Getting started

Getting started

Connect a source, choose your markets, make it on-brand, attach a template, preview on your real products, and publish your designed catalog feed in one session.

What you'll do

Adorn turns your product catalog into on-brand designed images and serves them as a prioritized Meta catalog feed that auto-refreshes as prices and sales change. The guided first-run wizard walks you from signup to a live feed in about five minutes.

  • Connect a source so we can import your products
  • Choose the markets you sell in, each with its own currency
  • Make it yours with your palette, fonts, and logo
  • Pick a starting template that's already wired to your product data
  • Preview the creative on your own real products
  • Publish your designed ad images

As you move through the wizard, a thin progress bar at the top tracks Step 1 of 6 through Step 6 of 6, with one heading and one primary action per step, so you always know where you are and what to do next.

Step 1: Connect a source

The first step imports your products. You have two connect paths: connect a Shopify store, or paste a public product feed URL with no Shopify needed.

  1. Choose Connect Shopify to install our app and import your products automatically, or Paste a product feed URL to connect any public product feed.
  2. For Shopify, enter your store domain (for example your-store.myshopify.com) and select Connect Shopify. Finish the install in the new tab, then come back.
  3. For a feed, give your workspace a name and paste the feed URL (a Google Shopping XML feed works), then select Connect feed.
  4. Wait for the import. Once your source is connected, select Continue.
Note

Adorn reads your Shopify products, inventory, markets and brand settings, and changes your products only if an owner turns on Designs saved to your Shopify products. You can disconnect anytime. If a pasted feed is missing required fields, Adorn tells you exactly which ones so you can fix the feed and reconnect.

The Connect step opens with Connect Shopify and Paste a product feed URL side by side as two selectable options; picking one reveals its form directly below: a store-domain field for Shopify, or a workspace name and feed URL for a feed. If your workspace is already connected to a Shopify store, the step shows that store instead, and reconnecting it needs no typing.

Step 2: Choose your markets

The markets step opens with the question Which markets do you serve? Each market ships ads in its own currency. Your primary market uses the feed you just connected, so most stores change nothing here and select Continue.

  1. Check your primary market's code, currency and locale, for example US, USD and en-US.
  2. To run ads in another country with its own prices, select Add market and fill in its code, currency and locale. On a Shopify store, leave Price source (feed URL) blank and Adorn uses that country's Shopify prices; otherwise paste the feed URL that carries them.
  3. Select Continue. Continue stays off while an added market has no price source or two markets share a code.
Note

This step cannot be skipped. If you leave before publishing, the wizard keeps your choices and brings you back to finish.

Step 3: Make it yours (brand)

The brand step sets the palette, typeface, and logo your templates render with. It is skippable at any time, so it never blocks the flow.

  1. Optional: paste your store URL and select Import my brand to auto-fill your colors, fonts, and logo. If we can't pull enough, you drop straight to manual entry.
  2. Pick a palette preset (Classic, Midnight, Sage, or Coral) and a font (Lexend, Inter, Fraunces, or Space Grotesk).
  3. Optionally upload a logo (PNG or JPEG, at least 512px). It's saved to your brand kit, so you can add it to any template later from the editor's Assets panel (Logos tab).
  4. Select Continue, or Skip for now to use clean defaults.
Tip

Your brand comes from your palette and fonts, so a starter template renders on-brand immediately without redesigning anything.

Step 4: Pick a starting template

Adorn pre-selects a clean Standard starter that is already bound to your product data (title, price, and badge fields), so there is no blank canvas. Keep it, or choose another starter.

The pre-selected Standard starter shows with an accent border alongside every other bundled starter in a single list, so you can compare and pick a different one without leaving the step.

Step 5: Preview on your real products

The preview step opens your design across your own products as soon as they are imported, so you see the real layout, the real rules and the real product data before you publish. AI-written copy fields still show your placeholder in preview; the feed fills them in at render.

  1. Look over a few products, then close the preview to get back to the step. Select Preview across products to open it again.
  2. Select Publish my feed. If you are on a paid plan and a sales channel is already connected, confirm in the Publish to live ads? dialog.
  3. If your store needs approval to publish, the step says your publish was sent for approval. You do not need to publish again, so select Go to Templates.
Note

If your catalog is still importing, the step shows a friendly loading state with a Refresh button rather than a dead end. Your real products appear the moment they are ready.

Step 6: Publish your feed

What you see after publishing depends on your plan. Designed images need a paid plan.

On the free plan

  1. Copy your Google feed address and add it in Google Merchant Center.
  2. To use designed images, choose a plan to start your 14-day free trial. If you came from the pricing page, the plan you picked is marked Your pick.
  3. Or select Continue on the free plan. You can choose a plan later in Settings under Billing.

On a paid plan or a free trial

  1. If you were on a paid plan when you published, a panel shows your Meta catalog feed URL. Copy it, then select Done.
  2. If you chose a plan after publishing, select Continue. Your designed images start at the next hourly refresh.
  3. Select Connect Meta and complete the login in the new tab. Adorn adds your designed feed to your Meta catalog, and asks which catalog if you have more than one.
  4. In Meta Commerce Manager, open Data sources, then Configure sources, drag the Adorn feed to the top for Image, and save.
  5. Back in Adorn, tick I've done this in Commerce Manager, then select Done. Adorn cannot check this in Meta itself.
Tip

Once live, prices and sales refresh on their own, so you never redo per-product creative work. To wire the feed into your ads, see the Meta connect guide.