VPCART 9.00 enables you to display a list of other products
from a category or more than one category as cross selling in the product
extended page.
In the product record and category record admin, you can
enter the category IDs of categories that you wish to display (e.g. 5,8,46).
These would then display at the bottom of the page in category groups with the
name of the category as the header.
To setup a product record, you
need to go to edit product page and fill in the “Categories ID to
Cross-Sell” field under the “Advanced Fields” form:
To setup a category record, you need to go to edit
category page and and fill in the “Categories ID to Cross-Sell” field
under the “Basic Information” form:
You can choose to set in the product record OR in the
category record.
If you set in a product record, only the product page will
display the list of other products from one category or more.
If you set in a
category record, all the products that belong to the category will display the
list of other products from one category or more.
Theexample below showyou how to setup category as cross
selling in product record.
If you want to display all products from category Dining (id 3) and category Kitchen (id 4) to be displayed in the product extended page for “Coffee Table,” then under “Categories ID to Cross-Sell” field, fill in the category IDs separated by commas (e.g. 3,4).
Below is the preview of product extended page for
“Coffee Table” with the other products displayed in the bottom of the
page :
If you want to display the other products from one
category or more as cross selling in All of the product extended page,
you can use the “xProCatDisplayCategoryID” configuration.
For
example, if you want to display all products from category Dining (id 3)
and category Kitchen (id 4) to be displayed in the ALL product extended
page, thenenter the category ID separated by commas (e.g. 3,4) as the value for
the configuration “xProCatDisplayCategoryID”.
The following
Configuration options allow you to control the other products from categories in
product extended page.
|
XProCatDisplay |
Setthis to Yes to show Products of Categories at product extended description page. |
|
XProCatDisplayCategoryID |
Products of Categories to be displayed at product extended description page, eg: 3,4 |
|
XProCatDisplayRecord |
Return x Records for each category specified in xProCatDisplayCategoryID |
As a summary, VPCART offers you to have three ways to
setup the other products from a category or more in the product extended page,
that is setup from a product record, category record OR setup as global using
“XProCatDisplayCategoryID”.
VPCART perfoms checking from each of the three ways mentioned
above in a sequence to display the other products section as below:
1. Seek for “Categories ID to Cross-Sell” value
in certain product.
2. If no value found for “Categories ID to Cross-Sell”
in certain product, then seek for ”Categories ID to Cross-Sell” for
certain category.
3. If no value found for “Categories ID to Cross-Sell” in certain category, then seek for the global configuration value of “XProCatDisplayCategoryID”.