Customize the bottom-tab menu

The bottom-tab menu is the row of tabs along the bottom of your app. You edit it in the builder: rename each tab, pick its icon, show or hide it, drag to reorder, add a badge, and point custom tabs at the page, collection, product or cart you want.

Open the menu editor

In the builder, open the Menu tab. You get the tab list on the left and a live phone preview on the right, so the bar updates as you edit.

Your app starts with five built-in tabs: Home, Shop, Wishlist, Account and Search. Home and Search are fixed: they are always shown and you cannot hide or reorder them (they show a lock and read Always). The other tabs you can rename, reorder, hide or show.

Rename a tab and pick its icon

Each row has a Tab label field. Type the wording your shoppers see; keep it to 20 characters. Next to it is an icon picker showing the glyph that will appear above the label in the app. Keep labels short and pair each one with a clear icon so the bar stays readable on a small screen. (Source: Apple Human Interface Guidelines - Tab bars.)

Show, hide and reorder tabs

Use the show/hide switch on each row to control which tabs appear. Between 2 and 5 tabs can be visible at once. The 5-tab ceiling is a platform limit, not a Vunda one: Android's navigation bar holds at most five destinations. (Source: Material Design - Navigation bar.)

To change the order, drag a row by its handle. Home stays pinned to the start and Search to the end; everything else reorders freely in between. The editor prompts you with Drag to reorder at the top of the list.

Add a badge to a tab

Built-in tabs have a Badge setting. Choose what the small count bubble shows: no badge, the shopper's wishlist count, or Cart count (the number of items in their cart). These are live counts your app fills in for each shopper, so you pick the source here, not a fixed number.

Point a custom tab somewhere

You can turn on up to three extra tabs and aim each one wherever you like. On a custom tab, the Links to dropdown lets you send it to a Page, Collection, Product or the Cart. Pick the kind, then choose the specific destination. A custom tab stays hidden until it points at a valid destination, so finish setting its target before you switch it on.

Save your changes

Use the save bar at the top to save, or discard to roll back. Changes apply the next time a shopper opens the app. so there is nothing to publish separately for a menu edit. Open the preview on the right before you save to confirm the bar reads the way you want.