Related products, Up-sells, Cross-sells in Magento
7 Comments 28th AUG 2008 | Posted by Tomislav Bilic in Magento
There are three types of product relations in Magento: Up-sells, Related Products, and Cross-sell Products. When viewing a product, Upsells for this product are items that your customers would ideally buy instead of the product they’re viewing. They might be better quality, produce a higher profit margin, be more popular, etc. These appear on the product info page. Related products appear in the product info page as well, in the right column. Related products are meant to be purchased in addition to the item the customer is viewing. Finally, Cross-sell items appear in the shopping cart. When a customer navigates to the shopping cart (this can happen automatically after adding a product, or not), the cross-sells block displays a selection of items marked as cross-sells to the items already in the cart. They’re a bit like impulse buys – like magazines and candy at the cash registers in grocery stores.
Related products
Upsells
This is the example of the Up-sell. Ideally, the visitor is supposed to analyze those products as they should be relevant to the one that is just loaded.
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December 27th, 2008 at 3:46
I think you should post about Configurable Products. I have a main product and but it comes in different sizes and related prices. I’d like to list all different sizes AND prices of the same product. In other shopping carts, a main products with variances are called subproducts and I’m attempting to create subproducts in Magento using the Configurable Product option.
Please email me if you have a solution to this issue.
Thanks a lot
July 7th, 2009 at 20:53
Sometimes (often?) grouped and bundled products can also be used for the same purposes as related products/cross-sells/upsells.Given all the possibilities it’s important to know when to use what in which situation, if that can be captured in any sort of rule at all
September 30th, 2009 at 18:06
You an buy/read the Magento user guide, where it is explained.
November 30th, 2009 at 9:08
Nice Post. If you are looking for code in Magento to link products..please see..
http://subesh.com.np/2009/11/adding-related-product-and-other-links-to-product-in-magento/
March 15th, 2010 at 17:43
Is it possible to show the related products like the upsell in the Magento template (center column)?
July 29th, 2010 at 16:06
Hello ,
how do i get cross sell product on the product details page
August 2nd, 2010 at 4:35
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