Walkthrough: Creating a storefront landing page for an email campaign

Current version: 10.0

This walkthrough guides you through the process of adding a campaign landing page to the storefront. After you create the page and publish the updates to the storefront, you can include the URL in an automated email campaign advertising a particular product.

This walkthrough covers how to:

  • create a landing page

  • build the storefront page

Note

To follow this walkthrough, when you create the storefront site, you must include the Habitat catalog.

Create the landing page

In this procedure, you create and add a new page to the storefront site. This page is used to create the storefront product page that customers see when they click the URL you send them as part of an Email Experience Manager automated email campaign.

To create a landing page:

  1. In the Content Editor, go to sitecore/Content/<tenant>/<site>/Home.

  2. Right-click the Home item and click Insert, Page.

  3. In the Message dialog box, enter a name for the page, for example fridge-campaign, and click OK.

    The page name is used in the storefront URL. For example, fridge-campaign becomes www.storefront.com/fridge-campaign.

  4. Right-click the newly created page and click Experience Editor.

  5. On the ribbon, on the Experience Accelerator tab, in the Look & Feel section, click Pick Page Design.

  6. In the dialog box that displays, in the Page Design list, click Default Commerce Page and click OK.

  7. On the ribbon, click Save.

Build the storefront page

In this procedure, you create the storefront page using the Experience Editor that contains the details and image for the refrigerator you want to promote.

To build the storefront page:

  1. On the right side of the application window, click the arrow to open the Toolbox.

  2. From the Commerce Catalog section, drag the Catalog Item Container component onto the page.

  3. On the Catalog Item Container toolbar, select More, Edit Component Properties.

  4. In the General, Data Source section, click Browse, and go to Home/Catalogs/Habitat_Master/Departments/Appliances and select Habitat Viva 4-Door 22. Cubic Foot Refrigerator with Ice Maker, and click OK.

  5. Click OK to close the Control Properties dialog box.

    The Catalog Item Container rendering sets a product item as the data source for a group of catalog renderings. All the catalog renderings added inside the container rendering use the product you select as the product context. This allows the renderings to display product information on a page where there is otherwise no product context available.

  6. From the Page Structure section, drag a Splitter (Column) component onto the page to organize information into two columns.

  7. From the Commerce Catalog section, drag the Product Images component into the left column of the container.

  8. From the Commerce Catalog section, drag the following components into the right column of the container:

    • Product Information

    • Product Inventory

    • Product Variants

    • Product Price components

    In each case, in the Select the Associated Content dialog box, click the existing content (with the same name) and click OK.

  9. From the Commerce Cart section, drag the Add to Cart component onto the page, and save your changes.

    The landing page looks like this in the Experience Editor.

    The landing page displayed in the Experience Editor
  10. On the Home tab, click Publish and, in the Publish Item dialog box, select Smart Publish, and click Publish. Click OK to proceed.

    On the live storefront, you access the page using the URL and it looks like this.

    The landing page on the live storefront
Tip

To see how to create a landing page for an email campaign, watch the video available on the Discover Sitecore channel.

Do you have some feedback for us?

If you have suggestions for improving this article,