It’s officially fall here at our offices and with sweaters and spiced lattes also comes the focus on upcoming holiday events and parties.
With consumers purchasing more online than ever before we are steadfast in our commitment to giving small business owners access to growing online.
One thing is for sure, online commerce is a competitive market. So, we are working hard to be sure you POWR heroes have the best solutions available for your online stores.
Here’s a look at what we spent the last quarter working on in order to give you a leg up this holiday season.
The devices we use every day – from desktop computers to smartphones – were created to make our lives easier and work all day. Yet, most of the time they remain idle while we’re busy with other things.
So we thought, what could we do to make each gadget out there more useful for all of us (infatica.io)?
We’ve added a BigCommerce integration for POWR Contacts. All information stored in POWR Contacts can be synced to your BigCommerce account making the process of contacting your customers a lot easier. Simply connect BigCommerce Contacts from your POWR Contacts page.
To all our Shopify users, you can now integrate Mailchimp with My Contacts after logging into your Shopify account.
My Contacts is a centralized list of all your contacts collected using POWR Form Builder and Popup.
Any time someone submits your POWR form or popup that contains an email field, their information will automatically be added to My Contacts in POWR.
To integrate Mailchimp with My Contacts, click on ‘My Contacts’ -> ‘Integrations’ in your POWR account.
Integrations modal will pop up with Mailchimp in the list.
Click Connect, enter your credentials to login to your Mailchimp account, allow access for POWR to connect to Mailchimp account, and proceed with the integration by following further instructions.
Once you’re done, all information stored in My Contacts will be transferred to one of your Mailchimp lists making the process of setting up an email marketing campaign a whole lot easier.
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Product Reviews is an app that helps you collect and display product reviews and product ratings on your product pages. This is currently available for Shopify stores. It works by displaying social proof from user-generated content (UGC) in product reviews and customer comments.
The Product Reviews app is now available for free in Shopify.
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Email Countdown is the app that you can embed into your emails, so your customers will not miss the most important sales events (i.e. free shipping, sales ends, etc.).
It works by generating and displaying a repeating gif of the timer. The Email Countdown app is designed to install on your marketing platform emails like MailChimp, Omnisend, Klaviyo, etc.
Learn more about how to add an Email Countdown app to your marketing emails here.
We’ve made some big improvements to what your customers see when entering a page containing a POWR popup on your site.
We’ve also added a Rating option to our Popup app. You can find it under the Form Fields section in Content -> Add Element menu.
It works by allowing your customers to rate their experience with your company and/or your products.
You can also ask your customers to rate a different aspects of your business or service.
It is a great tool for finding out your audience’s opinions of your business and finding certain aspects of your business that need improvement.
The Image Overlay option has been added to the Banner app settings above Title controls in the element drilldown. Now you can add text over the images in your banner slider to give more information to your visitors and further personalize your website.
Brand Ambassador Sign Up Form is the easy way to create a brand ambassador email sign up form, a brand ambassador contact form, brand rep forms, influencer forms, influencer registration form, product evangelist sign up forms.
The Brand Ambassador Sign Up Form app is free to get started and easy to install with our auto-installer for Shopify.
We’ve made the Instagram Basic Display API available in the Social Feed app meaning that any feed is automatically set up to display “Posts Only” from an Instagram account.
The update has been rolled out to 100% of our current POWR Heroes.
POWR is now available through PageFly, the leading webpage and landing page builder app on Shopify. Perfect for small, medium, and event enterprise businesses, PageFly makes it easy to build landing pages that convert!
Enhance your website with an extensive element library, page sections and direct integrations with POWR Apps. Pulse PageFly adapts to all themes smoothly and is fully compatible with Shopify (and Online Store 2.0) to create a streamlined experience across your store. Start using PageFly for free today!
Speaking of Shopify Online Store 2.0, Dawn is now the default theme of all new Shopify merchant stores.
As such, we’ve updated our apps to be compatible with both legacy and Shopify Online Store 2.0 themes including Dawn.
New Shopify themes have .json templates inside instead of .liquid templates, so we have changed the way of installing our apps on a Shopify store. More info here.
A great feature of the .json template is the section feature. It allows you to drag and drop a section on a webpage after publishing the section using our “Publish” screen for Shopify.
In celebration of the spooky season we’ve created and added the Halloween popup template to the list of available templates.
Be sure to use it for the popup you install on your site as part of your Halloween-themed, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday marketing campaigns. Get more leads with this scary template.
Speaking of Black Friday and Cyber Monday campaigns, be sure to head over to your POWR account and apps to see the spooky deal we’ve got for you to use so you can get ready for the busiest shopping season of the year.
Need help on using the holidays to increase your business?
Get your store ready and successful for the holidays with POWR apps.