About our Shopify app
SheerID created a Shopify app (now called SheerID Community Verification) to provide a simple, no-code way to quickly launch new gated offers in Shopify stores.
It takes mere minutes to launch. In your MySheerID dashboard you can create your programs, upload your discount reward pools, publish it to your store, and start inviting store visitors to get verified for your offer.
Target audiences
We offer the ability to extend discount offers to audience types including Military, Students, First Responders, Educators, Healthcare, Seniors, Young Adults, and Low Income.
Customer buying journey
The SheerID app for Shopify is available for existing SheerID customers only. Our app is not publicly available in the Shopify app store. Please reach out to your CSM or to Product Support if you are interested in using this with your Shopify store.
How offers work with Shopify
Discount Codes
SheerID uses the discount codes created in Shopify and uploaded to your SheerID program to allow your customers to utilize discounts on products offered from your store.
The app provides documentation on how to:
- Create bulk discount codes in Shopify
- Upload these codes to your reward pool in your SheerID program
Account Linking
The SheerID Shopify app does not support account linking. Instead, we recommend tagging Shopify customers and orders using the Shopify Flow app.
Brand look and feel
When you create new programs in MySheerID, our program builder will guide you through adding a theme so that the verification form looks like a natural part of your brand. You can optionally upload your logo to the verification form.
Publishing your offer
After you have your offer set up, it's time to give your verification form a home, then you can make your offer available to your store visitors. We recommend creating an offer landing page and, at a minimum, adding a link to that page in your store navigation.
Offer landing page
We recommend publishing a landing page for your offer, which describes the offer value, any caveats, and invites a customer to verify by filling in SheerID's verification form. Having that page gives you lots of flexibility for when and how to drive traffic to your offer, since you can link directly to the page.
The Shopify app offers 4 options:
- The simplest route is to use the pre-built landing page that SheerID makes for every customer. This has been popular amongst our Shopify app users. Learn more.
- The app integrates with Shopify's App Blocks functionality, to give you a no-code way to insert the verification form on a page that you create and host. We offer a theme app block and checkout extension app block. Learn more.
- If you're not using Shopify's native page builder functionality, and are comfortable copy-pasting some javascript code, you can embed the form anywhere on a page you create and host. Learn more.
- Similar to option 3, you can apply the modal snippet to a button on a page you create and host. Learn more.
App blocks
To create an offer landing page within Shopify, you need to create a new page type in your Theme Editor. Use the app block within the theme editor to add SheerID. Then you can create a new page, using the special offer landing page theme, to publish that page to your site. See Shopify's documentation.
If you have the Shopify app installed, when you go to the theme editor you will see a section for SheerID. Enter the SheerID program you want, and then choose the embedded vs modal display style.
You'll want to apply your usual high-converting design to the landing page, such as a nice hero image and a compelling description of the offer. It's also a good idea to provide any information a customer may need to know about limitations to the offer, or any special instructions for redeeming it.
We also offer a checkout app block that allows you to link to another page on your store that hosts the offers for the consumer audiences you are targeting.
Launching the offer and making it visible
When you are ready to launch, publish the landing page (if applicable) and link to the page from your site navigation. Only at that point will the new program become visible (and available) to any customer.
We highly recommend adding a link to this landing page in your site footer; it’s important for your brand satisfaction that potential customers who have heard about your offer through word of mouth can find it.
Publishing multiple offers
If you are setting up programs for multiple audiences (such as students and educators), we recommend creating 1 landing page per audience and distinctly adding a link to your site navigation for every segment. This enables you to authentically engage with each consumer audience. For example, if your social media manager is active in discussions with online educator communities, they can easily link to the educator landing page on your store. Having that landing page be very targeted to educators will be very clear and high-converting.
Alternatively, you can choose to create a single landing page and put all your offers on that page. Only go this route if the offer value is identical to all audiences. We also recommend in a single page that you use the Modal version of displaying the forms - having multiple verification forms embedded in a single page will feel overwhelming to a visitor.
Alternative ways to publish
If you want to go fully bespoke, and have engineering resources at your disposal, SheerID offers a Javascript Library and set of REST APIs. This means that rather than using SheerID's form in an iframe, you can collect the necessary customer information yourself, in your own way, and submit it to SheerID behind the scenes. See SheerID's Developer Center for details.
Program reporting
The Shopify app is focused on creating and publishing your discount programs. All management of campaigns and reporting are accessible through the customer portal found at MySheerID. You will see reporting to understand conversion, advertising channels (through UTM codes), and verification performance.
After you log in to your MySheerID account, you’ll see Reporting in the left navigation. Click that. The visual reporting dashboard shows you a summary of all your programs. You can apply filters to analyze your data. To download a csv of all your data, select Download from the menu in the top right corner.
MySheerID
The Shopify app is complementary to SheerID's customer portal found at MySheerID.
If you ever have issues logging in, our Product Support team is happy to help.
Working with Coworkers
For MySheerID, you will need to invite your coworkers to join your account. They’ll be sent a welcome to SheerID email - they need to click on the button in that email to set a password and finish the (very quick) user creation.
The verification journey
In most cases, customers are verified instantly.
If the customer supplies data (name, school, organization, etc.) on the form that doesn't match instantly, the customer will be prompted to upload a document to prove they are who they say they are (school ID, class schedule, paystub, etc). In these cases, SheerID provides 24/7 document review and our average response time is less than one minute.