How do I use Shopify Sidekick with One Stop Volume Discounts?
Shopify Sidekick can create and edit One Stop Volume Discounts deals and answer questions about them. Describe an offer, for example “quantity breaks on my Snowboards collection: 2 items 10% off, 3 items 15% off”, or attach a screenshot of an offer you want to copy. Sidekick opens the deal editor with the deal type, tiers, titles, badges, products or collection, dates, colors, borders, fonts and widget settings filled in. It can also restyle an existing deal to match a screenshot of another widget or of your store. Nothing is saved until you check the deal and choose Save. You can also ask which deals are active, how they performed over the last day, 7 days, 30 days or all time, whether the widget is set up in your theme, and how a feature works.
Steps
- On a computer, open the app’s Home page and choose Create with Sidekick.
- Or choose Create deal and turn on Use Sidekick. Pick a deal type and a color, then choose Create with Sidekick. Sidekick opens with that deal type and its settings. The switch starts off each time you open Create deal.
- To copy an offer from another app, also turn on Upload deal picture, then attach a screenshot of the offer in Sidekick.
- You can also open Sidekick anywhere in your Shopify admin and name the app, for example “Create quantity breaks in One Stop Volume Discounts for my Snowboards collection”.
- Tell Sidekick the products or collection, the quantity for each tier and the discount.
- Sidekick asks to use One Stop Volume Discounts for the request. Choose Yes, and the deal editor opens with the deal filled in. If you did not name a deal type, choose one in “Choose a deal type” first.
- Enter a Block name if it is empty, check the tiers, products and design, then choose Save.
- To change a deal later, ask Sidekick to edit it by name, for example “Make my BF Summer deal in One Stop Volume Discounts horizontal with a gold badge”. The deal opens in the editor with the changes filled in, unsaved.
- To match your store’s look, attach a screenshot of your product page and ask Sidekick to restyle a deal. It fills in the colors, borders, corner radius and font styles it can see.
- Ask questions the same way, for example “Which of my One Stop Volume Discounts deals are active?”, “How did my deals do in the last 30 days?” or “Is the One Stop Volume Discounts widget set up in my theme?”.
What to watch out for
- Sidekick never saves a deal on its own. It opens the editor filled in, and you choose Save.
- Sidekick cannot delete deals. Delete them from the deals list on the app’s Home page.
- Sidekick picks this app most reliably when you name it: One Stop Volume Discounts.
- One request fits a collection or up to 8 named products. For more products, use a collection.
- From a screenshot, Sidekick copies the tiers, titles, badges, colors, borders and font sizes and styles. Fonts themselves, product images and the exact layout of the other app are not copied.
- When editing a deal, Sidekick changes its tiers, schedule, design, settings and products or collection.
- Save each change before asking for the next one. A change you ask for while the editor still has unsaved changes does not reach the deal; Sidekick tells you to save first.
- Price list and Buy X get Y list take each product’s tiers from its metafield. Sidekick sets the deal type and design.
- Performance covers deals that still exist. Visitors are customers who saw the deal on a product page; checkouts and revenue are orders that included it.
- Creating and editing deals with Sidekick works only in Shopify admin on desktop. In the Shopify mobile app, Sidekick can answer questions about your deals but cannot create or edit them.
- The Sidekick buttons and switches in the app show only when Sidekick is available for your store.