Including any type stories widget is highly recommended for increased engagement with your stories.
Smart Stories allows you to apply two main types of widgets to your stories: sales booster widgets and other widgets.
Sales booster widgets typically lead to improved sales where a user is required to click to claim a coupon or to directly visit a product page while other widgets are meant to improve the user experience with customized stickers and button among other things.
Sales booster widgets include a countdown widget, a coupon widget, Shopify "Add to cart" buttons , and Shopify collection buttons.
Other widgets include an email widget, a sticker widget, custom and predefined buttons. It also gives you the opportunity to create and upload your own custom widgets.