Tokens Overview | Time-Saving Toolbox

0:01 OK, the next topic is talking about tokens. And these tokens, which you can see with an example of down here, you'll find that they're available in various different areas of your emphego platform.
0:17 So you might find them in email templates, content templates when you're creating those editable content. So things like your header, your footer, that kind of thing.
0:28 What these tokens are is the ability for you to bring in dynamic data. So rather than just including static data into your system, which then if it changes you would need to manually change, you can bring in this dynamic data which populates as and when it's needed.
0:49 Now in some ways this is more of a necessity than a time-saving thing. So for example, if you're making an email template, you might have to have the order details on there.
1:00 That's not gonna save you time, it just has to be done. But let's say the certain area is where you want, there might be settings which are controlled elsewhere in your Figo.
1:10 So I've got some examples of it here, things like what the current time is, what the storefront name is, utilizing the logo and that kind of thing.
1:19 You might have those scattered various places around your site. And if you weren't utilizing the token, it means that if you needed to change that logo, or you needed to change the storefront name, as it was written, then you would need to do it in every single place.
1:40 But if you're using the token, it means that you can update it in its one associated setting, and then it will propagate to all the different areas it's used on your site.
1:51 So let's just take a quick look at that in action. So we'll start off by showing how exactly you put these in.
2:06 I've got page a month. Okay, so on a lot of pages, if you scroll down to the bottom or an email template, it's down on the right hand side, you will find a lot of these tokens, there's a lot of them.
2:34 When these are all the things that you can include, contextually in that place. So what you might find is if you're in the email template, you have a different set of tokens available, but if you can get the homepage, for example, because some of them and won't be relevant based on where they're going
2:49 to be shown. All you have to do is click on any of those and it will copy it, and then you can put it anywhere contextually in that system.
2:59 So for example, I've been making a content template here. On all I've done is put my tokens in there, including the percentage symbols.
3:10 It needs those to actually recognize it. And wherever it sees those tokens, Whenever it actually presents that, so on the front end or as part of the email, it will replace that information.
3:23 So for example here, we can see that we've got a bunch of tokens in our setup. That includes when we're looking at things like the logo as well, so we'd need to have that actually wrapped in HTML, and you can see that I've got that in there.
3:45 And when we actually look at that on the front end, we can see that's all been automatically populated, and there's no sign of the actual token string itself.