Zen Cart Checkout Candy for Better Together

A Zen Cart™ 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. There is a separate page for Checkout Candy for Combination Discounts.

Relevance: Zen Cart™ 1.3.6 and forward

This extension is part of the Better Together World.

Cost: $30 for just the Better Together upsell text. $60 for Checkout Candy plus the Buy Now button. Buy Now!

Installation: click here

See it Live: Go to product 12 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 14 and 12 together will be discounted (because of Better Together).

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

Overview

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

Checkout Candy allows a Zen Cart 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.

The latest version of Checkout Candy adds the image of the upsell product to your Shopping Cart and Checkout Shipping Page.

Shopping Cart Page with Images

Note: You must be running Better Together 2.1 or higher to use this feature.

Additional screenshots on this page are shown without images.

In addition to the Checkout Candy upsell message, you may add a Buy Now button if the upsell item is a product with no attributes.

Shopping Cart Page with Buy Now button

Without the Buy Now button, Checkout Candy is $30. With the button, it's $60.

Shopping Cart Page Using Better Together

Checkout Page with Better Together

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.
   The names of these files reflect a template name of "custom." If you are using a different template name, please change file paths using "custom" to use your template name instead.
3. If you have also ordered Discount Preview from me, you will have to merge the files

      ./includes/templates/custom/templates/tpl_shopping_cart_default.php
      ./includes/templates/custom/css/shopping_cart.css
   

For just the Better Together upselling text, the fee is $30. $60 for Checkout Candy plus the Buy Now button. The fee covers software only; installation is extra if you require help.

Want more details on the philosophy behind Checkout Candy? Click here.


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