Display Products on your Homepage

The purpose of the homepage is to direct and maintain a customer's 'buying momentum' - to maintain the micro-actions the viewer takes in their journey, ideally leading to a bigger action (like a purchase).  

Displaying products - and/or groups, brands, categories, and other special categories - on your homepage helps customers to understand the scope of your business, navigate users, and drive sales. 

In brief, to display products on your homepage, you will need to: 

1. Open your storefront
2. Configure the product display settings
3. Save! Done.

This article will help you to show off your products on your homepage. 

For a quick overview, check out our tutorial video about it on  our YouTube channel:

1. Open your storefront

From your ShopRoller account, click on SHOP in the top left-hand corner to see your storefront.

On your storefront homepage, you will see rows with a settings icon (cogwheel): 

This is where you can add products - and text content - to display for your customers. Click the icon in the row you wish to set, to bring up the display settings. 

2. Configure your product display settings 

Select the settings icon of the product display you would like to configure.

2.1 New Products

Nice and simple display options for your new products:

• Show: Select YES if you would like your customers to see this block.
• Number  of products to display: How many products should be shown on your storefront? 
• Show "view more" link: Select YES if you would like to enable customers to see more products from the selected group. 
 

2.2 Products on Sale

It has been found that most online shoppers wait to buy a product till it goes on sale. Do these discount hunters a favour and display your discounted products on your homepage!

• Show: Select YES if you would like your customers to see this block.
• Number  of products to display: How many products should be shown on your storefront? 
• Show "view more" link: Select YES if you would like to enable customers to see more products from the selected group. 
• "Kuva ainult laos olevaid tooteid": This means "Only display products which are in stock" - select yes or no
• "Kuvatavate tooteid juhuslikus järjekorras": This means "Display products in random order" 

2.3 Product Group Display Settings 

NB! "Tootegrupp" means "Product Group" - we will update it ASAP! 

• Show: Select YES if you would like your customers to see this block.
• Block title: Type the title you would like your customers to see, such as "Daily deals", "Most Popular", etc.
• Product group: Select the product group you would like to display
• Number of products to display: How many products should be shown on your storefront? 
• Show "view more" link: Select YES if you would like to enable customers to see more products from the selected group. 

Congratulations! You now have products displayed on your storefront. 

FAQs

Here are some frequently asked questions about this topic. 

I cannot see my "On Sale" products on my homepage. What do I do?

Step 1: Check the "Number of Products Displayed" settings

1. Go to your storefront view
2. Scroll to "Soodustooted" ("Discount Products") and click the gearwheel to open the settings
3. Confirm that you have written your desired "number of products to display" - how many products should be shown?

If you have added 5 discount products, but have selected that only 3 discount products are displayed, then only 3 out of the 5 will display. 

Did that solve your problem? 

If yes, awesome! Update your settings as required and save. 
If not, read on :)

Step 2: Did the Discount Products save correctly?

1. Go to the admin view of your account
2. In the left-column menu, select "Catalog" and "Products" to view all of your products
3. Using the right-column filter, find "Promotional Product" and select "Yes" to view your discount products. 
4. Confirm that there are the correct amount of products with discounts.

Did that solve your problem?

If you have found that you're missing some discount products, go ahead and add them. Solved! 
You can learn how to add products here, and learn how to add discounts here. 

If you have found that the discounted products are correctly shown in this list, keep reading :)

Step 3: Are you promoting Matrix Products?

If you are offering discount Matrix products (those products which have variations, such as size or colour), then it might not be displayed on your homepage because of some missing settings.

1. Go to the admin view of your account
2. In the left-column menu, select "Catalog" and "Products" to view all of your products
3. Click on a discount matrix product to view the product card: On this product card displayed, we can see that a "discount without VAT" has been added. However, since it is a Matrix Product, we have to check that the individual products have also had the discount added.
4. Click "combinations" in the product card menu to view your matrix product variations, and confirm whether a discount has been added:As seen in the image above, this matrix product did not have "discount without VAT" indicated per product variant. Since product variants are considered as individual products, each will require a discount rule included here. 

Did that solve your problem? 

If yes, awesome! Update your settings as required and save. 
If not, send us an email (including screenshots) about your situation, and we will help to figure it out!