Advanced Pack

• Version:
  5.3.2 (07/6/2023)
• PrestaShop Compatibility:
  v1.7.7.x -> v8.1.x
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A PRECIOUS TOOL FOR ADDITIONAL SALES

Advanced Pack enables you to increase your average cart value by offering your customers the opportunity to purchase a coherent set of products, called a pack, at an attractive price.

By grouping together products whose simultaneous sale makes sense (such as a camera, its tripod and the appropriate memory card), you guide your customers through their buying process, just as you would in a physical store, while saving them time. Indeed, by showcasing complementary products on the same page, you save them the hassle of searching for each product individually, with the risk of, for instance, not selecting compatible products. With the pack, they can add multiple items to their cart with a single click, ensuring they purchase the correct references.

Thanks to your packs, you also enable your customers to save money by offering these product sets at a discounted price. For instance, Advanced Pack allows you to provide one of the products in the pack for free or to offer customized discounts based on the item combinations selected.

Finally, creating a pack allows you to improve the visibility of certain products by associating them with your best-sellers.

A FAST AND INTUITIVE PACK CREATION

Inherit product information

Select the products to be included in the pack, save: the pack can already be sold on your site with a set of default parameters. Nothing could be faster!

All the properties of the products making up the pack are automatically retrieved (descriptions, prices, images, features, etc.) to save you time: no need to rewrite descriptions, reinsert images, etc... Advanced Pack automatically displays the images and descriptions of the products in the pack in tabs on the product page. You can then customize this display if you want! Your customers can therefore be properly informed about all the products in the pack while remaining on the same page, and finalize their purchase with a single click.

Fine management of combinations

Unlike PrestaShop's native "pack" functionality, you don't need to create a pack for each product combination: the module's creation tool allows you, for each product to be included in the pack, to choose the combination(s) you want to make available specifically for this mode of sale.

For example, you can make only certain colors of a product available if it is purchased within a pack. You can also define a default combination for each product, even if it is different from the one defined in your catalog, in order to sell off certain stocks more easily.

Once your pack is built, your customers are free to select, for each item in the pack, the attribute (color, size, dimension, ...) they want from those you have chosen to make available. They benefit from the same preferential discount defined for the pack, regardless of the chosen combination, even if the combinations have different prices (price impacts on combinations are taken into account).

Pack Customization

In addition to choosing the combinations to be included in the pack, you can let your customers change the quantity of each of the products included in the pack, or set them yourself. Advanced Pack also gives you the option of letting your customers remove a product from the pack, if they want.

Would you like a product to be sold only through a pack? That's also possible! You can even make it a free gift. For example, you can offer an extended warranty for the purchase of a dishwasher. This extension will then be exclusively conditioned to the purchase of the dishwasher.

With Advanced Pack, the customization possibilities are endless!

(*)See conditions in "Features" section

ENCOURAGE YOUR CUSTOMERS TO ORDER IN PACKS WITH A SPECIAL OFFER

To encourage your customers to order a product as part of a pack rather than on its own, offer them a benefit they can't refuse! Advanced Pack allows you to create three types of sales offers.

3 types of sales offers are possible thanks to Advanced Pack:

• Offer a specific discount on each product in the pack
• Apply a general discount on all products
• Apply a fixed price to the pack, like a psychological price, for example

In addition to these possibilities, Advanced Pack allows you to take into account, or not, the discounts that may already exist on your products. You thus have the choice between:

• reflecting existing discounts on the sale price of the pack
• or, on the contrary, exclude them to favor the discount defined for the pack

The module also includes a dynamic pack price simulator to help you create your sales operation.

On the customer side, and unlike the native "pack" functionality, the sales offer related to the pack purchase is clearly highlighted on the product page. The visitor immediately understands that he can save money by favoring this method.

QUICK AND EASY ORDER AND INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

Ordering a pack is managed in such a way that you retain the advantages of ordering separate products. First of all, the pack stock is calculated from the stocks of its products. There's no need to define stock at pack level. Each time a pack is ordered, individual product stocks are automatically deducted. Then, on the invoice and order details in the back-office, each product appears on a different line, as if it had been ordered separately.

This has major advantages:

• No surprises when it comes to stocks: for each product, you have just one stock to manage, whether the product is sold on its own or as part of a pack. You avoid the complexities of managing two different stocks for the same product.
• Refunds and returns are managed at the individual product level: for example, you can refund only one product in a pack, or put a returned product back on sale.
• Easy management of products with different VAT rates: the invoice displays the tax amount for each different VAT rate.
• Ability to export pack orders to an ERP-type management and analysis system, without having to make any technical modifications to enable it to take pack orders into account.

Moreover, if one of the products (or a product combination) in a pack is out of stock, the pack will automatically be indicated as unavailable for purchase using an availability alert system. No risk of you receiving orders for unavailable products! An option also allows you to force the display of another combination if the default combination is out of stock.

INCREASE PACK VISIBILITY WITH CROSS-SELLING

For even greater visibility, you can display a block "This product is also available in pack" on the pages of products that are also part of a pack.

In this way, thanks to a dedicated commercial offer, you can encourage your customers to order the pack rather than the product alone. In short, this is cross-selling: an accessible and effective way of increasing your average cart!

POSSIBILITY TO SELL A SAME PRODUCT IN BUNDLES (minimum compatibility PrestaShop 1.7.7.0)

Do you have products that can be packaged in bundles of several units? Offer your customers the chance to save money by ordering a product in a bundle rather than individually, thanks to a dedicated offer. They'll be able to order the bundle directly from the page of the concerned product.

ALSO CONCEIVED FOR INTEGRATORS

From the beginning, we took into account the fact that this module had to be easy to adapt by your web agency or designer/integrator. The module offers advanced graphic customization.

A set of templates, JavaScripts files and CSS style sheets is delivered with the module, facilitating integration work. You or your integrator will be able to exploit all Advanced Pack's functionalities to present them in a graphic layout that matches the overall ambience of your store.

Advanced Pack is fully compatible with the best SEO theme for PrestaShop on the market: Fashion SEO from SEO Presta. All styles of the module have been integrated into the theme so no integration work is needed. Order your theme or update it now by visiting seo-presta.com.

What your customers will like

Your customers will appreciate being able to save time and money, while benefiting from your advice on product assortment. One click and they'll be able to add a relevant set of several products to their cart, and benefit from an advantageous commercial offer for this grouped purchase. They'll also be sure to make the right choice, since they'll be ordering products that you've matched for their compatibility or complementarity.

Features

CREATE YOUR PACKS IN AN ADVANCED WAY

• Choice of products to be included in the pack (unlimited number of products)
• For each product, selection of the combinations you want to make available for sale in pack
• For each product, selection of the default combination (may be different from the one defined for individual sale)
• Ability to add virtual products to packs
• Management of the display order of the products composing the pack
• Selection of the commercial offer among the following choices:
  • Do not apply a discount for this pack
  • Apply a global discount (in percentage)
  • Apply a customized discount per product (in percentage or amount)
  • Apply a specific price to this pack (amount)
• Ability to activate the inheritance of discounts, for each product independently or for all products in the pack. If the inheritance of discounts is activated, the price of the pack is calculated from the discounted price and not from the base price.
• Ability to activate the possibility for your customers to remove a product from the pack (if the inheritance of discounts is activated for all products)
• Ability to sell a product only through the pack (product exclusive to the pack, disables the sale of the product individually)
• Ability to let the customer modify the quantity of each product in the pack (if the option allowing the removal of a product from the pack is activated)

INTEGRATED ASSISTANT

To help you choose the products and combinations to be included in the pack, our module will display strategic information such as the number of copies of the product already sold or the stock still available.

It also includes a dynamic simulator of the price of your pack to help you see clearly in the creation of your commercial operation.

PRICE AND TAX MANAGEMENT

By default, and in the case where no discount has been applied, the price of the pack is the sum of the prices of the products that compose it. If you need to modify the price of one of these products after the creation of the pack, the price of the pack will be automatically updated, without any necessary intervention on your part.

Similarly, if you apply a discount to one or more products that are also available within a pack, you have the option to allow the impact of promotions on the price of the pack. If the option is activated, then the price of the pack will be automatically modified and the applied discount will be displayed to your customers.

Advanced Pack knows how to manage price impacts on combinations. They will be taken into account when applying the commercial offer.

The module also takes into account eco-taxes. If one of the products in your pack has an eco-tax, it will be automatically reflected in the selling price of the pack. It will also be clearly displayed on the "pack" product page, ensuring perfect compliance with the law.

ENJOY NUMEROUS DISPLAY SETTINGS

• Ability to activate automatic scrolling of the purchase block while scrolling the page
• For each product, possibility to display, under the cover image, all images associated with the product, in the form of thumbnails
• Ability to restrict the display of a product's images to those of the selected combination
• Ability to adjust the size of product images (main image, thumbnails, "zoom" image)
• Ability to display the first combination in stock in case the default combination is unavailable
• Ability to hide the individual prices of the products in the pack
• Ability to display the short and/or long description of each product in the pack
• Ability to display the features of each product in the pack
• Ability to display the availability of each product in the pack
• Ability to change the color of the quantity banner, of the icon separating the products and of the icon allowing to remove/reintegrate a product from the pack
• Choice of the prefix to add to each product coming from a pack, in the order summary
• Tool to define your own CSS rules for advanced styles

GIVE MORE VISIBILITY TO YOUR PACKS THANKS TO CROSS-SELLING

The module allows you to display a block "This product is also available in pack" on the pages of the concerned products.

Regarding this block, you can:

• Set the maximum number of packs including the product to display in the block
• Sort the packs by creation date, by price or leave a random display
• Display a "View this pack" and/or a "Buy this pack" button
• Adjust the size of the main image of the products in the packs

MIGRATE YOUR NATIVE PACKS TO ADVANCED PACKS

Have you already created packs through the native PrestaShop feature? Simply transform them into advanced packs thanks to the migration tool available in the module.

SELL YOUR PRODUCTS IN BUNDLES (minimum compatibility 1.7.7.0)

Do you want to offer your customers the option to directly buy a set of several copies of the same product? It's possible with Advanced Pack. Create your bundle directly from the product form and the associated discount. Your customers will be able to add the bundle to their cart with one click from the product page.

ADD PACKS IN ORDERS CREATED IN BACK-OFFICE (minimum compatibility 1.7.7.0)

Advanced Pack gives you the possibility to add packs in orders created through your back-office.

Limits

Advanced Pack 5 does not allow the creation of sets of products with custom images fields (custom text fiels can be used)
Advanced Pack 5 does not allow the creation of sets of products from differing warehouses
Advanced Pack 5 does not allow to export packs to a marketplace (whatever it is)
Advanced Pack 5 does not allow to share packs between shops
Advanced Pack 5 is not compatible with order creation via webservice/API

Recommendations

• Work in complete safety: In order to ensure the compatibility of the Advanced Pack 5 module with the rest of your installed modules, we recommend to firstly install the module in a pre-production environment. Our Parachute service allows you to easily duplicate your shop on a test environment and secure your production releases, come and discover it! For example, you can test the integration of the Advanced Pack 5 module with your PrestaShop theme in complete security.
  
  
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