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In short
A WooCommerce slider store setup gives a print shop selling posters, banners, flyers, brochures, stickers and labels a full-screen photo slider that sends visitors straight into your categories. Store Setup v2 installs it with sample pages, menus and a demo product already connected to Cmsmart Product Designer (formerly NBDesigner), so your first hour is spent branding and checking settings, not building a site from scratch.
What does it cost a print shop to run without a real online storefront?
Every quote taken by phone or email is staff time the Cmsmart Slider Store buys back: the storefront shows paper, quantity and finishing choices with a live price, so visitors design, see the total and pay before a human has to touch the order.
Most independent print shops still run a brochure site with a "call for a quote" button — a real, hard-to-see cost:
A simple way to see the cost in your own numbers: quotes per week × minutes per quote × your hourly staff cost = hours you could spend on production instead of email.
What does a Cmsmart Slider Store look like on day one?
Example scenario: a shopper lands on the homepage slider, picks a size and finish on Posters & Signs, designs online or uploads artwork, sees the price update live, and pays — before your team opens a single email.
Example scenario. It's 9 p.m. and a customer needs 200 A1 posters by Monday. They tap the slider's "Shop Now", pick paper and quantity, upload their artwork, watch the price update live, and check out. Monday morning the order is waiting with the artwork attached — no phone tag, no manual quote. Talk to an ecommerce expert if you want this tuned to your exact product range first.
How does Cmsmart put a print-shop storefront together?
Cmsmart Slider Store combines a storefront built on the shared Cmsmart Stores parent, a demo content set and the Cmsmart Product Designer plugin, so the storefront, the catalogue and the design-and-price engine arrive already connected instead of three separate projects.
Four pieces do the work:
Install first. This guide assumes the store is already installed, via the Store Setup installer file or a manual store-package upload. If not, follow our install guide for the Cmsmart Stores parent and child setup first.
Cmsmart insight: keep both the parent (Cmsmart Stores) and the child (Cmsmart Slider Store) active, and only customize the child — parent updates then never overwrite your header, footer or colors.
What's the business value of launching with a preset store instead of a blank theme?
A preset store turns "build a website" into "brand a website": the pages, menus, printing options and designer are already connected, so the time and staff hours you save show up directly in how fast the first real order arrives.
Rough ROI check, with your own numbers: (quotes handled by phone/email per week × minutes per quote ÷ 60 × hourly staff cost) = hours a self-service printing-options page could free up weekly. Add average order value × expected orders per month for the revenue side.
The storefront runs on WooCommerce, which powers more than 4 million stores, so payment gateways and shipping plugins you may already know work here the same as on any WooCommerce site.
How do you complete a WooCommerce slider store setup in one hour?
After Store Setup v2 installs the store, you configure it in a fixed order — brand it, confirm the pages and sample catalogue, check one product's Cmsmart Product Designer tab, set up payments and shipping, enter your store address, then place one test order before you remove the sample data.
Work through these in order; each one builds on the last.
Go-live checklist
Once orders arrive, Cmsmart → Overview gives a day-one dashboard of revenue, orders and what's waiting in production — useful for watching the KPIs above without digging through WooCommerce reports.
Store-specific tips for a print-shop slider store
How does the Cmsmart Slider Store compare with a generic WooCommerce theme?
A generic WooCommerce theme gives you a blank storefront you build from scratch; the Cmsmart Slider Store gives a print shop a working storefront, sample catalogue and a connected product designer from the first install.
What can Cmsmart build on top of the Slider Store?
Past the sample catalogue, Cmsmart's team builds the parts that are specific to your business — custom printing-option logic, ERP/MIS connections, loyalty or B2B pricing — as custom development on top of the same store.
For anything specific to how your print shop runs, Cmsmart builds it as custom development:
Delivery runs the same way whether it's a pricing tweak or a full integration: discovery, solution design, sprints, QA against real orders, launch, then support — the model behind the case studies on Cmsmart's ecommerce projects page.
Get a custom Slider Store build quote
If you'd rather have Cmsmart finish the setup and swap in your own catalogue for you, that's exactly what the store preset installation and demo import service covers.
Why work with Cmsmart on your print-shop store?
Cmsmart has built ecommerce and web-to-print software as a Netbase JSC division since 2012, with thousands of client projects and a published Trustpilot rating, so a Slider Store install comes with a team that already supports the plugin and store behind it.
See the Cmsmart Slider Store product page and its live demo for current pricing, or browse more Cmsmart Product Designer user guides. The customization guide covers recommended plugins and site-editor changes, and Cmsmart's web-to-print solutions hub covers the wider approach.
Frequently asked questions
Can I use my own products instead of the demo?
Yes. The sample catalogue exists so the store isn't empty on day one — edit or delete each demo product and add your own as you set up printing options for your real range.
Which plan activates the Slider Store?
A Fullstore plan key, or a free 30-day trial, activates every Cmsmart Cmsmart Stores store including the Slider Store; current plans are published on cmsmart.net/pricing.
Can I change the colors and logo without touching code?
Yes. The header and footer are WordPress site editor template parts — swap the Site Logo block, edit menu items and adjust colors from Appearance → Editor.
Do I need to install Cmsmart Product Designer separately?
No. The Slider Store ships with it already active and connected to the demo product's "Start Design" button and printing options.
What happens to the sample data when I go live?
Nothing removes it automatically. Go through Products, Pages and printing options one by one and replace or delete what you don't need before sending real traffic.
Does the storefront and designer work on mobile?
Yes — the storefront is responsive, and Cmsmart Product Designer 2.18.4 fits the design area and the "Process" button to small screens, including a phone's "desktop site" mode.