When you integrate the full featured Q&A widget into your product page to support product-specific questions and answers, you'll want to test the integration after it's done to make sure everything is working well. POSTING A TEST QUESTION The first thing to do is get to a product page on your website and get to the Q&A widget placement where you can ask a question. Follow these steps: Write a simple tes Read more
When you're testing your Q&A widget on your product pages and try to submit a question as a guest you may run into a validation that says "This is email is associated with an existing account. Please sign in." like this: The most common cause is that the email address that you've provided when testing out posting a question is one that is associated with one of your Administrator or Moderator users. In that case, Read more
When you're integrating your site with Answerbase you submit a test question on a widget, and get the following validation: What this means is that there hasn't been at least one product or category associated with the question, to let us know what the question is about. MOST COMMON CAUSE OF THIS VALIDATION The most common cause of this validation is with an ecommerce integration, where you're supporting product-spec Read more
When you're posting an answer in response to a customer question that came in related to your products, there are a few tips that we'd like to share which will help guide you on how to respond in order to ensure you're getting the most value from your Q&A content. The main focuses of answering a question should be the following: Giving a great answer that actually answers the customer question Upsell the Read more
If you're transitioning from a different platform, or if you simply want to have your team create some great content for you to start out with, then you'll need to import your Q&A content (and potentially users if you're wanting to support a community where your customers can also answer questions). IMPORTING QUESTION AND ANSWER CONTENT In your administration site, you'll see an option in your left hand navigatio Read more
Now that you have your account information, you'll want to determine what users are going to be managing content on your platform. If you are the only person who is going to be managing the site and content, then you don't have to worry about setting up new users....but you may want to consider the "Default Content Publishing Rules" below to ensure that newly posted content is published based on your preferences. If Read more
If you've installed the Answerbase Shopify Product Questions & Answers App into your store, you're ready to integrate into your site and make sure the functionality is configured as you'd like. When you're managing the Answerbase App from within the "Apps" area in your Shopify Administration Portal, you'll see a number of configuration options and fields available to you. This article will go over each field and Read more