Guide for Automatic Related Products

Show related products viewed or purchased together with a specific store item. Let customers easily find relevant products popular among store visitors and raise the number of spontaneous purchases.

• Smart mechanism for automatic product relation
• Use flexible conditions to determine products display
• Set parameters for accurate stats collecting
• Show related products based on views or purchases
• Hide out of stock products

With the extension you'll be able to display special blocks with cross-sells, up-sells and related items based on customer purchase behavior. A specially developed smart algorithm automatically shows necessary items in each particular block.

To get the access to the 'Automatic Related Products' settings please go to: System → Configuration → Automatic Related products

Query Limit - The option lets you indicate the maximal number of queries (product views and purchases) for a specific time period basing on which the module will gather statistical data and display related, up-selling and cross-selling products.

Exclude Products by Category - Specify coma separated category IDs to exclude products assigned to these categories from display.

Enabled - The option turns on/off the display of up-selling products.

Maximum products count - Here you can specify the maximal number of up-selling items that can be displayed in the up-sells block on a product page.

Manually added products - the option lets you choose among 3 product display modes:

• Replace manually added products (the module will replace all manually added items with the ones generated automatically);
• Display manually added products only (only products manually assigned as up-selling will be displayed);
• Append to manually added products (both manually added and automatically generated products will be shown);

Show in stock products only - If the option is set to 'yes' all out of stock products will be hidden.

Data gathered period - Specify the time period basing on which the module will gather statistical data and display up-selling products.

Data source - the feature defines if products selection will be based on product views, purchases or without them. It has 3 modes:

• Viewed together;
• Bought together;
• Product currently viewed.

For up-selling products you can configure condition settings based on categories, brand and price.

Category condition - Specify from which categories autogenerated products will be selected. The option offers 3 modes:

• Any (products from all categories can be selected as up-sells);
• Only (only items from the same category with the main product will be displayed);
• Exclude from result (products from the same category with the main product will be excluded);

Brand condition - Choose whether to select products of any brand or of the same brand with the chosen product.

Price condition - Price condition defines if auto-generated products can have any price or the same price with the main product. It also possible to choose higher or lower price.

Maximum products count - Here you can specify the maximal number of cross-selling items that can be displayed in the up-sells block on a product page.

Manually added products - the option lets you choose among 3 product display modes:

• Replace manually added products (the module will replace all manually added items with the ones generated automatically);
• Display manually added products only (only products manually assigned as cross-selling will be displayed);
• Append to manually added products(both manually added and automatically generated products will be shown);

Show in stock products only - If the option is set to 'yes' all out of stock products will be hidden.

Data gathered period - Specify the time period basing on which the module will gather statistical data and cross-selling products.

Data source - the feature defines if products selection will be based either on product views, purchases or without them. It has 3 modes:

• Viewed together;
• Bought together;
• Product currently viewed.