TOOLS: Product Addons
Offer Additional Items to your clients. Customers can add additional items to a product and be billed separately for those items.
Creating Product Addon
Go to vendor dashboard. Click on Settings > Addons.
01. Click on Create Addon
After clicking on “Create New Addon” you will get different options for creating Product Addon. You can see that from the below GIF. Lastly, click on Publish to finish.
02. Set up the Group Addon
Now you need to add,
Name: Add a name for your addons to differentiate from other addons. It will not be visible on the website. By default, this is filled in for you.
Priority: If there are multiple addons, this number will define in what order will be displayed. But for individual add-ons this number will be 10.
Product Categories: Add the product category you want this addon to be applicable to. This will help you in the seasonal and time-specific addons.
Please note that the Product Category chosen must match with the category label on the products. For example, if your product only is tagged in Facial Care, and you select the addon Product Category “Wellness & Care”, the addon will not apply. Make sure that the Product Category tag match with the Single Product Category.
03. Add Type of Addon Field
It will give you some new options.
- Multiple choices – Shows a list of options the user can choose from. Display as dropdowns, images, or radio buttons.
- Customer-defined price – Shows a field where users can enter a numerical value that is added to the product price.
- Quantity – Shows a spinner where users can input a number.
- Checkboxes – Shows a checkbox or checkboxes that can be ticked/unticked by a customer.
- Short text – There are five in-built types. This shows a text field where users can enter either any text; just letters; just numbers; both; or an email address only.
- Long text – Shows a text field where users can write multiple lines of text (character limit possible).
- File upload – Allows users to upload a file.
- Heading – Add a heading between add-ons to group them into sections.
04. Choose Style
You can display as.
- Dropdowns: You can show the list of types as dropdowns
- Radio Buttons: You can show the list of types in radio buttons
- Images: You can show the list of types as images.
04. Discover more feautures within your addon
You can use these fields to add more feautures to your addons:
- Title: Format the title as a Label or Heading, or hide it.
- Add a description: Displays more information about the add-on underneath the heading.
- Required field: Prevents product from being added to cart if an option is not selected.
- Options: Add a label for each option as well as a price if needed. Calculate the price as flat-free, Quantity based or Percentage Based. To remove an option row, click the button ‘X’.
05. Lastly, click on Publish to finish creating your Addons.
Note: You must add a Label for each option, so the information shows when viewing the order and is passed through in the confirmation email to the customer.
How Product Addon Works
After you have created an addon, now let us see how it works.
Go to your store and click on any Product that apply to the addon category.
This is an example of how does will look like in a product.
Creating Addons For Individual Products
An option for creating addons for an individual product as well.
So far, the addons we have created was global addons. That means that addon was applicable to all the products. But there is an option for creating addons for an individual product as well.
To do that, just go to the Edit page of the product. Then scroll down. you will find the Addon option. There you will find the Addon option. Edit those options to make an individual addon for that particular product.