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Customize your perks center

Make your perks center look like your brand — colors, fonts, logo, background, and the order of what appears — without writing any code.

Your perks center is a branded page your customers browse for perks. Out of the box it renders with neutral defaults. Customizing it is how you make it feel like part of your product: your palette on the buttons and headings, your typeface, your logo in the header, and the sections arranged the way you want customers to read them. Everything on this page is done in the Paylode app — you point, click, and preview, and the live page picks up your changes on its next load. No deploy, no developer.

You control two kinds of things: appearance (colors, fonts, logo, background) and layout (which sections show, and in what order). This guide walks through both, then how to preview before your customers see it.

Before you begin​

  • A perks center. Paylode sets one up for your account during onboarding. If you don't have one yet, ask us to provision it.
  • Your brand assets. Have your logo file and, if you use a custom typeface, the public URL of its web-font stylesheet ready before you start.
  • Access to the app. Styling lives in your perk collection's settings under Branding — open the collection behind your perks center and switch to its branding area.

Set your colors​

Colors are entered as hex values. You can use 3-digit (#F30), 6-digit (#FF3300), or 8-digit hex, where the last two digits set opacity (#FF330080 is the same red at 50%). Four colors drive the whole page:

ColorWhat it paintsExample
HeadingsTitles and section headings#1A2B4C
Body textPerk descriptions and general copy#33404F
Call-to-actionButtons and other action elements#EB6031
Call-to-action textThe label on those buttons#FFFFFF

You don't have to set every accent by hand: caption text (like a redemption note) and the callout badge on a perk card are derived automatically from these four — caption from your body-text color, the callout tint from your call-to-action color — so the page stays coherent even if you only set the basics.

Choose your fonts​

Set a typeface for three levels of text independently:

  • Headings — first-level titles, such as a perk card's title.
  • Subheadings — second-level text, such as the brand name on a perk card.
  • Body text — descriptions and general content.

Each is a font-family name (for example, Inter or Times New Roman). To use a typeface that isn't already on the page, provide the public URL of a web-font stylesheet — the page loads it and then your family names resolve against it. Point it at wherever your font is hosted (for example, your own CDN or a hosted font service). If you don't set fonts, the page uses its defaults.

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No hosted web-font URL? Send the font files to Paylode support and we'll set the typeface up on your center for you — you don't need to host anything yourself.

Add your logotype​

Upload your logo to the header. Alongside the image you can set:

  • Link — where the logo click takes the customer (for example, your homepage).
  • Height — the rendered logo height in pixels, between 30 and 300. Leave it empty to use the default height.
  • Background — a hex color behind the logo, if it needs one for contrast.
  • Shadow — an optional drop shadow, entered as a CSS shadow value such as 0px 0px 2px 0px #888888.

Set a background image​

Upload a background image for the page and set its opacity — a value from 0 (fully transparent) to 1 (fully opaque). Around 0.5 keeps a photographic background from overpowering the perk cards on top of it.

Arrange the page sections​

A perks center is built from sections you can turn on or off and reorder:

  • General perks — your main list of perks.
  • Perks groups — perks organized into labeled groups.
  • Local perks and Short-term perks — geo-aware and expiring-soon sections, if enabled for your account.
  • Search bar and category filter — help customers narrow the list.
  • Title and description — the copy at the top of the page.
  • Request-a-perk form — lets customers suggest brands they'd like to see.
  • Disclaimer — a footer block that supports Markdown links.

For each section you set whether it's shown and where it sits relative to the others, so you can lead with whatever matters most to your customers. You can also add short text — a page title, a description, a search placeholder, section titles — and optionally show a small "Powered by Paylode" label near the title or in the footer. To choose which perks fill the general section and what order they appear in, see Choose and rank perks.

Preview before you launch​

Use the app's preview to see the page exactly as a customer will, with your changes applied. Preview doesn't count as a real visit — it's excluded from your view metrics and shows a preview banner so you always know you're looking at the draft. When it looks right, save. The live page reflects your changes on its next load, including any place you've already embedded it.

Troubleshooting​

caution

An image upload is rejected. Logo and background images must be one of jpg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp, webp, or svg, and no larger than 1 MB. A wrong format is rejected with an explicit error; an oversized file fails at upload time — re-export the image smaller and retry.

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A custom font doesn't apply. The web-font stylesheet URL must be publicly reachable over HTTPS, and the family names you enter for headings, subheadings, and body text must match the names that stylesheet defines. If either is off, the page silently falls back to its default font.

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A color won't take. Colors must be valid hex — 3, 6, or 8 digits, with a leading #. Named colors (red) and other CSS color formats aren't accepted.