How to Manage and Search Files in Shopify Force Theme

Stores on Force spanning electronics, auto, and sporting goods often need to attach manuals, spec sheets, or safety documents — Shopify's Files section is where those live.

Steps

1. In your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Files (some admin versions show this as Content > Files).
2. Click Upload files and add your documents — Shopify accepts any file type except HTML, up to 20 MB each. Video files can go up to 1 GB, capped at 10 minutes, in MOV, MP4, or WEBM.
3. Once uploaded, click a file to copy its public URL.
4. Paste that URL into a product description, a navigation menu link, or wherever your theme's content blocks accept a link.
5. Repeat per file. There's no bulk-link tool, so each one gets placed manually.

The real gap

Shopify's Files section is admin-only — there's no customer-facing search or browse view. Once you're linking more than a handful of documents across products, an app like Download Page & File Search MP adds a searchable file widget so customers aren't hunting through individual product pages to find the right manual or spec sheet.