UpSellSmart – Product Recommendations

UpSellSmart – Product Recommendations provides intelligent product suggestions based on your store’s data. The plugin analyzes customer behavior and purchase patterns to recommend relevant products, helping increase sales and improve customer experience.

Key Features:

• Two Recommendation Engines: Content-based (categories/tags) and Association-based (frequently bought together)
• Local Data Processing: All recommendations are generated using your store’s data – no external APIs required
• Multiple Display Locations: Show recommendations on product pages, cart, and checkout
• AJAX Updates: Cart and checkout recommendations update dynamically without page reload
• Comprehensive Admin Interface: Easy-to-use settings panel with detailed configuration options
• Manual Overrides: Set custom recommendations or exclude specific products per product
• Performance Optimized: Uses caching and background processing to ensure fast page loads

Recommendation Engines:

1. Content-Based Engine: Recommends products that share categories, tags, or attributes with the current product or cart items. Perfect for showing related products within the same category.

2. Association Engine: Uses purchase history to find products frequently bought together. Implements market-basket analysis to identify strong product associations.

Display Options:

✅ Single product pages
✅ Cart page (updates when cart changes)
✅ Checkout page
✅ Configurable number of columns and products
✅ Show/hide price, ratings, and add-to-cart buttons

Admin Features:

✅ Choose active recommendation engine
✅ Configure engine parameters (minimum support, confidence levels, etc.)
✅ Set display preferences (title, columns, styling options)
✅ Manual product recommendations per product
✅ Exclude specific products from recommendations
✅ Tools for rebuilding and managing recommendation data
✅ Statistics and performance monitoring

Technical Details

Database Tables:
The plugin creates one custom table (wp_upspr_product_recommendations) to store recommendation data efficiently.

Hooks and Filters:
The plugin provides various hooks and filters for developers to customize functionality:

• upspr_product_recommendations_get_recommendations – Filter recommendations before display
• upspr_product_recommendations_display_args – Modify display arguments
• upspr_product_recommendations_engine_settings – Customize engine parameters

Performance:
* Uses WordPress transients for caching
* Background processing for data building
* Optimized database queries
* Minimal frontend JavaScript

Compatibility:
* WooCommerce 5.0+
* WordPress 5.0+
* PHP 7.4+
* Works with most WooCommerce themes
* Compatible with major caching plugins

Support

For support, feature requests, or bug reports, please visit our support forum or contact us directly.

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/woocommerce-product-recommendations directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
3. Navigate to WooCommerce > Recommendations to configure the plugin
4. The plugin will automatically start building recommendation data based on your existing orders

1.0.0

• Initial release
• Content-based recommendation engine
• Association-based recommendation engine
• Admin interface with comprehensive settings
• Display on product, cart, and checkout pages
• AJAX updates for cart/checkout recommendations
• Manual recommendation overrides
• Performance optimization with caching