Offer types

Hi Barry,

Thanks for the question!

Just-In-Time Sales Offers can do many different types of offers, but the power in our plugin is in the ability to get really specific with your targeting.

For example, you could target only wholesale customers you have spent a certain amount in their cart and have products from a certain category.

The offers show in a popup (cart page is the default but you can show it anywhere on your site too) and you can have it auto-apply the offer when they hit accept.

We’ve seen it used it for things like:

– If they buy a dog lead, offer them a special discount on a pack of dog treats
– If they buy a particular popular product, then cross-sell them with an offer on a product that isn’t as popular but has better profit margins
– We also use it ourselves when someone goes to buy a single plugin of ours, we offer an upsell to the bundle (this is on Wholesale Suite which it sounds like you are already a customer there!)

In the acceptance actions you can do things like add products (and optionally override their price), add a coupon, remove specific products (great for upselling to bigger packs), remove coupons.

But again, the power of our plugin lays in the targeting options + the auto acceptance routines together ??

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Josh

Hi Josh

Thank you for getting back to me. While I love the targeting promotional functionality of this plugin, I really need to know the full range of offers that can be given. I have no problem getting the pro version, if it can provide even a small section of the offers that the current pricing deals plugin can offer. Bulk deals, number of products for a price, but the big one is the Mix and match offers. If this is possible, the plugin will fit perfectly.
I know the targeting is the main element here, but the client thinks more offers is better than who sees them (I know, I’ve tried explaining the benefits of targeting to them.).
Any additional information would be great.
Cheers
Barry Donoghue

Hi Barry,

Sorry for the slow reply! I don’t tend to work over the weekends ??

Can you give me an example of the Mix And Match you’re trying to do with real product examples? It helps me to visual what you’re after as we don’t really call them by their deal type names in our plugin (it’s more flexible than that).

Some examples you can create:

– If exactly 2 “X” product’s are in the cart, give a “Y” for free (BOGO)
– If at least 1 product from Product Category “X” is in the cart, give “Y” for free
– If exactly 1 “X” product in the cart, give another “X” at reduced price
– If exactly 2 “X” products in the cart, upsell by removing all “X” products and give “Y” product instead for reduced price.

I have to agree with your take, there are huge benefits in targeting offers more finely (mainly higher acceptance and conversion rate). Maybe let your client know that this doesn’t mean you can’t have lots of offers ?? You could have 50 really finely targeted offers, all converting better, over 1 or 2 big offers that convert really low.

Hope this helps and makes sense!

Feel free to give me some examples and I’ll tell you if it can do it ??

Cheers,
Josh

Hi Josh, sorry I replyed to the email notification and not the post (one of thoes weeks ??

Mix and match deals are basically this. The client selects a range of maybe 10 products call it products 1- 10 to sell and a range of products call it products 11 – 20 to discount. If the customer picks one or more of that range of products in 1-10, then they can pick any of the products in range 11-20 to get at the discount. The issue is that the products might not be the same category, and you can’t predict what combination of products the customer will select.

Also on a side note, I can see your plugin can add in products to cart, change products in cart and offer discounts in cart depending on if a product is in the cart. Is it linked to the WooCommerce coupon system and limited to the functionality of that coupon system or does your plugin add in extra functionality to the coupon system to allow for more deal types to be created ?.

Cheers Barry.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by Barry Donoghue.

Hey Barry, no worries! I’ve had plenty of those weeks myself!

“Is it linked to the WooCommerce coupon system and limited to the functionality of that coupon system or does your plugin add in extra functionality to the coupon system to allow for more deal types to be created ?.”

Yes, you can auto-apply coupons during the acceptance. You can also auto-remove coupons/products. We do also give the option to not use coupons and to override a product price instead which is super handy.

Regarding the mix and match. That’s a tricky one, but what you could do is set up multiple “OR” conditions with all the products you’re targeting and say, if this product is at least 1 quantity OR if this next product is at least 1 quantity … et al.

The on the acceptance side, I’d probably lean towards using a coupon and set it to only allow the coupon if one of the products from the discount range is in the cart.

You should be able to trial that using the free Just-In-Time Sales Offers plugin if you wanted to spin up a test WordPress/WooCommerce on your localhost.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Josh

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by Josh Kohlbach.