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How to set up a quick and easy holiday promotion on your CrystalCommerce website (Move more product!)

Did you know that you can easily and quickly create promotions for holidays and other events on your CrystalCommerce website?

In this post:

  • How to create promotions on your website
  • Free banner downloads for Black Friday and Cyber Monday!

How to create promotions on your website

Quick Overview
  • Tag the products you want to promote
  • Upload and Tag the banner you want to use for your promotion
  • Do an Advanced Search for the tagged products
  • Copy the search results URL and paste it into the banner’s “Link” field
  • Save the the banner

Your promotion is now live and ready to make sales!

Detailed Instructions

Step 1: Tag products

  • Tag all of the products that you want to feature in your promotion (Tagging Help Article)
  • Be sure to take note of the name of the tag that you use, because you’ll need it later

Step 2: Upload and tag banners

  • Upload the banner you want to use for the promotion, and tag it so it appears in your home page main banner area, such as a top slider banner. (Banner Manager Help Article)
  • BONUS: Free banners are available on this post for Black Friday and Cyber Monday! Scroll to the bottom of this post to download them!
  • Note: Many other free banners for various holidays, events, and product lines are available on our Banner Downloads Page

Step 3: Do an advanced search

  • Go to the Advanced Search page. Example: https://yoursiteurl.com/advanced_search
  • Find the “Tagged With” field and type the tag name that you used on your promotion products
  • Click the “Search” button
  • On the search results page, copy the URL out of your browser

Step 4: Link the banner to the search results

  • Go back to the banner that you uploaded
  • Open the “Descriptors” section
  • Find the “Link” field and paste in the URL from the advanced search that you did for the tag
  • Save the banner

Create a promotion today to help your customers discover great products, and to increase your revenue!

Free banner downloads for Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Black Friday Banners Download Page
Cyber Monday Banners Download Page

We have many other free banners for various holidays, events, and product lines.

See all available banners

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6 years ago

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