Get it By Timer for Father's Day
With Father's Day fast approaching in North America (and the rest of the world) you may be starting to add sales and deals to your eCommerce store to urge your customers to buy. Luckily Fera.ai is here to help you with two really awesome widgets-the Promo Bar and the Get it By Timer. Let customers know if they use a special discount and order within a certain time or number of days that they'll receive their Father's Day gifts before the big day.Get it By Timer
There are a few key steps here. Starting off we want to set a schedule. Let's have it start immediately and end on Father's Day. Since Fera.ai is in Canada we will use Sunday, June 17th as our end data because that's when Father's Day is here.
Note
It's important to set a priority # here. If you have another widget running you may want to disable it for the time of the Father's Day one or set a priority to both with a higher one for the Father's Day campaign to tell it to run above all else.Display Message
Now let's set up the message we want to show. Let's have it say "Order within %TIMER% to get it by Father's Day!". This will serve as a reminder to people that Father's Day is coming up and they should order quickly.
Delivery Speeds
Set your delivery speeds for different regions and what your cutoff time is. Cutoff time is the latest time you can still ship items out on the same day. So I set mine to 3 PM because that's when the local post office closes, so as long as I can get orders in before then they can ship today instead of adding an additional day. I can't ship on Saturdays or Sundays but I can deliver on both so I added those settings. If I do ship on weekends I can set another cutoff time for both days if the post office has different hours then.
Design and Colour
We can also set certain designs, add borders and so on. For example, I changed the text colour to match my store's theme. I could also set certain triggers and conditions to only show the Get it By Timer notifications if it follows (or doesn't follow) certain parameters.
Promo Bar for Father's Day
We can also add a special promotion for Father's Day to drive sales. You can either set up a promotion bar sitewide, for only when customers browse certain items, only on certain days (maybe you want to run a special discount for Dad's only on Father's Day?), or basically anything else you can think of. We can add a percentage discount, a dollar amount discount or even offer free shipping. So let's get started with some settings.
Setting an End Date & Discount
Again let's set an end date to make sure that our promo ends on Father's Day (June 17th) at midnight. Since I don't have a discount code I want to create one. We will disable the "manage discount externally" switch and go through options to setup a new code. The code should expire at the end of Father's Day. I am calling the code "Love4Dads" and offering them 20% off if they spend a minimum of $25. Each user may use it once, but there's not limit to how many users can utilize this offer. this code will save to my Shopify Discount code tab and any customer who uses it that meets the order total minimum of $25 will get this discount.
