Widget Design: choose your style

One page shapes the whole experience: pick where results appear, set your brand color, and fine-tune everything else — with a live preview that shows each change before you save.

The short version: Widget Design is a three-step page: choose your style (results on the product photo, or inside the widget), decide on the Complete the Look upsell, then set look & feel — brand color, button text, optional borders and animation. A Fine-tuning drawer holds everything else. Nothing changes on your store until you hit Save, and saved changes reach shoppers within about 30 seconds.

The master switch

Above everything sits one toggle: Try-On is live on your storefront. Turning it off pauses Ello everywhere — useful during a theme change or a busy launch — without losing any of your settings. Turn it back on and everything returns exactly as configured.

Step 1 — Choose your style

The two styles: results render onto the product photo itself (the photo becomes your shopper wearing it), or inside Ello's own panel with your page untouched.

Style	What shoppers experience	Good for
On the product page (recommended)	A successful try-on replaces the product photo — the shopper decides while looking at themselves, right where they judge the look. The original photo collapses to a corner thumbnail; one tap flips back.	Stores that want the most native feel. No popups, no panel.
Inside the widget	The classic experience: results appear inside Ello's corner panel. Your product page is never repainted.	Stores that prefer the page to stay exactly as designed.

Each style sets sensible defaults for everything else (which entry points are on, where results land). You can override any of them in Fine-tuning.

Step 2 — The upsell

The Complete the Look card lives here — it offers the matching piece the moment a try-on lands, and it deserves its own page: setting up Complete the Look.

Step 3 — Look & feel

• Brand color (Widget Design → Look & feel; default: Ink) — Six presets plus a custom picker. Used for the Try-On button and the floating widget; text contrast on top of it is handled automatically, so any color stays readable.
• Button border (Widget Design → Look & feel; default: Off) — A solid outline around the Try-On button — for themes whose buttons are outlined, like a white button with a black border.
• Button animation (Widget Design → Look & feel; default: None) — Optional motion for the Try-On button: Halo pulse (a soft breathing ring — the quietest), Gradient sweep (reads as an AI feature at a glance), Double frame (luxury-catalog, no motion), or Shimmer (the most eye-catching). All respect shoppers' reduced-motion preference.

The Fine-tuning drawer

Collapsed by default because your style choice already set good defaults. Inside:

• Inline Try-On button — on/off, button text (default "Try On", up to 24 characters), placement below Add to cart or on the product photo, and a hide-on-out-of-stock option. Details in placements.
• Floating widget — the round bubble: show on product pages, show on other pages (home, collections), and which corner.
• Photo guidance — show first-time shoppers the three photo essentials (fitted clothing, full body, good lighting) on the welcome screen. One quiet line, never a pop-up.
• Fitting Room hub — a launcher-less entry, like a "Fitting room" link in your header, that opens the shopper's wardrobe and your full collection.
• Preview popup — an optional nudge inviting desktop shoppers to try the item on, with a delay you choose and a light or dark theme. Dismissed once, never shown to that shopper again.
• Inside the widget — pin one Featured product and up to six Quick picks on the widget's open screen, or leave them empty and Ello curates automatically.

The live preview is interactive: The preview column on the right mirrors your storefront. Hovering any settings card spotlights the element it controls, so you can see exactly what a setting changes before you save it.

After you save: Your storefront updates within about 30 seconds. To verify a change instantly, hard-refresh the product page — or see changes not appearing.

Common questions

Will the Try-On button clash with my theme?

The button copies your theme's own Add-to-cart styling — font, padding, borders, radius — so it reads native, while its background color and text stay under your control in Widget Design. The rest of the widget runs in isolated, scoped styles that can't leak into your theme.

Can I temporarily hide try-on without losing my setup?

Yes — the master switch at the top of Widget Design pauses Try-On everywhere while keeping every setting intact. Flip it back on when you're ready.

Can the widget match my brand font?

The widget inherits your theme's font family and weight scale by default. For deeper matching — a specific hosted brand font, launcher label styling, hiding decorative icons — contact support and we'll set store-level style overrides; changes reach shoppers in about 30 seconds with no redeploy.

Which style should I pick — on the product page, or inside the widget?

We recommend on the product page: the result lands exactly where shoppers judge the look, with no popups. Choose inside-the-widget if you want your page never repainted. You can switch anytime; it's one selection and a save.

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