{"id":1938,"date":"2018-09-18T13:24:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T17:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2018-09-18T13:24:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T17:24:30","slug":"promoting-zen-cart-cross-sells-created-with-discount-chooser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/18\/promoting-zen-cart-cross-sells-created-with-discount-chooser\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting Zen Cart cross-sells created with Discount Chooser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/zencart_discount_chooser.html\">Zen Cart Discount Chooser<\/a>\u00a0(also known as Free Gift Chooser) is a great way to create cross-selling promotions (Buy product A, get product B at a discount) for your shopping cart.\u00a0 However, because the configurability of the promotions has so many possibilities, I was never able to create a module like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/zencart_checkout_candy.html\">Better Together Checkout Candy for Zen Cart<\/a>, which notices that A is in the cart and prompts the customer to buy B.<\/p>\n<p>Because I recognized that customers needed some sort of promotional mechanism, I created <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/zencart_big_upsell.html\">Big Upsell for Zen Cart<\/a>, which shows the available offers on the Shopping Cart and Checkout Shipping pages. Using Big Upsell, in conjunction with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/zencart_discount_preview.html\">Discount Preview<\/a> (which shows the discount once the customer has purchased all the components of the promotion), allows you to more effectively promote the discounts you have created.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zen Cart Discount Chooser\u00a0(also known as Free Gift Chooser) is a great way to create cross-selling promotions (Buy product A, get product B at a discount) for your shopping cart.\u00a0 However, because the configurability of the promotions has so many possibilities, I was never able to create a module like Better Together Checkout Candy for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/18\/promoting-zen-cart-cross-sells-created-with-discount-chooser\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Promoting Zen Cart cross-sells created with Discount Chooser<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-that-software-guy","category-zen-cart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}