displaying product archive

Hi
i have set up my website with elementor pro/ gp pro. everything works fine with including woo-shortcodes etc in the category pages, single products looks fine with my standard header/footer created in elementor.
but now i am facing one problem:
my shop page is supposed to show categories iso products which works fine. i did add an elementor widget called archive products.
1. i adjusted the style in elementor but this does not affect the display on the live site
2. which is worse: it does not show the elementor header/footer widget but the standard header footer from gp which i have not yet really managed to adjust so it would look at least a little bit like the standards i use on all pages. and it does not show the text i put on top of this field in elementor.
any idea??
thanks for thinking about a solution..... could not find anything on any forums/topics etc.