Announcements in the header

What this solution does

The "Announcements in Header" module enables the placement of managed informational widgets and banners on a website for important messages, notifications, promotions, and service updates. Announcements are configured via the 1C-Bitrix administrative panel. Display can be restricted to specific audiences, selected pages, and a defined time period.

This solution allows for rapid communication of significant events to visitors without modifying templates or manually editing pages. Create informational messages, alerts, promotional offers, and service status notifications. Each announcement supports customization of design, target link, active period, display area, and audience selection rules.

The module is suitable for online stores, corporate websites, information portals, and multisite projects. Management is performed through the 1C-Bitrix administrative interface. Built-in reporting tracks impressions, clicks, dismissals, and CTR.

Key features:

- Create and edit announcements from the administrative panel.

- Place announcements in areas defined by the module.

- Support for multiple websites within a single 1C-Bitrix installation.

- Configure title, text, link, and link text.

The header announcements module allows placing links as individual elements or clickable tiles. Configuration options include opening links in the current or a new tab, automatically appending UTM parameters, and sending goals to Yandex.Metrica. Ready-made color schemes are available alongside custom styling with solid backgrounds, gradients, decorative patterns, or background images. Users can adjust text and highlight colors, alignment, sizes, margins, and set specific parameters for mobile devices. Announcements can be pinned during page scrolling. The close button displays as an icon or text. Re-display of a closed announcement is configurable based on content updates, announcement changes, or a specified time interval. Visibility can be restricted by pages and domains. Targeting is available by site, user, user groups, authorization status, device type, UTM parameters, and regional codes. Scheduling of start and end dates and times is supported. Priority management and sorting allow grouping announcements. A/B testing is implemented with weight configuration for variants and automatic winner selection. The system collects statistics on impressions, clicks, and dismissals, generating reports for announcements and A/B tests. Settings can be imported and exported in JSON and CSV formats.

The module provides built-in diagnostics for installation integrity, data schemas, and public file accessibility. Announcements can be connected automatically or installed manually via a component.

Use cases include notifications about technical maintenance or operational mode changes, delivery timelines and service availability, announcements of promotions, discounts, sales, or new products, and warnings regarding changes to service terms. The tool supports displaying informational banners for authorized users, sending personalized messages to specific customer groups, showing different content for mobile and desktop devices, and conducting A/B testing of text variants.

Key capabilities: no need to manually edit templates for new publications, flexible display rules to avoid overwhelming visitors, adaptive settings for optimal rendering on various devices, built-in statistics for performance evaluation, multi-site support for centralized project management, and import/export functions for migrating settings and creating backups.

Management is performed in the admin panel section 'Marketing → Header Announcements'.

Header announcement settings are located in: Settings → Product Settings → Module Settings.

General iT can install and configure this module and check how it works on your website.