Requesting a Home Page Banner Ad

Home Page Banner ads require a simple "context' to be sent to Project Agora Commerce. A "context" is a bit of code that defines the conditions under which an ad is shown to a customer.

Home Page Banner Ads use a similar context to Product Ads, you will need your contentStandardId and bannerSlotIds.

You will receive your contentStandardId and bannerSlotIdsfrom Project Agora Commerce once your content standard is generated.

The bannerSlotIdsprovided in the examples below are not the ones that will be used.

Context:

Below are the values needed to generate a home page ad:

POST $BASE_URL/v1/ads/generate HTTP/1.1
accept: application/json
content-type: application/json
Authorization: Basic your_api_key_here
{
    "pageType": "Home",
    "catalogId": "$MY_CATALOG_ID",
    "contentStandardId": "string",
    "bannerSlotIds": ["string"],
    "maxNumberOfAds": number
}

Exemplar Context

Here is an example of a context for the pageType "Home":

POST $BASE_URL/v1/ads/generate HTTP/1.1
accept: application/json
content-type: application/json
Authorization: Basic 4ww25f70-b52s-40de-8f29-07b139b5cdc8
{
    "pageType": "Home",
    "catalogId": "628dbe95-2ec9-4e07-881d-3e9f92ab2e0b",
    "contentStandardId": "21r372ba-dce6-46f2-bd16-1b923b9189f9",
    "bannerSlotIds": ["Home_Banner"],
    "maxNumberOfAds": 2
}

What Happens when an Ad Is Successfully Requested

When you successfully request an ad, you receive the following object:

HTTP/2 200
{
    "ads": [],
    "banners": [
        {
            "id": "banner_syCZH8KEezQH4zAwlPrfLoUTYd0yODk5MDQ5UA==",
            "contentStandardId": "21r372ba-dce6-46f2-bd16-1b923b9189f9",
            "slotId": "Home_Banner",
            "imageUrl": "https://assets.flavedo.io/s/BuzjrZS0fdyWw-NOyTh9Z6wxsvrdbtmXzwrDCvmSr4o=",
            "linkUrl": "https://www.retailer.com/linkforwardedurl",
            "altText": "Home banner for brandx laptop",
            "text": "",
            "gtins": [
                "catpref--2899049P",
                "catpref--9891566P",
                "catpref--2902620P"
            ],
            "expiry": "2019-12-10T01:46:07.518340479Z",
            "tags": {}
        }
    ],
    "products": []
}

No customer information or cart items are necessary in this simple context. The simple context consists only of necessary filters.

In order to serve a Banner Ad on your website you will have to use as a creative image the imageUrl , and as a landing page the linkUrl as taken from the above ad response. The id also from this response shall be saved for later use for Impression/Click reporting and Order reporting.

The product field is legacy and can be ignored

The text and gtins fields can be ignored in a standard integration

In gtin field of the above responses you will get the pa_id as in the product feed for the product to be displayed.

Reminder: the pa_id is the concatenation of the catalog prefix and each product SKU, so to identify which SKU to display on your side you may need to remove the catalog prefix and the symbols "--"

pa_id= catprefix--SKU

Requesting Product Ads

To request Product Ads and Banner Ads in the same request, use the maxNumberOfAds field to specify the number of Product Ads requested.

Below is an example requesting 3 Product Ads and 2 Banner Ads

POST $BASE_URL/v1/ads/generate HTTP/1.1
accept: application/json
content-type: application/json
Authorization: Basic 4ww25f70-b52s-40de-8f29-07b139b5cdc8
{
  "pageType": "Home",
    "catalogId": "628dbe95-2ec9-4e07-881d-3e9f92ab2e0b",
    "contentStandardId": "21r372ba-dce6-46f2-bd16-1b923b9189f9",
    "bannerSlotIds": ["Home_Banner", "Tile_Banner"],
    "maxNumberOfAds": 3
}

What Happens when an Ad Is Successfully Requested

When you successfully request an ad, you receive the following object:

HTTP/2 200
{
    "ads": [
        {
            "id": "display_SEY2W7-VZzspoirbw4ANs-r-w6YyODk5MDQ5UA==",
            "gtin": "catpref--2899049P",
            "discount": {
                "amount": 0,
                "minPrice": 0,
                "maxPerCustomer": 0
            },
            "expiry": "2019-12-10T01:46:07.516943179Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "display_-hPcUdg5KUQ2sxhE6r0XVN3-iLY5ODkxNTY2UA==",
            "gtin": "catpref--9891566P",
            "discount": {
                "amount": 0,
                "minPrice": 0,
                "maxPerCustomer": 0
            },
            "expiry": "2019-12-10T01:46:07.516948637Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "display_aGULlK-E_yEiVZ_S_jH9qsH-KhYyOTAyNjIwUA==",
            "gtin": "catpref--2902620P",
            "discount": {
                "amount": 0,
                "minPrice": 0,
                "maxPerCustomer": 0
            },
          
    ],
    "banners": [
        {
            "id": "banner_syCZH8KEezQH4zAwlPrfLoUTYd0yODk5MDQ5UA==",
            "contentStandardId": "21r372ba-dce6-46f2-bd16-1b923b9189f9",
            "slotId": "Home_Banner",
            "imageUrl": "https://assets.flavedo.io/s/BuzjrZS0fdyWw-NOyTh9Z6wxsvrdbtmXzwrDCvmSr4o=",
            "linkUrl": "https://www.retailer.com/linkforwardedurl",
            "altText": "Home banner for brandx Laptop",
            "text": "",
            "gtins": [
                "catpref--2899049P",
                "catpref--9891566P",
                "catpref--2902620P"
            ],
            "expiry": "2019-12-10T01:46:07.518340479Z",
            "tags": {}
        },
        {
            "id": "banner_t3UBEfcaPYCI1bbUtgH-iqddWfwyODk5MDQ5UA==",
            "contentStandardId": "21r372ba-dce6-46f2-bd16-1b923b9189f9",
            "slotId": "Tile_Banner",
            "imageUrl": "https://assets.flavedo.io/s/BuzjrZS0fdyWw-NOyTh9Z6wxcZjtL1mXzwrDCvmSr4o=",
            "linkUrl": "https://www.retailer.com/linkforwardedurl",
            "altText": "Tile banner for brandy Laptop",
            "text": "",
            "gtins": [
                "catpref--2790492P",
                "catpref--6902690P",
                "catpref--8891466P"
            ],
            "expiry": "2019-12-10T01:46:07.518340479Z",
            "tags": {}
        }
    ],
    "products": []
}

If you are unsure of the strings displayed on this page. Take a look at the Reference page.

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