Introducing Maranello 5.5: New sections, smarter selling and 20 languages

Maranello 5.5 is here with two brand-new sections, powerful new tools for product pages and B2B stores, a new featured mega menu, an upgraded minicart, and even more ways to fine-tune how customers browse your store.

The update also significantly expands Maranello’s language support, bringing the total to 20 languages.

Two new sections

Maranello 5.5 introduces two new sections designed for very different jobs: creating richer content layouts and helping merchants sell products together.

Flexible Expandables

The new Flexible Expandables section lets you create expandable content areas combining text, images, and content from Shopify pages.

Use it for FAQs, product information, services, buying guides, store information, or any other content that benefits from being organized into compact expandable panels.

Custom Bundles

The new Custom Bundles section gives customers a simple way to build their own product bundles directly on the storefront.

Products can be selected and combined into a bundle before being added to the cart, opening up new possibilities for kits, sets, build-your-own packages, and complementary products.

More powerful product pages

Product pages get several important additions in 5.5, including new ways to present product information and better support for B2B stores.

New Score block

The Main Product and Featured Product sections now include a Score block, giving you another visual way to communicate product ratings, specifications, performance, or other comparable information.

Quantity & Pricing for B2B

A new Quantity & Pricing block is available in both Main Product and Featured Product sections.

It is designed for stores using Shopify’s B2B features and makes quantity-based pricing information easier for customers to understand directly on the product page.

Better signup information

When customers use the Signup block from a product page, the email can now include information about the currently selected variant.

This makes requests much more useful for merchants selling products with multiple sizes, colors, configurations, or other options.

A more flexible header

The header gets several new customization options in this release.

Mega Menu – Featured

The new Mega Menu – Featured layout gives you another way to build large navigation menus while placing more visual emphasis on selected links, collections, products, or promotions.

It is particularly useful for stores with large catalogs that still want to guide customers toward important destinations.

Typewriter search effect

Stores using Maranello’s alternative header layout can now enable a typewriter effect inside the search field, cycling through search suggestions and helping customers discover what they can look for.

Custom action icon

You can also add a custom action icon to the header, providing another shortcut to an important page or store feature.

A much more useful minicart

Maranello’s minicart receives several substantial additions in 5.5.

Cross-sells

You can now display cross-sell products directly inside the minicart, giving customers an opportunity to discover complementary products without interrupting checkout flow.

Order notes

Customers can add order notes from the minicart, making the feature available without requiring them to visit the full cart page.

Empty cart recommendations

An empty cart no longer has to be a dead end.

You can now recommend collections when the cart is empty, giving customers an immediate path back into your catalog.

More control over collections and search

Collection and search pages also get some useful new controls.

You can now choose how many filters should be expanded by default, from completely collapsed to as many as 25 expanded filters.

The Main Collection Product Grid also introduces a shopper-facing layout switcher, allowing visitors to choose the product grid layout they prefer while browsing.

Better control throughout the theme

A number of smaller additions provide more control across Maranello.

More heading sizes

Various sections and blocks now support new 3XL and 4XL heading sizes, making it easier to create stronger visual hierarchy and more expressive layouts.

Scrolling direction

The Scrolling Elements section now lets you choose the scrolling direction.

Blog excerpts

Blog sections now include a Show excerpt setting, giving you more control over how articles appear in blog listings.

Range Indicator positioning

The Range Indicator block in Featured Product sections now includes a position setting.

Zero-priced products

Maranello can now handle zero-priced products in two additional ways:

• Call for pricing
• Free

This is particularly useful for B2B catalogs, custom products, samples, or products where pricing is provided after contacting the merchant.

Social links in a new window

A new theme setting lets you choose to open social media links in a new window.

Maranello now speaks 20 languages

This release significantly expands Maranello’s built-in translations.

New languages include:

• Czech
• Greek
• Finnish
• Norwegian
• European Portuguese
• Turkish
• Japanese
• Korean
• Simplified Chinese
• Traditional Chinese

Combined with the languages already available in Maranello, the theme now supports 20 languages in total.

Flexible is the new Flexi

You may notice a small naming change after updating.

Sections previously using the Flexi prefix are now called Flexible, following Shopify’s latest naming requirements.

Nothing fundamental has changed in how those sections work.

Plenty of refinements under the hood

Maranello 5.5 also includes a long list of fixes and improvements across the theme.

Tabbed sections now behave correctly when editing settings, product comparison selections are preserved when switching collection layouts, YouTube videos in the Video Gallery no longer require custom cover images, and several Content Drawer edge cases have been resolved.

We’ve also improved image loading in multi-column banner layouts, fixed cart and minicart events, refined the Bulk Order experience, improved placeholder content throughout product sections, and resolved a number of smaller issues involving filters, variants, metafields, animations, and product cards.

The Key Figure section also gets a new odometer animation for a little extra movement when displaying important numbers.

Upgrade to Maranello 5.5

Maranello 5.5 adds more selling tools without losing sight of what the theme is built for: stores with large catalogs that need flexible navigation, strong product discovery, and plenty of control.

With custom bundles, new B2B tools, an expanded minicart, smarter navigation, and support for 20 languages, this release gives you even more ways to adapt Maranello to the way your store works.