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What's the best way to get started with Lantern?

Written by Ana Bunaiasu

Lantern offers several different ways to create your quiz depending on how much planning, time, or customization you need.

This guide will help you choose the best option for your store.

Start with AI

We recommend starting with AI if:

  • You're new to quizzes or still exploring ideas and don't have a clear quiz structure in mind

  • Your products are relatively simple and don't rely on being sold as heavily personalised routines or bundles

  • You want to launch quickly

Lantern AI can generate:

  • Questions and answers

  • Quiz flow

  • Product matching

  • Welcome page content

  • Results page recommendations

For example, AI works especially well for simpler product finder quizzes such as Perfume finders, jewellery recommendation quizzes or gift finders.

For a step-by-step tutorial, check out our support article on effortless quiz creation with Ai.


Start from Scratch

We recommend starting from scratch if:

  • You already know exactly what you want to build and have a clear quiz structure in mind

  • You need very specific product recommendation logic

  • Your products are complex, heavily customised or work best when sold as a part of a personalised routine or as bundles

  • You want full control from the beginning

This option lets you build the quiz page by page using Lantern’s built-in themes and customisation settings.

Themes control the overall look and layout of the quiz and are very easy to customise without needing to use any code or CSS.

This is often the best option for stores that already planned their consultation flow, customer journey, or product logic before building the quiz.

For a step-by-step tutorial on building your quiz from scratch, please check out the following article.


Use a Template

Templates are pre-built quizzes with:

  • Existing layouts

  • Pre-styled designs

  • Example questions and answers

  • Custom CSS and HTML

Templates are designed to help you launch quickly with a polished design.

For example, a wine quiz template could still be reused for coffee or supplements if you like the overall layout and style.

However, templates are more advanced and usually work best if you're comfortable editing content, CSS, or HTML.

In most cases, we recommend:

  1. Deleting the existing example questions

  2. Rebuilding the quiz structure for your own products and logic

If you want something easier to customise, we generally recommend using Themes and starting from scratch instead.

You can learn more about using templates in the following video.


Want a Fully Custom Quiz?

If you’d prefer, our team can build the quiz for you.

This includes:

  • Full quiz setup and logic

  • Product recommendations

  • Design and customization to match your brand

  • Integrations such as Klaviyo

  • Adding the quiz to your website

This service has a one-off cost separate from your Lantern subscription. Pricing depends on how complex the project is.

For more information, please contact:
[email protected]

We’re always happy to help you choose the best setup for your store.

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