Setting up a Multi-Announcement Bar

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 update, 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:

On this page

• Creating a Multi-Announcement Bar
• Configuring a bar
  • Bar content
  • Design template
  • Bar display
  • Targeting filters
• Deleting a bar
• Managing bar visibility

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 BolideAI admin.
2. Open the Multi-Announcement Bar app.
3. Click Create Bar.

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

Note: By default, the status of a new bar is set as hidden. You can activate its display by clicking on the status name, which switches its value to visible. A dialog box will ask you to confirm the action.

You can also clone an existing bar by clicking on the duplicate icon in the Actions 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 from the Edit Bar page. You can access this page by clicking on the pencil icon in the Actions column of the bar list.

Here, you can configure the bar display, including its design, content, display rules, and targeting settings:

• General: Configure the display content of your announcement
• Design: Change the design template to fit the style of your store
• Display Rules: Set up the display rules of your announcement
• Targeting: Restrict the bar display based on different locations

Tip: After you’ve made changes to the settings, a pop-up notification will appear at the top of the page reminding you to save them: “Unsaved changes”. You can then Save or Discard them.

Tip: You can preview the Multi-Announcement Bar design template to see how it appears to your customers. Click Preview at the upper right.

Bar content

From the General tab, you can create announcement slides and configure your announcement content with a call to action button to be displayed on the bar:

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. This setting is used for a multi announcement banner.
4. You can add a Close button to the banner by selecting the on option.
5. Closing period is used after closing the bar before displaying it for the second time.
6. Edit the Slide #1 content by clicking the pencil icon:
   • Add your message text, which will appear on the announcement banner of your Shopify store. By default, the message contains placeholder values.
   • To fit your Shopify store brand, set up the Font family and Font size of the message text and button text. You can also enable the Advanced text editor if you want to change text font style (bold, italics, underline).
   • Configure interactive button content, design, and display rules:
     • Bar clickable: The button can be added to or removed from the banner
     • Button text
     • 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
7. Click Add new slide if you want to create a multi announcement banner.
8. You can also clone an existing slide with the settings by clicking on the duplicate icon.
9. Click on the delete icon to remove a slide.
10. Drag and drop slides manually to create an order of their appearance in your store.

Design template

From the Design tab, you can select one of the ready-made design templates for the banner background image, set your own color of the default bar, and pick its background and text colors to match your store’s brand.

Moreover, you can adjust the height of the bar if you want to make it larger.

You can customize the colors of the following bar elements:

• Background and text colors of the bar
• Button background and text colors

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

• 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 Actions column of the bar list. A dialog box will ask you to confirm the action by clicking Delete.

Managing bar visibility

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 embed app off.