Live Sales Notifications
One booster, two modes. Broadcast the genuine recent orders your store took, or compose notices from lists of names and cities you write. A setting picks.
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A LUMÉ demo store, showing the staged mode. The page is a shop listing headed LUMÉ / Shop / Knitwear with six products on it, and the shopper is already carrying an $18.00 basket. On a timer, and with no pointer on the screen, three notices arrive in the bottom-left corner one after another: Emily from Berlin with the Ribbed Beanie at $12.00, then David from Kyiv with the Canvas Tote Bag at $39.00, then Lina from London with the Zip Hoodie at $54.00. Each one slides in the same way, is held still for about two and a half seconds, and slides out again, and the corner stands empty for about a second before the next appears — they never overlap and never stack. Every product is a real one from the catalogue at its own price, and every buyer name and city is drawn from the two lists you write, which is why both of those fields are drawn as slots — the flag beside each city is part of the typed value, not something the plugin works out. Each notice carries a “Shop now” button, sized to its own words on the left of the card. Two marks on every notice are this page’s own and not the plugin’s: a dashed tag reading SalesMax seated on the card’s top edge, and a thin green outline that sweeps slowly round the whole card. SalesMax prints neither on a storefront; they are drawn so that the one element the booster puts on this page can be told from the store around it. Beside the scene a counter reads 1, then 2, then 3, one step for each notice as it lands and never between them, while the counter on the other side stays at 0 because the staged mode reads no records at all. There is no timestamp anywhere in the scene and no order behind any of the notices. The cart badge and the $18.00 total do not move at any point. After the third notice the corner stays empty for a longer rest, the count returns to 0, and the loop restarts. The demo’s pace is compressed to fit a loop: the booster’s own guidance is one notice every 12 to 30 seconds, each held 8 to 15 seconds, which is slower and quieter than what is shown here. The booster’s other mode, which broadcasts real recent orders instead, is set out field by field further down the page.
LUMÉ is a demo store — three notices per loop, one at a time, the corner empty between them.
▲ +15% conversions** The SalesMax marketing page prints “Simulated sale popups can boost conversions by up to 15% (Data by TrustPulse)”. Read it as an up-to benchmark for simulated sale popups in general, attributed to TrustPulse, not as a SalesMax measurement. Your own figure appears per booster in the SalesMax dashboard.
A LUMÉ demo store, showing the staged mode. The page is a shop listing headed LUMÉ / Shop / Knitwear with six products on it, and the shopper is already carrying an $18.00 basket. On a timer, and with no pointer on the screen, three notices arrive in the bottom-left corner one after another: Emily from Berlin with the Ribbed Beanie at $12.00, then David from Kyiv with the Canvas Tote Bag at $39.00, then Lina from London with the Zip Hoodie at $54.00. Each one slides in the same way, is held still for about two and a half seconds, and slides out again, and the corner stands empty for about a second before the next appears — they never overlap and never stack. Every product is a real one from the catalogue at its own price, and every buyer name and city is drawn from the two lists you write, which is why both of those fields are drawn as slots — the flag beside each city is part of the typed value, not something the plugin works out. Each notice carries a “Shop now” button, sized to its own words on the left of the card. Two marks on every notice are this page’s own and not the plugin’s: a dashed tag reading SalesMax seated on the card’s top edge, and a thin green outline that sweeps slowly round the whole card. SalesMax prints neither on a storefront; they are drawn so that the one element the booster puts on this page can be told from the store around it. Beside the scene a counter reads 1, then 2, then 3, one step for each notice as it lands and never between them, while the counter on the other side stays at 0 because the staged mode reads no records at all. There is no timestamp anywhere in the scene and no order behind any of the notices. The cart badge and the $18.00 total do not move at any point. After the third notice the corner stays empty for a longer rest, the count returns to 0, and the loop restarts. The demo’s pace is compressed to fit a loop: the booster’s own guidance is one notice every 12 to 30 seconds, each held 8 to 15 seconds, which is slower and quieter than what is shown here. The booster’s other mode, which broadcasts real recent orders instead, is set out field by field further down the page.
Stock ScarcityWhere it shows
Placement works the same way in both modes, and both settings — the pages and the corner — sit in the booster’s Display Settings.
Click a page — the preview redraws it. The corner buttons move the notice.
In the staged mode the documentation is flat about it: Frequency is a number of seconds, and that number is the entire trigger — nothing a shopper does, and nothing that happens in your store, starts or stops one. For the real-orders mode the pacing is not written down anywhere we can cite, so we claim none: check on a staging copy whether a notice follows an order as it lands or whether the same timer walks a list of recent ones. Nothing below is documented for either mode, and none of it is claimed here:
The two modes
Same corner, same nine parts, same timers — a different thing behind the words, so here is what fills each field in each.
The notice reports a purchase your store actually took — 8theme confirmed that to us directly. What follows is the field-by-field reading it implies.
8theme confirmed the mode, not which part of an order fills which line: the four rows above are what “real orders” implies, not a published mapping. Read it off your own install.
The privacy consequence, said out loud: a real buyer’s name and town go up on your storefront for strangers to read, and nobody agreed to that at checkout. Weigh it against your privacy policy before switching this mode on.
The notice is composed: you write a list of names and a list of cities, and the booster pairs a random draw with a product your filters allow. This is the mode 8theme documents, under the name Fake Sale Popup.
No customer record is read here at all — 8theme’s own FAQ says “No actual customer data is used”, so there is no privacy exposure to weigh. What it asks instead: the activity is composed, and the header line you type is where you can say so.
from the ordercatalogue data your store already holdsyou type a string or a list you wrotegenerated made up by the plugin
Templates & appearance
Two templates, four strings you type, and nine elements you switch on one at a time — all shared by both modes. Untick a part and the notice says less.
typed you wrote itcatalogue read from the productbuyer namepurchase timebuyer city the mode decides: off the order in real mode; from your list, or generated, in stagedchrome the widget itself
The math
A notice adds nothing to a basket — it can only change how many get finished. Say 400 orders, a 5% lift, a $70 order: 400 × 5% × $70 = +$1,400/mo. Press the keys.
The control room
Everything you configure falls into three groups: how often a notice comes and how long it stays, which products it may name, and when the campaign runs.
Tap the chips — the rule sentence rewrites itself. These are the controls that decide when a notice comes; the ones that decide what it says are in Templates & Appearance above.
How often a notice appears. The documentation’s own guidance is 12–30 seconds: shorter feels urgent, longer feels subtle. Set it to 15 and one notice arrives every fifteen seconds, whatever else is or is not happening.
How long each notice stays before it fades out, typically 8–15 seconds. Set it alongside Frequency rather than on its own: between them, the two numbers decide how much of that corner is occupied and for how long.
How many products cycle through the feed — unlimited, or a number from 1 to 12. Fewer (2–4) keeps a promotion focused; more (6–10) reads as store-wide activity.
Customers and Locations: semicolon-separated pools the notice takes a name and a city from at random. They are what the staged mode runs on, and the real mode has no use for them. Both fields appear only after you save the campaign for the first time.
SalesMax → Sales Boosters → + New Booster, pick the booster type — the published documentation lists it as Fake Sale Popup — name it, configure it — including which mode it runs in — and save.
An activation toggle and a day the campaign switches itself on and off, set at campaign level. Days, not hours: no time-of-day window, day-of-week rule or recurring schedule is documented.
Verbatim from the documentation: “Enabling multiple filters does not narrow the list to matching all filters. Instead, it pulls in products matching any selected filter.” Two filters widen the shortlist rather than narrowing it — confirm the combination you build on a staging copy.
Those two filters read genuine WooCommerce sales rank and ratings, so the product a notice names can be honestly popular. In staged mode that signal says the product sells well in general, never that somebody bought it a moment ago; in real mode the order supplies that part.
In staged mode, leave the names blank and the notice says Someone — “Someone from Paris just purchased…”. It is the one word in a composed notice that names nobody.
Several campaigns can share a page, each cycling its own products and timers. That is how a busier feed is built — and worth deciding deliberately, because it is also how a storefront starts to look louder than it is.
Check the campaign is active and pointed at the right pages, that the Customers and Locations lists are filled in and correctly formatted, and that the frequency is not so long it looks inactive. Caching plugins can block the script outright — disable them temporarily to test.
FAQ
That depends on the mode, and both modes are real options. In the real-orders mode, yes: the notice reports a purchase your store actually took, and the name, the city, the product and the time all come off that order — though that exact field mapping is not documented anywhere we can cite, so confirm it on a staging copy. In the staged mode, no: the product is a genuine catalogue item, but the buyer’s name and the city are drawn at random from lists you type and the time is generated — 8theme’s documentation for that mode says it in as many words, “All names, products, and times are simulated.” A setting decides which mode runs. A shopper cannot tell the two apart by looking, which is exactly why the choice is worth a minute of your attention instead of a default.
This is the question that separates the two modes. In the real-orders mode there is nothing to broadcast: no order, no notice — and how far back the booster will reach for one is not documented anywhere we can cite, so test it on a staging copy rather than assume a quiet week fills itself. In the staged mode you get exactly the same notices at exactly the same rate, because nothing there is sourced from orders: a store that has never taken one produces an identical stream to a store doing a thousand a day. Its only inputs are your Customers list, your Locations list, the filtered product shortlist and the two timers. The one documented fallback is for an empty name list — leave Customers blank and the notice says “Someone from Paris just purchased…” instead of naming anybody.
In the real-orders mode, yes — that is what the mode does, and it is the reason to decide it deliberately. A buyer’s name and town go up on your storefront where strangers read them, and nobody agreed to that at the checkout; weigh it against your privacy policy before you switch it on. In the staged mode, no, and the documentation is unambiguous about why: “No actual customer data is used” and “All data is randomly generated based on the name and location pools you define.” No order record is read, so there is nothing to leak. That is the whole trade in one line: the mode with a real purchase behind it is the mode that publishes a real person’s details.
Yes. You can assign the booster to specific products, categories or globally across your store, and the same filter set every SalesMax booster uses applies here: specific products, categories, tags, a price range, best selling, top rated, newest, featured, on sale and more. One caution worth reading twice — SalesMax filters are additive, not restrictive: enabling two filters pulls in products matching either one, rather than narrowing to products matching both. Product Display Limit then caps how many of them cycle, from 1 to 12 or unlimited.
Yes to both. The popup is responsive and works on desktop and mobile by default. For several at once, create multiple campaigns — each with its own product or category targeting, its own frequency and duration, and optionally its own name and location pools — and assign them to the same page. Each cycles independently. Stagger the frequencies so the messages do not repeat in lockstep, and set the total deliberately: more campaigns on one page is exactly how a storefront starts looking busier than it is.
Works well with
A notice can get somebody to open a product page. The row starts with what waits for them there, then runs through the rest of the suite.
Live inventory counts that create honest urgency — real stock levels, never fabricated.
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Live Sales Notifications
A quiet storefront looks like a closed one. Let the corner of the page say otherwise — on every plan, no feature gating, ever.