Getting started with Hextom Quick Announcement Bar

Welcome to the Quick Announcement Bar!

Always keeping your customers in the loop about your business updates, promotions, and events is a key element of managing customer relationships. Quick Announcement Bar makes this quick and easy. You can add a fully customizable banner to your website with a few clicks. Multiple bars can be created and set to rotate or be targeted to different markets, allowing you to localize your promotional messaging!

Creating a Quick Announcement Bar

There are a lot of features that you may want to use... but to quickly setup a new bar, follow these steps:

1. Click on the Create New Bar button

2. Select a template

Once you select a template, you will see a preview of how it will look on your website.

(The templates on the right are premium templates and will only save if you are on the premium plan)

3. Configure the content

There are many configuration options offered in the app. To get started quickly, you need to ensure that the following options are configured.

Message:

This is the message that will appear on the bar in the shop.

Bar Clickable:

By default, the bar adds a clickable button to the bar. When customers click that button, they will be redirected to the page of your choice. You can set the link address to where the customers will be redirected:

You can also opt to make the entire bar clickable, without displaying a button. To do so, set the Bar Clickable option to 'Make the entire bar clickable':

With the setting, clicking anywhere on the bar will redirect the customer to the link address. To not display any button and not have the bar be clickable, simply set the bar clickable option to 'Do not make the bar clickable' :

There are many other settings that you can configure, but for now, you can scroll all the way to the bottom and click save.

If you visit your store, the bar should now be at the top of the page.

Making changes... editing your Quick Announcement bar

Now that you have created a bar, you can edit it. To do so, go back to the app's dashboard.

Click on the Edit button in the row of the bar you'd like to edit.

The bar's configurations will open up. You can make any edits you need, and then save your bar. When the page in your store is refreshed, the bar's changes will be applied.

But wait! There's more!

There is a lot more to explore. Click here to learn more about the different message configurations, button animations, rotating bars and other features such as style configuration and targeting configuration.

Here's a two-part video tutorial to help you get started.