WooCommerce Cart Suggestions

In our weekly posts, we are constantly trying to help you to improve your online store. We tried to sell more than one product for each customer. We showed additional products in our product tabs. However, we have more ways to improve our store. In this article, we will consider one of them.

So, what do we do when the customer added the goods to the shopping cart and goes to it to make payment? We think that customer already selected all that he is need, and we’re can’t to suggest more than he is want. It’s not true! We think that this is not the end.

You can to show related products in cart. Just to choose the products to each category or special product. It takes to you a few minutes and we know how to do it without any lines of code

WOOCOMMERCE CART SUGGESTIONS

WooCommerce Cart Suggestions plugin displays some additional products for your customers. Maybe your customers want some more products from your shop, but don’t know about it. You can display products, that will be suggested from current products in cart.

Plugin features:

• Suggest products by another products in the cart
• Suggest products by categories from products in the cart
• Default suggestions, that uses if another suggestions didn’t found
• You can setup suggested products count for cart
• Display suggestions for customers on any pages and any places with widget or shortcode

The plugin menu

Woocommerce Cart Suggestions menu is located Woocommerce -> Cart Suggestions. In addition, the plugin has its own widget.

The plugin settings page has a 3 tabs:

• General
• CSS
• License

Next in this article, we will show you how to use and configure this plugin.

General

This tab is the main tab for plugin settings configuration. On the “General” tab, you can see:

• Display position – checkboxes for the position where your suggestions will be displayed
• Style – dropdown select with styles for product displaying
• Products per line – dropdown select with figures to select the number of products per line
• Suggestions Title – field for inputting the title of suggestions block
• Max suggestions count – field for inputting a max count of suggestion products
• Default suggestions – it is a products that will be suggest for each products in your store
• Categories – You can choose any category from your store and adding a product suggestion for this category
• Products – The same logic as for categories but only for products
• Shortcode – The block with information about using a shortcode

On the next picture you will see how we to configured our “General” tab.

You can read our guide on how to use shortcodes if you do not already know.

In addition, we slightly customized the CSS for the widget’s slider.

Widget

The widget from plugin called WooCommerce Cart Suggestions. You can place this widget to any widget area like other widgets.

• Title – Widget title
• Products count – maximum products count, that can be displayed
• Widget type – visual style of suggested products
• Add to cart button – dsiplay Add to cart button under products or not
• Products per line – products count per line or per slider for sliders type

Our widget configuration.

Results of work:

In Conclusion

We hope that this article was useful for you. With Woocommerce Product Suggestions, you can to increase your sells. More information about plugin work you can read on the plugin page or his documentation.