Product Recommendations for WooCommerce – Upsells, Cross-sells, Related Products & Frequently Bought Together

Product Recommendations is a powerful, data-driven recommendation engine for WooCommerce that helps you sell more to every shopper. Show the right product, to the right customer, at the right place — automatically.

Just like the recommendation engines that power the world’s biggest stores, this plugin studies what your customers view and buy, then surfaces smart product recommendations across your store: upsells, cross-sells, related products, frequently bought together, best sellers, recently viewed, new arrivals, and more. The result is a higher average order value, better conversions, and a shopping experience your customers love.

Best of all, everything runs locally on your own server. No external cloud, no per-recommendation fees, no sharing your customer data with third parties. Your store’s data stays yours.

Why You’ll Love Product Recommendations

• 18+ recommendation engines out of the box — from simple related products to AI-blended personalization.
• Show recommendations anywhere — product page, cart, checkout, shop, category, thank-you page, my account, and more.
• Modern React-powered admin — build widgets, campaigns, and popups with a fast, intuitive dashboard.
• Built-in analytics — track impressions, clicks, conversions, and revenue for every recommendation.
• Privacy-first & local — all tracking and data processing happens on your WordPress site.
• Developer-friendly — REST API, shortcodes, a Gutenberg block, Elementor widget, and dozens of hooks.

Powerful Recommendation Engines

Choose the strategy that fits each part of your store. Product Recommendations ships with engines across every major recommendation category:

Behavioral & Collaborative

• Frequently Bought Together — products customers commonly purchase together.
• Customers Also Bought — popular companion products from real orders.
• Customers Also Viewed — products browsed together in the same sessions.

Personalized History

• Recently Viewed — remind shoppers of products they just looked at.
• Recently Purchased — surface items a customer bought before.
• Buy Again — perfect for consumables and repeat purchases.

Popularity Based

• Best Sellers — your top-selling products by units sold.
• Trending Products — what’s rising in views and sales right now.
• New Arrivals — showcase your latest catalog additions.
• Seasonal Products — timely, season-aware picks.

Catalog & Taxonomy

• Related Products — same category and tag matches.
• Category Recommendations — more from the same category.
• Tag Recommendations — products sharing the same tags.
• Brand Recommendations — more from the same brand.
• Complete The Look — curated items that go together.

WooCommerce Native

• Upsells — higher-value alternatives from your WooCommerce upsell lists.
• Cross-sells — complementary products from your WooCommerce cross-sell lists.
• Bundles — grouped product bundles.

Manual & AI

• Custom Recommendations — hand-pick exactly what to show.
• AI Personalized — a smart per-shopper blend of viewing history, co-purchases, related products, and best sellers.
• Hybrid Recommendations — combine multiple engines with tunable weights.

Display Recommendations Everywhere

Place recommendations exactly where they convert best. Product Recommendations integrates with WooCommerce on every key page:

✅ Single Product Page — above the title, below price, after add to cart, before tabs, or after related products.
✅ Cart Page — above the cart, below items, near totals, or below the cart.
✅ Checkout Page — before or after the order review and form.
✅ Shop & Category Pages — above, below, or around the product loop.
✅ Thank You / Order Confirmation — recommend a perfect follow-up purchase.
✅ My Account Dashboard — keep returning customers engaged.
✅ Homepage — feature top picks at the top of the page or before the footer.
✅ Mini Cart — suggest add-ons right inside the cart drawer.

Modern React-Powered Admin

Everything is managed from a fast, modern dashboard built with React:

✅ Widget Builder — pick an engine, layout, and display options, then drop it anywhere.
✅ Campaign Manager — run targeted recommendation campaigns with scheduling and rules.
✅ Display Locations Manager — assign widgets to page placements visually.
✅ Popups Manager — add-to-cart, exit-intent, checkout, time-delay, scroll, and cart-recovery popups.
✅ Customer Segments — target shoppers by purchase behavior, spend, location, device, and more.
✅ Rules Builder — show or hide recommendations using cart, customer, location, time, and context conditions.
✅ A/B Testing — test engines and layouts, track results, and declare a winner.
✅ Analytics Dashboard — impressions, clicks, conversions, CTR, conversion rate, and revenue over time.
✅ AI Insights — automatic suggestions and store-health scoring to improve performance.

Flexible Layouts

Match any theme with multiple display layouts:

• Grid (responsive, configurable columns)
• Carousel
• Slider
• List
• Bundle Box
• Floating Card
• Order Bump

Show or hide ratings, price, badges, quick view, and add-to-cart buttons per widget, and set your own custom heading.

Built for Performance

• HPOS compatible — fully supports WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage.
• Precomputed affinity matrix — co-purchase data is calculated in the background, so the storefront stays fast.
• Daily analytics rollups — fast reports without scanning your order history.
• Smart caching — recommendation results are cached with a configurable TTL and support external object caches (Redis, Memcached).
• Optimized for large catalogs.

Developer Friendly

• REST API — every feature is available under /wp-json/upsellsmart/v1/ for headless and custom builds.
• Shortcode — [upsellsmart engine="related" count="5" columns="4" layout="grid"].
• Gutenberg Block — the upsellsmart/recommendations server-rendered block.
• Elementor Widget — drop recommendations into any Elementor layout.
• Dozens of hooks & filters — register custom engines, locations, weights, design tokens, capability checks, and more.
• JSON import/export — move widgets, campaigns, segments, rules, and A/B tests between sites.

Privacy First

Product Recommendations stores all behavioral data (product views, add-to-cart, purchases, impressions, and clicks) in your own WordPress database. No customer data is sent to any external service for core functionality, so you stay in full control of your store’s data.

Minimum Requirements

• WordPress 5.0 or greater
• WooCommerce 5.0 or greater
• PHP version 7.4 or greater

Automatic Installation

1. Log in to your WordPress dashboard and navigate to Plugins > Add New.
2. Search for Product Recommendations.
3. Click Install Now, then Activate.

Manual Installation

1. Download the plugin ZIP file.
2. Go to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin in your WordPress dashboard.
3. Choose the ZIP file and click Install Now.
4. Click Activate Plugin.

Manual Installation via FTP

1. Unzip the plugin file.
2. Upload the upsellsmart-product-recommendations folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
3. Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen in WordPress.

After activation, open the Product Recommendations menu in your WordPress admin to build your first widget.