Creating a countdown timer is quick, easy, and comes with a full range of features built to help you create a timer bar tailored perfectly for your store or sale.
Configuring Your Timer Type
At the Main Page:
Select the Create Widget button.
Select Countdown Timer and proceed to click on the Next button:
Set an internal name for your countdown timer. This is only for your reference and will not be seen by merchants.
Selecting a countdown timer type:
Countdown starts as scheduled and is the same for all users: When the timer is activated, the same countdown will be shown based on the timer duration you've configured:
Frequency - Configure if this timer is a repeating timer or a one-off timer based on the scheduled date.
One-time non-Repeating Timer - The countdown timer will end and be hidden once the timer expires.
Custom Repeating timer: After finishing, the timer disappears from the page. The timer appears again after the page is reloaded.
Repeat Daily: A daily recurring timer by selecting the start time and end time.
Repeat Weekly: A weekly recurring timer by select the start and end day of the week.
Repeat Monthly: A monthly recurring timer that occur on specific dates of each month.
Repeat Yearly: A monthly recurring timer that occur on specific months of each year.
Set repetition limit: You can even set your timer to repeat any number of times automatically before completely ending and being hidden.
Countdown starts when user first visits the website - When a buyer visits your site for the first time, the countdown timer will start ticking down according to the timer duration you've configured.
The timer will continue to clock down if the user leaves and returns, unless they access your site from a new device or with fresh browser cookies.
Different type of Countdown Widgets
There are two type of countdown widgets you can use. They are Countdown Banner and Countdown Widget.
Countdown Banner
This will place a banner (the full width of the browser screen) on your store.
Countdown timer banners can be fixed at the top or bottom of your site.
Preview:
Next, you need to choose the pages where your banner will be displayed
All pages in the store
Product pages
Collection pages
Specific pages
Other Optional Options that you can setup are:
Hide timer before it finishes - This will hide/close the banner when countdown reaches 0.
Hide days/hours from countdown when they are at "00" - Days and Hours will be hidden when their value reaches "0", only showing minutes and seconds.
Sticky Banner - The Timer Bar scroll with the user as they move up and down a page, keeping it always in view.
Timer Widget
This widget is only shown on product pages only. You can change the widget location to either Above or Below the Add to Cart.
Please contact the support if the timer is not showing or if you want the timer to display at other positions.
This is how the widget will look like:
Lastly, select any of the optional timer functions below to specify how your timer appears.
Designing Countdown Banner/Widget
To design your banner/widget, go to the Design tab.
Next, proceed to customize the elements you wish to display on your banner.
Title - You can choose if you want to display the main title of the pop-up modal. You can edit the contents and the format at the Title setup.
Countdown Timer - You have the option to display the countdown timer. Customize its content, style, and format by configuring the Countdown Timer setup.
Primary Button - When activated, customers can click this button to navigate to any page or site configured in the Primary Button Setup.
You can also customize the color and format of the button there.
Subheading - By enabling this option, a message will appear below the countdown timer. For further customization—such as adjusting font type, size, and color—navigate to the Subheading settings.
Link - When you enable this option, a clickable link will appear, which can be customized in the Link settings:
Email capture - Enabling this element will display an email capturing textbox. All emails captured will be automatically synchronized to your Customer page in the Shopify admin panel. If you had integrate Urgency+ with Mailchimp or Klaviyo it will automatically synchronize to the mailing lists as well.
Copy Discount Code - By enabling this option, a discount code will be display at the pop-up modal:
To attached a discount code, navigate to the Copy Discount Code settings and select Change:
Link the Discount Code set that you wish to display.
You can then proceed configure the design on the discount code display here:
Once you’ve chosen the elements to display in the pop-up modal, you can fine-tune its design. Customize border formats, border radius, and background patterns in the section directly below:
Displaying Multiple Timers at Once
There are times where you might run multiple campaigns at once and you might want to inform the customers regarding all these campaigns at once.
Firstly, at the Settings tab:
Setup the Carousel settings such as the arrow color, the transition speed and the transition style:
Next, after setting up the banner/widget design as well as the design, select the + New Banner button:
An additional tab will then appear and you can proceed to setup the behavior and the design of the timer:
Once you had finish setting up the timers, complete the setup by setting up the transition style and transition speed (time interval between each timers). If you want customers to have the option of manually scrolling through the timers, you can enable Add previous/next arrows.
