Customer Suggestions & Ideas for Ecwid

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    1. Make it possible to add upselling products

      It woudl be great if this feature existed so we could interest a customer in another sale based on items they are browsing.

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      • Related Product

        In order to enhance additional sales, it would be great to have a widget that suggested related products including accessories usually purchased with the selected item, items that other people bought and items the vendor wants to promote.

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        • the ability to add a donation / user entered price

          The ability to create a product where a user can enter any amount; for example, for a donation of any amount.

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          • Allow a place for customer reviews

            This is a great feature. Really helps customers and sales.

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            • Be able to add a video to a product gallery

              Be able to add videos instead of just pictures to a product's gallery.

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              • Featured Products / Popular Products

                Most online shops have the follow:

                • Featured Products
                • Recommended Products
                • Popular / Best Seller Products
                • Sale / Clearance Products

                I know as a 'work around' - we could create a new category for say "featured products" and insert all our featured items into here... but for example:

                http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/category/2006/Digital-Cameras?cm_sp=Nav-_-CamerasCamcorders-_-DigitalCameras

                Shows the digital cameras - BUT has the 'best seller' products at the top of the page. Encouraging people to buy these.

                Can we implement a similar system in the future?

                p.s - Also, related products / accessories when browsing an item, 'accessories' appear beneath the product description.

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                • Pre-Ordering, Back-ordering, Email notice of a product in stock

                  Pre-Ordering of a product not yet in stock?
                  Back- ordering an out of stock item?
                  Queue orders and allow to release to process CC after in stock would be ideal.
                  Or
                  Email to customer once in stock? Odds of closing sale go down.
                  Or force by SKU to manual CC processing thereby not charging the customer until in stock?
                  I do not have the solution but think that pre-order without charging could be a tremendous marketing and operational tool.

                  There seems to be 3 or more other threads that embody the same idea. Can we consolidate to a single idea… more

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                  • The possibility to add products to your bag from a products list layout "grid"

                    It's really necessary in social network widgets (applications).

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                    • "Call for pricing" or "Contact me for pricing" option

                      Some options are so custom -- like adding graphics to a machine's housing -- that they can't be sold like widgets. A "call for pricing" option (or "contact me about this option") lets the options be listed in the store, and if the customer is interested then a sales person can give them a call.

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                      • Add 'Email me when back in stock'

                        If a product is sold out, allow member to click 'Email me when back in stock' to be alerted when product is renewed.

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                        • manufacturers / brands support

                          I can't imagine shopping cart system without "manufacturers support".

                          Also "filter option" like http://www.xcartmods.co.uk/x-cart-filter-by-manufacturer-v4x-x-cart-mods-pr-50.html would be a great time saver for customers to find the products.

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                          • Add 'Recommend This Product to a Friend" Form

                            Add a "Recommend" or "Share" this product button that opens up a simple form.

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                            • Latest products widgets

                              The latest products view is really something missing here. Showing the last products added to the catalog as a widgets that we can placed anywhere is our page would definitely be a big plus.

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                              • Product types and product properties

                                Let each product belong (or not belong) to a certain type. A type has a name and a set of properties, which all the products of this type
                                must have. Each product, including products, not belonging to any types, can have some named properties. A property is selected either f
                                rom the type's preset properties or created on the spot. Types can be inherited from one another. Products of the same type can be compar
                                ed by their properties. Products can be compatible with each other by their properties. Products can be gathered, based on their properti
                                es.
                                So, using… more

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                                • Show product prices to logged in users only

                                  Many large company's don't like to give prices away to the public (Especially wholesale carts as the public will then be able to view profit margins).

                                  It would be great to have an option to simply disable prices and the cart unless you're a logged in customer.

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                                  • Zoomify objects as product image

                                    Being able to use Zoomify objects as product image is cool.

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                                    • Extend Product HTML Code with product description, product options and product gallery components

                                      Ecwid allows you to use Product HTML Code (a single product widget) instead of Product Browser widget. Currently, the HTML code can include the product thumbnail, the product name, the product price and the "Add to Cart" button.

                                      It seems rather reasonable if a store owner could also choose to extend the single product widget with other product components, including the product description, product options and the product gallery (additional images).

                                      This will make the product widget more flexible, making the widget suitable for more use cases and situations.

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                                      • bundle products or multi-part products

                                        Ability to create special product bundles or multi-part products that sell as a unit, whereas their parts may or not be sold as separate items. For example, a kit containing a book, workbook and audios that can also be purchased separately (or not).

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                                        • Product Thumbnail Zoom

                                          Ability to enable an option to hover the mouse over the product thumbnail in order to display a larger image, popping up on screen. Remove the mouse from the image and popup dissappears.

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                                          • Allow the gallery thumbnails to be resizeable

                                            When you have multiple gallery pictures, it would be good to allow them to be resized, as they are quite small and easily missed.

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