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Promoted Items (Featured Products)

What are Featured Products?

Featured products are standard products in the CMS that have manually been given a special promotional status.

The promotional statues allow the products to appear in other parts on your website including the homepage, order confirm page, view cart page and within the website template itself.

Not all templates make use of the template tags. All sites have a dedicated homepage.

Where can you promote a product in the CMS

You can promote products in bulk via the checkbox next to the product when viewing the product list (screenshot below)
You can promote a product individually when editing the product via the PROMOTION dropdown option.

Above: When viewing the product list you can quickly promote a selection of products by checking the checkbox found on a product and setting the promotion status from the right-hand sidebar.

Promoting products on the homepage

Use the HOME PAGE - SALE / BEST / NEW / FEATURED to set a promoted product to appear on the homepage.

By default homepage promoted products appear below the main content and above the footer.

Promoting products in template areas

You can promote individual products to appear on your template borders, or home page if your template supports it via the TEMPLATE - SALE / BEST / NEW / FEATURED

To use the TEMPLATE - FEATURED options as shown in the screenshot above requires the following tags to be present of the template, otherwise the products will not appear.

Where to quickly find all featured products

You can view all promoted items by viewing your product list, then clicking the SORT PROMOTED ITEMS button in the right sidebar under the heading Quick Searches.

To remove a promotional status

Set the promotion status of the product to General Item.

If you have used the sort promoted items to find all your featured products, you can use the check-all option to quickly select all items to change their promotion status in bulk.

Where to reorder your featured products

You can view all promoted items by viewing your product list, then clicking the SORT PROMOTED ITEMS button in the sidebar under the heading Quick Searches.

Promotional Statuses - Overview

Promotion Status	Where the products appear
General Item	No product promotion. Apply this when you want to remove a promotion status from a product.
Homepage - On Sale	Appears on the Homepage underneath the main content but before any template Footer
Homepage - Best Seller	Appears on the Homepage underneath the main content but before any template Footer
Homepage - New Products	Appears on the Homepage underneath the main content but before any template Footer
Homepage - Featured	Appears on the Homepage underneath the main content but before any template Footer
Homepage - Coming Soon
View Cart	Appears on the View Cart page.
Checkout - If Supplier Matched	Similar to "View Cart" except that the supplier must match existing items in the cart.
Exclude From Cross Promotion	When promoting items, any item already in the cart with "Exclude from cross promotion" won't be considered relevant to the conditional display of other items. Used with the supplier match.
Order Confirm	Appears on Order Confirmation page prior to checkout
Template - On Sale	Appears in an area of the template that uses the [PRODUCTS_ON_SALE] tag
Template - Best Seller	Appears in an area of the template that uses the [PRODUCTS_BEST_SELLERS] tag
Template - New Item	Appears in an area of the template that uses the [PRODUCTS_NEW_ITEM] tag
Template - Featured	Appears in an area of the template that uses the [PRODUCTS_FEATURED] tag
Template - Coming Soon

For more information on template tags see Custom template tags [TAGS] overview

Promote products to the Checkout process,

Either a product is marked as promotion = on order confirm, (or view cart)

Auto suggest products at checkout.

if a history of more than 3 orders exists where 2 items have been purchased together in the past, then the other items will be suggested at checkout if they are not already in the cart.

Please note we only update our suggestion database once a day in the morning, so it's hard to test the scenerio on a new cart...

You can enable this setting in the shopping setup area for cart options.

Important Notes On A Product with Multiple Promotions and Removing Promotions

A product can have one primary promotion, and this also doubles as a "Promotion Stamp" that is displayed on category listings.

However, a product can be associated with many more promotional targets. It is not desireable to have all those promotional targets like "View Cart" displayed as a promotional stamp, so these are hidden from category list pages automatically.

It may be that a product exists in a promotional target group, but does not have a primnary promotion active. eg no stamp.

The setting of "General" for a product, will unset all other promotions active. Setting a product to have no promotional target, will make no changes. Setting a product to several different promotions will add the product to each promotion you choose. So setting it to general is how you undo that. Having a blank is a valid use case, that does not mean remove from all promotions.