Marketing with the Shop app

Use Shop's marketing features to engage your Shop customers. You can notify your customers of special promotions and other offers by posting a Shop update, or set up a post-purchase offer to give returning customers a discount.

Send a store update

Reach new customers and re-engage your followers on Shop with a custom update promoting new products, collections, or offers.

Post an update

Send updates to your customers in the Shop app from the admin. Only staff with the Marketing staff permissions are able to post Shop updates.

Keep in mind the following considerations before posting an update:

  • Like an email or SMS update, Shop updates can't be edited or deleted after they've been posted.
  • To promote a collection, the collection must be available on Shop and contain at least one approved product.
  • Ensure that your image files meet the following requirements:
    • Image files must be 15 MB in size or less.
    • Images must be in PNG or JPG format.
    • The suggested dimensions for images are 335 x 250 pixels.

You can select either Collection or Shop store as the audience destination. This selection determines where the customer is directed when they interact with the update in their feed.

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, click Settings > Apps and sales channels.

  2. From the Apps and sales channels page, click Shop.

  3. Click Open sales channel.

  4. Click Marketing tools, and then click Post update.

  5. In Audience selection, select either of the following options:

    • To promote a collection, select Collection, and then search or browse for the collection that you want to send.
    • To promote a general store update, select Shop store, and then click Select image to upload an image to use for your update.
  6. Type your message in the Message field. There is a maximum limit of 75 characters.

  7. Click Post update.

  8. After you post the update, your message can't be deleted or edited. Click the back arrow to return to the previous step, or Post update to confirm and send the update.

Update analytics

The Shop update index page displays an overview of key information about your posts, including whether or not the update posted successfully, and the number of impressions the update received in the Shop App. Shop update data might be delayed by a maximum of 9 hours.

Post-purchase marketing automation campaigns

In the Shop channel, if you have Sell with Shop activated, then you can create a post-purchase offer that gives returning customers an in-app discount that they can use at your store.

The discount offer displays in the Shop app until any of the following conditions are met:

  • All of the discount code conditions are fulfilled, such as a limit to one use per customer.
  • The discount code has expired or was deleted.
  • The automation was deactivated or deleted.

Available discounts you can offer customers include:

  • free shipping
  • fixed amount
  • percentage

When creating conditions for your discount, you can't restrict the discount code to apply only to specific customers, groups of customers, collections, or products.

Create a post-purchase offer automation

To create a post-purchase offer automation, you need to activate the automation with a discount code. For accurate tracking information, you should create a discount code that'll only be used for one post-purchase offer automation. You can change the discount code at any time as long as the automation is active.

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, click Settings > Apps and sales channels.

  2. From the Apps and sales channels page, click Shop.

  3. Click Open sales channel.

  4. Click Marketing tools, and then click Create automation.

  5. Complete one of the following:

    • If you don't have a discount code set up, then click Create a discount code.
    • If you want to use an existing discount code, then in the Discount section, click Browse, and then select the discount code you want to use.
  6. Optional: To avoid image cropping, use a banner image that's 933 x 480 pixels (px), and don't include the code in the message.

  7. Click Publish. If you want to save a draft, then click Finish later.

After an automation is created, you can use the Shop channel to view performance metrics. These metrics are displayed on a 30-day ongoing basis and include information about:

  • who received the offer
  • the number of orders made using the discount code
  • the number of sales associated with the offer

These metrics can't be accessed from the Marketing page of your Shopify admin.

Edit, deactivate, or delete an existing post-purchase discount code

After you create a post-purchase offer automation, you can edit, deactivate, or delete the automation.

If you deactivate or delete a post-purchase offer automation when there's an active discount code that hasn't been used by a customer, then the customer can still use the discount code unless you go into the Shopify admin and delete the discount code.

If a customer has an active discount code from a post-purchase offer that they haven't used, then their offer won't be updated if you edit it, and they won't receive new post-purchase offers.

When you delete an automation, the performance metrics are reset for your post-purchase offer automations.

Paused post-purchase offer automations

A post-purchase offer automation is automatically paused if any of the following occur:

  • The discount code has been deleted.
  • The discount code has expired.
  • An unsupported discount type is selected.
  • You don't meet the merchant requirements.

If your post-purchase offer campaign is paused, then you'll receive an email asking you to create a new discount code to add to the automation in the Shop Channel.

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