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Add the voting block to your store

Put the Product voting block on your home page or a page of its own, and word it your way.

ProNeeds the Pro plan.

Before you start

  • Your store is on the Pro plan.
  • At least one proposal is open, or the block has nothing to show. See “Let shoppers vote on a product idea”.
  1. 1

    Open the theme editor from Voting

    In Waitly, choose Voting. Until the block is on your store, a banner reads Add the Voting block to your theme.

    Select Open theme editor. Your theme editor opens on your home page with the block ready to add.

    Shopify admin · Waitly
    The banner at the top of the Voting page headed Add the Voting block to your theme, saying shoppers vote on a page you choose, with an Open theme editor button.
    1. 1Shows until the block is on your store
    2. 2Select Open theme editor
  2. 2

    Place the block and save

    Move the Product voting block to where you want it on the page, then select Save in the theme editor.

    To use a page of its own instead, create a page such as “Vote” in Online Store › Pages first. Then open that page in the theme editor and add the Product voting block there.

    Shopify admin · Waitly
    The Shopify theme editor on the home page, with the Product voting block under Apps in the sidebar and, in the preview, three proposals with tick boxes, an email field and a Vote button.
    1. 1The Product voting block
    2. 2How it looks on the page
    3. 3Save the theme

    Tip: A block added to a page template shows on every page that uses that template. Give your Vote page its own template if other pages share the default one.

  3. 3

    Change the wording and style if you like

    Select the block to see its settings. Under Text you can change the Heading, Subheading, Email field label, Email field placeholder, Button and the messages shoppers see: Voted, Voted before, Voted tag and Nothing ticked. In Voted, {items} stands for the names of the proposals the shopper voted for.

    Leave a field empty to use Waitly’s wording, which is in English. Under Style, set the Button color, Button text color and Corner radius; Style (Growth) adds four more settings.

    Shopify admin · Waitly
    The Product voting block’s settings in the theme editor, with the Heading, Subheading and Email field label fields under Text, and the block outlined in the preview.
    1. 1Select the block
    2. 2Reword the text here

    Note: The consent line under the email field can’t be changed. It’s the wording Waitly records as the shopper’s agreement to hear about the products they vote for.

  4. 4

    Check it on your store

    Open the page on your store. The block lists your open proposals, the most recently opened first, each with its image, title, description and planned price. A proposal with no image shows a gray square, as here.

    Shoppers tick the ones they’d buy, enter their email and select Vote. They never see how many votes a proposal has.

    Your online store
    The Product voting block on the store’s home page, with three proposals to tick, each with a title, description and planned price, an email field, the consent line and a Vote button.
    1. 1Tick the ones you’d buy
    2. 2Enter an email
    3. 3Send the votes

Questions

Why don’t I see the block on my store?
It shows only while your store is on Pro and at least one proposal is open. In the theme editor, an empty block says why, so you can still place it.
Do I need to update the block when I open or close a proposal?
No. The block always shows whatever is open in Waitly right now.

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