Promotion boxes can be included on different pages throughout your Shop to promote and advertise your items. These flexible, customisable displays can be used for a variety of purposes, such as highlighting featured items, announcing special offers, or providing alternative ways for buyers to browse in your Shop.

This page discusses:

• How to create promotion boxes

• Promotion box placement

• Promotion box sizes

• Promotion box types

• Promotion box names

• Promotion box colours

How to create promotion boxes

There are two ways to create and manage promotion boxes in your Shop:

Using quick setup
For your convenience, you can use predesigned promotion boxes that will appear on all of your Shop category pages. This is a quick way for you to learn about promotion boxes and set them up throughout your Shop.

To use quick setup:

Creating and managing promotion boxes
You can easily create and view promotion boxes within your Shop. Promotion boxes are grouped according to the type of page on which they appear. You can also duplicate existing promotion boxes, delete promotion boxes permanently, or simply make promotion boxes inactive. Inactive promotion boxes can be saved for future use whenever you specify a location for them.

To create promotion boxes:

Using a promotion box you’ve already created
You can include any promotion box you've already created, even if it is “inactive,” in your full HTML custom pages or any other place in your Shop where you can insert HTML. Just use the following tag:

{eBayPromo id="promotion box administrative name"}

Promotion box placement

• Near the top of each Shop page (below the header and above the item list)
  
  Two promotion boxes can appear next to one another, or the spaces can be combined and used for a single, extra-wide promotion box.
  
  Note: If you are using Shop categories or custom pages within your Shop, you can display different promotion boxes on each of your Shop category pages, custom pages, and your All Categories page. The same promotion boxes that you specify for a category will appear for all categories below it, unless you specify a different promotion box for those categories. If you are using eBay categories, instead of Shop categories, the same two promotion boxes or the single, extra-wide promotion box (depending on your selection) will appear on every eBay category page.

• Below the left navigation bar
  
  Two promotion boxes—an upper and a lower—can appear in this area. Just as for promotion boxes that appear at the top of the page, you can customise those that appear in the left navigation bar at an individual page level. Similarly, any promotion box settings automatically carry down to all category pages organised below a higher level category, unless you specify different promotion boxes for the lower level category pages.

Promotion box sizes

• Top left or top right
  - With border: 275w by 85h, or 120 characters
  - Without border: 280w by 115h, or 140 characters

• Single box across top
  - With border: 575w by 85h, or 215 characters
  - Without border: 580w by 115h, or 300 characters

• Below left navigation bar
  - With border: 170w by any height
  - Without border: 170w by any height

Promotion box types

Promotion box names

When you create a promotion box, you need to give it a unique name. This name will not be visible to buyers; it is simply to help you keep track of your promotion boxes.

Promotion box colors

The default colors for promotion boxes are based on the colors that you selected for your Shop theme. However, you can customise these colours.