Getting started
Pick a style, add the theme and set up your store in order.
Articles
- Set up your store with CheckmateThe order to set up a new Checkmate theme in, from adding it to your store to publishing it, with the article for each step.
- Theme stylesThe three starting looks of the Checkmate theme, Checkmate, Lair and Fang, and every setting and section in which they differ.
- Make your store look like the demoWhat a new Checkmate theme leaves empty compared with its demo store, from the logo and photos to collections, menus and product details.
- How sections and blocks work in CheckmateHow templates, section groups, sections, blocks and app blocks fit together in the Checkmate theme editor.
- Install a theme on your store
- Update your theme to a new version
- Find your theme version
- Changelog(opens in a new tab)

Start here if Checkmate is new to your store. Set up your store with Checkmate takes a new theme to a published store in order, and Theme styles compares the three looks Checkmate comes in. Adding the theme, updating it and finding its version work the same for every Checkout Beast theme, so those articles live in Install and update and are linked here.