This guide shows you how to use WooCommerce Product Recommendations to offer conditional, category-based recommendations in your store’s Cart page. As an example, we will create a Summer Essentials block of product recommendations that:
- contains products from the Summer Accessories and Suncare categories that cost below 50€; and
- is displayed when the cart contains products from the Swimwear category.

Plugins/Extensions Used
↑ Back to topConfiguration
↑ Back to topCreate a “Summer Essentials” Engine
↑ Back to top- Create an Engine
- Go to WooCommerce > Recommendations > Engines and click Create new.
- Under Title, enter “Summer Essentials”.
- Choose the Generic Engine Type.
- Add Filters
- Locate the Filters section in the Engine Configuration panel.
- Add a Category Filter.
- Select in.
- Add the Summer Accessories and Suncare categories in the last field.
- Add a Price Filter.
- Select <= and enter 50 to recommend products cheaper than 50€.
- Add Amplifiers
- Go to the Amplifiers section.
- Add a Popularity Amplifier.
- In the first dropdown, select high to low.
- In the second one, choose a time interval, for example last 30 days, to favor top-selling products ordered in this period.
- Add a Rating Amplifier.
- Select high to low to favor products with higher ratings.
- Add a Price Amplifier.
- Select low to high to favor cheaper products.
Use the +/- buttons to increase/decrease the relative weight of the Amplifiers you just added. - Save the EngineClick the Create button to save the Engine you just configured.
Deploy the “Summer Essentials” Engine
↑ Back to top- Deploy the EngineClick Deploy in the message that appears after saving the Engine. Alternatively:
- Navigate to WooCommerce > Recommendations > Locations.
- Search for and select the “Summer Essentials” Engine.
- Click the Deploy button.
- Configure Display Settings
- In the Title field, enter “Summer Essentials”. This will be displayed above the recommended products.
- Select a number of Product columns and Product rows for the product recommendations. Here we selected 3 columns and 2 rows.
- Choose LocationSelect the Location where you’d like the recommendations to appear. To display the recommendations in the cart collaterals area, choose Cart > Cart Collaterals.
- Add Visibility ConditionsTo display the “Summer Essentials” recommendations when products from the Swimwear category exist in the cart, add a Visibility Condition:
- Go to the Visibility Conditions section.
- Add a Category condition.
- Select in cart.
- Add one or more categories in the last field. Here, we added the Swimwear category.
- Add a Cart item value condition.
- Select max item price >=.
- Enter a value in the last field, for example 50. This ensures that the recommendations will be displayed only if the cart contains at least one item priced higher than $50.
- Finalize the DeploymentClick Deploy to deploy this Engine to the specified Location.
Result
↑ Back to topMaking Changes
↑ Back to topTo edit the configuration of the “Summer Essentials” Engine:
- Navigate to WooCommerce > Recommendations > Engines.
- Locate and Edit the “Summer Essentials” Engine.
- Update the Engine to save your changes.
To edit the Display Settings, Location, or Visibility Conditions of your recommendations:
- Navigate to WooCommerce > Recommendations > Locations.
- Go to the Cart section.
- Click the Cart Collaterals tab.
- Expand the “Summer Essentials” Engine deployment and make changes as needed.
- Save your changes.
If you have only deployed a few Engines on your site, you may find it easier to locate and edit the “Summer Essentials” Engine deployment by navigating to WooCommerce > Recommendations > Locations > Overview.
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