Draft:Add To Cart Popup
This article is a draft.
Overview
Add To Cart Popup is an X-Cart module that allows you to further improve your customers' shopping experience by getting your store to display a popup showing what has just been added to the shopping cart and providing a list of "You may also like" product recommendations when a customer clicks the Buy now button. The popup works on all the pages where the Buy now button is available, including the popup itself.
The benefits of using the Add To Cart Popup module are simple, yet profound. On the one hand, this module allows you to promote a worry-free shopping experience for your customers by displaying the add-to-cart action confirmation where it cannot go unnoticed by the customer - in a popup, right before the customer's eyes, which gives the customer assurance that everything is going the right way. On the other hand, the ability to display product recommendations turns this module into a neat cross-selling tool for your business that will not just help you to inform your customers of other products they might be interested in, but put those products in front of your customers at the most crucial moment - when the customers are ready to spend money.
The module does not require much configuraton: the list of product recommendations is formed automatically for each product, and all you need to do is choose the type of products that should be included into the You may also like section of the popup. You can choose from the following:
- Products that were previously purchased by other customers together with the product added to the shopping cart ("Customers who bought X also bought Y and Z" type of recommendation);
- Random products;
- A combination of the two.
If you do not wish to use the Add To Cart Popup module for product recommendations, it is possible to disable the You may also like section altogether:
Add To Cart Popup is available as an X-Cart built-in module since X-Cart version 4.5.1. For earlier versions, the functionality of this module can be implemented as a custom integration.
Enabling the Add To Cart Popup module
The Add To Cart Popup module is disabled in X-Cart by default. To be able to use this module in your store, you need to enable it.
To enable the module:
- In Admin area, go to the Modules section (Settings menu->Modules).
- Choose the 'Add To Cart Popup' item by selecting the respective check box on the left.
- Click the Apply changes button. This activates the module.
The module does not require any additional configuration and will work out of the box.
