What I confirmed live (this genuinely resolves what was uncertain)
- The store is live at gorwelprintco.com, public, no password.
- 394 products imported with images — the lh3 Drive URLs resolve on the live store. The whole image pipeline works end to end.
- Every collection already exists and populates correctly (Flagship 34, All Golf Prints 394, Scottish 54, Irish 12, Welsh 9, Open 11, Top 100 58, Digital 394, English 319). Collections were never the blocker.
- Theme is Dawn 16.0.0 — matches the index.json I wrote.
The only reason the homepage looks generic: the default Dawn index.json is still active — the build isn't pasted.
Where automation hit a wall (honest)
- Image uploads (hero, logo, collection images) use a native OS file dialog — no browser automation can drive it. Those are unavoidably yours.
- The Shopify admin forms and menus re-render unpredictably under automation (lost focus, scroll jumps, menus not opening). I created the Flagship collection to prove the mechanism works, then stopped rather than risk a flaky paste breaking your live homepage.
The good news — the homepage is one paste away
The index.json is on your clipboard right now. Do this and the homepage transforms:
▎ Online Store → Themes → Dawn → ⋯ → Edit code → Templates → index.json → click in the editor → Cmd+A, Cmd+V → Save.
After that one paste, the homepage flips from the stock Dawn placeholder to the real DATUM build (flagship-first products, how-it's-made, trust bands, correct copy) — the hero just needs its image uploaded next.
Full remaining steps (~15 min, all prepped) are in STORE-LIVE-STATUS.md (also on Drive) and FINAL-STORE-BUILD.md. Want me to try the code-editor paste anyway — I can, accepting the risk — or would you rather do that 60-second paste yourself since it's already on your clipboard?