You can find this section under ShopFront Design > Home Page Manager in the IRP Admin left navigation menu.
IRP's international support sets it apart from other eCommerce Platforms. Merchants can sell to any country in the world in seconds. It's easy to customise a country storefront with our prebuilt templates and No-HTML page editor.
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:
- AI 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 AI 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 the abilty to select 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:
- Best Seller Homepages - 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.
- Discount Displayed Horizontally: Determines whether Discount / Saving text on Product based Homepages (like System Generated Best Sellers or Custom Product Lists) is displayed vertically or horizontally.
- Enable Brands Scrollers: If enabled, a Brands scroller will appear on the website's Home Page.
- Enable Recommendations Scroller: If enabled, a 'Recommendations' scroller will appear on the website's Home Page.
- Force BeeFree Content to Full Width: BeeFree Content has a maximum width of 1440px however, if set to true, this will force the BeeFree Homepage Content to stretch the full width of the screen. Please note, this setting is only applicable when your website is set to be a full width site in css, otherwise, the content will only be scalable to .main-content .center-cell in your Homepage's css markup.
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 Manager Filters
Filter the Country list by country and/or by homepage type. The Homepage 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.
- Homepage: Select to view countries that have a least one channel with User Defined or AI Generated content.
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).
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.
- Mobile Homepage: This shows details of what is configured for the 'Mobile' Home Page area and indicates whether the content is user generated or AI generated.
- Desktop Homepage: This shows details of what is configured for the 'Desktop Central' Home Page area and indicates whether the content is user generated or AI generated.
- Trade Homepage: This shows details of what is configured for the 'Trade' Home Page area and indicates whether the content is user generated or AIg enerated.
- Sales 30 Days: This shows the total value of sales and the number of sales in that country in the last 30 days.
- Select Homepage: Click this button to view and change 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’ button. Remember that you are editing the Home Page Content assigned to the country and if this content is targeted to any other countries that they will also be impacted by the change.
- Country: The selected country being previewed.
- Language: The language for the selected country.
- Channel Selection: Desktop, Mobile or Trade.
- Edit: Edit the select homepage content in the Homepage Editor
Home Page Content
The default home page content is AI 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.
Select Homepages
Each country row in the Homepage Manager has option to 'Select Homepages'. This allows the Merchant to view and target homepages for the selected country directly within the Homepage Manager. Targeting for multiple countries is managed at a wider level in the 'Homepage Library & Targeting' page.
Merchants can view if the currently selected content is user generated or AI generated. They can select to change the homepage assigned for each channel from a list of user generated or AI generated pages. User and AI generated pages are indicated above the homepage image.
When a selection has been changed the user must 'Save the Selection' and Uncache the application to view the change on the live site.
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
