Important: The Floating Cart is not supported in Microsoft-based browsers (such as Edge) released before April, 2019.
Using Floating Cart Manager, you can set up a free shipping offer to be displayed to customers in the floating cart. You may also customize messages to display to customers before and after their order qualifies for free shipping. For example, you may wish to let customers know how much more they must add to their order to qualify for free shipping, and then inform them when their order qualifies for the promotion.
Note: Customers may not apply a coupon discount in addition to the free shipping offer. If a customer applies a coupon after the free shipping discount is applied, they'll see a message that informs them of this, and will be provided with a link to apply the free shipping offer if they wish to receive this discount instead of the coupon discount.
The coupon will display in Coupon Manager and relevant orders in Order Manager with the prefix iyfc_ship_promo_STOREID.
Setting up the free shipping offer
- Sign in to your My Services page.
- Click the Store link.
- Go to Floating Cart Manager.
- From the Global Settings tab, locate the Free Shipping Offer Settings section near the bottom of the page:
- Select Enable to enable the free shipping offer in your floating cart.
- Using the Free Shipping Method pull-down menu, select a shipping method to use for your free shipping offer. To create a free shipping offer, you must already have a shipping method set up for your store. Learn how to set up a shipping method.
- Enter the minimum order value amount that's required for an order to qualify for free shipping. For example, if you wish for an order to qualify for free shipping once it reaches $25.00 or above, enter 25.00 in this field.
Note: Entering a value of $0 will cause the Floating Cart to appear each time a page is loaded, even if there's nothing in the cart. If you want to offer free shipping on all orders, set the minimum order value amount to $0.01.
Next, you can customize messages displayed in the floating cart both before and after an order qualifies for the free shipping offer.
Message Before Qualifying
By default, this message provides an order value countdown to customers, informing them how much to add to their order to qualify for free shipping. In Floating Cart Manager, the default message is entered as:
When displayed to customers in the floating cart area, the %TOTAL% variable is replaced by the dollar amount a customer still needs to add to their order to qualify for free shipping. This is calculated based on the dollar amount of what's already been added to their shopping cart, and what you've set as the required order value dollar amount in Floating Cart Manager. The %SHIP_METHOD% variable is replaced by the shipping method you've selected in Floating Cart Manager. You should use this field to note any exceptions to their free shipping offer, such as states or countries orders that apply for free shipping may be shipped to.
You may customize the content of this message, and may include up to a maximum of 100 characters. To provide an order value countdown, the %TOTAL% value should be used when inserting content into this field. Using the %SHIP_METHOD% variable ensures that the selected shipping method will always be displayed to customers without having to update the message, even if the selected shipping method is later changed in Floating Cart Manager.
Message Once Qualified
The message entered into this field will be shown to customers in the floating cart once their order qualifies for free shipping. In Floating Cart Manager, the default message is entered as:
When displayed to customers, the %SHIP_METHOD% variable is replaced by the shipping method you've selected in Floating Cart Manager. If you wish to include information in this message about the shipping method used for this offer, using the %SHIP_METHOD% variable ensures that the selected shipping method will always be displayed to customers without having to update the message, even if the selected shipping method is later changed in Floating Cart Manager.
Save and Publish your Floating Cart settings
When finished with the setup, click Save, or Save & Preview to see how the changes appear. Click Publish when ready.
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