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 Combination Discounts.

Checkout Candy with Combination Discounts

Like Combination Discounts? Wish you could re-enforce the upsell message off the product info page? Checkout Candy has a Combination Discounts fitting that shows only the unused discounts. Again, the cart page and the shipping page re-enforce the upsell message; here's the cart page:

Combination Discounts - buying some (but not all) of the linked items

If you buy all the linked items, but not the discounted item, you see a message encouraging the purchase of the discounted item:

Combination Discounts - buying all of the linked items

Finally, if you buy all the linked items, and the discounted item no additional prompt is done. Notice how Discount Preview shows that the discount has been given.

Combination Discounts - buying all of the linked items and the discounted item

Additional Upselling

Checkout Candy also allows a Zen Cart vendor to do other kinds of upselling, such as:

• Encourage a threshold level of purchasing ("Add $19.95 to your order to qualify for free shipping!" "Add $17.50 to your order to qualify for a quantity discount!")
• Always display a certain item (for instance, gift wrapping or insurance).
• Display an item based on the cart contents (e.g.: If the cart contains shirt, display a tie.)
• Display a message based on cart contents (e.g.: "Only $5.00 to go to get free shipping!" "Buy one more item, get 10% off", etc.)

These are only examples - they are not included. You can do these yourself or hire me at a nominal cost (starting at $30).

Shopping Cart Page - - Additional Upsell Message Example

On the Shopping Cart page, the message is displayed just above the checkout button. Checkout is not blocked; the customer is simply nudged towards another purchase.

Checkout Page - Additional Upsell Message Example

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 common_files folder to the root directory of your shop.
   Then copy the contents of the appropriate cart-specific version to the root directory of your shop. Choose the one that's closest to but not above yours. 1.5.0 and 1.5.1 should use the 1.3.9 folder, 1.5.3 should use the 1.5.2 folder.
   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. Note: If you are using Zen Cart 1.5.5 or higher, your template name will be "responsive_classic" if you have not changed it.
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 and ./includes/templates/custom/css/shopping_cart.css

Possible Tweaks:

These are all changes you can make to the file includes/functions/extra_functions/checkout_candy_cd.php

• Possible discounts are shown in the order in which they're specified in includes/modules/order_total/ot_combination_discounts.php (or the order in which they are added to the database if you're using Combination Discounts Admin). If you want to randomize these, right above the line that says

  $msglist = array();

  add the line

  shuffle($rulelist);
  

Major Versions

• 1.8 - 09/18/2016 - Updates for Zen Cart 1.5.5a
• 1.7 - 07/12/2014 - Updates for Zen Cart 1.5.2, 1.5.3
• 1.0.4.2 - 02/01/2009 - Message fixes
• 1.0.4 - 08/22/2007 - Added any level category matching
• 1.0.3 - 07/25/2007 - Added price based discounting
• 1.0.2 - 05/31/2007 - Fixed bug with double counting entitled discounts
• 1.0.1 - 05/21/2007 - Fixed "add linkage with 1 condition" bug
• 1.0.0 - 05/06/2007 - First Release

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

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