Promotion Boxes You can include promotion boxes on various pages throughout your store. These flexible, customizable displays highlight featured items, announce specials, or provide alternative ways for buyers to browse in your store. How to create promotion boxes There are two ways to create and manage promotion boxes in your store: Quick setup For your convenience, you can use predesigned promotion boxes that will appear on all of your store category pages. This is a quick way for you to learn about promotion boxes and set them up throughout your store. To use quick setup: Go to My eBay and sign in if required. Click the "Manage My Store" link in the left navigation. Click the "Promotional Boxes" link in the left navigation. Click the "Guided Setup" link.
Creating and managing promotion boxes Promotion boxes are grouped according to the type of page on which they appear. You can duplicate existing promotion boxes, delete promotion boxes permanently, or make promotion boxes inactive. Inactive promotion boxes are saved for future use whenever you specify a location for them. To create promotion boxes: Go to My eBay and sign in if required. Click the "Manage My Store" link in the left navigation. Click the "Promotional Boxes" link in the left navigation. Click the Create New Promotion Box button.
Promotion box names When you create a promotion box, you need to give it a unique name. This name is not visible to buyers. It's simply to help you keep track of your promotion boxes. Promotion box colors The default colors for promotion boxes are based on the colors you selected for your store theme. You can customize your store colors. Note: To insert a promotion box on a custom page, select a promotion box layout when you create the page. Promotion box placement Near the top of each store page (below the header and above the item list) Two promotion boxes can appear side by side, or the boxes can be combined and used as a single, extra-wide promotion box. If you use store categories or custom pages, you can display different promotion boxes on each of your category pages and custom page. Any box you use for a specific category will also be used for all categories below it unless you specify a different promotion box for those categories. If you use eBay categories instead of your store categories, the same box or boxes appear on every eBay category page. Below the left navigation bar Two promotion boxes—an upper and a lower—can appear in this area. You can customize those that appear in the left navigation bar at an individual page level. However, any promotion box settings automatically carry down to all category pages organized below a higher level category, unless you specify different promotion boxes for the lower level category pages. Promotion box types Type | Description |
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Advertise specific items | Use this type to feature one or more of your store items. You can feature items that are newly listed or ending soon. Either choose items manually or let eBay feature your items automatically. Display items using one of these view types: Gallery view - One listing link that appears with an item title and picture List view - Two listing titles that link to views of the items Countdown- Animated countdown that creates excitement for auction-style and fixed price listings Filmstrip - Pictures of several items that rotate continuously Item Showcase - One to four items that appear as large gallery images in a single extra-wide promotion box
| Provide links to other parts of your store | Use this type to give buyers alternative ways to find items in your store. Custom links can point to a store category, a custom page within your store, another eBay web page, or custom search results. You can also include clickable graphics or pictures that provide access to these other pages. Choose among predesigned graphics or provide your own. Graphics that don't fit the standard dimensions in a location will be resized to fit. | Design your own promotion box | Use this type to customize your own promotion box to display the information of your choice, such as shipping and payment information, links to your email newsletter signup page, or other useful information. You can also create a unique promotion box by using our HTML. |
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