Allows for easy upselling or cross-selling of a product. Up-selling can imply selling something additional, or selling something that is more profitable or otherwise preferable for the seller instead of the original sale [1] .
A practical example would be If you were selling ebooks, you could make a checkbox on the ebook detail page, which would allow your customer to order the companion CD. This is useful as you are able to provide customers with a direct way of purchasing a companion item without the need to search for it.
Note
Currently, the goal product doesn’t have any options. It can be a be a product variation, but can’t be a configurable product by itself.
When entering a category in the admin interface, you will have several fields to fill in. Below is a description of each field and how it is used:
Here is a quick step by step overview for adding and using the upsell application.
- In your site’s settings.py file, edit the INSTALLED_APP list to include satchmo_ext.upsell. Run a syncdb on your site to ensure that the necessary database tables are created.
- Log into the your site’s admin interface, and add a new product. You will want to add the target product (remember that an upselling item can be a standalone product, as well as a variation of an existing product) and an upsell product. You can read the Satchmo products page for details on how to do this.
- From your site’s admin main page, navigate to the Upsells section to add/change an upsell.
[1] | Wikipedia article on Up-selling |