Customizable Product Carousel Tutorial

Overview

Custom product carousels let you create featured product sections in your mobile app with eye-catching promotional banners displayed above them. This is a powerful marketing tool that allows you to highlight specific products, run limited-time promotions, and schedule daily deals that automatically appear and disappear based on the day of the week.

Customers scrolling through your app will see these carousels prominently displayed, making it easy to draw attention to whatever products or deals you want to promote.

Part 1: Understanding Your Collections

Open your admin panel and navigate to the Collections tab. This is where you'll manage which products appear in your promotional carousels. You'll see 8 different collections available to you:

Anytime Customizable Collection - This collection is designed for promotions that last more than one day or that you want to run continuously. Any products you add to this collection will remain visible in the app until you manually remove them. This is perfect for ongoing deals like "10% off all Cookies products," seasonal promotions, new product launches, or any featured items you want to highlight for an extended period without having to manually update the app each day.

Monday through Sunday Customizable Collections - These seven collections are organized by day of the week. Each one corresponds to a specific day and will only display products on that particular day. For example, if you add products to the Monday Customizable Collection, those products will only appear in a carousel on Mondays. On Tuesday through Sunday, that carousel won't show up at all. This is ideal for running daily specials like "Medical Mondays," "Flower Fridays," or "Concentrate Tuesdays" where you want different deals on different days without any manual work once you've set it up.

Part 2: Adding Products to a Collection

This is where you'll actually build out your promotional carousels by selecting which products should appear in them.

Step 1: First, decide whether your promotion is ongoing or day-specific. Ask yourself: will this deal run for multiple days in a row, or is it a special that only happens on one specific day of the week? If it's ongoing or multi-day, you'll use the Anytime Customizable Collection. If it's a daily special that should only appear on certain days, pick the matching day-of-week collection (like Tuesday Customizable Collection for a Tuesday-only deal).

Step 2: Click into your chosen collection. The interface will show you any products currently in that collection, and you'll see options to add new products.

Step 3: Add the products you want to feature in this promotion. Browse through your product catalog and select the items that are part of this deal. You can add as many products as you'd like - there's no limit. The products will appear in a horizontal scrollable carousel in the app, so customers can swipe through all the options you've selected.

Step 4: Save your changes. Once saved, these products will now appear as a carousel in your mobile app according to the schedule of the collection you chose. If you used Anytime Customizable Collection, the carousel appears immediately and stays visible. If you used a day-specific collection, the carousel will only appear on that day of the week.

Part 3: Adding Banners to Your Carousels

Now that you have products in a carousel, you want to add a banner image above it to grab customer attention and clearly communicate what the promotion is about. Without a banner, customers may not understand why these products are grouped together.

Step 1: Create your banner image outside the admin panel using design software like Canva, Photoshop, or whatever tools you prefer. Your banner should clearly communicate the promotion with text and graphics. Examples: "10% Off All Cookies Products," "Medical Monday - 20% Off for Medical Patients," "New Arrivals - Check Out Our Latest Products." Make sure the banner fits your brand's style and is sized appropriately for mobile displays, using our in-app content guidelines.

Step 2: Go to the App Sections area in your admin panel. This is where you manage various visual elements that appear in your app.

Step 3: You'll see two carousel banner sections here. Choose which one to use based on your promotion type:

• Anytime Carousel Banner - Use this for ongoing promotions that match your Anytime Customizable Collection. Whatever banner you upload here will display above the Anytime product carousel continuously until you change it.
• Scheduled Carousel Banner - Use this for day-specific promotions that match your day-of-week collections. This section allows you to schedule when the banner appears, so it only shows up on the days you've chosen.

Step 4: Upload your banner image to the appropriate section. Click the upload button and select the image file you created in Step 1.

Step 5: If you're using the Scheduled Carousel Banner, you'll need to schedule which day or days the banner should appear. Select the day of the week that matches the collection you added products to earlier. For example, if you added products to Tuesday Customizable Collection, set the banner to display on Tuesdays. The scheduling interface will let you select one or multiple days if you want the same banner to appear on different days.

Step 6: Save your changes. Your banner is now uploaded and scheduled. It will automatically appear above your product carousel according to the schedule you set.

Complete Example: Setting Up a Tuesday Flower Special

Let's walk through a complete real-world example from start to finish. You want to run a promotion every Tuesday where all flower products are 15% off.

Step 1: Open your admin panel and go to Collections. Click into the Tuesday Customizable Collection since this is a Tuesday-only deal.

Step 2: Browse through your product catalog and add all the flower products you want to include in this promotion. Maybe you're featuring 10 different flower strains. Select all 10 and add them to the Tuesday collection. These products will now appear in a scrollable carousel, but only on Tuesdays.

Step 3: Now you need to create a banner image that advertises this deal. Open Canva or your preferred design tool and create a banner that says "Flower Tuesday - 15% Off All Flower" with your dispensary's logo and branding. Make it visually appealing and easy to read on a phone screen.

Step 4: Go to App Sections in your admin panel and click into the Scheduled Carousel Banner section.

Step 5: Upload the banner image you just created. Click the upload button and select your "Flower Tuesday" banner file.

Step 6: Set the schedule to display this banner on Tuesdays only. The scheduling interface will show you days of the week - check the box for Tuesday.

Step 7: Save your changes. You're done! Now, every Tuesday when customers open your app, they'll see your "Flower Tuesday - 15% Off All Flower" banner at the top of the screen with a scrollable carousel of all 10 flower products you selected displayed right below it. On Wednesday through Monday, this banner and carousel won't appear at all. On the following Tuesday, it automatically appears again without you having to do anything.

How to Manage Your Promotions

Once your carousels and banners are set up, you'll need to know how to manage them over time. Here are the most common tasks:

To end a promotion early: Let's say you ran out of inventory for your Tuesday flower deal and need to end it before next Tuesday. Simply go to Collections, click into Tuesday Customizable Collection, and remove all the products from it. Additionally, go to the App Sections, and to the Scheduled Carousel Banner and remove the Tuesday banner. Once the collection is empty, the carousel will disappear from the app.

To extend a daily deal to run longer: Maybe your Tuesday flower special was so successful you want to run it all week. Go to the Tuesday Customizable Collection, note which products are in it, then go to the Anytime Customizable Collection and add those same products there. Remove them from the Tuesday collection. Then go to App Sections and move your banner from Scheduled Carousel Banner to Anytime Carousel Banner. Now the deal runs every day instead of just Tuesdays.

To prep multiple days ahead of time: You can set up an entire week of different daily deals without having to manually update the app each day. Just add products to Monday Customizable Collection, Tuesday Customizable Collection, Wednesday Customizable Collection, and so on. Upload different scheduled banners for each day. Everything will automatically appear on the correct day without any additional work from you.

To change products mid-promotion: If you want to add or remove products from an active carousel, just go into the collection and make your changes. They'll update in the app immediately. For example, if one of your Tuesday flower products was mistakenly added, remove it from the Tuesday collection and it will disappear from the carousel.

You're Done!

Your custom product carousels and banners are now set up and working in your mobile app. Customers will see your featured products with eye-catching banners that clearly explain your promotions and deals.

You can update collections and banners anytime you want to keep your app fresh, rotate deals, and drive sales on specific products. This is one of the most effective tools you have for marketing through your mobile app, so use it strategically to highlight high-margin products, move excess inventory, or create urgency with limited-time offers.