# Announcement bar

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You can add an announcement bar to your online store to display important information about your store.

You can highlight the following information by adding an announcement bar:

* Any shipping delays or regions not accepting international shipments.
* Any new or updated policy pages.
* Any promotions are being offered at this time, such as sales or new gift cards.

<table><thead><tr><th width="287">Setting</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Auto rotation</td><td>Enable this toggle to automatically rotate through multiple announcement bar messages if more than one is added.</td></tr><tr><td>Countdown</td><td><p><strong>Enable countdown timer</strong><br>Enable this toggle to display a countdown timer inside the announcement bar.</p><p></p><p><strong>Timer position</strong></p><p> Select the position of the countdown timer within the announcement bar:<br>• <strong>Start</strong> – Places the timer at the beginning of the bar<br>• <strong>Next</strong> – Places the timer after the text<br><br><strong>End date</strong><br>Add date here. The end date must be set to a future date and include the following format: YYYY/MM/DD Example: 2025/12/31.</p></td></tr><tr><td>Button</td><td><p><strong>Label</strong> </p><p>Enter the text for the button displayed inside the announcement bar. </p><p></p><p><strong>Link</strong> </p><p>Use "Link" to add a link to the Button in the announcement bar.</p></td></tr><tr><td>Secondary menu</td><td><p><strong>Menu</strong> </p><p>Allows you to display a secondary navigation menu within the announcement bar. Select any existing menu from your store’s navigation settings. </p><p></p><p><strong>Text style</strong> </p><p>Choose how the secondary menu text should be displayed:<br>• <strong>Capitalize</strong> – Capitalizes the first letter of each word<br>• <strong>Uppercase</strong> – Converts the entire text to uppercase</p></td></tr><tr><td>Color scheme</td><td><p>In this section, you can change the background and foreground color of a section using the color scheme.</p><ul><li>Scheme 1</li><li>Scheme 2</li><li>Scheme 3</li><li>Scheme 4</li><li>Scheme 5</li><li>Scheme 6</li><li>Scheme 7</li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table>

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## Add an announcement&#x20;

Only one announcement bar section is available in the theme, but, there can be more than ten blocks in the announcement bar section with which you can add multiple announcement bars. Moreover, In the announcement bar section, you can only add announcement bar blocks.

<table><thead><tr><th width="272">Block</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Text</td><td>Enter text to display as a announcement bar text on the section.</td></tr><tr><td>Link</td><td>Use this settings to add a link to the  announcement bar text in the section.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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