Multi-Announcement Bar: Set-up

A Multi-Announcement Bar is a full-width slider with banners that appears at the top or bottom of the visitor’s browser window as the site loads. The slider includes notification messages, promotional or store updates, and a button with a call to action. When your customers click on the button, it redirects them to the page you want to promote.

Example of a Multi-Announcement Bar:

Activation in the Theme Editor

You can activate the Multi-Announcement Bar by clicking the button at the upper right. The app will display a bar in your Online Store if it has a visible status.

After you hit Activate app, the app redirects you to the theme editor’s App embeds tab. To activate the app, switch the toggle on and save the changes.

To deactivate the app, follow the steps above and switch the app embed off.

Creating a Multi-Announcement Bar

You can easily add a Multi-Announcement Bar to your Shopify store. To create a bar, follow these steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, go to the Searchanise Upsell & Marketing admin.
2. Open the Multi-Announcement Bar app.
3. Click Create Bar.

A new bar is added to the top of the bar list.

You can also clone an existing bar by clicking on the duplicate icon in the Action column of the bar list. The bar you cloned is added to the list and contains the same title as the original bar plus the clone mark.

To find an existing bar, enter its title in the Search and Filter box provided at the top of the bar list.

Configuring a bar

When you’ve created a bar, you can configure it by clicking on the pencil icon in the Action column of the bar list.

The bar’s settings can be configured in the following tabs:

• General: Configure the slides of your announcement
• Design: Choose the height and position
• Display Rules: Set up the display rules
• Targeting: Restrict the bar display based on different locations

Bar content

From the General tab, you can create announcement slides with a call to action button:

1. Set the Bar status to manage its visibility in your Shopify store.
2. Specify the Bar title, which is only visible to you for your guidance. The Bar title is hidden from your store visitors. By default, the bar you create has an auto-generated title consisting of a set of letters and numbers.
3. Specify the Slide delay for a slide change.
4. You can add a Close button to the banner by selecting the on option. Closing period is the time for the bar to be displayed for the second time.
5. Edit the Slide #1 content and style:
   • Add your message text, which will appear on the announcement banner of your Shopify store. By default, the message contains placeholder values.
   • Change the text font, style (bold, italics, underline), and color.

   • Customize the background. You can:

     • set up a plain color in the color-picker

     • select one of the ready-made design templates

     • upload your image for the banner background

   • Configure the interactive button:
     • Bar clickable: The button can be added to or removed from the banner
     • Button text and background color
     • Action link: The page link that will open when hitting the button. You can enable the option to open the link in a new tab.
     • Button animation: Dynamic display of the button: on or off
     • Animation type: Motion pattern of the animated button
6. Click Add new slide if you want to create a multi-announcement banner.
7. You can also clone an existing slide with the settings by clicking on the duplicate icon.
8. Click on the delete icon to remove a slide.
9. Drag and drop slides manually to create an order of their appearance in your store.

Design template

From the Design tab, you can adjust the height of the bar if you want to make it larger.

For a more attractive look, you can also select the bar display position on your Shopify store page from the following options:

• Top relative: The bar sits at the top of your site and fades into and out of view as the site page scrolls
• Top fixed position: The bar is always displayed at the top of your site
• Bottom relative: The bar sits at the bottom of your site and fades into and out of view as the site page scrolls
• Bottom fixed position: The bar is always displayed at the bottom of your site

Bar display

From the Display Rules settings tab, you can control the bar visibility based on a custom condition. Here, you can decide how and when to display the announcement notification in your Shopify store:

• Select the visitor target device to display bar on: mobile and/or desktop
• Restrict availability of your special shipping offer for some Shopify store pages

Display the bar on	Do NOT display the bar on
All pages Home page Product page Search results page Cart page Collections Custom link (add any page link) Keywords (add any keyword from the store page URL)	Off Home page Product page Search results page Cart page Collections Custom link (add any page link) Keywords (add any keyword from the store page URL)

• Select the display time option: permanent or custom

If you want to show the banner according to a particular schedule, follow these steps:

1. Select the custom value in the Display time selector.
2. Set up your schedule using the Start and end display time options for banner display.
3. Optional: apply User timezone detection by user IP address or select a time zone for a specific plan from the drop-down list.

Targeting filters

If you want to restrict the display of the bar to your visitors in different countries, you can add locations where the banner can be displayed or exclude them based on the IP address of the visitor:

• Location where the Multi-Announcement Bar is displayed
  1. Click Add new Location.
  2. Start entering a location and then select one of the options suggested.
• Location where the Multi-Announcement Bar is not displayed
  1. Click Add new Location.
  2. Start entering a location and then select one of the options suggested.

If you want to remove the location, hit the delete icon. A dialog box will ask you to confirm the deletion.

Deleting a bar

If you want to delete a bar, click on the delete icon in the Action column of the bar list. A dialog box will ask you to confirm the action by clicking Delete.