Everything you'd want to know before you install.
A detailed look at how Announcement Bar & Countdown Timer — Promo Banner for PrestaShop 8 & 9 works, why we built it the way we did, and the thinking behind the features above.
§ 01
The first message every visitor sees
The announcement bar is the most visible spot of your store: right at the top, on every page. It is where sales announcements, free-shipping thresholds and welcome codes live. This module turns it into a real marketing tool: several messages rotating with a fade inside the same bar, each with its own call-to-action, colors and lifespan.
§ 02
Urgency that converts: the countdown
Write "ends in {countdown}" in your message and the module displays a live timer, updated every second in days, hours, minutes and seconds. When the deadline passes, the message can disappear automatically — and the filtering is duplicated server-side, so an expired promotion is never displayed, even behind an aggressive cache.
§ 03
The right message for the right visitor
An offer reserved for French customers, a B2B message for your professional group, an announcement in English only: each bar can be targeted by language, country and customer group. Combine that with date scheduling and the priority system to prepare campaigns in advance: the right bar takes over on its own, at the right time, for the right audience.
§ 04
Light, clean, theme-friendly
No jQuery, no Composer, no framework: a few kilobytes of vanilla JavaScript and CSS, loaded only when a bar is actually active. Fixed placements automatically compensate the layout so nothing gets hidden, and a visitor who closes the bar will not see it again for the duration you choose, thanks to a simple functional cookie with no personal data.
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