Shopify instructions: Remove "Powered by Shopify"

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Mark Stolzenberg
Shopify instructions: Remove "Powered by Shopify"

You have set up your Shopify store and customized the design exactly to your wishes and ideas, but want to remove the "powered by Shopify" watermark in the footer of your store? We'll show you exactly how easy it is in a step-by-step guide.

We will go through some frequently used Shopify themes so that you can remove powered by Shopify as easily as possible.

Powered by Shopify Screenshot

Powered by Shopify remove

With the watermark, Shopify gives the stores their own branding right from the start, so that users immediately recognize in the footer that it is a Shopify store. If they then particularly like the store, there is a good chance that they will also use Shopify for their own store. So that you can really customize your store to your individual branding, we will now show you the individual places in some Shopify themes where you can remove this branding or watermark.

Dawn Theme

Video instructions

The Dawn theme is probably the best-known free Shopify theme. It is supplied with all new Shopify stores as a standard theme and can be installed within a few seconds. Dawn already offers many features out of the box with which you can build an appealing Shopify store in just a few steps.

Way 1: Remove texts via the standard theme

This is how you can remove powered by Shopify:

  1. Click on Online store -> Themes under Sales channels
Menu that shows the correct area
  1. Now click on the 3 dots next to the Dawn theme and then Edit standard theme texts
Screenshot Edit standard theme texts
  1. Now enter "Powered by" in the search and you should then find the text for the watermark under Checkout & system -> Links
Screenshot Powered by shopify Translation
  1. Simply enter a space in the field and then click on Save.
  2. The watermark has already been removed and is no longer visible in your footer:
Screenshot after powered by Shopify was removed

Way 2: Remove in code (complete)

The second way you can remove powered by Shopify is via the code section of the Dawn theme. Don't worry, you don't need to have any programming experience!

  1. In the Themes section, click again on the 3 dots next to the Dawn theme and then on Edit code
Screenshot of how to edit the code
  1. Open the footer.liquid file
Screenshot of the location where you can find the footer.liquid
  1. Now search for powered_by_ link in the code. If your footer file has not yet been customized, you should find this in line 356.
Screenshot of the affected code line
  1. Remove the line from the code and click Save in the top right-hand corner
    <small class="copyright__content">{{ powered_by_link }}</small>
  2. You have removed the Powered by Shopify watermark

Pro tip: If you also want to remove the copyright sign and the year, you can simply do this a few lines above. Simply remove this area from the code:

Screenshot of the saved lines of code

Impact Theme

The Shopify Impact theme is a very widely used theme and is known for its performance and a large number of widgets and sections. The "Powered by Shopify" watermark is also integrated into the Impact theme at the start. Find out how to remove it here:

Way 1: Remove texts via the standard theme

This is how you can remove powered by Shopify in the Impact theme:

  1. Click on Online store -> Themes under Sales channels
Screenshot of the menu to edit the theme
  1. Now click on the 3 dots next to the Impact theme and then Edit standard theme texts
Screenshot showing where you can edit the standard theme texts
  1. Now enter "Powered by" in the search and you should then find the text for the watermark under Checkout & system -> Links
Powered by Shopify Screenshot
  1. Simply enter a space in the field and then click on Save.
  2. The watermark has already been removed and is no longer visible in your footer:
Impact Theme - powered by Shopify removed

Way 2: Remove in code (complete)

The second way you can remove powered by Shopify is via the code section of the Dawn theme. Don't worry, you don't need to have any programming experience here either!

  1. In the Themes section, click again on the 3 dots next to the Dawn theme and then on Edit code
Screenshot showing where you can edit the code in the Impact theme
  1. Open the footer.liquid file
  2. Now search for powered_by_ link in the code. If your footer file has not yet been customized, you should find this in line 175.
Affected line of code in the Impact Theme
  1. Remove {{ powered_by_link }} from the code line.
  2. You have removed powered by Shopify.

Pro tip: If you also want to remove the copyright symbol and the year, simply delete the entire selected line.

Screenshot after Powered by Shopify was removed

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