Customer Suggestions & Ideas for Ecwid
Welcome to our official feedback forum. Do you have an idea? Do you recognize a good idea when you see one? We want to hear from you!
Basic rules:
- One suggestion per idea.
- Please post ideas and comments in English.
- Please do not post “+1”, “I need it too!”, “a must have!” comments. Just vote for an idea instead.
- If an idea doesn’t have an exact ETA provided by our team, the “Any ETA?” questions will not give any answer either.
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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.
406 votes -
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.
319 votes -
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.
241 votes -
Allow a place for customer reviews
This is a great feature. Really helps customers and sales.
222 votes -
Be able to add a video to a product gallery
Be able to add videos instead of just pictures to a product's gallery.
215 votes -
Featured Products / Popular Products
Most online shops have the follow:
• Featured Products
• Recommended Products
• Popular / Best Seller Products
• Sale / Clearance ProductsI 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:
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.
165 votes -
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
115 votes -
The possibility to add products to your bag from a products list layout "grid"
It's really necessary in social network widgets (applications).
108 votes -
"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.
102 votes -
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.
99 votes -
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.
89 votes -
Add 'Recommend This Product to a Friend" Form
Add a "Recommend" or "Share" this product button that opens up a simple form.
84 votes -
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.
64 votes -
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… more59 votes -
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.
54 votes -
Zoomify objects as product image
Being able to use Zoomify objects as product image is cool.
52 votes -
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.
51 votes -
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).
50 votes -
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.
47 votesAdminQetzal (Admin, Ecwid) responded
While Ecwid doesn’t support this feature yet (it will in the future), a custom 3d-party option is available: http://www.ecwid.com/connect/vendor/magic-toolbox/
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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.
47 votes