Vessel

Free

Sophisticated warmth that transforms browsers into loyal customers.

Reviews (9)
22% positive
Developer
Shopify

Release notes

Last updated Jun 27, 2025 Version 2.0.0
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Release notes

Last updated Jun 27, 2025 Version 2.0.0

Theme highlights

Let your products speak

Open, airy design puts the focus on your products, with enough negative space for shoppers to appreciate their unique shapes and colors. 

Inviting shopping journey

Guide shoppers through your extensive catalog with intuitive search and filtering to help them discover products they love.

From the Horizon collection

Unlock limitless customization flexibility with nested theme blocks and a premium, high-converting buyer experience.

This theme is great for

  • Quick setup: Theme setup steps are minimal to allow for quick launch
  • Visual storytelling: Designed to showcase images to support visual brand storytelling

Cart and checkout

  • Cart notes
  • In-store pickups
  • Pre-order
  • Quick buy
  • Sign in with Shop
  • Slide-out cart

Marketing and conversion

  • Blogs
  • Cross-selling
  • Customizable contact form
  • EU translations (EN, FR, IT, DE, ES)
  • FAQ page
  • In-menu promos
  • Press coverage
  • Product badges
  • Promo banners
  • Quantity pricing
  • Quick view
  • Recently viewed
  • Recommended products
  • Stock counter

Merchandising

  • Animation
  • Color swatches
  • High-resolution images
  • Image galleries
  • Image rollover
  • Image zoom
  • Ingredients or nutritional information
  • Lookbooks
  • Product options
  • Product videos
  • Shipping/delivery information
  • Size chart
  • Slideshow
  • Usage information

Product discovery

  • Enhanced search
  • Infinite scroll
  • Mega menu
  • Product filtering and sorting
  • Recommended products
  • Sticky header
  • Swatch filters

This theme is great for

  • Quick setup: Theme setup steps are minimal to allow for quick launch
  • Visual storytelling: Designed to showcase images to support visual brand storytelling

Cart and checkout

  • Cart notes
  • In-store pickups
  • Pre-order
  • Quick buy
  • Sign in with Shop
  • Slide-out cart

Marketing and conversion

  • Blogs
  • Cross-selling
  • Customizable contact form
  • EU translations (EN, FR, IT, DE, ES)
  • FAQ page
  • In-menu promos
  • Press coverage
  • Product badges
  • Promo banners
  • Quantity pricing
  • Quick view
  • Recently viewed
  • Recommended products
  • Stock counter

Merchandising

  • Animation
  • Color swatches
  • High-resolution images
  • Image galleries
  • Image rollover
  • Image zoom
  • Ingredients or nutritional information
  • Lookbooks
  • Product options
  • Product videos
  • Shipping/delivery information
  • Size chart
  • Slideshow
  • Usage information

Product discovery

  • Enhanced search
  • Infinite scroll
  • Mega menu
  • Product filtering and sorting
  • Recommended products
  • Sticky header
  • Swatch filters

9 reviews

22% positive

  • 2 positive reviews
  • 3 neutral reviews
  • 4 negative reviews
Write a review
Mother Nurture
9 days ago

the theme unfortunately has a lot of bugs. products in the carousel cannot be clicked on sometimes, the hero-video sometimes does not work - these problems exist especially on the mobile view.

simplyperfumes.co.uk
9 days ago

Hi, Im really enjoying this theme and the horizon update has been a game changer for free themes so far. No issues either on phones or desktop layouts to report like other reviewers. Hope those can get it fixed as the theme is well worth it.

Norahaven
11 days ago

The Vessel template has a very serious layout problem on mobile devices, and the display effect is very different on different versions of iOS and Android browsers. I tried to find a Shopify support consultant to solve this problem, but their service was terrible. They repeatedly emphasized that there was no problem with the template, but it was my phone or the usage.

Reply from Shopify 7 days ago

Hey there, we appreciate you reaching out here to get further support. Our developers are aware of our newly released themes not displaying correctly on older iOS devices, compared to how the theme displays on desktop or Android devices. They are looking into resolving this within the next few updates, so keep updating the theme to see the most recent bug fixes.

The Better Sister
13 days ago

Beautiful site I love the features but too many bugs! You create a title on a page and it changes other pages to the same title. If you add an icon with text to a page it stays on all pages not just on the page you wanted to add it to. If you add an image to a page its constrained within padding thats smaller than the site. The website has so much potential but its a pain to work on.

Reply from Shopify 7 days ago

Hi, if you want sections and blocks to only show on specific products, you need to use a different product template. You can learn more about the process in the Help Center Template documentation here (https://bit.ly/33s2n9B). If you still have questions and want to share further feedback, please reach out to our Support for further assistance (https://bit.ly/2AWw5VA).

This theme is supported by Shopify

About
  • 151 O’Connor St, Ottawa, ON, ON, CA

Release notes

Version 2.0.0 June 27, 2025

Improved performance and accessibility in several areas including menu, slideshow, and product card.

Added support for app blocks and quality of life improvements to several blocks.

What's Changed

Added

  • Added icon setting to row block
  • Added description block for blog posts
  • Added font settings for menu localization

Changed

  • Simplified settings targeting products and collections for some blocks
  • Changed blocks allowed within product card
  • Changed logo block to include link to edit store name

Fixes and improvements

  • Added support for app blocks in several blocks and sections
  • Improved support for older iOS versions
  • Improved color opacity to accommodate more color schemes
  • Improved loading performance
  • Improved accessibility in review block
  • Fixed various visual issues in header menu
  • Fixed behavior when tapping on a product card image
  • Fixed product image aspect ratio on Safari

Version 1.0.5 June 20, 2025

Introduced new product card display settings, made the Hero section clickable in the theme editor, and delivered multiple fixes and improvements for accessibility, localization, image handling, cart updates, and overall theme editor performance.

Added

  • Added "show second image on hover" and "show carousel" settings to Product card global settings.

Changed

  • Made the Hero section clickable in the theme editor.

Fixes and improvements

  • Simplify and localize unit price rendering with new unit_price_with_measurement filter.
  • Fix the issue when the line item properties in the cart were visually hidden.
  • Add editor state manager to save state for overlay elements in the theme editor.
  • Improve accessibility for mega menu, quantity input and price component.
  • Improve image border logic for the image block.
  • Fix the issue when the image in the product card gallery was not corresponding to the selected variant.
  • Improve the way placeholder images are loaded in the theme editor.
  • Fix cart bubble count updates.
  • Fix product sorting on paginated collections.
  • Visual polish of the Quick add modal.
  • Fix cart updates for multi-locale stores.
  • Update URL with variant ID when using dropdown variant picker.
  • Fix product media setting "Constrain to screen height" on mobile.

Version 1.0.4 June 12, 2025

Fixed Shopify Payments Instalments display. Resolved multiple bugs affecting language selection and accessible labels.

Added

  • Added badges to product thumbnails for video and 3d models

Fixes and improvements

  • Fixed language selector issues showing empty list
  • Fixed sorting feature overlap when filters were disabled
  • Fixed add-to-cart race condition when switching variants
  • Fixed padding on quick add modal
  • Fixed quick-add button keyboard accessibility
  • Fixed mobile menu scroll bar issue with certain fonts
  • Fixed Shopify Payments Instalments display
  • Fixed accessible label issues for quantity controls
  • Fixed search modal background overlay color
  • Improved accessible label issues in header icons

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