Home screen guide: what each card and button does

Home shows what needs your attention now: red cards, running offers, the schedules in the next 7 days and upcoming occasions. You also start an offer or a new schedule from here.

Open it from Home in the menu on the left. On your phone, use the tab bar at the bottom. The other screens are in PopAutomate screen guide: every screen and button.

Quick offer

Quick offer opens a small dialog for a percentage discount on the whole store or on one category, with only three choices. The discount in this offer ends on its own.

Each option is explained in Quick offer guide: every option and button.

New schedule

New schedule opens the four steps of a schedule: What happens?, then Which products?, then When?, then Review & activate. On your phone, it is the + button in the tab bar at the bottom.

Next to it, the Calendar button opens your schedules and the occasions on the days of the month.

Getting started

Before you create your first schedule, a Getting started list appears with a count of the steps you finished. It has these steps:

• "Connect your store with Salla" or "Connect your store with Zid": it checks itself off when your store is connected.
• "Learn how to launch an offer (3 mins)" with Show me: a short lesson inside the app.
• "Make sure the time is set to Riyadh Time" with Correct: the button only checks off the step. It does not change the time zone. You change it in Settings.
• "Create your first schedule" with Start, and "Track first run".
• "Enable email alerts" with Activate: it opens the Notifications tab in Settings.

Hide menu hides the list in this browser only, so you may still see it on your phone after you hide it on your computer.

What do you want to schedule first?

Before your first schedule, three cards also appear. Each one starts a discount schedule with the form already filled in, and you finish the rest yourself:

• Weekly offer: a discount that repeats every Thursday and Friday. You enter the percentage and choose the products.
• Get ready for White Friday: a discount for the White Friday season. If the season is close, the percentage may already be filled in.
• Offer with announcement: a discount that starts before your ad goes live and ends after it.

Nothing changes in your store until you review the schedule and activate it.

Red cards

A red card appears for each schedule that is Disabled or Failed. It shows the reason and one button to fix it:

What the card shows	Button
"Your connection to Salla has been lost." or "Your connection to Zid has been lost."	Reconnect
"… of … didn't change."	Open log
A repeating schedule that PopAutomate stopped after two failed runs in a row	Turn back on
"This schedule is incomplete and can't run. Finish the missing steps."	Choose products
"It didn't run. Open the log to see why."	Open log
"We couldn't put all of “…” back": products stayed changed after the last restore attempt	Open log

A card also appears for a schedule that still has some products changed after the last restore attempt. PopAutomate tries again on its own after 15 minutes, then after an hour, then after 6 hours. Then the card appears. Click Open log, then Restore.

If the connection is lost, Home groups all the stopped schedules in one card.

If Turn back on does not work, "We couldn't do that. Try again." appears. For what to do in each case, see A schedule did not run on time: why and how to fix it.

Running now

After your first schedule, the Running now and Coming in the next 7 days panels appear. Running now lists every schedule that is Running or Offer Active. Click its name to open its page.

• While a run is in progress, a progress bar and a line like "Change 12 from 50" appear, with the Stop execution button. The page refreshes on its own every 5 seconds.
• Stopping a run also pauses the schedule, so it does not run at its times until you click Activate on its page.
• A live offer shows its end time, like "Ends tomorrow about 9 PM", and the End offer now button.

Ending the offer restores your products now. For a discount, the sale price ends. A sale price the product had before the offer does not come back. Restore it yourself from your store dashboard. Details are in End an offer and restore prices now.

If nothing is running, "No active offers right now." appears.

Coming in the next 7 days

This panel shows the next 6 run times from now to the end of the seventh day, with the day, the time, the schedule name and what it does. Click a row to open the schedule.

The time follows the word "about", because a run starts within about a minute of its scheduled time.

If you have nothing scheduled this week, "Nothing scheduled this week." appears. The Calendar link at the top of the panel shows the coming months.

Upcoming occasions

The next 4 occasions in the coming year appear, such as White Friday or Ramadan. Each card shows how long is left, the date and the Hijri date.

• "Expected ·" before the Hijri date means the date is not confirmed yet.
• Set up your offer opens a new schedule for this occasion. If you already set up a schedule for it, "1 schedule ready" and the Open button appear.
• Copy last year's offer appears if you had an offer for the same occasion last year. It does not appear if you already set something up for the occasion this year.

Under the occasions, a "Learn: …" line may appear with Show me. It starts the next short lesson in the app.

The bell

The bell is at the top of every page. A dot on it means there are alerts. It shows schedules that are Disabled or Failed, schedules whose products PopAutomate could not all restore, and runs that ended Completed with issues in the last 7 days.

Click an alert to open the schedule page, or click Full history to see everything that happened. Details are in PopAutomate alerts: the bell, email and summary.