5 Sidekick prompts to launch Father’s Day Campaign faster

[Ellie-BOGOS]

Hi everyone!

Father’s Day is just weeks away (June 21, 2026). But setting up a campaign manually, segments, discounts, collections, and storefront updates can take a full day.

I tested Shopify Sidekick to see how much of that prep I could offload. Here are 5 workflows that reduced my manual setup time from around 4-6 hours to under 5 minutes, with the exact prompts I used.

If you’ve tested any useful prompts or workflows, please share them below. I’d love to learn from others!

Before you start

• Make sure you’re on a paid plan and set the language to English [help doc]

• Have at least 30 days of sales data for best recommendations.

• Save the prompts/instructions as Sidekick Skills so you can reuse them for other seasonal campaigns without prompting anything from the start. [help doc]

1. Build Customer Segments

Use Sidekick to identify your best Father’s Day customer segments and strategy for each based on store data.

1. Suggest the best customer segments to target for a Father's Day 2026 campaign. 
2. For each segment, explain: 
    - why they are relevant, what type of offer would work best, and 
    - how I should prioritize them based on purchase history, total spend, and customer behavior.

Then, use it to set up these segments to use for emails, discounts, and so on.

Quick check: Review the segment rules to make sure the date range, spend amount, and customer group match your campaign goal.

2. Set up Free Gift with Purchase

Use Sidekick to recommend the best Father’s Day free gift strategy, including the right spend threshold to encourage customers to buy more.

1. Suggest a free gift with purchase strategy for my Father's Day 2026 campaign. 
2. Analyze my store's past sales data and current AOV to recommend:
    - the best minimum spend threshold, 
    - which product to offer as the free gift, 
    - which customer segment to target, 
    - any usage limits or combination rules I should use to protect margins.

Then, use it to help set up the offer with Shopify Discounts and automatically end after Father’s Day.

1. Set up a free gift with purchase promotion for Father's Day 2026 using Shopify native discounts. 
2. Use \[gift product\] as the free gift, set the minimum spend threshold at \[$X\]. 
3. Apply it to the customer segment called \[X\], add usage limits and combination rules, and schedule it to expire on June 22, 2026.

Quick check: Review the gift product, spend threshold, discount rules, customer segment, and expiration date before launching.

3. Build a Father’s Day Collection

Use Sidekick to recommend the best products for a Father’s Day collection based on your store data, then turn the selected products into a campaign-ready collection.

1. Suggest the best products to include in a Father's Day collection. 
2. Review my sales data, product portfolio, bestsellers, margins, and giftability. 
3. For each product, explain why it fits the campaign and how I should prioritize it.

Then, use Sidekick to create the collection based on your chosen products:

1. Based on the products I selected from your recommendation above, create a "Father's Day Gifts" collection. 
2. Write a short collection description and add it to my main store navigation menu. 
3. Schedule it to hide after June 21, 2026.

Quick check: Review the product list, collection description, menu placement, and hide date before publishing.

4. Make the storefront campaign-ready

Use Sidekick to refresh your storefront for Father’s Day by updating supported theme sections, banners, colors, and promotional blocks without writing code.

1. Suggest the best storefront updates for my Father's Day 2026 campaign. 
2. Review my current theme, homepage layout, and offer details.  
3. Recommend which banners, sections, colors, and promotional messages I should update to make the campaign more visible.

Then, use Sidekick to apply the selected updates:

Add a countdown timer block to my homepage that counts down to June 21, 2026, with the message 'Father's Day Sale Ends In'.

5. Check What Worked After the Campaign

Use Sidekick to review your Father’s Day campaign results, see which offers performed best, and find what to improve for the next seasonal sale.

1. Analyze my Father's Day 2026 campaign performance from \[Date\] to \[Date\]. 
2. Review sales, orders, AOV, conversion rate, discount usage, and product performance. 
3. Tell me which products/sales offers worked best, which customer segments responded most, and what I should repeat or improve for my next seasonal campaign.

Quick check: Compare the results with your original campaign goal before deciding what to reuse.

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That’s my current checklist for using Sidekick to prepare a Father’s Day campaign faster.

Your turn! What’s the one Sidekick prompt that saved you the most time last season? Drop it below.

Ellie - I work on the BOGOS: Free Gift Bundle Upsell team, so free-gift promotions are a bit of an obsession of mine

[Christinebeauty]

I tested sidekick on my test store too. For simple visual theme updates like a marquee announcement bar, it was quite good and fast to generate.

But for sections that need logic underneath (it suggested me creating a “Bundle & Save” section), the visual section was created. However, I had to check the logic carefully to see whether it actually worked. And yeah, sometimes it didn’t. It’s just a UI block.

I think it’s best to review everything carefully before publishing, especially sections that involve logic.

Anyways, I tried your suggestions, and they turned out really well. Thank you for all the helpful ideas

[naz_ShopiDevs]

Yes, this is possible, and this is a great use case for reusable Sidekick prompts.

One thing I’d add is that if you’re building prompts like these for seasonal campaigns, it helps to save and organize them so you don’t have to rewrite everything for Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, BFCM, Valentine’s Day, etc.

Sidekick AI Studio for this exact workflow. It lets merchants create, save, organize, copy, edit, import/export, and reuse Sidekick skills and prompt collections inside Shopify.

App link: Sidekick AI Studio - Create & organize Sidekick AI skills library and magic prompts | Shopify App Store

[atssystemes]

Wow, this is impressive! Thanks for sharing these workflows — saving hours of manual work is a game-changer, especially with such a busy holiday coming up. I’ll definitely try out Shopify Sidekick with your prompts to streamline my Father’s Day campaign setup. Appreciate the tips!

[bchen27]

the discount creation and collection prompts are solid but i’d add one thing, test the actual customer-facing experience after sidekick makes changes. i’ve had it set up discount codes that technically worked but the conditions were slightly off from what i described. always place a test order before going live with any promo it creates.

for the father’s day campaign specifically, the timing angle is the most valuable part. most stores wait until the week before and then rush everything. having segments and flows set up 2+ weeks out means your emails hit inboxes before people are drowning in every other brand’s father’s day promos.