This guide helps you modify, publish, or create your engagement strategies.
1. Status
Each engagement strategy displays a status that indicates its current state. 5 statuses are possible:
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🟢 Online: the strategy is active and visible to your visitors on your site.
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🟠 To be configured: the strategy is incomplete and requires action on your part before being published. Check the configuration by clicking on the 3 dots > Edit to identify missing elements.
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⚪ Offline: the strategy is complete but inactive. It is not visible to your visitors on your site. You can publish it by clicking on the 3 dots > Put online.
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🟠 Not displaying: the strategy is online but its AI Shopping Assistant is inactive, so the widget is not displayed to visitors.
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🔴 Unsupported: the strategy runs a legacy action that this interface cannot display. Contact support to change it.
To modify the status of your strategy, click on the 3 dots > Switch to online or Switch to offline.
Click Add a filter to find a strategy by page type, status, widget or AI Shopping Assistant. You can also look it up by name in the Search by name field.
2. Create a strategy
- Go to the Engagement tab
- Click on Create strategy
Widget and conditions
You are arriving on this page
- Name your strategy
- Choose the page type
- Select the devices on which your widget will be displayed
- Select a widget (this article presents our different widgets)
- Select the AI Shopping Assistant that will answer the visitors engaged by this strategy. This field is required to save and to publish. If the selected Assistant is inactive, the widget is not displayed.
This table presents compatible widgets based on page type and device
★ = Recommended widget
| Page type | 🖥️📱 Desktop and mobile | 🖥️ Desktop | 📱 Mobile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sitewide |
★ Embedded Conversation Starters Floating Conversation Starters Classic (and Badge on mobile) Messaging (and Badge on mobile) Custom button |
★ Embedded Conversation Starters Floating Conversation Starters Smart banner Classic Messaging Custom button |
★ Embedded Conversation Starters Floating Conversation Starters Badge Custom button |
| Home page |
★ Floating Conversation Starters Embedded Conversation Starters Classic (and Badge on mobile) Messaging (and Badge on mobile) Custom button |
★ Floating Conversation Starters ★ Smart banner Embedded Conversation Starters Classic Messaging Custom button |
★ Floating Conversation Starters Embedded Conversation Starters ★ Badge Custom button |
| Search results |
★ Floating Conversation Starters ★ Embedded Conversation Starters Classic (desktop / Badge on mobile) Messaging (desktop / Badge on mobile) Custom button |
★ Floating Conversation Starters ★ Embedded Conversation Starters ★ Smart banner Classic Messaging Custom button |
★ Floating Conversation Starters ★ Embedded Conversation Starters ★ Badge Custom button |
| Category page |
★ Floating Conversation Starters ★ Embedded Conversation Starters Classic (and Badge on mobile) Messaging (and Badge on mobile) Custom button |
★ Floating Conversation Starters ★ Embedded Conversation Starters ★ Smart banner Classic Messaging Custom button |
★ Floating Conversation Starters ★ Embedded Conversation Starters ★ Badge Custom button |
| Product page |
★ Embedded Conversation Starters Floating Conversation Starters Classic (and Badge on mobile) Messaging (and Badge on mobile) Custom button |
★ Embedded Conversation Starters Floating Conversation Starters Classic Messaging Custom button |
★ Embedded Conversation Starters Floating Conversation Starters Badge Custom button |
| Purchase funnel | ★ Embedded Conversation Starters | ★ Embedded Conversation Starters | ★ Embedded Conversation Starters |
| Other page |
★ Floating Conversation Starters Embedded Conversation Starters Classic (desktop / Badge on mobile) Messaging (desktop / Badge on mobile) Custom button |
★ Floating Conversation Starters ★ Smart banner Embedded Conversation Starters Classic Messaging Custom button |
★ Floating Conversation Starters Embedded Conversation Starters ★ Badge Custom button |
- If needed, add conditions to personalize the display of your widget.
Conditions are cumulative ("AND" logic).
product_id of the viewed product be referenced in your knowledge (product catalog).
- Restrict your catalog so that it only contains the products on which you want to engage a conversation.
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Add conditions to your engagement strategies (based on the
product_idor URL, for example).
Style
In the second tab, customize the style.
For example, for the Conversation Starters widget:
- Icon display and color
- Title color (Header)
- Starters colors
- Optional : starters hover state
- Fonts (choice of Google Font or your site's font)
In advanced settings:
- Corner rounding (if you want rather round or square edges)
- Title size
- Starter size
Installing the iAdvize tag is essential to test on your site by clicking on "Test on my site".
Content
On the third tab, define the content displayed by your widget.
For example, for the Conversation Starters widget:
- Product catalog, on Product and Category pages: required to generate your starters with AI
- Hook title, displayed above your starters (80 characters max)
- Number of starters displayed: up to 5 on desktop and 4 on mobile (3 for floating Conversation Starters).
- Type of starters:
AI Question or
Manual Question. AI questions are only available on Product and Category pages: on other page types, write your starters yourself.
- Input placeholder label
In the advanced settings, you can define a list of forbidden words or expressions that you do not want to appear in your Conversation Starters. They only concern your Conversation Starters and not your Assistant's responses.
Enter one word or expression per line.
This list is tied to the selected product catalog: it will apply to every strategy that uses this catalog.
Language
If you want to translate your widget content into another language:
- Add the following at the end of your URL:
?iAdvizeLanguage=EN
EN with the desired language — for example FR for French, DE for German, etc.
Position
- Choose the position of your widget (several possibilities depending on the type of widget chosen)
For embedded Conversation Starters, you can :
-Click on "Pick an element on the page" then select an element from your site
If you use a consent banner, make sure you have accepted cookies before starting the selection.
- or paste an HTML element directly manually.
- If needed, adjust the margins
- If this is a Desktop & Mobile strategy, you can customize the mobile position by checking the option at the bottom of the page.
- prefer a stable
id(for example#add-to-cart) and avoidnth-childselectors or automatically generated classes; - the “Pick an element on the page” button can produce this kind of selector: review the selector you get and replace it with an
idif possible; - test it on your page, in the browser console:
document.querySelector('your-selector')must return the right element. The widget is placed on the first element found; - the element must be present no later than one second after the strategy is triggered: an element loaded later prevents the display;
- after a redesign or a release of your website, check your selectors. If a selector no longer finds its element, iAdvize warns you: the alert Some conversation starters are not displaying appears in the notification center and at the top of the strategy list, and the Position tab of the strategy shows “This widget has a low display rate”. See Your Administration Alerts.
Test on my website
The "Test on my website" function at the top right in the preview allows you to preview your widgets directly on your site.
If you don't see your site display or if you cannot select an element:
Verify that the iAdvize tag is properly installed on this page
Make sure iAdvize cookies are accepted on the site.
If your site conditions the loading of the iAdvize tag on cookie acceptance (via a consent banner), the element selection interface will not be displayed until cookies have been accepted. Accept cookies directly from your site's banner before using this feature.
Save / Publish
After completing your configurations, you can according to your needs:
- Save: your strategy is saved without going live. It stays Offline (or To be configured if it is incomplete) and you can publish it later.
- Publish: your strategy goes live and is visible to your visitors, provided its AI Shopping Assistant is active.
If your strategy is already online, only one button is available: Save and publish. Your changes are then visible immediately.