# How to Add Shoppable Stories to the Motion Theme

> Source: https://section-shop.com/theme-guides/motion/add-shoppable-stories/ — Section Shop, 164 free native Shopify sections. Install: https://apps.shopify.com/section-shop

Short videos that sell, as story bubbles or vertical reels. Previews play silently while on screen; a tap opens a full-screen player with progress bars, sound, and a swipe from one video to the next, and beside each video (over it on phones) sit the products it shows — options, price and an add to cart that never leaves the video. On a product page the stories can sit right inside the product details: under or above the buy buttons, under the title or under the description, and a video left without products sells the product of the page. No external libraries. This guide shows how to add the Shoppable Stories section to the Motion theme with Section Shop — as a native Online Store 2.0 section, customized in the theme editor, without touching Motion's code. Motion is a premium theme by Archetype Themes, known for animation and video-first product pages — and shoppable video & stories like this one are exactly the kind of section it doesn't ship out of the box.

## Why Shoppable Stories fits Motion

Product-linked videos, story bubbles and reels that bring products to life. On Motion, Shoppable Stories slots in like any built-in section: it inherits the theme's fonts by default, picks up your color choices in the editor, and lives alongside Motion's own sections in the picker — prefixed "SShop:" so it's easy to spot.

## Steps

1. **Install Section Shop (free)** — Add the app from the Shopify App Store. It's free, carries the Built for Shopify badge, and changes nothing in your Motion setup until you add a section.
2. **Find “Shoppable Stories” in the library** — Open the app and browse to it — it's in the Shoppable Video & Stories category — or use search.
3. **Click “Add to theme”** — Section Shop writes the section into your Motion theme through Shopify's official theme API, the same mechanism Motion uses for its own sections.
4. **Open the Motion theme editor** — In Online Store → Themes → Customize, click “Add section”: you'll find it as “SShop:Shoppable Stories” in the picker.
5. **Customize and save** — Adjust text, images, colors and layout. Typography follows your Motion font settings by default — or switch the section to any Shopify font. Hit Save and it's live.

## FAQ

### Does Shoppable Stories work with the Motion theme?

Yes. Motion is an Online Store 2.0 theme, and Shoppable Stories installs as a native OS 2.0 section through Shopify's official theme API. It appears in Motion's theme editor as “SShop:Shoppable Stories”, alongside the theme's own sections.

### Will Shoppable Stories match Motion's design?

By default the section inherits your theme's fonts, so it picks up Motion's typography automatically. Colors, spacing, images and content are all editable in the theme editor — no CSS required.

### Is Shoppable Stories free, and what if I uninstall Section Shop?

Shoppable Stories is free, like every section in the 164-section library. Once added it's a standard theme file: if you uninstall the app, the section stays in your Motion theme and keeps working.