JavaScript SDK
The JavaScript SDK lets you get information about the test or settings that a current user is active in.
Include the following JavaScript wherever you'd like (we recommend somewhere before the closing </head> tag). It will execute as soon as ShipScout has loaded and will inform you on which test the current user is in.
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<script>
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window._shipScout = window._shipScout || [];
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_shipScout.push(function (response) {
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/*
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example response object
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{
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testId: 1,
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testType: 'threshold',
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variant: 'B',
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threshold: true,
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freeShippingThresholdCents: 5000,
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shippingPriceCents: 1000,
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lineItemProperty: 0467e6f7-8d66-4610-a939-da76dd9f7a68_1_B
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}
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*/
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//apply any exchange rates to currency if necessary
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var thresholdCents = (window.Shopify && Shopify.currency && Shopify.currency.rate) ? response.freeShippingThresholdCents * Shopify.currency.rate : response.freeShippingThresholdCents;
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var flatrateCents = (window.Shopify && Shopify.currency && Shopify.currency.rate) ? response.shippingPriceCents * Shopify.currency.rate : response.shippingPriceCents;
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//format currency
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var currencyFormat = ShipScoutGetCurrency();
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//get threshold amount with currency symbol
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var thresholdAmount = ShipScoutFormatMoney(thresholdCents, currencyFormat);
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//get flat rate amount with currency symbol
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var flatrateAmount = ShipScoutFormatMoney(flatrateCents, currencyFormat);
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//==== insert your code below to dynamically update elements ====//
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//example updating an element on the page dynamically with the threshold amount
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var el = document.getElementById("foo-bar");
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if(response.freeShippingThresholdCents === 0) {
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el.innerHTML = "FREE!";
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} else {
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el.innerHTML = thresholdAmount;
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}
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});
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</script>
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Here's a description of the properties and values to expect in the response object.
Property
Value Type
Example
Description
testId
integer | null
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The test number.
variant
string | null
A
The variant this user is in.
freeShippingThresholdCents
integer
5000
*Only present if threshold is true
The amount, in cents, required
to get free shipping.
shippingPriceCents
integer
1000
The price, in cents, of shipping.
threshold
boolean
true
If there's a free shipping
threshold for this user.
testType
string | null
threshold
The value can either be "threshold", "flat-rate" or "new-vs-returning".
If there's no test live but you do have a Default Shipping Rate set in ShipScout the rate settings will still be returned by the JS SDK. The following 3 properties will be null however: testId, testType, and variant.
Testing the SDK without a live test
You can append ?shipscout_preview=yes to any URL on your website to test your SDK integration without a live test. Appending this URL will simulate these hard-coded values for the SDK:
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testType: 'threshold',
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threshold: true,
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freeShippingThresholdCents: 0,
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testId: 'preview',
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variant: 'A',
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shippingPriceCents: 500
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If you need to overwrite these hard-coded preview values to simulate a different setup or variant you can do that like this:
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window._shipScout = window._shipScout || [];
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_shipScout.push(function (response) {
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//Temporarily overwrite the response for testing
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response = {
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...response,
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freeShippingThresholdCents: 5000,
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variant: 'B',
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}
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})
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