PushOwl

PushOwl integration for Shogun Frontend.

PushOwl →

Overview

This package allows you to send push notification for shogun store with shopify backend

Installation

1. First install PushOwl Shopify app in your store
2. Then install the following PushOwl Shogun integration npm package @pushowl/shogun-frontend-sdk You can check Shogun docs for more info about installing dependency
3. You can contact Shogun team to enable PushOwl service worker for your store

Initialzing the hook

import { usePushowl } from "@pushowl/shogun-frontend-sdk";

const App = () => {
  // Initialize pushowl
  const { hasLoaded } = usePushowl("your-shopify-subdomain");
};

Abandoned Cart Recovery automation (Optional, if enabled)

Abandoned Cart, if available on your PushOwl plan, works out of the box through this module for most parts. There is just configuration change required on PushOwl Side. Abandoned Cart push notifications open the cart page of your store. For stores with custom frontends, it becomes difficult to figure out the cart URL automatically. Hence, you need to explicitly enter your cart URL from PushOwl dashboard.

If you have implemented a custom cart page in your store, use that page's URL as cart URL. Otherwise, you can use the following URL as your cart page: https://<website_domain>?showCart=true

Here is how to update your cart URL in PushOwl dashboard:

1. Login to PushOwl dashboard -> https://dashboard.pushowl.com/shopify-login
2. Go to Abandoned Cart settings though Automations > Abandoned Carts or directly visit https://dashboard.pushowl.com/automation/abandoned-cart-recovery
3. Edit each of the active notification you see and change all instances of cart URLs in them to your actual cart URL (as discussed above).
4. Save and you are done!

Browse Abandonment (Optional, if enabled)

Browse abandonment

Your product URLs defined in the Shopify admin should still work (as it is or with redirection). This is because on clicking Browse Abandonment notifications, users are taken to the product URL defined in the Shopify admin.

ℹ️ IMPORTANT INFORMATION: In case you are still using your default Shopify store frontend for checkout purposes, you need to check the store URL registered on PushOwl. The store URL is what these automations use to build a product URL to send in the push notifications. You can check your registered store URL by visiting - dashboard.pushowl.com/settings. Like so:

If the store URL you see above is not the right store URL where products are available, then the automation settings need to be adjusted for that. Currently, this can only be adjusted through us. So if this is the case, please let us know on [email protected] and we'll adjust the URLs.

You need to enable externalId and storefrontId for product and variants in your ProductBox section and then call the following effect in your code

import { usePushowl } from "@pushowl/shogun-frontend-sdk";

const { hasLoaded } = usePushowl("your-shopify-subdomain");

React.useEffect(() => {
  if (hasLoaded && product) {
    window.pushowl.trigger("syncProductView", { productId: product.id });
  }
}, [product]);

Price Drop, Back in Stock automations (Optional, if enabled)

In your ProductBox section you can call the following effect

import { usePushowl } from "@pushowl/shogun-frontend-sdk";

const { hasLoaded } = usePushowl("your-shopify-subdomain");

React.useEffect(() => {
  if (product && hasLoaded) {
    async function showProductWidget() {
      // converting variant id from base64 to number
      const variantId = parseInt(
        atob(product.variants[0].storefrontId).split("/").pop(),
        10
      );
      const availableForSale = await isProductAvailableForSale({
        id: variantId,
        type: "ProductVariant",
      });

      if (availableForSale) {
        window.pushowl.trigger("showWidget", {
          type: "priceDrop",
          product: {
            id: product.id,
            title: product.name,
          },
          variant: {
            id: variantId,
            title: product.variants[0].name,
            price: product.variants[0].price,
          },
        });
      } else {
        window.pushowl.trigger("showWidget", {
          type: "backInStock",
          product: {
            id: product.id,
            title: product.name,
          },
          variant: {
            id: variantId,
            title: product.variants[0].name,
            price: product.variants[0].price,
          },
        });
      }
    }

    showProductWidget();
  }
}, []);

API

• There is a global object available called pushowl which can be accessed through window.pushowl.
• The API works by triggering appropriate "actions". An action can be triggered like so: window.pushowl.trigger(<action_name>, <options>). Eg. An action named "X" can be triggered through window.pushowl.trigger("X")

Available API actions:

showWidget

Options available

• type: Type of widget to show. browserPrompt|customPrompt|backInStock|priceDrop

For customPrompt, following extra options are available:

• title: Title for the prompt
• description: Description for the prompt
• yesButton: "yes" button refers to the positive/allow button in the prompt. This is an object with label property.
• noButton: "no" button refers to the negative/deny button in the prompt. This is an object with label property.
• logo (optional): URL of the image to show as logo. Defaults to a bell if nothing is passed.
• position (optional): Needs to be specified for desktop and mobile separately like so position: {default: 'top-left', mobile: 'top'}. Available options for desktop(default): top-left, top-center, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-center, bottom-right. Available options for mobile: top, bottom. Default is { default: 'top-center', mobile: 'top' }
• overlay (optional): Controls the overlay that shows with the native permission prompt. Only accepts one property for now: enabled: true|false. Eg. overlay: { enabled: false }
• theme (optional): Allows changing various colors in the prompt. Currently supported properties are: theme: { yesButtonBgColor: '#f00', yesButtonColor: '#fff' }

For priceDrop and backInStock

• product: Product to which user subscribed price drop / back in stock notification. product requires the following keys
  • id: It of the product as number
  • title: Title of the product
• variant: Selected variant of the above product which user subscribed to. variant requires the following keys
  • id: It of the variant as number
  • title: Title of the variant
  • price: Price of the current variant as float

syncCart

import { useCartState } from "frontend-checkout";
import { processCart, usePushowl } from "@pushowl/shogun-frontend-sdk";

const { hasLoaded } = usePushowl("your-shopify-subdomain");

const cart = useCartState();
const cartId = cart.id;
const cartItems = cart.items;

React.useEffect(() => {
  if (hasLoaded && cartItems && cartId) {
    window.pushowl.trigger("syncCart", processCart({ cartItems, cartId }));
  }
}, [cartId, cartItems, hasLoaded]);

customerSync

import { useCustomerState } from "frontend-customer";
import { processCustomerId, usePushowl } from "@pushowl/shogun-frontend-sdk";

const { hasLoaded } = usePushowl("your-shopify-subdomain");
const { id: customerId } = useCustomerState();

React.useEffect(() => {
  if (hasLoaded && customerId) {
    window.pushowl.trigger("setCustomerId", processCustomerId({ customerId }));
  }
}, [customerId, hasLoaded]);

Recipes

To show a native browser prompt

window.pushowl.trigger("getCurrentPermission").then((permission) => {
  if (permission === "default") {
    window.pushowl
      .trigger("showWidget", {
        type: "browserPrompt",
      })
      .then((res) => {
        // Do anything you want to after showing prompt
      });
  }
});

Note, always check the current permission value before showing the prompt. default value means user has neither allowed nor denied.

To show a Custom Prompt

window.pushowl.trigger("getCurrentPermission").then((permission) => {
  if (permission === "default") {
    window.pushowl
      .trigger("showWidget", {
        type: "customPrompt",
        title: "Lets get you offers!",
        description: "Subscribe to get amazing offers",
        yesButton: { label: "Subscribe" },
        noButton: { label: "Later" },
        logo: "image url here",
        position: { default: "top-left", mobile: "bottom" },
        overlay: { enabled: false },
      })
      .then((res) => {
        // Do anything you want to after showing prompt
      });
  }
});