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Home Page Manager

You can find this section under ShopFront Design > Home Page Manager in the IRP Admin left navigation menu.

Home Pages are a critical element of an IRP and they are often one of the first page that a potential customer will see. Merchants can manage their global homepage content to maximise the selling opportunity in each country either by displaying country level best selling products or designing more specific homepage content to appeal to shoppers in each country.

The following types of Home Page Content are available within the IRP for Desktop, Mobile and B2B Trade channels:

  • System Generated: This type of Home Page displays a list of products based Best Sellers.
  • User Generated: This type of Home Page displays content that has been generated by the user and usually includes a mixture of HTML, product scrollers and 3rd party content.

The Home Page Manager screen includes the full list of supported IRP countries plus the Home Page Content assigned to each channel (Desktop, Mobile and Trade), for each country.

By default all countries are assigned System Generated content, but the merchant can easily create User Generated Home Page Content and apply this at the correct channel and country level.

Home Page Manager

The Home Page Manager area includes three functions: Access to Home Page Content and Application Settings, Filters and a Countries LIst and their associated home page content.

'Cog Wheel' Application Settings

If you click the 'cog wheel' icon, you will be redirected to the Home Page Application Settings page where you can configure the following settings:

  • Auto Home Pages Model Min Price: This is the minimum price that a model has to be in order to be included in the Auto Generated Home Pages. Note that this price takes the website's default currency into consideration and any foreign prices will be calculated from the exchange rate for the default currency.
  • Enable Home Page Brands Scroller: If enabled, a Brands scroller will appear on the website's Home Page.
  • Enable Homepage Recommendations Scroller: If enabled, a 'Recommendations' scroller will appear on the website's Home Page.
  • Home Page Display Discount Horizontal: This determines whether to show the discount or saving text horizontally or vertically on product-based Home Pages.

Note that if you make any changes to these settings, you should uncache your system in order to see the changes reflected on your website.

Home Page Settings

Home Page Manager Filters

Filter the Country list by country and/or by content type. The Content Type filter shows the number of countries that have the type of content assigned.

When you make a selection here, click the Filter button to submit your search and display the results in the main grid.

  • Country: Select a country from the drop-down list.
  • Show: Select to view countries that have a least one channel with User Defined or System Generated content.
Home Page Settings

Country Listing

The Country Listing grid displays the full supported list of IRP countries listed in the order of Sales Total in the Last 30 Days, then ordered alphabetically. Each country shows the Home Page Content assigned to each channel - Desktop, Mobile and Trade (if enabled in the Merchants settings).

Home Page Settings

The Merchant can choose to Preview the content of each country channel by selecting the named section under each channel type, or select to Manage the country.

  • Country: This shows the flag and name of each country in the system.
  • Desktop: This shows details of what is configured for the 'Desktop Central' Home Page area and indicates whether the content is user-generated or system-generated.
  • Mobile Site: This shows details of what is configured for the 'Mobile' Home Page area and indicates whether the content is user-generated or system-generated.
  • Trade: This shows details of what is configured for the 'Trade' Home Page area and indicates whether the content is user-generated or system-generated.
  • Sales 30 Days: This shows the total value of sales and the number of sales in that country in the last 30 days.
  • Manage: Click this button to edit the Home Page Content assigned to the country.

Preview Homepage Content

The Preview Homepage Content allows the user to preview the homepage for the selected country. The Preview window displays the homepage content that has been assigned to each country channel.

The user can switch views between Desktop, Mobile and Trade directly in the window and determine if they wish to view the content with or without the full top, bottom and left side navigation.

Select to edit the Home Page Content by selecting the ‘Edit Content’ button. Remember that you are editing the Home Page Content assigned to the country and if this content is assigned to any other countries that they will also be impacted by the change.

  • Country: The selected country being previewed.
  • Channel Selection: Desktop, Mobile or Trade.
  • Show Navigation: Hide or Show navigation
Home Page Settings

Home Page Content

The default home page content is system generated, but users can created their own ‘User Generated Content’ to meet the business and customer requirements for specific countries or groups of countries. User Generated Content can be created directly within a HTML editor and can be a mixture of all the elements and 3rd party content that businesses may need to create.

Home Page Content is created first and then assigned to countries. Navigating to ‘Home Page Content’ displays a list of content and the site type and countries that content is assigned to.

  • ID: The ID of the content
  • Active: The active status of the content
  • Title: The title of the content
  • Site Types: The site type that this content is designed for - Desktop, Mobile and/or Trade. Expand the Site Type using the ‘+’ to view the sire types and associated countries
  • Added By: The person who added the content
  • Date Added: The date the content was added
  • Delete: The ability to select and delete the content in bulk - Be careful if the content is active and used in a country
  • Copy: The ability to quickly copy and make a new version of the content
  • Preview: Displays the Preview window for the content
  • Edit: Edit the content directly in the Editor window
Home Page Settings

Click the Filter button to submit your search and display the content results in the main grid.

  • Free input: Search by Name, TItle or ID.
  • Show: The content by active status - All, InActive, Both
  • Shown in: Filter by country
  • In Use: Filter if the content is active and assigned to a country
Home Page Settings

Manage Home Page Content

As well as system-generated Home Pages, you also manage all user-configured Home Page content using Home Page Content. When adding new content you can:

  • Create and edit the Home Page Content layouts directly in the HTML editor.
  • Assign countries that will use the home page content.
  • Copy the content to create a new version.
Home Page Settings

Home Page Details Tab

  • Content ID: The ID of the content
  • Active: The active status of the content
  • Title: The title of the content
  • Show Title Above Home Page Content: Places the Title of the content above the content when displayed on the home page
  • HTML Content Editor: Allows the user to directly add content in HTML format
  • Copy Home Page Content: Creates a Copy of the Home Page Content
  • Upload files: Allows the user to access the files for images and additional content
  • Add Product List: To add an existing product list or custom scroller select a Product List and Template or create a new product list

Country Targeting Tab

Assign Home Page Content can be assigned to one or more countries by targeting countries to consume that content.

More than one site type can have content assigned in this page. Apply the content to Desktop and/or Mobile and Trade sites but assigning the countries.

Home Page Settings

Home Page SEO Management

You can find this section under PPC & SEO > Home Page SEO Management in the IRP Admin left navigation menu.

Users can set the SEO content for Desktop, Mobile and Trade sites

  • Page Title: The Title of the page
  • Page Description: Select the language and description
  • Page Keywords: The keywords that can be used in search engines to find the page

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How do I get a language-specific message to appear on a country-specific home page?
You can do this using the Languages section of IRP Admin by editing the ‘Welcome Message’ setting. This will appear in the top-centre of your home page.
Where do I update the SEO description and title of my home page?

You configure the default SEO (Title, Description and Keywords) for your home page by using the 'Home Page SEO' section as described above (and by using Small Translations, for example IDs 617 and 618). However if you have defined one particular Department as your default Department (see below for instructions), the SEO that you have configured for your Department pages (on the SEO tab of the CategoriesEdit.aspx page and in the Overrides section of the Home Page SEO tab) will replace the SEO in your Small Translations.

You can define a Department (and a Category) as the default one as follows:

  1. Go to Products > Categories in the IRP Admin left navigation menu. This takes you to the Categories.aspx page.
  2. Click the Other Actions button at the top of the screen.
  3. Select a Default Department and a Default Category using the drop-down lists.
  4. Click the Update Default Department And Category button.
  5. Now when a customer first lands on your website they will see the Department that you have set as default. Also the Product Options Bar (just below the top navigation tabs) will show the Category that you have set as the default. In addition, as the customer clicks the Departments in your top or left navigation, the title bar on their web browser will change to show the Department-specific SEO that you have configured on the CategoriesEdit.aspx page. Likewise, search engine results will display your Department-specific SEO Descriptions below the URLs of your pages.

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