Tutorial

What is Price Watcher

Video tutorial

Price Watcher is a specially designed app for Shopify. It adds a form to your product page, allowing customers to subscribe to price drops or increases. They will receive notifications when the price matches their price condition.

All subscriptions and notifications can be tracked through the app’s dashboard, giving insights into customer behavior and product demand. You can analyze watchers data with reports, identify popular products, and create personalized discounts to drive sales.

The following tutorial will walk you through the key steps of using the app.

1. Installation

Install Price Watcher via the Shopify App Store from Price Watcher listing page.

2. Integrate to your theme

Install the storefront widget either automatically or manually.

With auto-installation, Price Watcher widget will be added to your product page automatically.

In manual mode, you need to add it yourself in the theme settings.

3. Widget customization

The widget is fully customizable to match your brand.

Сhoose how to display the block – as an inline block, popup, slider or dropdown. Additionally, adjust text and button size, as well as colors.

Display widget for subscribe only to price increases, only to price decreases, or to both changes.

4. Collect price watchers

Now, when customers visit a product page, they see Price Watcher widget to subscribe to price changes.

If the price seems too high, they can subscribe for a price drop. Subscribing to a price increase can encourage them to make a purchase before the price goes up further.

5. Data gathering and analysis

App collects all price watchers and displays them in the admin panel, providing detailed reports and allowing for custom filtering to manage and analyze subscriptions effectively.

Home page provides useful insights, including the total number of watchers, offered discounts, and the most popular products.

6. Price watchers list

Watchers list lets you search and filter by date, relevance, status, and more.

When you search or filter your watchers, you can save a custom list to use again later.

7. Single watcher page

This page displays detailed information about a specific price watcher and offered discounts.

It also includes a table showing all price watchers of this customer and all other price watchers for this product.

Changing price

On watcher page, you can adjust product price to meet customer's price condition.

Offer discount

On watcher page, you can also create a discount.

App automatically suggests a percentage that can reduce the price to meet customer's price condition.

When you create a discount code, you can configure the dates for which the code is valid. All created discounts are integrated with default Shopify discounts.

8. Discounts list

Discounts list allows you to search or filter discounts by various criteria, such as date, relevance, status, and more.

When you search or filter your discounts, you can save custom list to use it again later.

9. Email notifications

Customers receive notifications to their email address.

If discount or price meets their price condition, they are more likely to return to your store.

This will increase conversion rates and can boost your revenue.

Use cases

Check out use cases that show how Price Watcher can help you improve conversions and increase sales.

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