Showcase: Shoppable Product Placement

How to Enable Showcase

1. Go to Settings → Distribution
2. Scroll to the Showcase section
3. Toggle Enable Showcase on
4. (Optional) Toggle Enable OOS Rotation to auto-replace out-of-stock products

Showcase requires products in your catalog (connected via Shopify or WooCommerce). If you have no products, the Showcase options won't appear.

Badge Customization

Customize badge appearance in Settings → Distribution → Badge Appearance:

• Background Color — Badge background. Leave empty to use your brand color.
• Text Color — Badge text color. Defaults to white.
• Border Color — Badge border. Leave empty for no border.
• Icon Style — Choose from: Cart, Bag, Tag, Heart, or Star.
• Text Preset — Choose from: "Shop the Look", "Shop Now", "Get It", or Icon Only (no text).

Changes apply to all future article publishes. Re-publish existing articles to update their badges.

How Product Selection Works

When generating article images, ILLIXIS automatically selects the most relevant product from your catalog using 4-tier matching:

1. Keyword match — Products whose name or category matches the article keyword
2. Category match — Bidirectional substring matching between article keywords and product categories
3. Cooldown — Recently featured products are deprioritized so different products get exposure
4. Fallback — If no match is found, the least-recently-used product is selected

Out-of-Stock Rotation

When a product in your Shopify or WooCommerce store goes out of stock:

1. ILLIXIS detects the change via webhook
2. All articles featuring that product are identified
3. A replacement product from the same category is selected
4. Hero and inline images are regenerated with the new product
5. Badge links are updated to point to the replacement product

This happens automatically — no action needed on your part.

CMS Compatibility

Showcase badges work on all supported CMS platforms:

• Shopify — Badges injected at publish time
• WordPress — Badges injected at publish time
• Webflow — Badges injected at publish time
• Payload CMS — Badges injected at publish time

Badges use pure inline HTML and CSS — no JavaScript required. They work on any CMS that supports HTML content.

FAQ

Does Showcase affect non-ecommerce accounts? No. All Showcase features are gated behind the Enable Showcase toggle (off by default) and require products in your catalog. If you don't sell products, Showcase is invisible.

Can I disable badges on specific articles? Badges are applied at the account level. When Showcase is enabled, all published articles get badges. Toggle Showcase off in Distribution settings to remove badges from future publishes.

How much does image regeneration cost for OOS rotation? OOS rotation uses the same image generation quota as regular article images. Each regenerated image counts against your plan's image allowance.