5 Top Announcements Apps on Shopify Store

Shopify is an incredibly popular platform for developing online stores.

Shopify is one of the eCommerce platforms that you can use to build your store either online or offline. Most bloggers use WordPress and the store owners use Shopify. It allows them to sell both online with their own websites and/or in person with a Shopify POS.

This eCommerce store builder has a lot of features for everyone from beginners to eCommerce experts Merchants.

The opt-in functionalities maybe are enough to start selling online, but integrating some more dedicated apps is where you can make a difference. Shopify App Store contains a lot of options to let all merchants adjust a site to suit their needs.

Today, we are gonna talk about Announcements/bars applications.

Let’s start.

This huge number of apps on the App store, may cause some confusion for the store owners to decide which app will fit their needs.

We gonna pick some of the top apps to build an announcement or Free Shipping bars for your stores.

Announcify - One-Click Announce

Price: Free
App Store Link: HERE

Built by Scartify Team, allows you to add & customize your announcements/bars (Free Shipping Bar, Timer Countdown Bar, Top Bar, Announcements, forms, and more) the way you want, with their Announcements Builder you can customize it easily & quickly with the Drag & Drop feature on their builder.

You can animate all your announcements elements & also the whole bar.
You can position your announcements wherever you want on the page top/bottom even in a custom position inside a page/section.

The best part is that you can schedule your announcements to display them at a certain date, you can schedule your events for the whole year and just forget about it, the app will do the rest.

Also, they have a branch of ready templates so you can use them, just pick a template update the text if needed & publish and boom your announcement is live. You can check their Demo here, Store Password: “announcify”

Smart Bar Promotion Banner

Prices: Free, $4.99/month
App Store Link: HERE

Built by qikify, allows you to create your announcement based on the type you want, some of their features are free but there are some others you need to upgrade your plan to use them.

Has a nice interface, and you can re-order your elements but doesn’t give you full control over announcement content to move them around as you want.

You can position your announcements wherever you want on the page top/bottom and even in custom positions.

You can check their demo here.

Quick Announcement Bar

Prices: Free, $9.99/month
App Store Link: HERE

Built by hextom, an easy app to build announcements, you can choose from their ready backgrounds, some of their features are free but there are some others you need to upgrade your plan to use them.

What is new in this app is that you can translate your Announcement bars into multiple languages, reach a global market and increase sales.

• Geo-targeting, set bars to only display to visitors from selected countries
• Display Page targeting, configure bars to only display on certain pages, such as all pages, home page only, collection or product pages, or any pages by giving the URLs.

Multi Announcement Bar

Prices: Free, $4.99/month
App Store Link: HERE

Built by Webrex Studio, an easy app to build basic announcements, you can choose from their ready backgrounds, some of their features are free but there are some others you need to upgrade your plan to use them.

What distinguishes is that you can create multiple announcements so they can rotate after a certain time/refresh.

You can also display your announcements based on some conditions like:

• When the user's first-time visit.
• When the user adds an item to the cart $20
• When the cart value is greater than $100

Has a nice interface, and you can re-order your elements but doesn’t give you full control over announcement content to move them around as you want.

You can position your announcements wherever you want on the page top/bottom and even in custom positions.

You can check their demo here.

Announcement Bar Maker

Prices: Free, $5.99/month, $9.99/month
App Store Link: HERE

Built by Apphero after that AppHero has been acquired by Fuse Powered Inc, some of their features are free but there are some others you need to upgrade your plan to use them. you can create only an Announcement Bar for free, but you need to upgrade to plus if you want to use Multi Announcements Bar, Free Shipping Bar, or Countdown Timer Bar.

This app allows you to do Geo-targeting, Subdomain Targeting, Device Targeting, Page Targeting, and User Source Targeting, but you need to be on a pro plan to do that.

For the free plan, you have 1,500 Average Impressions/Month, plus you have 10,000 Average Impressions/Month, but you can get Unlimited Impressions if you are on the Pro plan.

The problem with this app is you can’t really customize & control your announcement elements, you can’t control the display as you want.

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