Optimizing product recommendations are key to increasing average order value and improving the customer shopping experience. One of the most effective strategies is Frequently Bought Together (FBT) recommendations—an approach that showcases complementary products, encouraging customers to add more items to their cart.
Frequently Bought Together for WooCommerce Plugin simplifies this process, allowing you to effortlessly create intelligent, automated, or manually curated product bundles.
Enable Frequently Bought Together Recommendations
To enable Frequently Bought Together recommendations in your WooCommerce store:
- Navigate to: WooCommerce > Frequently Bought Together from the WordPress dashboard.
- Enable the Frequently Bought Together feature.
- Enable automatic suggestions (optional) to allow the plugin to recommend products dynamically.
- Choose the product source for suggestions:
- Cross-sell (Recommended)
- Upsell
- Related products
- Set the number of product suggestions (e.g., up to 4).
You now have basic FBT recommendations enabled for all products in your store.
Enhance Your FBT Recommendations (Optional)
You can take the basic Frequently Bought Together Recommendation to a whole new level with dedicated customization options by Frequently Bought Together for WooCommerce plugin by WebToffee.
General options
Customize your FBT recommendations further with the following options:
- Include the primary product in the FBT bundle.
- Preselect FBT products by default for a seamless “Add to Cart” experience.
- Set product behavior on click (e.g., open product details in a new tab).
- Hide out-of-stock products from FBT suggestions.
Display Customization
Modify how recommendations appear on product pages:
- Layout Options:
- List view
- Table view
- Grid view
- Fields to Display:
- Product thumbnail
- Price
- Short description
- Quantity counter
- Placement Options:
- Below product meta
- Above summary
- Below summary
- Below related products.
- Display FBT recommendations on the cart page
- Show FBT suggestions in a pop-up when clicking Add to Cart.
Template Customization
Customize text and labels to align with your store’s branding:
- Frequently bought together section title
- Add to cart button text for two products
- Total price section label
- Add to cart button text for a single product
- Add to cart button text for multiple products
Manage Exclusions for Automatic Suggestions
You can restrict FBT recommendations by:
- Excluding specific products/categories from FBT suggestions.
- Disabling FBT for selected products/categories.
Custom Frequently Bought Together for WooCommerce Store
Apart from the automatic FBT recommendation, if you would like to configure a. custom recommendation for selected products, you can set that, too.
Method 1: From the FBT Plugin Settings
- Go to WooCommerce > Frequently Bought Together > Set Custom Suggestions.
- Click Add.
- Select the Product you want to add custom recommendations for.
- Under Products to Suggest, select the items to display as FBT.
- Click Save.
Method 2: From Individual Product Settings
- Navigate to Products and select the item to customize.
- Under Product Data > Frequently Bought Together, enable Custom FBT Suggestions.
- Search and add related products for FBT.
- Click Save.
- Add Custom Products to the Frequently Bought Together Section
- Temporarily Disable a Custom FBT bundle
- Set Variations of Products as Frequently Bought Together Suggestions
- Set Variations of the Same Product as FBT Recommendations
- Delete a Frequently Bought Together Bundle
- Enable Bundled Discounts in WooCommerce
- Display FBT Products Bundle on a Custom Page with Shortcodes
YIN CHUN HUGO NG
October 20, 2023
I want to show over 5 products but can I set the discount separately when the customer select single product?
Arjun
October 27, 2023
Hi Yin,
Thank you for reaching out. The plugin currently doesn’t provide the functionality you have specified.
An
January 27, 2023
hi ,
does your plugin work compatible with wp all import/ wp all export? Thanks!
Mike
February 10, 2023
Hi An,
You can use the WP All Export plugin to seamlessly export the information saved by the Frequently Bought Together plugin.
But the import function of the WP Import plugin is not compatible with our plugin, by default. Our plugin saves the product metadata in a serialized array. Unfortunately, the WP All Import plugin doesn’t support importing serialized arrays. But you can use a code snippet to fix this non-compatibility and import the data perfectly.
You may copy the code snippet from here and paste it into your active theme’s function.php file (WordPress Dashboard > Appearance > Theme Editor > functions.php) or you can use a Code Snippet plugin to do that for you.