01 Start here
Welcome to Curio
A theme built for stores where every item is one of one — graded, measured, and traceable.
Curio is a Shopify theme for resale, vintage, consignment, and refurbished stores. It is built around the things those stores have to say that a general-purpose theme has no room for: what condition an item is in, how big it is, where it came from, and the fact that when it sells there will never be another one.
The storefront is styled as a working stock ledger — numbered lots, punched price tags, stamped condition grades, ruled measurement tables, a receipt-style cart, and an archive of sold finds. None of it is decoration you have to feed. Every ledger element disappears when you have not supplied its data, so a store with nothing configured still looks deliberate: sharp, flat, monospace-and-grotesque minimal.
Start in this order#
- Install and publish — add the theme, set your logo, menus, and colors, then publish.
- Set up the metafields — about ten minutes in your Shopify admin. This is what unlocks condition stamps, measurements, and provenance notes.
- Build your home page — the signature sections, in the order that tends to work.
- Tune the theme settings — colors, type, badges, and the switches that dial the ledger styling up or down.
If you have a store to migrate and only fifteen minutes, do steps 1 and 2. Everything else is reversible and can wait.
What is in this documentation#
| Page | Read it when |
|---|---|
| Install and publish | First setup, or moving Curio onto a live store |
| Condition, provenance, and measurements | Setting up the resale data model |
| Theme settings | Looking for a specific switch |
| Building your home page | Composing the home page |
| Section reference | You want to know what one section does |
| The product page | Arranging the product page blocks |
| Collections and search | Filters, sorting, pagination |
| Cart and checkout | Drawer vs page, gift wrapping, discounts |
| Languages and markets | Selling in more than one language or country |
| Performance and accessibility | Keeping the store fast |
| Troubleshooting | Something is not showing up |
| Changelog | Checking what changed in an update |
Two ideas worth knowing up front#
Nothing is invented for you. Curio never writes a condition grade, a trust claim, or an urgency message on your behalf. Grades are your words. Stock counters read real tracked inventory and print no number when inventory is untracked. The countdown counts to one date you set and then stops — it has no repeat mode. If a badge or a claim is on your storefront, you typed it.
One-of-one is a first-class state. When a product has exactly one item in stock with inventory tracking on, the quantity selector is replaced by the line “This is the only one.” When it sells, you can keep it published and let it become part of a sold archive instead of a dead end.
Where to get help. Chat and email are on the support page, along with the short list of details that get you a useful first reply.