Applies to Cmsmart Boxed 2 Store 2.0.0 (parent theme Cmsmart Stores 2.0.0), with Cmsmart Product Designer 2.18.x and Cmsmart Stores Blocks 2.0.x as installed by Store Setup v2. Updated October 2026. Every screenshot below is from a store this installer actually built.

In short

  • Outcome: a branded, working WooCommerce print-shop store — with a trimmed sample catalogue and a real test order placed — in about an hour, once Store Setup v2 has installed it.
  • How it works: Store Setup v2 installs WordPress, WooCommerce, the Cmsmart Boxed 2 Store theme and Cmsmart Product Designer with sample data; you then brand it, shape the catalogue, and switch on payments and shipping.
  • What it takes: a Cmsmart Fullstore licence, a host you already have (installer file or manual theme upload), and about an hour of your own time for branding, products and commerce settings.

Cmsmart Boxed 2 Store is a ready-made WooCommerce storefront for a print shop that sells business cards, postcards, appointment cards and similar stationery to business buyers. Store Setup v2 installs the theme, WooCommerce, Cmsmart Product Designer and a sample catalogue in minutes; this guide covers the branding, product and commerce settings an owner configures afterward, in about an hour.

What does it cost a print shop to keep designing and quoting by hand?

Every manual quote, emailed proof and re-typed order is paid for twice: once in staff time, and once in the sale that goes to whichever competitor's store answers first. Cmsmart replaces that loop with a self-serve storefront where price, design and order happen in one sitting.

Print shops that move quoting online are chasing a market that keeps growing, not shrinking: the web-to-print market reached $32.97 billion in 2025 and is projected to grow to $42.73 billion by 2030. Every buyer still stuck emailing a print shop for a quote is a buyer a self-serve competitor can win first.

Think about your last ten quote requests: a customer emails or calls, someone looks up a price list, drafts a quote, then chases a reply that may never come. A simple way to see that cost in your own numbers:

Cost of one manual quote ≈ (minutes quoting + minutes chasing) × your loaded hourly rate. Multiply by a slow week's quotes for a rough monthly cost of staying off self-serve.

  • Price lists and quotes live in someone's head or a spreadsheet, not on the product page.
  • Every design request means a back-and-forth with proofs attached to email threads.
  • Reorders start from scratch instead of "order again" on a past design.
  • There is no catalogue a buyer can browse at 9pm, so the sale waits until the shop reopens.

Business buyers increasingly expect to do that work themselves: 87% of B2B buyers want to self-serve part or all of their buying journey. A storefront that cannot show a price and a proof on the spot pushes them toward whichever supplier can.

What could your store look like by lunchtime?

By lunchtime on install day, Cmsmart Boxed 2 Store can show your own logo and colours, a trimmed catalogue of products you actually sell, and a working Cmsmart Product Designer tab on at least one of them — enough for a colleague to open the site, design a sample card, and put it in the cart as a real test.

Example scenario. A business buyer finds your store from a search for business cards. The all-categories menu and search bar on the home page take them straight to a category card; they pick a product, press Start Design, drop in their own logo and tagline, and watch the price update as they choose colour and quantity. They add it to the cart, see the total before shipping, and check out — no email, no wait for a quote back.

How does Cmsmart put the Boxed 2 Store together?

Cmsmart layers five pieces on top of WordPress and WooCommerce: the Cmsmart Stores parent theme, the Cmsmart Boxed 2 Store child theme, Cmsmart Stores Blocks, Cmsmart Product Designer and WooCommerce's own checkout — each one visible in your own wp-admin once Store Setup v2 has installed them. Boxed 2 Store is one layout in Cmsmart's wider web-to-print software line-up.

  • Cmsmart Stores (parent theme). The shared design system and WooCommerce templates every Printstores layout inherits; Appearance → Themes shows it installed alongside the store's own child theme.
  • Cmsmart Boxed 2 Store (child theme). The all-categories menu, home-page sections and this store's own header and footer template parts, editable in the block Site Editor.
  • Cmsmart Stores Blocks. The block-editor patterns the Site Editor uses to build the header, footer and home-page sections.
  • Cmsmart Product Designer (formerly NBDesigner). The "Setting Cmsmart" and printing-option boxes on each product; turns a plain product into one a buyer can design, and renders the print-ready PDF that matches the order once it ships. See the plugin page for the full feature list.
  • WooCommerce. Products, cart, checkout, payments and shipping zones — the commerce layer every Printstores store sits on.

WooCommerce itself is not a niche choice to build on: it powers an estimated 33.4% of ecommerce stores worldwide, around 4.53 million active stores, so the commerce layer under Boxed 2 Store is one you are not locked into.

What's the business value of a ready-made WooCommerce store?

A ready-made store swaps months of custom theme and plugin work for configuration: Cmsmart Boxed 2 Store already wires the storefront, Cmsmart Product Designer and WooCommerce together, so the hours you spend go into branding and your own catalogue instead of plumbing them together yourself.

BenefitHow it shows up in your businessKPI to track
Faster launchTheme, commerce layer and product designer arrive already wired together, instead of being assembled plugin by pluginActivation time: from "Install my store" to your first real product live
Lower setup costNo custom theme build and no manual integration between the storefront and Cmsmart Product DesignerHours of staff or agency time spent per product onboarded
Faster first saleA buyer can design and pay in one visit once your catalogue and payments are liveTime from go-live to first paid order
Higher order value on repeat businessPrinting options carry stock, finish and quantity tiers on every designable productAverage order value before and after your printing options are tuned

Rough time-saved worksheet. Hours saved per month ≈ (quotes you currently answer by hand) × (minutes per manual quote − minutes per self-serve order) ÷ 60. Run it with your own quote volume and you have a business case for moving the ones that fit a catalogue price online, instead of guessing.

Cmsmart Boxed 2 Store vs. a generic WooCommerce theme

Cmsmart Boxed 2 StoreGeneric WooCommerce theme
Product designerCmsmart Product Designer wired into the product editor from the first installAdded and connected separately, usually by a developer
Printing options / price matrixAn "NBD options" box ships on products already using the designerBuilt from scratch or with a separate pricing plugin
Starting catalogue and pagesSample products, categories and core pages load with the installBlank; every page built by hand
Theme updatesParent/child structure (Cmsmart Stores plus Boxed 2) keeps edits safe through updatesDepends on the theme author's own update discipline
Who sets it upA store owner, following a guide, in about an hourUsually a developer, over days

Cmsmart insight: most new Boxed 2 owners spend their first hour fighting the sample catalogue instead of replacing it. Treat the demo cards and envelopes as placeholders to delete or relabel, not inventory to keep — the sample names and photos are placeholder data, not a reflection of what you sell.

How do you set up the Cmsmart Boxed 2 Store in one hour?

Store Setup v2 installs WordPress, WooCommerce, the Boxed 2 theme and Cmsmart Product Designer for you; what is left is an hour of configuration — branding, trimming the sample catalogue, and switching on payments and shipping — before you run a test order and go live.

Install first. Store Setup v2 on your Cmsmart dashboard built an installer, put WordPress, WooCommerce, the Cmsmart Boxed 2 Store theme and Cmsmart Product Designer on your host, and loaded the sample catalogue. Since installer kit 2.0.3 (19 October 2026) the store opens live on its own domain the moment setup finishes, with no WooCommerce "coming soon" page in the way. If you have not run that step yet, follow Install a Cmsmart Store: parent/child theme, step by step first — this guide picks up from there.

The released Printstores 2.0.0 content tree installs Cmsmart Product Designer 2.18.0 and Cmsmart Stores Blocks 2.0.1 together with the Boxed 2 theme; the captures above and below are from exactly that build. Keep Cmsmart Product Designer up to date: when WordPress shows an update under Dashboard → Updates, install it.

Brand it (about 10 minutes). For deeper styling once the basics are done, see Customize your Cmsmart Store with the Site Editor.

  1. Open Appearance → Site Editor → Patterns → Template Parts → Header and swap the Site Logo block for your own mark; the menu and cart/account icons are already wired to WooCommerce.
  2. Do the same for the Footer template part: replace the sample company copy, address and social links with your own.
  3. Set your real site title under Settings → General, and a site icon once you have one.
Cmsmart Boxed 2 Store header template part open in the WordPress Site Editor, with the Site Logo and main-menu blocks
The header template part in the Site Editor: swap the Site Logo block for your own mark.
Footer template part of the Boxed 2 Store open in the Site Editor, showing the column layout
The footer template part: replace the sample company copy with your own before launch.
WordPress Settings General screen showing the site title field for the store
Settings → General: your real site title, and a site icon once you have one.

Load your catalogue (about 20 minutes).

  1. Check Pages → All Pages: the sample-data import already created home, shop, cart, checkout, My Account, About and FAQ pages, among others.
  2. Open Products → All Products: the sample catalogue ships cards, postcard and envelope products as placeholders. Decide what to keep, rename, re-price or delete.
  3. Edit one product — title, description, price, image — to match something you sell.
  4. In that product's "Setting Cmsmart" box, check Enable Design and the template/DPI settings Cmsmart Product Designer uses for it.
  5. In the "NBD options" box, confirm which printing-option set — the price matrix for stock, finish and quantity — it uses.
Pages list in wp-admin showing the pages the Cmsmart Boxed 2 Store sample data imported
Pages → All Pages: the sample data already created a full page set.
Products list in wp-admin showing the sample catalogue of cards and envelopes
Products → All Products: the sample catalogue, ready to trim or replace.
WooCommerce product editor open on a sample appointment card product, with title, description and price
Editing one sample product: title, description, price and image.
Setting Cmsmart box on the product editor showing the Cmsmart Product Designer template and DPI settings
The "Setting Cmsmart" box: Cmsmart Product Designer's settings for this product.
NBD options box on the product editor showing the printing option set assigned to the product
The "NBD options" box: which printing-option set this product uses.

Cmsmart insight: set up one printing-option set — stock, finish and quantity tiers — and point every similar product at it from the "NBD options" box, instead of rebuilding the price matrix by hand on each new product.

Turn on commerce (about 15 minutes).

  1. WooCommerce → Settings → General: set your real store address, currency, and the countries you sell and ship to — tax and shipping rates are calculated from this address.
  2. WooCommerce → Settings → Payments: connect at least one real payment method before you go live; the sample store ships with only "Take offline payments" switched on.
  3. WooCommerce → Settings → Shipping: review the sample shipping zone and add the zones and methods your own store needs.
WooCommerce Settings General screen showing store address, selling locations and currency options
WooCommerce → Settings → General: your real store address and currency.
WooCommerce Settings Payments screen listing available payment providers
WooCommerce → Settings → Payments: connect a real payment method.
WooCommerce Settings Shipping screen showing the sample shipping zone and its methods
WooCommerce → Settings → Shipping: the sample zone, ready to adjust.

Run one test order (about 10 minutes). Before you invite a single customer, place an order yourself:

  • Open the product you just edited on the storefront and press Start Design.
  • Design something, save it, and confirm the price updates the way your printing options expect.
  • Add it to the cart and check the total, then stop before entering real payment details.
  • Open the order in wp-admin afterward and confirm the design and price match what you saw as the buyer.
Cmsmart Boxed 2 Store product page showing a card product, colour options and the Start Design button
The storefront product page: colour options, live price and Start Design.
Cmsmart Product Designer open on a card product showing a design template and editor toolbar
Cmsmart Product Designer open on the product, with a starting template.
WooCommerce cart page on the Cmsmart Boxed 2 Store showing one designed product and the order total
The cart, with the test product and total — stop here before paying.

Go-live checklist.

  • Header, footer and site title show your brand, not the sample copy.
  • Products you actually sell are published, priced, with Designer and printing-option settings checked.
  • A real payment method is connected and tested.
  • Shipping zones match where you actually ship.
  • Unwanted sample data is removed, as its own step in Store Setup — nothing disappears by accident.

What custom development can Cmsmart build on top of the Boxed 2 Store?

Once the ready-made store is live, Cmsmart's own delivery team can extend it with work that is not part of the standard install: a larger or re-priced catalogue, ERP or MIS integration, bespoke pricing rules, or a custom template library — each scoped, built and supported as a project, not a plugin setting.

  • Full catalogue build-out. Cmsmart builds your real product range — categories, pricing, printing options and photography — instead of you reshaping the sample catalogue by hand.
  • ERP/MIS and accounting sync. Cmsmart builds the integration between your WooCommerce orders and your print-shop management or accounting system.
  • Custom pricing rules. Cmsmart builds pricing logic beyond the standard printing-option matrix: tiered trade pricing, per-customer rates, or rush-order surcharges.
  • Design template libraries. Cmsmart builds and curates ready-to-edit templates for your most-ordered products, on top of the designer's own template support.

Cmsmart delivers this like any custom project: discovery, a solution design you approve, build sprints, QA, launch and support — see how Cmsmart runs ecommerce projects. Prefer a done-for-you start? Cmsmart's store preset installation and demo import service covers exactly that.

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Why work with Cmsmart on your print shop store?

Cmsmart has built ecommerce and web-to-print stores as a Netbase division since 2012, with a published track record of client projects and live stores; the Boxed 2 Store is one of six ready-made Printstores layouts built on the same plugin and support team behind every Cmsmart project.

Cmsmart has delivered 6,300+ client projects since 2012, 4,600+ completed, with roughly 1,800+ stores live today, rated 4.2 out of 5 from 404 reviews on Trustpilot.

See it yourself on the live demo, browse the product page, check current plans, or read more Product Designer user guides.

Frequently asked questions

Can I use my own products instead of the demo?

Yes. Edit or delete the sample catalogue's cards, postcards and envelopes from Products → All Products and add your own; each product keeps its own Cmsmart Product Designer and printing-option settings.

Which plan activates the Cmsmart Boxed 2 Store?

Cmsmart Fullstore. It is one of six Printstores layouts a Fullstore licence can install from the dashboard's Store Setup; see Cmsmart pricing for current plans.

Can I change the colours and logo without touching code?

Yes. The header, footer and home-page sections are block-editor template parts, edited from Appearance → Site Editor the same way as any WordPress block theme.

Does the store open live immediately, or show a "Coming soon" page?

Since installer kit 2.0.3 (19 October 2026), the store opens live on its own domain as soon as setup finishes — WooCommerce's own "coming soon" screen is not part of the installed flow.

Why is it called "Boxed 2" if it is not a packaging store?

"Boxed 2" names this Printstores layout, not the product range: the sample catalogue is cards, postcards and similar stationery for business buyers, like the other Printstores layouts with a different home-page design.

Is hosting included?

No. A Fullstore licence activates the store, but you install it on a host you already have — via the installer file or a manual theme upload under Appearance > Themes. Cmsmart's own managed hosting is listed as "coming soon" in the Store Setup dashboard.