Description
PrestaShop Group Buy - The module helps shop owners to offer various customers to come together & buy products in a group.
This module helps you to create multiple group purchasing plans & add multiple products to each plan. Customers can create a product buying group after selecting the plan & invite others to join the group & facilitate the buying process.
After other customers join the group & add the product to a group, every one of them can proceed to place the order & pay for their own product.
Every customer of the group is able to checkout only if the maximum quantity required for the checkout is reached. On reaching the maximum required quantity, the buying group becomes active & now each member of the group can pay for their own product without being dependent on one another.
This module is very helpful for those who are willing to witness an increase in sales by offering some discounts. As higher discounts being offered to customers who buy in a group will increase the sales cause quantity will be more if customers buy the product after creating the group.
Highlighted Features
Group Buying
Offer multiple customers to come together and buy products in a group.
Group Purchasing Plans
Create multiple group purchasing plans & add multiple products to each plan.
Offer Discounts
Offer discounts to customers if they choose to buy in a group.
Product Buying Groups
Let customers create buying groups & invite other customers to aid in the group buying process.
Mail Notification
Inform admin & customer both by sending mail to inform about group status.
Increase Sales
Option to get discounts in group buying will encourage customers to buy products & thus help in increasing sales.
A quick overview of the functioning of the PrestaShop Group Buy module
As this module functioning is vast, so here are the steps that will help an admin & the customer both to understand it clearly.
- Firstly, an admin creates group purchasing plans from the back-end.
- A plan can contain multiple products, as well as a product, can also be available under multiple plans.
- Now, a customer will get the option to create a new product purchasing group after selecting a suitable plan on the front-end.
- The plan details are also available on the product page. It updates according to the selected plan to provide clear information.
- After creating the group, a customer can invite other customers via invite link or by socially sharing the details of the group.
- Although, public groups are available to join for every customer of the shop.
- Any other customer can simply join the group & add any of the products available in the plan to the group.
- After the minimum quantity requirement as per the plan is fulfilled, every member of the group gets an option to checkout.
- Please note that every customer will pay for only his/her added product to the group.
- Also, there is a time limit up to which the customers get to order their product. After the time limit, the group gets cancelled.
- When all the customers of the group complete their purchase, the status of the group changes to complete.
Why should you consider using this module?
Firstly, allowing the customers to come together as a group to buy products in itself is a very effective sales as well marketing approach too. Let's just see how?
- In order to buy in groups, customers will need to bring other people to join them in purchasing the products in order to get discounts.
- Customers who want to enjoy group buying discounts would do promotional marketing for your store in order to bring other people to your store.
- More people coming to the store & participating in the group buying process means more product sales.
- More sale directly translates to a better conversion rate of your store.
- Also, the promotion of your group buying discounts by other customers will help you attract new customers too.
Group Buying Plans
In order to let customers enjoy discounts through the group buying process, there is a need to create group buying plans first.
- A customer needs to choose a plan before creating a buying group.
- A plan provides the details of discount percent/amount, number of products that must be bought in total by a group to get discounts.
- Set the maximum checkout time every customer of the group gets to place the order after the maximum quantity required to checkout is fulfilled by the group members.
- Also, set the expiry date & time of the plan after which the group buying plan will no longer be active.
- Add as many products as you want in a group buying plan.
Customer Buying Groups
In order to enjoy discounts on products, a customer can create his/her own product buying group of few customers. Other customers can join the group & add the products to the group.
- Each customer of the group will pay for their own added product only.
- A checkout button will become available only if the maximum quantity required to checkout is added by all the customers of the group.
- A customer can choose to create either a public or private product buying group.
- In the case of private groups, a customer can provide an invite link as well as a QR code to other customers for joining the group.
- Each customer will be able to get an exact discount that is being offered through the group purchasing plan.
PrestaShop Group Buy Features
- Create any number of group sale plans.
- Add as many products as you want to a plan.
- Add same product to multiple plans.
- Set the quantity that must be added by group members in total to let each member checkout.
- Configure maximum quantity that a group member can add to the cart.
- Set maximum checkout time each customer gets after adding maximum quantity in cart.
- Set the expiry date of the group sale plan.
- Disable minimum purchase total criteria for the group to complete order.
- Configure the order statuses to mark the status of product purchasing group as complete.
- Set discount for each group sale plan.
- Send email notification to group members when the group gets activated canceled, or deleted.
- Send email notification to group when they complete the purchase.
- Customers can view group sale plan details and create group on the product page.
- Select the visibility of group as public or private.
- Once created, customer can add product quantity to group.
- View a list of all the sale groups from account.
- Invite other customers to a group via a link.
- Group owner can also delete the group.
- Once other customers have joined group, they can add the products to the group.
- Once the maximum quantity to proceed to checkout reaches, the group becomes active.
- After each member orders their product, group status changes to complete.
- View a list of groups created by customers.
- Add can also create groups and add products to them.
- View a list of group orders in the back office.
- Show customer groups in list or grid view in customer’s account.
PrestaShop Group Buy Support
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