Promotions is a feature available to users on paid accounts. It allows the store administrator to promote specific products by prioritizing them among the search results for certain queries. To create a promotion, the administrator selects a product and links it to a query. As a result, the product appears on the first line of search results in the Products section of the CloudSearch widget.

Creating Promotions

Let’s say that you are selling smartphones and what to promote e.g. iPhones (may be all of them or may be some particular SKU). So how to create a respective promotion?

  • In the store’s Admin area, go to the Catalog -> CloudSearch & Cloudfilters section, locate the Promotions tab and click Add Promotion:

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    A popup window titled “Add new promotion” will be displayed: prom-2.png

  • In the “Add promotion” popup window, select the product that you want to be promoted:

    Click inside the “Select a product” field and start typing the product’s name or SKU. The module will provide search results as you type. As soon as you see the item you require, click on its name and the product will be added: prom-3.png

  • Specify one or more search queries for which you want the search results to include the selected product on the topmost line of the Products section of the CloudSearch widget:

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    Use commas (,) to separate search queries OR click ENTER after each query you type.

  • Click the Create promotion button at the bottom when you are done:

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  • The promotion is created. You should be able to see it in the Promotions list:

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Now if you visit the store’s front end and do a search for “iphone” or “6splus” or any other key from the list, you should be able to see a link to iPhone 6S Plus on the first line of search results under “Products”:

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If you decide to add more search queries to a product later on, just type them next to exisitng ones and SAVE the changes.

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Setting the order of promotions in search results

If you choose to configure multiple promotions for the same search query, you will be able to adjust the order in which the promotions should be displayed in the search results inside the CloudSearch widget in your store’s front end.

Use arrows to move a promotion up or down:

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The new order will be saved automatically.

Deleting promotions

You can delete any promotion you no longer need. For this purpose locate the promotion in question and click the trash icon:

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Then confirm your decision in a pop-up:

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