How do I set up Merchant's Picks?
Merchant’s Picks is your hand-curated selection — “our favourites”, a seasonal edit, a lookbook. You choose every product; nothing is automatic, which is exactly its point.
Merchant’s Picks is your hand-curated selection — “our favourites”, a seasonal edit, a lookbook. You choose every product; nothing is automatic, which is exactly its point.
Before you start
Sledge Core must be enabled on your theme. Sledge Core is the app embed that loads Sledge on your storefront — without it, nothing you configure here reaches your customers. You enable it during onboarding (Enable in theme), or any time via Online Store → Themes → Customize → App embeds → Sledge Core. Which pages actually show this feature is controlled by its own Surfaces section, explained below.
Open the campaign
Go to Sledge → Tools → Product Recommendation and click Add, then pick the Merchant's Picks strategy — or open an existing campaign of this strategy from the list. All recommendation strategies share the same campaign form; the sections below walk through it with this strategy’s specifics.
Campaign name and Discount
Campaign name is internal — customers never see it. The Discount card can attach an offer to the recommended products: pick the discount type and value, and optionally show the compare-at price so the saving is visible on the card. The example campaign runs a 10% discount:
Strategy Structure
- Select display — Single block or Multiple stacked strategies.
- Strategy / Title — set to Merchant’s Picks.
- Suggestion source — this strategy is manual by design: the automatic option is greyed out, and Add products manually is where you build the list (the example picks six tees).
Layout
How the block renders on your storefront: Slider (a horizontal carousel) or Grid. Total products caps how many products the block shows in total, and Products per slide sets how many are visible at once in the slider.
Surfaces
Each surface has its own switch: Homepage, 404 / Not Found Page, Collection Page, Product Page, Search Page, Instant Search, Cart Page, and Cart Drawer. Surfaces with placement options expand when enabled — Collection and Search pages let you choose At top or At bottom, Collection Page adds collection targeting, and Search Page can be limited to specific keywords.
Design, Status, and Preview
Design styles the block heading — font size, alignment, transform, and colours for title and description. Status (Enable/Disable) controls whether the campaign is live, and the Preview panel renders the block with your real store data. Click Save in the save bar to apply.
Result
Customers see your hand-picked products under your heading — here with the 10% discount applied, so every card shows the reduced price against the compare-at price:
Not showing up? Give the change a minute to sync, then reload the page. Also confirm the campaign’s Status is Enable, the surface you expect is switched on in Surfaces, and Sledge Core is enabled as described above.
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