You can have your product questions and answers functionality search through your product descriptions, details, and specifications to ensure that if you've already provided an answer to a customer's question...Answerbase can auto-suggest that information to automatically answer that customer's question and lead them to convert to a sale. Within your administration area, you'll find under "System Settings > Produc 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 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've created an Answerbase account, you can then integrate Answerbase ecommerce product Q&A into your ecommerce store. This tutorial specifically covers how to integrate Q&A into your product page, there is further instruction available on how to integrate into other areas of your ecommerce site (if desired) at a link at the end of this post. Let's go over how to integrate into your product pages. Step Read more
Choose the ecommerce platform that you're working to integrate Answerbase's product Q&A widget into:
Shopify
Bigcommerce
Volusion
Magento
Woocommerce
Prestashop
Nopcommerce
Miva
Opencart
Salesforce Commerce Cloud
HCL Commerce
Corecommerce
3dCart
Web Shop Manager
Shoplineapp
Godaddy
Other Read more
Answerbase looks to work with with agencies and technology partners to better consult and service ecommerce merchants through conversion rate optimization, email marketing audience growth, complimenting their SEO initiatives, and providing a powerful tool to integrate into new builds or migrations. Answerbase shares revenues from all referrals that come through our partners to provide a consistent and growing recurri Read more
Below is the content formatting guide you should use when looking to import users into your Answerbase administration portal. For a smooth import we recommend that you do the following:
IMPORTANT NOTE: We recommend that after you format your users and have it available in the CSV, take a very small batch of 5-10 users and import those first to make sure that everything gets imported as you expect. Then, after t Read more
Answerbase has partnered with Gorgias so we can ensure that your customers have the best possible experience on your ecommerce site and can utilize the best available channel to get their product questions answered. This article goes over the steps that you should take in order to integrate Answerbase with Gorgias. Step 1 - Ensure You Have Gorgias and Answerbase Installed in your Shopify Store In order for this integ Read more
Some answers that you provide through Answerbase aren't going to be long enough to justify their own landing page. Now, different customers have different preferences regarding this....we've seen some answers that are just a few lines live on their own landing pages and those Q&A pages turn into featured snippets within Google results that drive conversions and sales....but depending on the type of questions you' 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. Once you are within the administration dashboard, you can review some other configuration preferences by clicking "Shopify App Configuration > Installation Instructions" as seen here: From there, you'll see a number of Read more
Answerbase supports the ability to not only have product page questions and answers, but you can also put questions and answers on your product category pages. This helps you accomplish the following:
Enhance the content on your product category pages for SEO
Engage your visitors on your product category pages if they have questions related to which product fits their needs best.
This article will give Read more
Answerbase gives you the optional ability to easily review and mark members who authenticate to access your knowledge base. For some use cases, customers may choose to disable the assignment and review of new users from the moderation process, but if you'd like to review new users authenticated to your Answerbase platform this will assist in setting that up. By default, when a member account is generated on Answerbas Read more
Thanks for choosing Answerbase to power your community of users. This guide goes over a few foundational elements to consider as you get started with configuring your Answerbase account and customizing your community platform. Add and Manage Your Categories or Tags In your administration area, you'll see an option for either "Categories" or "Tags" in your main navigation depending on what configuration you've chosen Read more
You can have specific inquiries that come in as Answerbase questions transferred seamlessly into your support ticket software (Zendesk, Freshdesk, or other) so they can be managed as a ticket as opposed to a Q&A thread on Answerbase. If you don't see this feature within your administration area when answering questions, please contact Answerbase to see if you're on a plan that supports this capability. Answerbase Read more
Domain options for integration of Answerbase.
Subdirectory through a reverse proxy.
From an SEO standpoint, the ideal integration is using a subdirectory so you would have something like:
Yourdomain.com/answers
That can be managed on Answerbase through use of a Reverse Proxy, see how Moz addresses the comparison between a subdomain approach and a subdirectory approach in their article What is Read more
Domain options for integration of Answerbase.
Subdirectory through a reverse proxy.
From an SEO standpoint, the ideal integration is using a subdirectory so you would have something like:
Yourdomain.com/answers
That can be managed on Answerbase through use of a Reverse Proxy, see how Moz addresses the comparison between a subdomain approach and a subdirectory approach in their article What is Read more
Answerbase gives you the ability to define a Service Level Agreement (SLA) where you can determine how quickly questions should be answered, and it will send reminders to those responsible for answering questions if those goals aren't met. These SLA's can be defined globally, per category or tag, or on the individual question level. See the video for an overview of these tools and how to work with them. Read more
Answerbase allows you to reward your community members with practical rewards, where your users can use their reputation points as a form of currency in order to exchange those points for "real world" rewards. This video works gives an overview of those capabilities and their benefits. Read more
Answerbase product page Q&A increases your ecommerce conversions while growing organic search traffic to your store. Ecommerce merchants who use Answerbase product Q&A see:
Up to 75% of product questions answered through Answerbase convert to a sale.
Organic traffic to their site grows by up to 4x as their Q&A content grows, and potential customers searching on Google (and other search engines) a Read more
Manage all of your knowledge base content within Answerbase's administration area, review the management tools and capabilities in this video. Read more
This video gives an overview on the reporting capabilities that are provided to you within the Answerbase Administration Dashboard, as well as options for 3rd party analytics integration to track your content and user engagement. Read more
Answerbase provides the ability for you to assign tasks, content, and users to moderators for them to review and manage within your Answerbase Administration Dashboard. This video gives you an overview of those tools, to allow for effective management of your content and users. Read more
