Tapcart Drops is currently available to all Tapcart Enterprise merchants. Drops empower you to prepare new versions of your app layout and schedule it for launch ahead of time. This can be useful if you modify the design assets of your brand consistently or have a marketing campaign for a product release or new collection drop.
In this lesson:
We will review how you can create and schedule a drop!
How you can preview a draft, scheduled, live and past drop.
Learn our best practices when creating/scheduling a drop.
Steps
Navigate to your Tapcart Dashboard
Select ‘Automation’
You can select ‘Start from Blank Layout’ or ‘Start from Current Layout
Once you have chosen to start from scratch or build off your existing layout, you will be taken back to the design dashboard to add your new assets
Important Note - After switching to the drops dashboard you can accomplish the following:
View a real-time preview of your app
See your live and scheduled drops
Edit your app theme and menu
Show the overlay to directly edit the live drop
Drag and drop products and collections using the block library on the left-hand side
After you have made your design changes, you can schedule your drop by toggling on the ‘Schedule Your Drop?’ button on the top left corner
From here you can rename and schedule your drop
Once you have chosen a release time and day, select ‘Save & Update’ to complete your drop creation
Drop Previews
From the 'Automation' section within your dashboard, you can preview draft, scheduled, live, and/or past drops using our built-in previewer. To do this, simply over the drop, and in the top right corner you'll see a 'Preview Your Drop' option. Once you tap on the icon you'll be able to preview your app design from the Tapcart previewer.
Considerations
You can always set your drop as instantly live, by clicking into the top right corner of the scheduler and selecting ‘Go Live’. You can also clone your drop through this drop-down menu as well! Or clone your drop from the ‘Automation’ tab by clicking on the ellipses under the drop you wish to clone.
Keep in mind that once you begin using drops, your app will be fully managed by the drops system. For example, if you are modifying your current drop, then you are making changes to your live app or if you are modifying a drop that is not published yet, you must either schedule it or make sure that you set it live manually.
Important
Theme, Menu, Collections Menu, and App settings are not controlled by Drops
50 max drops are shown on the Automations tab
You cannot delete past drops
More Questions
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If you have additional questions with drops, we’re happy to help! Please reach out to us through LiveChat in your Tapcart Dashboard or email us at [email protected]!