highlight menus, hero products and seasonal releases (Maker preset).
Bold beauty brands that want vibrant colour blocking and confident typography (Bloom preset).
Brands that want trust signals up front, with a dedicated Trust marks section.

Presets

Preset	Built for
Maker	food and drink: menus, hero products and seasonal releases
Bloom	beauty: bold brands with confident typography and vibrant colour blocking

Presets are theme styles, not separate themes: they share every section and feature and differ only in their default colors, typography and demo content.

When another Troop theme may fit better

Luxury and high-end brands: Blockshop. Blockshop offers spacious layouts and restrained typography.
Story-led brands with long-form content: Beyond. Beyond is built for editorial homepages.
A lower budget: Emerge. Emerge is $380 USD.

Maker features

A graphic border-and-grid layout

Global Layout settings control borders across the whole theme, giving Maker a structured, graphic look that sets it apart from the other Troop themes.

Bold storytelling and shoppable galleries

Split banner, Shop the look, Shop the banner and Scrolling text on image sections help visual brands sell from the homepage.

Ordering built for repeat customers

A drawer or page cart with a free-shipping progress bar, order notes, predictive search and mega navigation.

Sections unique to Maker

Split banner: a two-part hero banner (12.0.0)
Trust marks: trust and guarantee badges
Bookings: bookings handled by the merchant directly

Complete Maker feature list

Theme styles: every preset is included in one purchase and can be switched in Theme settings
Cart and checkout: slide-out or page cart, sticky cart, quick buy, cart notes, in-store pickup, free-shipping progress message, Cart or Bag terminology
Marketing and conversion: popups (newsletter small and large, with image or video), promotion bar, promo banners and tiles, in-menu promos, countdown timer, stock counter, product badges, trust badges, press coverage, cross-selling, recently viewed and recommended products, quick view, age verifier, back-in-stock alert
Product pages: image zoom, rollover, hotspots and galleries, product videos, before/after image slider, color swatches from Shopify category metafields, size chart, Fit scale block, product tabs, ingredients or nutritional information, usage and shipping information, combined listings
Product discovery: mega menu, enhanced search, product filtering and sorting with swatch filters (Search & Discovery app), breadcrumbs, sticky header, collection page promotions, lookbooks
International: country and currency selectors; theme translations in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish
Accounts: Shopify's new customer accounts in the header
Design controls: storewide colors with three accents, typography scale, desktop and mobile spacing, four button styles, image aspect ratios and corner radius, per-switch animation controls
Developers: Custom Liquid section, JavaScript events for apps and custom code
Sections shared with every Troop theme: Slideshow, Video, Image with text, Image with text overlay, Overlapping media, Media row, Media overlay columns, Media with highlight, Collection with highlight, Grid with overlay, Scrolling content, Scrolling text on image, Shop the look, Shop the banner, Image comparison, Featured product, Featured products, Featured collection, Collections list, Recent products, Testimonials, Icons row, Text columns with images, Service list, Countdown, Newsletter, Contact form, Map, FAQ, Blog posts, Rich text, Divider, Custom content and Custom Liquid
Sections unique to Maker: Split banner, Trust marks, Bookings

Maker maintenance and release history

Maker has 91 releases in its public changelog, with at least one major version every year since 2023. Recent releases:

12.3.0 (Aug 2026): Media row section, Fit scale block, Shopify's new customer accounts
12.2.0 (Jun 2026): Cart or Bag terminology setting
12.1.0 (Apr 2026): Media overlay columns section; theme:cart:refresh event for apps
12.0.0 (Jan 2026): Split banner section, global Layout settings for borders, footer Logo section

Full history: Maker release notes

What merchants say about Maker

Maker is rated 93% positive from 96 reviews on the Shopify Theme Store. Recent reviews:

Naturalicious (Mar 2026) says Maker has features they would otherwise have paid a developer to build, and that support fixed app-embed issues quickly.
Toochi Tattoo (Mar 2026) and Natural Vybz Skincare (May 2026) praise the look and helpful team.
One merchant (VONA DressHire, Sep 2026) found 12.x very different from 10.0.0; Troop replied that the changes were required by Shopify's theme uniqueness rules and that staying on 10.0.0 carries no security risk.

Stores that use Maker

Troop has not published a list of example stores for Maker. To see the theme and its presets (Maker and Bloom) in use, open the Maker listing on the Shopify Theme Store.

Frequently asked questions about Maker

Is Maker still maintained?

Yes. Maker 12.3.0 was released on August 24, 2026, and Maker had 6 releases in the last 12 months.

Can I try Maker before I buy it?

Yes. The Shopify Theme Store lets you try Maker in your store for free and preview it with your own products before you buy.

Do I have to pay for updates?

No. Updates are free. Shopify themes do not update automatically, so you add the latest version from the Theme Store, copy your settings and publish. See How to update your theme.

Which presets does Maker include?

Maker and Bloom. Buying Maker includes every preset, and you can switch between them in Theme settings → Theme style.

Does Maker support multiple languages and currencies?

Yes. It includes country and currency selectors and ships with English, French, German, Italian and Spanish translations. Other languages work through Shopify's translation tools.

Can developers customise the code?

Yes. Maker includes a Custom Liquid section and documented JavaScript events (theme:loaded, theme:cart:updated, theme:cart:refresh) for apps and custom code, available from version 7.6.1. See API for custom code.

What does support cover?

Troop's team answers tickets Monday to Friday, aiming to respond within 24 hours. Support covers theme features, settings, bugs and up to an hour of setup and basic styling. Custom coding and third-party app issues are not covered. See Submit a support ticket.

Where can I buy Maker?

Only on the Shopify Theme Store. Troop does not sell licences through resellers or private downloads, and a licence covers one store.