Blockshop Theme Shopify Help: Troop Theme Setup and Custom Work

Settings go a long way in Blockshop, Beyond, Emerge and Maker. Pay for the parts that sit outside them.

Moving a customized copy to a new version. You install each Troop update yourself when you're ready. Carrying code edits from an older Blockshop release to 13.3.0 is a manual merge, and Troop warns that apps often need reinstalling after an update.

Sections the library doesn't include. A layout none of the built-in sections offer, written in Liquid as its own section so it survives the next release. Bigger builds belong with custom theme developers.

Product page content at scale. Size charts, product tabs, ingredients panels and before/after sliders come built in. Filling them the same way across a large catalog takes a plan, not just clicks.

Changing Troop themes. Going from Maker to Blockshop is a new purchase and a new install, with sections rebuilt and content placed again.

Page weight. Lookbooks, slideshows and product videos look good and load slowly when overused. Speed specialists trim images, apps and scripts without stripping the design.

Questions Troop answers for free. Theme settings, sections and theme-specific limits go to Troop's support desk, which replies on weekdays. Save your budget for code.

Troop documents its themes well, so the gap between candidates shows in how they treat updates and code.

Ask which Troop themes they've shipped. A strong candidate names the theme and version, and knows that Blockshop, Radiance, Stone and Valla are presets of one theme rather than four products.

Ask how they keep edits update-safe. Listen for new section files and snippets instead of rewrites of core files, plus a running change log you keep after the project ends.

Ask about your license. Each Troop theme is licensed to one store, with no transfers. Anyone suggesting you copy the theme into a second store hasn't read the terms.

Ask what they'd send to Troop support. The right answer routes settings questions to Troop and quotes only for work the editor can't do.

Deal-breakers on a Troop project. Editing the published theme directly. No duplicate before the first change. A full rebuild quoted for something a section setting already handles.

A paid starter job. One custom section on a duplicate of your theme, with a note listing every file touched. It shows you exactly what the next update will have to carry.

Four themes, nine listings. On the Theme Store, Troop sells Beyond and Blockshop at $420, Maker at $400 and Emerge at $380 as of October 2026. Fleur, Radiance, Bloom, Cafe and Elements are presets of those four.

August 2026 releases. Blockshop 13.3.0 shipped on August 25, 2026. Maker 12.3.0, Emerge 10.3.0 and Beyond 7.3.0 were released a day earlier, on August 24.

Each theme has a lean. Blockshop targets high-end and luxury brands, with Stone pitched at swim and fashion and Valla at candle and homeware stores. Beyond is for brands with a story to tell, Maker for food and drink, and Emerge is mobile-first and built to scale.

No automatic updates. Updates are free for your purchase, but you install them yourself.

One store per license. Transfers or resales to another store aren't permitted.

Shopify Plus extras. Blockshop, Emerge and Maker list combined listing support for Plus stores.

Five EU languages built in. Blockshop and Maker list EU translations in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish.

What Troop's desk will answer. Troop's support site covers theme settings, sections and theme-specific limits, not Shopify checkout, payments or inventory. It aims to reply within 24 hours, Monday to Friday, and troopthemes.com lists a paid Priority Support option.

All three profiles include store setup, so day-to-day theme admin is covered alongside the code work.