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Dynamic Product Display for StoreFront 6.0
Suggestive selling is time proven method for increasing sales. StoreFront 6.0 offers this feature via the upsell message, however, this assumes the customer has already added an item to the cart.

By Rick Dennery
Posted Wednesday, May 12, 2004

 

This add-on is designed to increase the exposure of the products of your choosing to your site visitors so you can increase sales.

 

Overview

Suggestive selling is time proven method for increasing sales. StoreFront 6.0 offers this feature via the upsell message, however, this assumes the customer has already added an item to the cart. StoreFront includes no built in method for emphasizing specific products. This add-on is designed to increase the exposure of the products of your choosing to your site visitors so you can increase sales. Advanced filtering capabilities ensure only those products meeting your criteria will appear.

Ease of use for the average StoreFront users was designed into this add-on from the start. We understand the average StoreFront 6.0 user has limited understanding of .NET and does not wish to learn it either. To that end this add-on was designed so you can implement it in your HTML editor of choice and actually see what it will look like. Advanced, unlimited template implementations let you actually edit the output format using a standard HTML editor so you can actually see the individual product output; there is no need to understand the ASP.NET server control template implementations. The typcial user can implement this control on a page in only a few minutes by only copying two sections of code which are included in the help file. Novice users will find they can implement this add-on with no need to know .NET while advanced users have full control and a large number of methods and properties are available for advanced programming.

Features

    • Support four styles of implementation

      • General Catalog

      • Dynamic Top Sellers

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        There is no need to understand ASP.NET.

         

        Dynamic People who bought this also bought . . .

      • Related products (Requires database customization)

    • Easy installation/configuration yet highly customizable - just add drop one folder in your web and place two sections of code on your target page(s)

    • Products are randomly selected from database with no duplicates

    • Ability to sort the randomly selected products by any of the display fields, you can "stack" the products to show the higher priced items first or simply show them in alphabetical order

    • Use any field for your product image (small product image by default) with optional supports for default image naming conventions (ex. if all images are in the smImage directory and named smProdID.jpg)

    • Use any field for your product title (product name by default)

    • Supports adding two additional fields of your choice for display

    • Optionally will only display products if the images exist on the server

    • Advanced filtering capability so only products you want can appear

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        Novice users will find they can implement this add-on with no need to know .NET while advanced users have full control and a large number of methods and properties are available for advanced programming.

         

        Include (or exclude) by category

      • Filter (or exclude) by manufacturer

      • Filter (or exclude) by vendor

      • Filter by minimum and/or maximum price (enables you to push only those higher price products)

      • Filter by date added after

      • Filter by date modified (existing, unused field in database)

      • Filter by a custom date field of your choice

      • Filter (or exclude) by keyword from the product name/short & long descriptions

      • Filter by items on sale or just regularly priced items

      • Ability to exclude specific products by product ID from being displayed
        *Supports more than one at a time

    • Configurable to display in a grid with as many rows and columns as you wish

    • Configurable to display in a list format

    • Fully customizable - you set the overall appearance and they dynamic product display will fill in the details

      • Supports display of standard and custom fields

      • Supports display of product code, name, and description

      • Supports advanced features such as text/html which is shown only for sale items, such as a small, flashing on sale image

      • Supports display of image of your choosing, either small, large, or a custom image field from your database

      • Supports dynamic display of images which confirm to your own naming convention using the productID (ex. small_images/sm????.jpg where ???? represents the productID - of course the leading and trailing characters are fully customizable

    • Fast - database interaction has been minimized to maximize performance even on the largest of catalogs

    • Fully cacheable - generating the list of products to display consumes the greatest amount of resources - this option allows you to "name" a particular dynamic product display which will save the results in memory. This allows the following benefits:

      • Results are produced significantly faster on 2nd and subsequent calls

      • Multiple instances of the dynamic product display can be used on the same page yet they can be linked such that no two duplicate products appear

      • Option so that all products meeting the criteria are shown before a product display is repeated

      • Advanced algorithms fill the cache only as actual products are displayed to minimize memory requirements while maintaining fast performance.

    • Highly customizable output - the following fields are available for display through the unlimited, customizable templates

      • Product Code

      • Product Name

      • Manufacturer

      • Vendor

      • Description - this can be the short description, long description, or any other user specified field in the products table. Note you can limit the length of the text which is output as well

      • Image - this can be the small, large, or any other user specified field in the products table

      • Regular price/sale price/sale status

      • Custom Field - this can be any other user specified field in the products table

      • Custom Date Field - this can be any other user specified field in the products table

      • Additional information such as more details, more details 2, and product on sale text/html

Typical Uses

    • Rotating content on your home page to push your higher margin products

    • Rotating content on your category pages to show random products from that category

    • Rotating content showing examples of items on sale

    • Recommended or "other people who bought this bought" type product recommendations on your product pages.

    • Best seller list

Licensing:

This add-on is licensed on a per WebStore basis. This means that one license permits you to use one copy of the component on the Storefront web on your web server and one copy in the Storefront web on one local workstation.


 

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