Overview
With this function, you can prevent your customers from only purchasing individual products (a la carte). This is helpful if you want to offer cheap individual products or to achieve a minimum shopping cart value for each order. In this article, we'll review how to set up this functionality.
Setting Up Mandatory Product Packages
The video below shows a quick explanation for setting up this feature.
Written instructions continue below.
Within each Price Profile in your Settings, you will find the option under Actions → Settings. This needs to be applied for each price profile; it is not a universal setting (Useful if you only want to use it for certain jobs and not others).
Once activated, the shop will show a lock with a small note for all orders that use the price profile.
Adding individual products to the cart will not be possible if there is not at least one product package in the cart first.
Once a package has been added to the cart, the hints and restrictions will disappear.
The Takeaway
Increase your average order value by implementing mandatory product packages, preventing customers from purchasing only individual items. While this strategy may lead to a potential decrease in immediate sales, it ensures a minimum shopping cart value for each order, providing an opportunity for upselling and maximizing revenue.