Quick Guide: Create, configure and deploy your Limio Shop

Limio Shop is integrated with the APIs of the Limio Subscription Commerce platform. The Shop can be directly configured and deployed from the Limio app. This short guide explains how to create, configure, and update your shop.

Where is my shop?

When you create a Limio account, it will be set up on the following sub-domain: https://yourdomain.prod.limio.com. Your shop will automatically be available at https://yourdomain-shop.prod.limio.com.

To add your shop to your own domain such as www.yourdomain.com, you will need to add your Limio domain as a CNAME record. Limio will then generate an SSL certificate. Please contact [e-mail] for assistance.

How do I create the first page for my shop?

Pages of your Limio Shop are setup via Campaigns. To create your first page, follow these steps:

Step 1. Create a campaign

Click on '(+) Add Campaign'. Give the campaign a name, select a template (CampaignBase by default), then add a Tag (which will be your shop's URL). Other key fields you can configure are:

• Meta Title: This text will appear in the browser thumbnail, for example, 'Limio Shop'
• Meta Description: This text will appear on search engines like Google, for example, 'Limio helps you to create and scale subscription shops'.
• Primary Color: This colour will set the checkout buttons colour. Use your main brand colour.
• Font Family: The font to use for the page (you can always override this later).

Step 2. Create offers

If it's a commerce page, i.e. a page where you display your subscriptions for sale, you should first add Offers on the Campaign. Go to the Campaign and click '(+) Add Offers'.

For the purpose of your shop, here are the key fields to configure:

• Display Name: This is how the Offer will be displayed to the customer on the Limio Shop. It's also visible on the Checkout, Manage My Account and Emails.
• CTA: This is the CTA displayed to the customer on the Offer component.
• Offer Features: This is the list of features displayed to the customer on the Offer component.
• Display Price: This is the price displayed to the customer on the Offer component.
• Display Detailed Price: This is the fine print of the price displayed to the customer on the Offer component.
• Payment Types: These are the payment methods available for an offer and displayed to the customer on the Limio Shop Checkout, such as Credit Card, Direct Debit, Apple Pay / Google Pay, or PayPal.
  
  • PayPal is only available for one-off products.
• Products: The physical product, digital service or entitlements that the customer is purchasing.
  • If your product has 'Has Delivery?' set to True, the Limio Shop Checkout will ask for a delivery address
• This Is A Gift: Set this to true if this is a gift so that it will trigger the gift flow in the Limio Shop Checkout.
  

Go to 'How to configure a Subscription Offer to learn more about how to configure offers.

Step 3.  Create your Page on the Campaign's Page Builder

Now, you are ready to create the visual elements of your campaign. We'll assume you are using the standard Limio Components (which you can preview here) but you can always create your own components and create a custom shop - read our Component Guide to get you started. 

Go to your Campaign and click Page. You can search for the following components and drag & drop them on the page:

• Header with Navigation: A header with a logo on the left and links on the right
• Hero Banner: A large hero with a background image and text.
• Offers: A display grid of the offers from step 2.
• Features: A display of images and text in columns
• FAQ Banner: A collapsible carousel for FAQs.
• Carousel: A carousel of images
• Footer: A configurable footer with internal and external links

Step 4.  Deploy your page

To deploy your page to the shop, you'll first need to save any changes by clicking Save in the top right corner of the page. 

Once you have saved, the page builder requires 2-3 minutes of set-up time before the page is configured. After this is done, click on Builds and you will be given two options:

1. You can view a preview of your page before deploying it live. To find out more about testing your page and previewing builds, read our tutorial on testing.

2. You can publish the page live and it will then be available at https://yourdomain.prod.limio.com/tag.  🎉

FAQ

How do I set up the home page?

All URLs to your shop are setup via Tags. Your home page is controlled with the Default tag. A campaign with the Default tag will show on https://yourdomain-shop.prod.limio.com/.

How can I control the general settings of my page like SEO, fonts and colours?

General settings for your page are handled on the Campaign's Attributes. Here you can set up the following:

• Meta Title and Meta Description: These are for SEOs and will be visible on search engines and browser's thumbnails.
• Primary Colour: This determine the colour of the Basket and Checkout buttons.
• Font Size and Font Family: Font size sets the general relative size of fonts of the page (see this handy CSS playground). Font family sets the general font of the page. Both can be overridden in your components.

How can I connect my Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel?

Read our full guide on connecting third-party analytical software here. 

How can I add a custom favicon, my terms & conditions, and my shop name?

Go to your account by clicking on the top-right corner, go to Developer, then 'General Settings', then click on 'General Settings' > 'Shop'. Add the Favicon URL, which can be an asset stored in Limio or an external link.

Want to control some other behaviour of the page? Want a component to be more configurable? Do get in touch at [e-mail], we always love to hear about new suggestions!