A Fresh Look at Compliance: Consentmo's Cookie Banner Settings
Everything that shapes your cookie banner now lives in one place: the Cookie banner section of the Consentmo app. What used to be the "Cookie Bar Settings" tab has grown into five focused tabs (Design, Behavior, Content, Regions and A/B testing), while cookie management has moved into its own Monitoring & Trackers section.
This guide walks through each tab so you know exactly where to find a setting and what it does. Every setting can also be found instantly with the app's Spotlight search.
Why your cookie banner settings matter
Your cookie banner is the first thing many visitors see, so it has two jobs. It must meet privacy laws like GDPR and US state laws, and it must feel like part of your store, not an interruption.
The new structure separates those jobs clearly. Design controls how the banner looks, Behavior controls how consent works, and Content controls what it says. Regions then decides who sees which version.
Design: make the banner look like your store
The Design tab controls every visual detail of your banner and its preview updates as you work.
Banner layout and position
Choose between Banner, Box and Dialog layouts, then place the banner at the top, bottom, center or any corner of the screen. Plus plans and above also unlock Smart Consent, a compact layout with a custom icon option and a "Keep expanded on desktop" setting.
Color, style, branding and fonts
Pick a Light, Dark or Custom color style, or let the banner Match Theme automatically. Choose solid, outline or default button styles, arrange buttons horizontally or vertically, add your logo, and use your theme font or another font. Plus plans add box shadow and custom CSS under Advanced customization.
Mobile experience
The Native mobile banner (Plus and above) gives phone visitors a banner built for small screens, with an optional close button.
Cookie widget
The cookie widget, previously the "re-open the Cookie Bar" option, now has its own style, design and positioning settings. It stays on your storefront so visitors can change their consent at any time. It is available on Plus plans and above.
Behavior: decide how consent works
The Behavior tab replaces the old "Cookie Bar Behavior" window and goes much further.
Consent model and mechanism
Choose explicit consent, where visitors must click to accept, or implied consent (Plus and above), where continued browsing counts as agreement. You can also treat a page scroll or page refresh as consent, and set an implied consent safety delay so consent isn't recorded the instant someone lands.
Cookie state before user choice
Set whether analytics, marketing and functional cookies are active or blocked before a visitor makes a choice (Plus and above). This is how you match strict opt-in rules in the EU or opt-out rules elsewhere.
USA opt-out signals and Do Not Sell
For US visitors, configure how your store responds to opt-out signals and what happens to each cookie type after someone uses "Do Not Sell or Share". You can also show an opt-out confirmation message.
Display rules, interaction and expiration
- Display rules: control where and when the banner appears, including a banner delay on Enterprise plans.
- Interaction and display controls: force visitors to interact before browsing, with optional overlay blur and disabled scrolling, or let a click outside dismiss the banner.
- Consent and expiration: decide when consent is asked again (Plus and above) and record consent timestamps.
- Preference page details: choose which tracker types appear in the preferences popup (Enterprise and above).
Cookie list
The old "Cookie Information" setting is now the Cookie list. Turn it on to show visitors exactly which cookies sit in each category, right inside the preferences popup. It is available on Standard plans and above.
Advanced settings
Advanced settings include bot detection on Enterprise plans, which keeps automated traffic from skewing your consent data.
Content: say it clearly, in every language
The Content tab holds all the text your visitors read, with a live preview of every change.
Languages
With multilingual mode (Standard plans and above), you can translate your banner and preferences popup so each visitor sees it in their own language.
Cookie banner text and buttons
Edit the main consent message so it clearly explains why you use cookies. Buttons now have their own settings, so you can rename each one to match your store's voice and, on Standard plans and above, change their order.
Preferences popup text
Set the title and description of the popup where visitors choose which cookie types to allow: strictly required, analytics, marketing and functional.
Imprint link
Stores that need a legal notice, common in Germany and Austria, can now add an imprint link to the banner on any plan.
Regions and A/B testing: the right banner for each visitor
Regions
Privacy rules differ by location, and the Regions tab lets your banner follow them. Use Manage regions to choose where the banner appears, and turn on Smart geotargeting (Plus and above) to show each visitor the banner and consent rules that fit their region.
A/B testing
On Enterprise plans and above, set up two banner versions and test them against each other. Results appear under Analytics & Reports, so you can keep the version that earns more consent without cutting corners on compliance.
Monitoring & Trackers: manage every cookie in one place
Cookie management has moved out of the old Management tab into its own Monitoring & Trackers section, under the Cookies & trackers tab.
Add, edit and remove trackers
Use Add Tracker to list a cookie with its name, category (strictly required, analytics, marketing or functional), duration, provider and description. Edit or remove entries any time to keep your cookie disclosures accurate.
Import and export trackers
Bulk-update your list by importing trackers from a CSV file, or export your full list for audits, records or moving settings between stores.
Cookie scanner and scan history
Run the Cookie scanner on demand to find every cookie set when a visitor first lands on your store. On Plus plans and above, schedule scans to run automatically so new cookies are caught quickly. Scan history keeps a record of past scans.
Consent monitoring
The Consent monitoring tab checks that your banner is actually doing its job on the live storefront, so problems surface before they become compliance risks.
Cookie policy page
The old Cookie Information Table has evolved into the Cookie policy page in the Privacy center. On Enterprise plans and above, the Smart Cookie Policy keeps this page in sync with your tracker list, so your disclosures stay current without manual edits.
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