Order bumps — product add-ons and cart upsells

An order bump is a small extra the shopper can add in one click, right where they're already deciding to buy. RecurX has two offer types for this, both created on the Upsells page:

• Product add-on — checkboxes for add-on items on the product page. Ticked items go into the cart together with the product.
• Cart upsell — recommended products in the cart page or cart drawer, each with an Add button.

This guide sets up both. Each takes about 2 minutes.

Before you start: offers only show on your storefront while the RecurX Upsells app embed is on in your theme. If it's off, the Upsells page shows a Turn on the RecurX Upsells app embed banner with an Open theme editor button.

1Step 1: Open Upsells and click Create offer

1. In your Shopify admin, open Apps → RecurX Subscriptions → Growth.
2. On the Upsell rules card, click Manage upsell rules.
3. Click Create offer.

2Step 2: Create a product add-on

1. Enter an Offer name (only you see it).
2. Under Choose offer type, select Product add-on.
3. Under Show with, untick Apply to all products and click Browse Shopify products to pick the product pages that show the add-ons — or leave it ticked to show them on every product.
4. Under Products to recommend, click Browse Shopify products and pick the add-on items (up to 10).
5. Check the Preview on the right, then click Save offer.

The heading starts as Add these to your order — change it in the Heading field lower in the form. Products to show, Priority, Show product images, Show product prices and Active work as described in Cross-sells.

On the product page, the add-ons appear as a list of checkboxes. The shopper ticks what they want; when they add the main product to the cart, the ticked add-ons are added with it.

3Step 3: Create a cart upsell

Follow the same steps, but under Choose offer type select Cart upsell. The Show with products are the ones that trigger the offer when they're in the cart. The preview switches to a list with an Add button per product.

When a trigger product is in the cart, the recommendations show at the bottom of the cart page and of your theme's cart drawer. One tap on Add puts the product in the cart.

Tip: The same cart drawer can also let shoppers switch a line to a subscription — see Cart drawer subscription offers.

4Step 4: Adjust the cart upsell texts (optional)

Open the Design tab:

1. Under Placements, keep Cart upsell (Cart page and cart drawer) ticked. Untick it to switch cart upsells off for your whole store.
2. In the Cart upsell card, change the Heading (default You may also like) and the Button text (default Add).
3. Click Save in the save bar.

Under Style you can set an Accent color and Corner radius. Leave them empty to match your subscription widget.

What happens next

• Add-ons and cart upsells are added at your normal store price. Upsell offers don't apply a discount; if you want one, create a Shopify discount for those products.
• Track each offer with Show performance on its row: Views, Clicks, Click-through rate, Conversions and Revenue.
• When several offers match the same product, the one with the higher Priority shows first.

Note: Older versions of this article described order bumps inside Shopify checkout and a per-link bump on express links. RecurX doesn't show upsell offers in checkout, and express links have no bump option — use a product add-on or a cart upsell instead.

Troubleshooting

• "Pick at least one product, or apply the offer to all products." — choose trigger products or tick Apply to all products.
• "Pick at least one product to recommend." — add the add-on items.
• The offer shows "On, never shown" — no shopper has seen it yet. Check the RecurX Upsells app embed is on and the placement is ticked on the Design tab.