Snowflakes adds a wintery snowfall effect to your storefront, for seasonal campaigns around Christmas and the new year. While it is on, animated snow drifts over the pages of your storefront. You turn it on and off, and choose how it looks, on the Snowflakes page in your dashboard. It is decorative only: it asks for no permissions, does not change your products, and does not get in the way of shoppers clicking or scrolling.
Features
- Animated snowfall across your storefront, switched on and off from your dashboard.
- Two intensity levels: Light (a gentle drift) and Medium (a steady snowfall, the default).
- An icon size setting to make the flakes smaller or larger.
- Show the snow every day, or only on the calendar days you pick.
- Does not block clicks or scrolling. Shoppers use your store as normal while the snow falls.
- A live preview in the dashboard, so you can see each setting as you change it.
Getting started
- In your dashboard, open the plugin store and install Snowflakes.
- Open the Snowflakes entry in your dashboard menu. The page shows a live preview next to the settings.
- Choose the intensity, the icon size and when the snow shows. Changes save automatically.
- Use the switch at the top of the page to turn the snow on. While it reads Snow is ON, shoppers see falling snow on every page of your storefront.
To take the snow down after the season, turn the switch off, or uninstall the plugin.
Settings
Settings are on the Snowflakes page and save automatically:
- Intensity: Light or Medium, controlling how many flakes fall.
- Icon size: makes every flake smaller or larger.
- When to show: Always on shows the snow every day; On chosen dates only shows it only on the calendar days you pick.
- Preview backdrop: a light or dark background shown in the preview only, so you can judge the effect. It is not added to your storefront, where the snow drifts over your own pages.
Performance & accessibility
The effect runs entirely in the visitor's browser. It draws onto a canvas layer over your pages that never captures clicks or taps, so it does not affect navigation, forms or checkout.
Snowflakes respects the reduced motion accessibility setting. If a visitor has asked their device or browser to reduce motion, they see a single still frame of snow instead of an animation.
Troubleshooting
- The snow does not appear on the storefront. Check that the switch on the Snowflakes page reads Snow is ON. If you chose On chosen dates only, the snow shows only on the days you picked.
- The flakes are hard to see. Try Medium intensity or a larger icon size.
- Snow is not animating for some visitors. This is expected if the visitor has turned on reduced motion in their device or browser settings; they see a still frame instead.
Support
For help with this plugin, visit the Orbit Commerce Help Centre (opens in a new tab), or use the Support link below.