What is Announcement?
The Announcement feature displays a notification bar with custom text and a countdown timer. When a customer adds a product to their cart, the countdown timer starts, creating a sense of urgency. This encourages faster checkouts and helps reduce cart abandonment rates.
How to set it up?
The Announcement feature consists of 2 sections: Announcement (for configuring functionality) and Background Color (for customizing the appearance).
Select Announcement type
There are 2 types of announcements that you can select from:
Single Announcement: A single notification bar and it can also be used as a limited time offer notification with timer setup
Multiple Announcement: Show different announcements to advertise different offers, notifications or discount codes to the customer.
Single Announcement
Timer Settings
Set the Timer Settings by entering the number of hours and minutes (minimum 1 minute, maximum 24 hours). Any value exceeding 24 hours will be automatically adjusted to 24. The countdown starts when the first product is added to the cart.
⚠️ The timer must be set to more than 0 minutes for the announcement to appear in the cart, even if you choose to display text only.
Choose what happens when the countdown ends:
Repeat the Countdown: Resets and starts over.
Hide the Countdown: The announcement bar disappears after the countdown ends.
Delete Items: Removes all items from the cart once the countdown ends.
Announcement Text
Enter the Announcement Text, which will be displayed in the cart drawer. You can add emojis, align the text (left, center, right) and change the font style (normal, italic, bold).
Use {timer} where you want to display the timer.
For example: Your products are reserved for {timer} minutes!
Customize the appearance of the text in the cart:
Text size and Text color change the size and color of the normal text without timer
Timer size and Timer color change the size and color of the timer only
Multiple Announcement
Select Multiple Announcement
Fill in the content that you want to show to the customer, hit "Add new announcement" if you want to show more announcement to the customer.
There is a limit of 5 announcements per cart
Announcements will auto-slide for the time in Display Duration.
{timer} will not work on this case as the multiple announcements doesn't includes the Timer Settings.
Background Color and Text Design
Customize the background color: solid or gradient color of the Announcement
Adjust top/bottom padding
Click "Save" to finalize the setup.
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