How do manual recommendations work?

Although the core of the Frequently Bought Together app is automatic recommendations, you can also use the app to configure recommendations manually.

Manual recommendations are configured on a product-by-product basis.

🔍Tip: Manual bundles are convenient if you do not have a good sales history yet or if you want to fine-tune the recommendations for some particular product.

You will find a link to access the Manual Bundles page on the app preferences page, found on the side panel.

Inside an individual bundle, you can:

  • Personalize the manual recommendations.
  • Sort them using the drag-and-drop.
  • Create an individual discount for the bundle.
  • Duplicate the bundle.

Manual recommendations are always displayed first. After that, the automatic, global, and random recommendations will be shown, in that order.

If you don't want other recommendations added to your manual bundles, you can do it easily with the option 'Exclusive manual bundles'.

This is detailed in Why are more recommendations added to my manual bundles?

📦 Creating a manual bundle

When you first access the Manual Bundles page, you will be presented with an initial screen to begin configuration.

  1. Click the 'Select a product to check its bundle' button and select the desired product.

  1. Click the 'Select' button.

You will be redirected to the recommendations section.

Since the product has no recommendations yet, we can now begin adding them.

  1. Click the button 'Add recommendations' and check all products you want to add as recommendations.

  1. Finally, click the 'Add' button.

The selected products will now appear as part of the manual bundle.

You may:

  • Reorder the products using the drag-and-drop control.
  • Apply an individual bundle discount to incentivize conversions.

The bundle can also be duplicated, if you like to skip the entire process.

This is detailed in How does the Duplicate bundle work?