Widget & Page Optimizers (WPO)

Boxalino's Multi-Channel Optimization System: "Widget & Page Optimizers" (WPO)
The heart for successful user experience

Introduction

The Widget & Page Optimizers (WPO) are the key front-end modules that our clients integrate into their website and other end-user touchpoints (newsletters, mobile apps, print marketing, etc.).

Boxalino offers 24 WPOs, each connected to a Customer Journey Step and to a Level.

To learn more about how to use WPOs in Boxalino’s Admin, please visit our admin documentation:

Customer Journey Steps

Optimal guidance in the customer journey

AWARENESS

Your visitor becomes aware of your e-shop or one of your offers

Website Pages: Home page and other broad start and landing pages

CONSIDERATION

Your visitor considers and decides whether the offer is relevant to her or not

Website Pages: Search result page, Product listing pages, and other narrow landing pages

EVALUATION

Your visitor begins to compare offers and, if necessary, providers

Website Pages: Product Detail Page, Blog or Content Post

PURCHASE

Your visitor starts the process of making the purchase

Website Pages: Add-to-basket Overlay, Basket page

LOYALTY

Your visitor comes back to make follow-up purchases

Website Pages: My Account page, Logged-in home page

RELATIONSHIP

Your visitor is successfully addressed with "outbound" information

Communications: Newsletter, Trigger/Transaction Emails, Push Notifications, Print Marketing

WPO Levels

Level

Type

Description

Comments

Level

Type

Description

Comments

1

Widget

WPOs with widgets returning products (search results or product recommendations)

This level covers all types of product results and recommendations accross all the customer journey, this is typically where our clients start their projects with Boxalino

2

Widget

WPOs with widgets returning other types of contents (banners, blog articles, overlays messages)
as well a guidance (FIND) and triggers (RE-TARGET)

This level covers all type of content which can be integrated with Boxalino (ideally from a headless CMS)

3

Page (dynamic layout logic)

WPOs with dynamic layout logics which define and affect the layout of the page

This levels covers the dynamic layout logic defining what defined content and LEVEL 1 and 2 widgets should appear on a page

4

Page (advanced)

WPOs with advanced output types (e.g.: real-time pricing)

If you are interested in Level 4 WPOs, please contact Boxalino for more details

What are Widgets? (WPO)

WPOs of Level 1&2 contain widgets.

Widgets are the visual building blocks of your e-shop.

Widgets thus have a very direct, often under-appreciated, financial impact.

  1. Every single widget counts

  2. Their interaction counts

  3. Each Boxalino WPO contains one or several widgets

  4. What the WPO does in real-time

  5. What the WPO does with real-time Coordination with all other WPOs


The ultimate goal:

  1. effective information and

  2. optimal interactions

for your e-shop visitors.

This also applies to email recipients, app users, and interactions at other touchpoints.

All this happens in real-time and individually for each visitor thanks to Boxalino.

Widgets are typically used in only one location of a page (like the home page) or a category of pages (like the product detail pages).

Each widget is defined by a strategy in Boxalino Admin which specifies how the a/b testing selection of product or other content will be done in real-time for each visitor individually.

To learn more about how to use Widgets in Boxalino’s Admin, please visit our admin documentation:

What are Page layouts? (WPO)

WPOs of Level 3 contain Page layouts.

Unlike widgets, Page layouts, do not return one or a list of products or other contents to be displayed to the user. Page layouts provide a dynamic layout of the page (or the zones of the page where widgets should appear).

The Layout is defined as a Narrative that is connected to the Page layout (which can be defined with dynamic conditions to a/b test or segment the display of some widgets depending on the device, trafic source, customer gender or any other segmentation logic).

If a part of the layout is even more dynamic and results in a real-time strategy to create the layout, the Page layout strategy (the strategy of a Page layout is defined in the same administration environment as the Widget strategies). As an example of such an advanced case, here is a use case with Marketing Topics:

Optimization & Personalization

Many strategies and tactics are available for you to choose from for optimization and personalization:

  • global and segmented optimizations

  • 1:1 personalization

  • Campaign alignment

  • Sales

  • Assortment intelligence

  • etc.

Match crucial: the choice of which products and content to show must not be one-sided in favor of personalization. Above all, the choice must be optimally balanced with your business interests.

This is the intelligence behind all WPOs!

WPOs

WPO

Journey Step

Level

Description

WPO

Journey Step

Level

Description

WELCOME

AWARENESS

1

Product suggestions on start pages

SEARCH / NAVI

CONSIDERATION

1

In-site Search and Product Listings

UP-SELL

EVALUATION

1

Similar Product Suggestions on PDP

CROSS-SELL

PURCHASE

1

Product Suggestions on Overlay and Basket Page

RE-BUY

LOYALTY

1

Product Suggestions on My Account Page

INDIVIDUALIZE

RELATIONSHIP

1

Product Suggestions in E-Mails

PROMOTE

AWARENESS

2

Banner Suggestions in E-shop and E-Mail

FIND

CONSIDERATION

2

Guided Finder with Soft Facets

READ

EVALUATION

2

Promote Blog and Editorial Content

EXTEND

PURCHASE

2

Promote X-Selling with Order-level Incentives

PROFILE

LOYALTY

2

Ask questions and promote surveys

RE-TARGET

RELATIONSHIP

2

Trigger mails based on individual behavior

PRESENT

AWARENESS

3

Dyamic Layout on Start Pages

TELL

CONSIDERATION

3

Dynamic Layout on Product Listing Pages

PERSUADE

EVALUATION

3

Dynamic Layout on Product Detail Pages

BUNDLE
(contact us to know more)

PURCHASE

3

Real-Time Generation of Bundle Deals

INCENTIVIZE
(contact us to know more)

LOYALTY

3

Create & Promote individual Coupons

NOTIFY
(contact us to know more)

RELATIONSHIP

3

Unified Omni-channel Communication

EVOLVE
(contact us to know more)

AWARENESS

4

Progressively learned suggestion groups

GUIDE
(contact us to know more)

CONSIDERATION

4

Individualized Menus Structure & Highlights

PROVE
(contact us to know more)

EVALUATION

4

Promote Social Proof (Reviews, Ratings, …)

PRICE
(contact us to know more)

PURCHASE

4

Real-time Generation of individualized pricing

REFER
(contact us to know more)

LOYALTY

4

Promote loyalty with Referral incentives

CLUSTER
(contact us to know more)

RELATIONSHIP

4

Segment customers from prior behaviors