Upsell Popup

[afiumano]

We need to create an upsell feature that will popup 2 or 3 items based on the products in the basket once a customer selects "Checkout" from the BASK page. Would we be able to use the built-in upsell feature? If so, can it be moved to the BASK page?

[Kent Multer]

Interesting idea! Miva's upsale feature is hard-coded to work only during checkout. But you can probably use the new price-group features to create some "Buy X Get Y" discounts that will have the same effect. Getting the appropriate products to pop up on the Basket page could be tricky, depending on how many products are involved. It can be done with template code, but if there are a lot of products to check, it will require a whole lot of mvt:if elements to check them all every time the basket is displayed. And if you want to use "real" upsales as well as these discounts, some redundant setup will be needed ... If you're interested in getting a module to help with this, you can drop me a line to discuss it in detail.

Thanks --

[SunCam]

Phosphor Media has something similar working for my site. Many of our products fit neatly into sets. If you add one of these products to your basket you ge a pop-up message offering the set for a 20% discount. After the set is in the basket at a discount, removing one of the products removes them all. It works amazingly well both functionally and for marketing. We are selling lots of sets now. You can try it here:
https://www.suncam.com/continuing-education/Pinto.html

[afiumano]

I didn't think about the Buy X Get Y price group feature. I had looked at the "Add on Product" under price groups, but it seems it is limited to one product as an add-on.

There will be a maximum of 3 upsell items. It sounds like it will be a little tricky to cover all the bases.

The Phosphor Media module looks close, but I wouldn't want the entire basket to empty upon removing the add-on item. It makes sense that that's how it works in your case SunCam.

[Kent Multer]

As long as we're brainstorming, I'll mention something from a couple of Buy-X-Get-Y discount modules that I wrote some years ago, before Miva offered that feature. I figured, if you're going to offer the customer a deal, why not show it to them right away? So the modules allow you to put messages right on the product pages, advising customers that if they put this in their basket, they can get a special price if they also buy some other product. The messages include a link to the other product, in hopes of snagging those impulse buyers :) .