Comments on: Shop Admin Tips – Simple Upsell and Cross sell Techniques that I Use

By: admin

admin — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:42:06 +0000

I am guessing you are referring to the eStore plugin here. When you make the button redirect URL you can use eStore’s “Add item via a link/URL” feature. So for example if your upsell page’s URL is the following:
http://www.example.com/upsell
Instead of using the above link in the button redirect URL field you would use the followoing:
http://www.example.com/upsell?wp_eStore_add_to_cart=1
This will redirect the user to your passthrough page but at the same time add item 1 to the shopping cart too. Please see the eStore’s shortcode page for more details.

By: Andrea Kalli

Andrea Kalli — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:30:16 +0000

Oh, and I also wanted to add that I am using the Variations feature for upsells, too…which is pretty darn cool and seems to work great for what I can do with it. Still, a passthrough page would be my next wish. Something that puts the product in the shopping cart, but displays another page of products before taken to the shopping cart.

Andrea

By: Andrea Kalli

Andrea Kalli — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:32:55 +0000

What’s the best way to introduce a passthrough page on the way to the Checkout page? I was thinking that I could create separate passthrough pages for each product with related products, and then use the “Button Redirect Target URL” field to put the passthrough page url into. However, it doesn’t add the original product to the cart, so I’m thinking that’s not what that field is used for (the instructions for that field indicate that’s what would happen, but I had to try it anyway )

While I do have upsell items available on the checkout page, I was hoping to use the passthrough pages instead so I can display different products on each passthrough page.that more closely relate to the product.

Anyway. I’m hoping there is a simple solution to what I’m looking for. If not, I’ll stick with putting the upsell items on the checkout page.

You’re suggestion in #1 intrigued me enough to see if it was something I could accomplish fairly easily.

Thanks in advance!
Andrea

By: John Gamings

John Gamings — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:18:58 +0000

I know that upsells are statistically valid and that they have been proven to increase sales, but they are so annoying! I often become quite frustrated with a salesman when they try 5 or 6 annoying upsells

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:29:08 +0000

Good Tips. I think cross selling is a great idea without being to aggressive. We sell a range of products that can easily be cross sold. I'll need to look for a mod that will allow our shopping cart to do this !! .-= Paul´s last blog ..Correcting Banding in Gradients =-.

By: Moja Izba

Moja Izba — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:31:08 +0000

Hi Amin and Ivy, I can relate to the special offers idea; or in other words quantity discount structure e.g. buy 5 get 20% off from the total – one item free value instead of purchasing 6. Going to get from you also the Affiliate and the Membership plugins today, sending you email about it right now. Thank you.
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By: Lillea Woodlyns

Lillea Woodlyns — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:27:11 +0000

Excellent tips! I’ve seen upsells down well and done badly, and GoDaddy is a good example of badly IMO, but I guess they are doing well overall so it’s working for them.

I still have a small number of domains with GoDaddy which, like Donna, I should move to Namecheap. Namecheap is a LOT better. GoDaddy’s prices are awful by comparison.
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By: Donna

Donna — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:55:41 +0000

“Don’t be too pushy and make your checkout page like GoDaddy (I am not sure if I am the only one who gets annoyed with their checkout system).”

You’re certainly not alone there! I hate using GoDaddy simply because of that! In fact, I moved all my domains (and I had about 50 at the time) over to Namecheap because I couldn’t stand GoDaddy and all the time I was wasting trying to navigate their system to figure out what I needed to do to get the free year’s worth of whois guard that they advertised, and make sure that they didn’t ‘trick’ me into buying things I didn’t want because they set it as a default.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:22:49 +0000

Yeah and given that you can outsource this printing and shipping bit of work, it is very easy to add this option for extra revenue without much overhead.

By: Darren (Green Change)

Darren (Green Change) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:19:40 +0000

I've seen people doing some cool upsells with eBooks lately. Their checkout page allows you to add an audio-book of the eBook to your order, or to get a hard-copy printed and bound version of the eBook sent to you, both for a pretty reasonable additional amount. .-= Darren (Green Change)´s last blog ..Kiama Show 2010 =-.