Discount pop-ups are a great way to engage and direct visitors to a certain page, collect e-mails and phone numbers, and announce promo offers. You can also set triggers and conditions to control when and where to display the popup.
Nextsale's campaign builder allows you to build any type of popups and customize every aspect of them.
To create a Promo popup campaign:
1. Go to the Dashboard
2. Click on the "Add new campaign" or plus (➕) icon from the left toolbar.
3. Click on the "Create" button of the pre-built "Welcome discount popup" campaign.
4. Once you pushed the Create button, you'll be directed to the builder where you can customize the Design and Miscellaneous settings, or publish the campaign right away by clicking on the green "Publish" button.
Before publishing the campaign, you should add the promo code that you generated apart from Nextsale.
5. To add the promo code, click on the "Success" button.
6. On the left side, place the code that you generated before to the "Coupon" section:
Once you placed the coupon code, the campaign is ready to be published.
7. Click on the green "Publish" button.
Note: changing the design and settings is optional. If you want to customize, read the following section.
Customization
Design
You can change the image, colors, and patterns to match the popup design with your store theme.
Pre-set settings
Learn how to customize the settings from the Customize settings section below. Read the section now.
Note: the preset settings for this "Welcome discount popup" campaign are as the followings:
Miscellaneous settings
Language: English
Mobile positions: Bottom
Content alignment: Center
Close button: enabled
Close popup on click to overlay: OFF
Enable close text button: ON (No, thanks!)
Settings
Devices: on desktop, on mobile.
Frequency: 2 times per hour
Triggers
On Scroll = 50%
Time based = 10 seconds
You can change the triggers by clicking on the pencil (✎) icon:
Conditions
Geotargeting: OFF
Page rules: OFF
User authentication state: OFF
Visitor session: all visitors
Language: OFF
Network IP: OFF
You can change and set conditions by clicking the respective buttons.
Customize settings
Devices
Turn on/off the toggles to display the campaign on respective devices.
Frequency
Here, you can define time frequencies like the delay between two consecutive appearances and the number of displays a popup per visitor.
Triggers
Use triggers to define when to display the campaign.
❗️Note: to enable the JS trigger correctly, read the article on how to activate JS trigger on Popup campaigns.
Conditions
Geo-targeting
This condition allows you to show your campaign only in selected countries. You can either include or exclude countries from the campaign.
To include or exclude certain countries:
Click the "Set geo-target" button.
On the opened popup window, choose the "Hide in" or "Show in" option from the dropdown menu.
Type country(s) from the beginning or choose from the dropdown menu.
Then, click the "Save settings" button:
Page rules
This feature allows you to condition on-page targeting rules.
You can add rules to display the campaign on pages by adding the following conditions:
"Equal" and "Doesn't equal" conditions require a specific URL.
Depending on the condition, a campaign will be displayed/hidden on any page that exactly equal/doesn't equal to the added specific URL."Contains" and "Doesn't contain" conditions require a specific part of the URL. Depending on the condition, a campaign will be displayed/hidden on any page that contains/doesn't contain the added part(s) of the URL.
"Begins" and "Doesn't begin with" conditions require a specific part of the URL. Depending on the condition, a campaign will be displayed/hidden on any page that begins/doesn't begin with the added part(s) of the URL.
"Ends with" and "Doesn't end with" conditions require a specific part of the URL. Depending on the condition, a campaign will be displayed/hidden on any page that ends/doesn't end with the added part(s) of the URL.
Use case #1
Homepage. To display or hide your campaign on the Home page:
Select the "Equal" or "Doesn't equal" condition.
Add "/" to the input box, or select "Home Page" from the dropdown menu.
Click the "Save settings" button.
Note: if your home page includes an additional slug, type and add it i.e., /slug
Use case #2
Single page. To display or hide your campaign on one specific page:
Select the "Equal" or "Doesn't equal" condition.
Add a valid URL depending on your website permalink structure i.e.:
/categories/accessories/product_name
In this case,product_name
represents one single page.Click the "Save settings" button.
Use case #3
Group of pages. To display or hide your campaign on groups of pages:
Select one of the "Contains" or "Doesn't contain", "Begins" or "Doesn't begin with", "Ends with" or "Doesn't end with" conditions.
Add a valid URL depending on your website permalink structure i.e.:
/categories/category_name
In this case,category_name
represents more than one page.Click the "Save settings" button.
Note: To use the page rules feature right, refer to your website permalink structure since the URLs of your web pages can be different than those shown in the dropdown menu.
User authentication state
With this feature, you can display the campaign only to the logged-in or not-logged-in users, or all users.
Note: this feature extends only to the Shopify stores.
Visitor session
This feature allows you to show your campaign to first-time, returning, or all visitors.
To choose your audience:
Click the "Set condition" button.
On the opened popup window, choose one of the visitor session options from the dropdown menu: all visitors, new visitors, returning visitors.
Then, click the "Save settings" button:
Language
With this feature, you can decide users with a specific website and/or browser languages see the campaign or vice versa by including and excluding languages.
You can display the campaign based on users' websites and browser languages.
The website language feature works with the
lang
attribute in the HTML tag of the web pages.
The language filters can be extended to both website and browser language by enabling/disabling each toggle.
To set the language conditions:
Click the "Set condition" button.
On the opened popup window, choose one of the language filter options ("Show in" & "Hide in") from the dropdown menu.
Type or select the languages from the dropdown menu.
Enable the toggles you want to set conditions.
Click the "Save settings" button.
Network IP
This feature allows you to display/hide your campaign only selected IP network by including or excluding IP addresses.
To include or exclude IP address(es) you can type the specific address(es), CIDR ranges, or wildcard mask formats:
Click the "Set condition" button.
Choose the "Include" or "Exclude" option from the dropdown menu.
Type or paste the IP address(es) you want to exclude.
Then, click the "Save settings" button:
To include/exclude IP address range in CIDR notation, consider this example: 203.0.113.5/32
To include/exclude IP address in wildcard mask format, consider this example: 255.0.0.*
Note: as you click on the input box to start typing, the "My IP address" option shows up for easy reach.
Note: make sure you click the "Add" button before clicking on the "Save settings" button. Otherwise, the changes will be dismissed:
After you saved the changed settings, you can click on the pencil (✎) button to change the saved settings you want to. Or, click on the X button to reset the settings.
Schedule the campaign
You can schedule the campaign to run in a certain time period.
To schedule a Social Proof Sales campaign:
Turn on the toggle
Choose the period
Set the time