Created: 07/2019
Latest updated: 02/2022 – Updated version: 1.0.7
By: VillaTheme
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WooCommerce Abandoned Cart Recovery is a WooCommerce extension that helps you to recover unfinished orders in your store. When a customer adds a product to the cart but does not complete check out. After a scheduled time, the cart will be marked as “abandoned”. WooCommerce Abandoned Cart Recovery will start to send cart recovery emails or Facebook messages to the customer, remind him/her to complete the order.
When a user adds a product to the cart but does not check out. After a selected time, the cart will be marked as “abandoned”. WooCommerce Abandoned Cart Recovery will capture the cart information including add to cart date, customer email address, added to cart items, cart total, cart status, and IP address. Then using this information to contact the customer, offer a discount, and request him/her to complete check out.
A pop-up will appear when customers click add to cart for the first time, requesting them to fill in an email address to complete the add to cart action. After getting an email the pop-up will not reappear and users can add products to the cart normally. And the email address will be automatically filled in the checkout form when the customer goes to the checkout page.
The plugin sends recovery for abandoned carts and abandoned orders. When a cart or an order is marked as abandoned, the plugin will send a recovery email to the email address that the customer filled in the request email popup. Ask them to finish checking out the cart and offer coupons if it is necessary.
The plugin will display a “Send to Message” tickbox under the add to cart button on single product pages. If customers tick on this box before adding the product to the cart. The cart will be recorded and the plugin will send a recovery message to the customer on message. Recovery messages include text and a link to the checkout page. If customers click on the link, they will be redirected to the checkout page with their abandoned cart. This option requires a fan page and a Facebook app to work.
You can send SMS messages to customers who have abandoned carts. When a customer fills in their telephone number on the checkout page but does not complete checkout. The plugin will send recovery SMS messages with a link to the checkout page to the phone number.
The plugin provides 4 types of reports for you to check the abandoned carts. Select the suitable report type and a time range to view the report of the abandoned cart in that time.
During the support period, you are able to auto-update the plugin from your Dashboard.
To use the Send Recovery Emails feature, you need to configure recovery email templates.
Go to Dashboard/ WC Abandoned Cart/ Email Templates and configure your email templates.
Then go to Dashboard/ WC Abandoned Cart/ Settings/ Email Pop-up to enable the request email pop-up.
And finally, go to the General tab to enable cart tracking and the send email address option.
With the cart tracking option is enabled in the previous step. You just need to enable the Send Facebook message option to send messages.
After fill in App ID and Secret, you will be able to edit the FB messages.
To send recovery SMS messages, you need to register for a Twilio App and a bit.ly access token. The detailed guide is attached in the plugin back-end.
In the General tab, you can configure the cart tracking option
In the Email tab, to set up emails which you will send to customers.
In the Facebook message tab, you can set up the plugin to send recovery cart message to customers Facebook message.
Please watch and follow this video guide to connect with Facebook:
Configuration Facebook messages for abandoned Cart.
SMS Provider: There are 3 SMS Provider options for you to choose including Twilio, Nexmo and Plivo. Here are the guidelines:
Go to Email pop-up tab to configure the request email pop-up feature.
The request email pop-up will appear when a customer adds products to cart for the first time. The pop-up will requires an email to complete this action. The pop-up will appear one time only, after that customers can add to cart normally.
Record a cart as an abandon using email popup: After adding a product to cart, plugin will run time of an abandoned cart. If customer has no action (add more, remove, edit.. this cart) after an initial time set in the General, this cart will be recorded as an abandon, but if customer does one of the above actions, the counter will be reset. And if the cart is placed, the counter will be canceled.
Pop -up Config
Appear on: select page where you want to pop-up to appear.
Fields display: Choose the fields you want to display on email pop-up
GDPR content: Enter your GDPR content.
Information required: customers cannot add products to cart without filling the information. If you disable this option, customer can skip the pop-up but still can add products to the cart.
Dismiss time: This function helps to stop displaying the email popup within certain time set in “Dismiss time”
Redirect after Add to cart: after adding a product to cart, choose if you want to redirect them to cart or check out page.
Customize on the Email popup template
Customize on the Unsubscribe popup template
Design the email popup and unsubscribe popup
You can design colour of text, button, background, notice… for email pop-up
In WC Abandoned Cart/ Abandoned Table, you can check the list of abandoned carts.
Go to WC Abandoned Cart/ Email Templates to edit your recovery email templates. You can Add New/ Edit/ Delete recovery email templates here.
Click on a template to edit it.
The plugin provides 4 types of report for you to check the abandoned cart.
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