If you only sell one product on your online store, you might want to automatically add it to the customer’s cart. This saves the customer from having to find an add to cart button and adding it to their cart manually. Stores that are promoting a specific product might also want to automatically add products to the cart.
Now that customers don’t have to add the product to their cart themselves, they can proceed to the checkout page faster. This can benefit your business by helping you make sales faster and reduce the chances of them abandoning their shopping cart.
In this article, we’ll show you how you can automatically add products to the customer’s cart using Booster’s WooCommerce Product Add to Cart module.
Let’s put everything into context before we begin.
Why automatically add products to the cart?
If customers don’t have to add products to the cart, you can save them a lot of time in making a purchase from your WooCommerce store.
In simple words, you can speed up the purchasing user flows on your website by eliminating the add-to-cart step and proceeding straight to checkout. Additionally, this can encourage customers to browse more products in your store.
By automatically adding products to your customer’s cart, you remove friction from the purchasing process. Customers will be able to select and purchase products from your WooCommerce store in just a few clicks.
Let’s take a look at some examples of businesses that might benefit from this:
- Apparel stores. Apparel stores can benefit from automatically adding products to their customer’s cart. Generally speaking, apparel stores sell products such as hats, t-shirts, hoodies, caps, and belts. Customers visiting your store already have to buy clothes, so adding them automatically to the shopping cart when they visit a single product page can speed up the purchasing process.
- Sports and fitness stores. Stores that sell only sports and fitness equipment can benefit from this as customers visiting your online store only need to buy sports equipment. Adding a fitness bag or yoga mat to the customer’s cart automatically can help you boost your average order value.
- Grocery stores. Stores that sell grocery items may find it useful to automatically add featured products to their customer’s cart. For example, if you’re offering a deal on orange juice or milk, you can automatically add it to the customer’s cart. It’s a great way to boost product visibility and encourage customers to try out new products.
- Membership sites. Membership sites that have a single membership plan to offer to users may find it useful to automatically add the product to the customer’s cart. Similarly, if your store sells a mystery box that contains a combination of products or a shaving kit subscription box, you can automatically add it to the customer’s cart when they land on your website.
Using the Booster Plus plugin, you can set all of your products or selected products to automatically be added to the customer’s cart when they land on the single product page.
How to automatically add products to the customer’s cart in WooCommerce
Here we’ll show you how you can automatically add products to the customer’s cart using the Booster Plus for WooCommerce plugin.
Step #1: Enable the WooCommerce Product Add to Cart module
Start by getting the Booster Plus for WooCommerce plugin. Install and activate it on your WordPress website. Once that’s done, navigate to WooCommerce > Settings > Booster from the admin panel to access the different modules. Here you’ll see a list of different modules. We want to enable the WooCommerce Product Add to Cart module.
Select the Add to Cart module under the Products section. You can select the checkbox next to the module to enable it. Once you’re done, click the Save changes button at the bottom of your screen to continue.
Step #2: Configure plugin settings
Navigate to Booster > Products > Add to Cart to configure the module’s settings.
To add products to your customer’s cart automatically when they visit the product page, you can select All products from the dropdown menu next to Add to Cart on Visit.
Additionally, you can also select the Per product option from the same dropdown menu which will add a meta box to each product’s edit page. This way, only selected products will automatically be added to the customer’s cart when they land on the single product page. This is great for stores that sell lots of products and want to automatically add featured products to the customer’s cart.
Once you’re done configuring the module’s settings, click the Save changes button to continue.
Step #3: Preview
As soon as your customer opens the product page, the product will automatically be added to their cart. It will look something like this on the front-end:
Conclusion
Saving customers time by eliminating steps from the traditional purchasing process is a great way to enhance the shopping experience and boost sales. By automatically adding products to the customer’s cart, you ensure they don’t accidentally forget to add a product they meant to purchase. This is useful for all types of stores, especially stores that sell lots of low-cost items such as groceries.
Booster Plus gives users the option to choose from over 110+ modules that can be customized to give your WooCommerce store a unique look and feel and help you stand out from the competition.
Check out these 16 Tips to Increase Sales in WooCommerce for more ideas on how to increase sales and grow your bottom line.
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