How do global recommendations work?
In Frequently Bought Together, you can configure which products are displayed as recommendations for all other products.
Global recommendations appear after the manual and automatic recommendations for each product. The order of the recommendations is first manual, then automatic, then global, and finally random.
What can I use global recommendations for?
We suggest using global recommendations to promote bestsellers or the newest products. In general, products that you would like to be sold with most other products and don't have a large enough sales history.
How can I configure global recommendations?
We offer two alternatives for configuring global recommendations:
- Manually selecting the products that will be displayed as global recommendations.
- Tagging the products in the Shopify product editing page
Even though both configurations work equally, we strongly recommend the former over the latter.
🧭 Select recommendations manually (recommended)
- Navigate through the app's preferences (found on the side panel) and click on Recommendation Tuning:
- Once inside the page, click on the 'Configure' button, over the global recommendation section.
- Click on the 'Add a product as global recommendation' button.
- Select the desired products in the product selector pop-up.
🔍Tip: You can check one or more products at the same time, speeding things up and minimizing the configuration effort.
- Once you are done, click on 'Add'.
Finally, you will see the selected products.
You can alter the order as you like using the drag-and-drop icon.
If you want to delete products from the global recommendations, click on the 'Delete' button.
🏷️ Tagging global recommendations (not recommended)
As we mentioned before, you can configure global recommendations by tagging products with the exact text:
Global recommendation
⚠️ This method is not recommended.
The app does not impose any order on tagged global recommendations — they are displayed after manually added ones, in random order.
The tagged global recommendations are also displayed in the global recommendation configuration page. This combined view is very convenient as long as it allows you to know exactly the global recommendations configuration at a glance.
🔀 Shuffle recommendations
Optionally, you can shuffle all the global recommendations using the following option below the previous controls:
Unless the 'Shuffle recommendations' option is enabled, global recommendations will appear in the order you set here, and the higher products in the list will be displayed first.