Sales Notification

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Sales notifications are small non-intrusive popups that show when a customer has recently purchased a product on your site. It’s usually showing at the bottom of the page to catch the customer’s eye.

This creates a sense of popularity and sends a signal to visitors that people both like and trust your brand. In this way, sales notifications help you Boost sales and increase conversion rate:

It creates the FOMO (fear of missing out) effect. This means when consumers see others are doing something, they want to do the same.
It encourages hesitating customers to go ahead with their purchases.
It prompts visitors to check out your products creating cross-sell and upsell opportunities. It builds long-lasting trust and credibility.

Help to boost sales and conversions with highlight features as below:

Instantly receive real-time updates on every sale
Manually creating vitual orders if you don’t have large numbers of orders
Allows you to exclude products/pages you don’t want to show on notifications. All you need to do is select multiple exclude products/ page types from the select box and these products/ pages will not show on the notification
Click tracking

1. How to install the Sales Notifications extension

From the app Dashboard -> We click Install under the Sales Notification extension.

After installing the app from App Store, make sure that had gone to Theme > Customize -> App embeds and toggled on the Sales Notification embed.

2.How to Create and customize the Sales Notification

Notice: The sales are taken from Shopify Orders so please make sure you already have orders from customers in there.

2.1. Create a new Sale Notification

You can follow this quick video below to your first Sale pop-up.

To set up more the Sale notification as you like, we’re having Settings and Design tabs here.

2.2 Sale Notifications Settings tab

Sale notification title: put a name to differentiate between mutiple pop-up. This name is only visible in the app dashboard
Enable sales notification: you can decide which specific notifications to show up or not
Continue displaying the next product upon reloading:

Number of items to show:
Display on page: you choose on which type of pages will have this notification working

Notice: If not select any page, sale notification will be shown on all pages as default

Also, you can choose on which specific Products, specific Pages, specific Collections to be shown the pop-up.

With Order settings, we have 2 options to choose which order details should be rendered to the notification

Automatic (Import from Shopify Orders): the order details are automatically taken from your real orders in Shopify admin.

These order details such as ( product title, time purchase,..customer name,..) will be the conten of the Sale notification pop-up.

Manual (Create your own orders list): the order details are randomly combined and generated from the list you create yourself.
– Product: choose which product names to be appeared on the pop-up

For example: I want to display Product title (Leather White Trainers) – Buyer (Damien Braun) – Location (Texas).

Result on the pop-up:

– Collection: All of the product names included in this collection will be shown up randomly on the pop-up.

2.3 Sale Notifications Design tab

Disable on mobile: somtimes displaying widget on mobile is annoying to customers and takes up a lot of space. You can hide pop-up on mobile view only if you want.

Below are all style configurations you can change such as position, colors, time display, border….And you can live preview it on the right hand, it’s how the sale notification will look like on the website.

Customer name: Full name, Only fisrt name or Abbreviations

3. Priority

If a product page meets multiple rule of multiple notifications, it’s prioritized to show only one offer by this order:
Specific products -> page type OR prioritize the latest offer created (if same apply type).

4. How to Edit or Translate the text labels of the extension?

To Edit or Translate the label in this extension, please open the extension -> More action -> Labels & Translate.

First, you need to add and publish the languages in Shopify admin settings -> Languages.
We add Italian for example.

Then you will able to see the language selector inside our app to translate this extension. Now you can use different text lables for individual language

5. Analytic

Sessions & Visitor: count the number of visitors viewing the pop-up
Click: count the number of visitors clicking to close the pop-up
Sessions by device type: count the number of visitors viewing the pop-up on different devices
Top click product: count the number of visitors clicking to product title then head to product single page