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>
   

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