Checkout Candy for osCommerce Better Together

An osCommerce™ mod which allows you to present cross-selling or upselling offers on the shopping cart page and on the first page of the checkout process. Suggestive selling is a proven technique for increasing profits.

Note: This is Checkout Candy for Better Together.

Relevance: osCommerce™ 2.2 and 3.0

This extension is part of the Better Together World.

Cost: $30 for the Better Together upsell text. Buy Now!

Installation: click here

See it Live: Go to product 25 my demo shop and add this product to your cart. You will notice that on the shopping cart page (and the first checkout page) that Checkout Candy re-enforces the upselling message that buying product 25 and 26 together will be discounted (because of Better Together).

Zen Cart User? This is an osCommerce page. Look at the Better Together for Zen Cart World for Zen Cart help.

Overview

Why do grocers put candy at the checkout stations? Because people buy it!

Checkout Candy allows an osCommerce vendor an upselling opportunity at the two key decision points in the checkout process: when reviewing the cart and on the first page of checkout. The default upselling option for this module is Better Together.

Checkout Candy with Better Together

Like Better Together? Wish you could re-enforce the upsell message off the product info page? Checkout Candy has a Better Together fitting that shows only the unused discounts.

This is different from the Better Together marketing information shown in the product information page because it shows the actual available discounts based on the current contents of the cart, not based on the hypothetical purchase of one particular item. For instance, if the mouse and keyboard are linked in Better Together, then displaying the mouse product info page will show the discount available when a keyboard is purchased. If the mouse is purchased, the shopping cart will show the keyboard discount - however, if the mouse and the keyboard are purchased, no discount will be shown on the shopping cart page, since the discount has already been taken.

In the example below, we have linked items in the category Strategy with items in the category Comedy, and have provided a two for one discount on mice. So both these upselling messages are shown.

osCommerce 2.2 Shopping Cart Page Using Checkout Candy

osCommerce 2.2 Shipping Page Using Checkout Candy

osCommerce 3.0 Shopping Cart Page Using Checkout Candy

osCommerce 3.0 Shipping Page Using Checkout Candy

osCommerce 2.2 Installation Instructions:

These installation instruction are for osCommerce 2.2. Click here for osCommerce 3.0 installation instructions.

1. Back up everything! Try this in a test environment prior to installing it on a live shop.
2. Copy the contents of the unzipped folder to the root directory of your shop.
   
3. Edit the file catalog/shopping_cart.php. Right below where the body text table is created, add

   <?php
     require("checkout_candy.php"); 
   ?>
   

   
   So your file catalog/shopping_cart.php will look like:

   <!-- body_text //-->
       <td width="100%" valign="top"><?php echo tep_draw_form('cart_quantity', 
          tep_href_link(FILENAME_SHOPPING_CART, 'action=update_product')); ?>
          <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
   <?php
     require("checkout_candy.php"); 
   ?>
   

4. Edit the file catalog/checkout_shipping.php. Right below where the body text table is created, add

   <?php
     require("checkout_candy.php"); 
   ?>
   

   
   So your file catalog/checkout_shipping.php will look like:

   <!-- body_text //-->
       <td width="100%" valign="top"><?php echo tep_draw_form('checkout_address', 
       tep_href_link(FILENAME_CHECKOUT_SHIPPING, '', 'SSL')) . tep_draw_hidden_field('action', 'process'); ?>
       <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
   <?php
     require("checkout_candy.php"); 
   ?>
   

osCommerce 3.0 Installation Instructions:

These installation instructions are for osCommerce 3.0. Click here for osCommerce 2.2 installation instructions.

1. Back up everything! Try this in a test environment prior to installing it on a live shop.
2. Copy the contents of the unzipped folder to the root directory of your shop.
   
3. Edit the file templates/custom/content/checkout/shopping_cart.php
   Right below where the first table is created, add

   <?php
    require("checkout_candy.php");
   ?>
   

   So your file will look like:

    <div class="content">
      <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
   <?php
    require("checkout_candy.php");
   ?>
   

4. Edit the file templates/custom/content/checkout/checkout_shipping.php
   At the top of the file, add

   <table width="100%">
   <?php
    require("checkout_candy.php");
   ?>
   </table>
   

I charge a fee of $30 for Checkout Candy for osCommerce. Please specify your osCommerce version when you order; osCommerce 2.2 and 3.0 are not compatible. The fee covers software only; installation is extra if you require help.