The Easy Digital Downloads Recommended Products plugin offers tailored cross-selling recommendations based on previous sales within your Easy Digital Downloads store. Here’s a detailed breakdown of its features:
Key Features:
- Templatable Design:
- Customize the appearance of the recommendations by adding your own templates to the
edd_templates
folder in your theme.
- Customize the appearance of the recommendations by adding your own templates to the
- Seamless Integration:
- Integrates directly into the Easy Digital Downloads settings, simplifying the process. Access the feature via the ‘Extensions’ tab within Easy Digital Downloads Settings.
- Import Pre-existing Sales:
- Upon activation, the plugin analyzes past sales data to generate recommendations based on historical purchases.
- Restrict to Paid Items:
- Configure the recommendations to exclude free products if your store contains both paid and free items.
- User-specific Capabilities:
- Provide a user ID to ensure that recommendations exclude products the user has already purchased, offering more relevant suggestions.
- Cart Integration:
- Removes recommended products from the list if they are already present in the user’s cart, avoiding redundancy.
- Detailed Logging:
- Logs each item purchased through a recommendation in the Easy Digital Downloads reports section. This data allows you to assess the performance of your recommendations, with filtering options available by source and purchased items.
Functionality Overview:
- Templating Customization: Modify the visual display of recommended products by creating custom templates.
- Integration with EDD Settings: Utilize the plugin seamlessly through the Easy Digital Downloads settings page.
- Historical Sales Analysis: Draws recommendations from past sales to offer personalized suggestions.
- Exclusion of Free Items: Configurable options to remove free products from the recommendation pool.
- User-specific Recommendations: Tailors recommendations by excluding products the user has already purchased.
- Cart Sensitivity: Ensures products in the cart aren’t redundantly recommended.
- Comprehensive Logging: Detailed logs of purchases made through recommendations, aiding in performance evaluation.
This plugin significantly enhances cross-selling by providing personalized product suggestions to customers based on their previous purchase history, thereby potentially increasing conversions and customer satisfaction within your Easy Digital Downloads store.