Install Guide — Danstack Video

This is the complete installation guide for Danstack Video (the Danstack Shoppable Video section). It takes about ten minutes and needs no coding knowledge — you are copying one file into your theme, not writing anything.

You can read this before buying, to see exactly what installing it involves. Prefer watching? The 2-minute install video is on the product page.

Before you start

Duplicate your theme first. In your Shopify admin go to Online Store → Themes, find your live theme, click the … menu and choose Duplicate. Install into the duplicate, check that everything works, then publish it. This means your live store is never at risk while you set up.

What you need:

  • A Shopify store on any Online Store 2.0 theme — free, paid or custom-built.
  • Your product videos as MP4 files. There is no video recording or editing involved — you supply the videos.
  • About ten minutes.

What is in your download

  • danstack-video.liquid — the section. Everything is inside this one file; there is no separate JavaScript or CSS file to upload.
  • Danstack-Video-Section-User-Manual.pdf — the full manual: every setting, video export specs, sales tracking and troubleshooting.

Step 1 — Add the section file

  1. Go to Online Store → Themes. On your theme, click … → Edit code.
  2. Find the Sections folder in the left sidebar and click New file (or Add a new section).
  3. Name it exactly danstack-video and press Enter. If Shopify fills the new file with placeholder code, select all of it and delete it, so the file is completely empty.
  4. Open danstack-video.liquid from your download in any text editor, select all of it, and copy it.
  5. Paste it into the empty file in Shopify and click Save.

If you see a save confirmation and no error, the code is installed.

Step 2 — Add the section to a page

  1. Go back to Online Store → Themes and click Edit theme (Customize).
  2. Open the page you want the videos on — your homepage, a product page, or any other page.
  3. Click Add section, search for Danstack, and choose Danstack Shoppable Video.

Step 3 — Add your videos and tag products

The section comes with empty video cards. Click a Video card in the left sidebar, then:

  • Video (upload) — click Select and upload your MP4 straight from here, or pick one you have already uploaded.
  • Card cover image (optional) — the still frame shown before the video plays.
  • Product 1–5 — tag up to five products to make shoppable inside that video.

Use Add Video card for more videos — up to 20 in one section. Click Save, then view your live store to check it.

Vertical videos (9:16, the same shape as an Instagram Reel) look best. Keep each file under about 10 MB where you can, so they load quickly for your shoppers.

Step 4 — Style it to match your store

Everything else is optional and lives in the section's settings panel in the theme editor: colours, card size and spacing, corner radius, heading and body copy, button styling, the play icon and the discount badge. There is a Hide background mode that removes the card background for a full-width layout. None of this needs code.

Sales tracking

The section reports what shoppers do with your videos to your own tools — nothing is sent to Danstack. Orders that came through a video show "Added from shoppable video: Yes" under Additional details in Shopify admin, with no setup. Video views, product clicks and add-to-carts are also sent to Google Analytics. The PDF manual (Section 12) shows where to see them, including a ready-to-paste pixel for stores that use Shopify's Google & YouTube app.

If something is not working

The section does not appear in the Add section list. Check the Sections folder for a typo in the file name, or a file that got named danstack-video.liquid.liquid. Then check that the file saved without an error.

You see a Liquid error on the page. This almost always means some of Shopify's placeholder code is still in the file above or below the pasted section. Open the file, delete everything, and paste again.

A video does not play. Make sure it is an MP4 file (H.264). Re-upload it in the card's Video (upload) field. Very large files can take a minute to process after uploading.

Add to cart does not update your cart. The section detects your theme's cart automatically and falls back safely if it cannot. Message me with your theme name and I will check it.

What this section does not do

Stated plainly, so there are no surprises after you buy:

  • No Instagram or TikTok import. You upload your own MP4 files. There is no YouTube or Vimeo embedding and no automatic compression.
  • No captions or subtitles in the reel player.
  • No analytics dashboard inside Shopify. Video stats go to your orders and Google Analytics, as described above.
  • Settings labels are in English and are not wired to Shopify's translation system, so a multi-language store will not translate them automatically.
  • Each section is independent. You can add as many as you like across your store, but there is no shared library managing videos across them.

Your licence

Each purchase covers one live Shopify store, plus that store's development, staging and backup themes at no extra cost. You may modify the code for your own store, and you keep it permanently — there is no subscription and no expiry. Reselling, redistributing or installing it on additional or client stores is not covered. Need more than one store? Message me and I will quote you.

Full terms are in the Terms of Service, Section 6.

Stuck? Message me

Installation help is included with your purchase, and I answer messages myself. Most problems turn out to be a five-minute fix.

Send your order number, your store URL and theme name, and a screenshot or short screen recording of what you are seeing. I reply Monday to Saturday, 10:00 to 19:00 IST, usually the same day.

If you would rather not install it yourself, the done-for-you setup add-on is available on the product page — I install it on your theme and tag your first five products for you.