This is where you can create all the presentations for products, bundles, offers, and banners that are visible in your store for both general and specific customers. Use promotions to structure and highlight information on your front page.
USEFUL TIP You can save your search filter settings. On future searches, you can just select a preconfigured search instead of having to select and configure all the filter details every time.
To create a promotion, follow these steps:
Click on "Create".
Choose the type of promotion you want to create from the options in the drop-down menu:
Promotion Name
Promotion Description
Product
Creates a mini product card containing text, images, and the price of the product. It will also provide a like-product page.
Text
Creates a box containing text. This can also contain HTML code or JavaScript for custom presentations
Image only
Creates a box that displays an image
Slide show
Creates a box for a slide show of images
Flash
Creates a box that can contain your flash presentations
Document
Group of products
Same as Product but highlights several products instead of just one
Administrator
Allows the creation of a box containing a salespersons information
Custom content
Create a promotion containing a user made Content (created in Content pages section)
Automatic product*
Highlight random products that meet pre-determined conditions
*Only availble if feature is included in your Nettailer package
Once an option has been selected a new page will open with more setting options. Note that it is not possible to change the type of promotion once one has been chosen. To change promotion type, please create a new promotion.
General Settings
Setting
What is does
Name
Name your promotion
Start date
Set the date you want the promotion to start. This is handy if you want to create promotions in advance of the actual start date giving the sales team time to learn about the promotions before they go live
End date
Set the date you want the promotion to end, once this date arrive the promotion will no longer be displayed in your store
Desktop
Make the promotion visible on desktop version of your store (This setting is EOL and only relevant to Nettailer Classic stores)
Responsive
Make the promotion visible in the RWD version of your store
Position and size
Setting
What it does
Promotion placement
Here you can select where on the store you want your promotion to appear First page – will place your promotion in the body of the first page To the left – will place your promotion in the left hand column of your store (Legacy setting for "Classic" stores only) To the right – will place the promotion on the right had column of the store (Legacy setting for "Classic" stores only)
Category – will place your promotion within a specific product category (on a main category or sub category)
Section
Size
Determines the size of your promotion, small or large (This setting is EOL and only relevant to Nettailer Classic stores)
Size, responsive
Determine how many promotions there will be on each row in responsive web design. The promotion size will scale based on screen size
Except from randomisation
If this is ticked then your promotion will not appear at a random sort order. This makes the sort order of this promotion absolute
Sort order
Fill out a sort order to determine where the promotion to be displayed on the page. Promotions appear in ascending sort order. A lower sort value means that promotion will appear higher up the page
Used only when “Except from randomisation” is ticked.
Please note that customer-connected promotions have priority over the sorting order if the "Sort promotions with the connected customer as priority over the sort value" setting is on. This setting is found under Settings > Settings > Promotions
Text
Setting
What it does
Heading
Add the name heading for your promotion, It is shown in bold above the text
Text
Add text for the promotion, just a few lines about a product to draw the customers attention
Image
Setting
What it does
Picture alignment
Here you determine the alignment of an image within your promotion box. Left, Right or Center (This setting is EOL and only relevant to Nettailer Classic stores)
Image
Used to upload your image, Browse for your file and once the apply button is pressed this will upload to this promotion
Note: If a product is missing an image altogether, we recommend that you upload an image to the product card. That way both the product and the promotion gets an image.
Image, mobile
Used to upload your image for mobile devices, Browse for your file and once the apply button is pressed this will upload to this promotion
Note: If a product is missing an image altogether, we recommend that you upload an image to the product card. That way both the product and the promotion gets an image.
Don't re size the image
By default the site will re size an image uploaded to fit into the promotion at a per-determined size. If you want to use the image original size then click here.
Product
If you want to make a promotion based on a product already on your store, then you can enter its part number here and once it is selected, this will automatically fill your test and image properties for you.
Upload multiple pictures and display an image for a set number of seconds before it goes to the next slide. You decide how many seconds each image should be displayed under "Duration". "Mode" allows you to change the transition of a slide, the options available are Vertical, Horizontal or Fade. You may then change the direction in which your images slide, using the direction setting.
Flash promotions are supported but not created by Nettailer. You can upload your flash promotion and set its size in this section.
General Settings
Setting
What it does
Name
Name your promotion
Sort Order
Fill out a sort order to determine where the promotion to be displayed on the page. Promotions appear in ascending sort order. A lower sort value means that promotion will appear higher up the page
Note Used only when “Except from randomisation” is ticked.
Please note that customer-connected promotions have priority over the sorting order if the "Sort promotions with the connected customer as priority over the sort value" setting is on. This setting is found under Settings > Settings > Promotions
Start Date
Set the date you want the promotion to start. This is handy if you want to create promotions in advance of the actual start date giving the sales team time to learn about the promotions before they go live
End Date
Set the date you want the promotion to end, once this date arrive the promotion will no longer be displayed in your store
Position and size
Setting
What it does
Promotion placement
Here you can select where on the store you want your promotion to appear. First page – will place your promotion in the body of the first page
Except from randomisation
If this is ticked then your promotion will not appear at a random sort order. This makes the sort order of this promotion absolute.
Document
Document - Here you may can select the document you want to show up in the store from a drop down menu.
You must have created a document prior to setting up this promotion to select it here. Documents are created in the Document section.
General Settings
Setting
What is does
Name
Name your promotion
Start date
Set the date you want the promotion to start. This is handy if you want to create promotions in advance of the actual start date giving the sales team time to learn about the promotions before they go live
End date
Set the date you want the promotion to end, once this date arrive the promotion will no longer be displayed in your store
Desktop
Make the promotion visible on desktop version of your store
Responsive
Make the promotion visible in the RWD version of your store
URL
After this promotion is saved, the store will generate a URL that you may then use in other promotions to navigate directly the the list you created in this promotion.
Product
If you want to make a promotion based on a product already on your store, then you can enter its part number here and once it is selected, this will automatically fill your test and image properties for you.
By entering multiple article numbers, separated by ';', you can automatically add multiple products to the promotion
Position and size
Setting
What it does
Promotion placement
Here you can select where on the store you want your promotion to appear First page – will place your promotion in the body of the first page To the left – will place your promotion in the left hand column of your store (Legacy setting for "Classic" stores only) To the right – will place the promotion on the right had column of the store (Legacy setting for "Classic" stores only)
Category – will place your promotion within a specific product category (on a main category or sub category)
Section
Size
Determines the size of your promotion, small or large
Size, responsive
Determine how many promotions there will be on each row in responsive web design. The promotion size will scale based on screen size
Except from randomisation
If this is ticked then your promotion will not appear at a random sort order. This makes the sort order of this promotion absolute
Sort order
Fill out a sort order to determine where the promotion to be displayed on the page. Promotions appear in ascending sort order. A lower sort value means that promotion will appear higher up the page
Note
Used only when “Except from randomisation” is ticked.
Please note that customer-connected promotions have priority over the sorting order if the "Sort promotions with the connected customer as priority over the sort value" setting is on. This setting is found under Settings > Settings > Promotions
Text
Setting
What it does
Heading
Add the name heading for your promotion, It is shown in bold above the text
Image
Setting
What it does
Picture alignment
Here you determine the alignment of an image within your promotion box. Left, Right or Center
Image
Used to upload your image, Browse for your file and once the apply button is pressed this will upload to this promotion
Image, mobile
Used to upload your image for mobile devices, Browse for your file and once the apply button is pressed this will upload to this promotion
Don't re size the image
By default the site will re size an image uploaded to fit into the promotion at a per-determined size. If you want to use the image original size then click here.
Copy image from Product
Type a part number in here for the store to use the image from this product for the group of product image.
You may now add a promotion the the store containing your salesperson information to the customer. This can be configured to allow different customers to see specific salespeople.
General Settings
Setting
What it does
Name
Name your promotion
Sort Order
Fill out a sort order to determine where the promotion to be displayed on the page. Promotions appear in ascending sort order. A lower sort value means that promotion will appear higher up the page
Note
Used only when “Except from randomisation” is ticked.
Please note that customer-connected promotions have priority over the sorting order if the "Sort promotions with the connected customer as priority over the sort value" setting is on. This setting is found under Settings > Settings > Promotions
Start Date
Set the date you want the promotion to start. This is handy if you want to create promotions in advance of the actual start date giving the sales team time to learn about the promotions before they go live
End Date
Set the date you want the promotion to end, once this date arrive the promotion will no longer be displayed in your store
Desktop
Make the promotion visible on desktop version of your store
Responsive
Make the promotion visible in the RWD version of your store
Administrator
Administrator
Show administrator for logged in customer
Select to make this promotion only visible to users that are logged in (if not enabled this promotion will always be visible in the store)
Title
Used to specify the administrators title
Description
Used to specify the administrators description / additional information
*Additional contact information and images for administrators are pulled from the Administrator account created in the Administrators section.
Position and size
Setting
What it does
Promotion placement
Here you can select where on the store you want your promotion to appear First page – will place your promotion in the body of the first page To the left – will place your promotion in the left hand column of your store (Legacy setting for "Classic" stores only) To the right – will place the promotion on the right had column of the store (Legacy setting for "Classic" stores only)
Category – will place your promotion within a specific product category (on a main category or sub category)
Section
Size
Determines the size of your promotion, small or large
Size, responsive
Determine how many promotions there will be on each row in responsive web design. The promotion size will scale based on screen size
Except from randomisation
If this is ticked then your promotion will not appear at a random sort order. This makes the sort order of this promotion absolute
Create a promotion containing a user made document (created in section)
Select which Promotional section to add this to (options only availble if you have created multiple promotion sections in )
Select which Promotional section to add this to (options only availble if you have created multiple promotion sections in )
Select an admin/seller from the drop down list (administrators are set up in the section)
Select which Promotional section to add this to (options only availble if you have created multiple promotion sections in )