Backboards

Custom Backboard Shapes

Our Custom Backboard Shapes feature lets you upload your own SVG files to use as backboard designs. This feature supports almost any type of shape, giving you the flexibility to create unique sign backboards.

Backboard Colours, Images, Textures & Materials

You can create different backboard textures each with their own images and assign them to multiple backboards. This feature allows you to give your backboards the appearance of things like wood, metal, and more.

Customer designed Backboard Images

This guide will show you how you can set up your customiser to enable your customers to upload their images for backboards.

Improved Backboard Colour Selection Experience

Users can now display backboard colour options directly within the backboard section, creating a more intuitive and user-friendly experience. All new customisers created have this setting automatically enabled, this doc is for older customisers which do not currently have this setting applied and wish to do so.

Backboard shapes: Why Are "Fill" Attributes Important for Your SVG Files?

When using SVGs in our customiser, ensuring they are composed of "fill" attributes rather than "stroke" attributes is crucial. This guide explains why this matters, how it affects the appearance of your icons and custom backboards, and what you can do to resolve potential issues.

Assign backboard colours & materials to backboards

Please follow the below instructions to assign/add colours to your backboards: Navigate to the Sign Customiser admin on your store. Click on "Customisers" in the home menu Click on the customiser you wish to edit. In the left-hand side menu click on "Backboard Colours & Materials" Click on an existing backboard colour that you have already created. Scroll down untill you see "Assign to backboard" Use the dropdown menu to select the existing backboards that you want this backboard colour & material to apply too. Click on save at the bottom of the form to save.

Multi-layered Backboards

This feature allows you to create letter-shaped signs where the backboard can have two or more colours/materials added to it. To add multi-layered backboards to your customiser do the following. Multi-layered Backboards are only available for CUT TO SHAPE and CUT TO LETTER options. In the merchant admin, navigate to the customer you wish to edit. Click on "Backboards" in the side navigation Click on the backboard you wish to add one or more layers to. Ensure "Enable multi-layered backboard" is ticked. Once ticked, new options will allow you to add more than one backboard layer. For each layer, the "backboard length from letter" input should be greater than the previous option. This is also where you can add titles and descriptions for each option. Save your settings and then navigate to "Backboard colours" in the side menu. Click on the backboard colour you wish to edit In "Assign to backboard" make sure the backboard is selected. In the "Assign to layer" option make each layer that you want available for that colour is selected Save the settings at the bottom of the form.