The footer area at the bottom of your eCom (E-Series) website is visible on all pages and can include information like contact information, a copyright notice or disclaimer, and links to your store’s legal pages, catalog, and other resources.

By default, your selected eCom site theme includes a footer designed to match the theme. You can select different layout options and set up the content according to your business needs.

Selecting a footer layout for your eCom site

Footer layouts include essential legal information:

• Copyright notice that includes your site’s name by default.
• Your store’s legal pages, if you’ve added them.
• Cookie settings for site visitors, if the cookie consent banner is enabled.
• A language switcher if you have a multilingual website.
• The Report abuse link that allows visitors to file a complaint about your site’s content.
• The Powered by Lightspeed link.

You can also add a disclaimer, contact information, and other helpful links, like links to categories from your catalog.

To choose a footer layout for your eCom site:

1. In Retail POS, select eCom (E-Series) from the dropdown menu.

   

2. In your eCom admin, in the Homepage Sections menu on the left, click Footer.
3. Click the Design tab.

4. Under Layout, select the basic or expanded layout option.

   

5. (Optional) Adjust the design of the basic footer elements:

   1. Click Background to adjust the footer color scheme.
   2. Click Copyright to adjust the notice font styles, or toggle off Show element to remove the copyright information from the footer.
   3. Click Links to adjust the link font styles.
   4. Click "Powered by" notice to adjust the notice color.

   Or, adjust the design of the expanded footer elements:

   1. Click Background to adjust the footer color scheme.
   2. Click Column headings and Column items to adjust the column font styles.
   3. Click Legal information to adjust the Report abuse and Powered by Lightspeed font styles.

6. Click the Content tab to customize the copyright notice text, and if you previously selected the expanded footer design, the included links, contact info, and legal disclaimer. For text fields, click the Aa icon at the top right to access the rich text editor options.

   

7. Click Publish.

The footer layout will be updated on your eCom site.

Managing customizable links in the site footer

By default, a expanded footer layout on your eCom site contains groups of customizable links:

• Catalog links: Automatically generated from the product categories in your catalog. If your online catalog has more than 8 categories, the first 7 categories will be displayed and the View All button will appear at the bottom of the Links section in the Content tab.
• Helpful links: Manually add other helpful links, like customer accounts page, online catalog search page, gift card page, or external websites.

Customizable links appear as columns in the site footer. You can add up to three link groups to the expanded footer layout on your eCom site.

To manage customizable links in the site footer:

1. In Retail POS, select eCom (E-Series) from the dropdown menu.
2. In your eCom admin, in the Homepage Sections menu on the left, click Footer.
3. Click the Content tab.

4. In the Links section, click an existing link group title to edit it, or click Add link group to add another link group to your site footer.

   

5. From the Links to display dropdown, select:
   • Product categories to add autogenerated links to your online catalog’s categories.
   • Select manually to add other types of links.
6. If you chose Select manually:
   1. Click Add Link to add links to the group.
   2. Under Links, click Add link title.
   3. Add a title (the link text) and select an Action on click from the dropdown.
      • No action: A non-clickable list item.
      • Go to store category: Navigates to a product category that you specify.
      • Go to site page: Opens a page on your site that you specify.
      • Go to store: Opens your online store.
      • Go to link: Opens a link to any website that you specify.
      • Compose email: After clicking the link, a default mail service on a visitor’s device will open, ready to send a message to an email address that you specify.
      • Scroll to site section: Scrolls to one of your site’s sections.
      • Call phone: After clicking the link, a visitor’s device will dial a number you specify.
7. Click Publish.

The group of links will be added to the footer of your eCom site.

Removing an item from the footer of your eCom site

You can delete an item from the eCom site footer if you no longer need it. Deleting essential legal information like the Report abuse link from the footer is not supported.

To remove an item from the footer on eCom site:

1. In Retail POS, select eCom (E-Series) from the dropdown menu.
2. In your eCom admin, in the Homepage Sections menu on the left, click Footer.
3. Click the Content tab.
4. Remove text you no longer need, or click into a link group > click a link item > click Delete menu item at the bottom.
5. Click Publish.

The item will be deleted from the footer of your eCom site.