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Related Products

Quick Start

Many eCommerce businesses struggle to effectively cross-sell and upsell products to their customers. Without a strategic approach, they miss out on valuable opportunities to increase their average order values and boost revenue. Customers may only purchase what they came for, missing out on discovering related or complementary items that could enhance their shopping experience and meet their needs more comprehensively

With the Profstep Related Products Extension this problem will be addressed effectively, customer experience would be far more pleasant and sales will increase significantly.

Installation

See Installation Guide for more install details.

How to use

The extension gives merchant an ability to manage products relations for more suitable offers per item. This module gives an additional ability to place related stuff on many various pages and literally any place needed

Store Configuration

There are several settings located on Stores ➔ Settings ➔ Configuration page under the Profstep ➔ Automatic Related Products tab.

There is only one group available: “General”

General

Basic configurations are performed here:

  • Module Enabled. Determines whether module functionality should be enabled

Extension Management

Rules List

Related Products admin functionality can be accessed by the following path: Marketing ➔ Related Products ➔ Rules. List of rules appears there allowing to manage them quickly and see basic info: img.png Related rules grid

Multiple rules can be deleted here using massive actions or managed one by one with the use of “Action” column as shown below: img.png

Related rules “Action” column

Rule Form

After clicking on the “Add” button or selecting an “Edit” rule action admin is redirected to the rule management page with the following main fieldsets:

  • General
  • Design Settings
  • Display Conditions
  • Related Products

General

General fieldset has basic configurations of the rule:

  • Name. Used for labeling purposes
  • Priority. Used to determine the order of rules applied
  • Active. Whether to apply rule or not
  • Store View. Allows to restrict rule for specific store views.
  • Customer Groups. Allows to set a group of customers able to see the rule
  • Themes. Range of Magento 2 themes to which rule will be applied

Design Settings

Configurations to change the look-and-feel of the inserted block of related products. The following fields are used for design changes:

  • Title. Title shown on the inserted block of products
  • Display type. Design variations available for block:
  • Default. Native list of products img.png
  • Slider. Useful slick-slider of products img.png
  • Grid. Magento catalog grid of products img.png
  • List. Vertical list of products img.png
  • Show “Add to Cart” button. Determines whether to show “Add to Cart” button per product
  • Show “Add to Wishlist” button. Determines whether to show “Add to Wishlist” button per product
  • Show “Add to Compare” button. Determines whether to show “Add to Compare” button per product
  • Sort By. Determines product sorting options. Note: Works with the Profstep_ImprovedSorting extension
  • Number of Products to Show. X first related products to show
  • Include “Out of Stock” products. Include products, that are marked as “Out of Stock” in the page block

Display Conditions

Here rule display is set up. It determines a place to show the rule and has the following settings:

  • Position. Determines position of rule on the page. Additional configuration is shown in case “Other” option is chosen
  • Target Products Conditions. Set of rule applied to products to determine which of them to apply
  • Product Conditions. Convenient way to see products, targeted by applying the rule. Clink on the “Preview” button to see all products or “Hide Products” in case a list of products is not needed to be displayed img.png

All the relations are configured in this fieldset. Settings here consist of fields listed below:

  • Apply “Also Viewed” Products. Enables to show products, that where usually bought together, for target products
  • Apply “Cross-Sell” Products. Sorts products, that where mostly bought together with the target
  • Discard Custom Rules. Discard related conditions in case custom rules are selected (Useful when only custom rule should be used, without the impact of the related conditions)
  • Related Products Conditions. Set of rules to determine associated products
  • Product Conditions. Convenient way to see products, targeted by applying the rules. Works with related rules only, cause others apply directly per single target product img.png

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