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Sun, 05/03/2009 - 14:51
 Hi there, I'll be working on a Google Summer of Code project, and part of my work is to develop a "Customers who bought this also bought..." module for Ubercart. I'll start working on it at the end of May. If you have any ideas or suggestions, please feel free to let me know For more info about the module, please refer to http://groups.drupal.org/node/19894    
Re: GSoC: Ubercart related products
Sounds cool! I would love to be able to implement the API into the next version of UC Upsell. EDIT: I was thinking about this some more, and I'm not sure what the best way is to approach it.. should we dump Upsell in favor of the Recommender modules? Normally with Drupal it's not good to have multiple modules performing the same task - granted, my module doesn't use any algorithms for suggesting or recommending products - but I think that would be better dealt with as a patch to Upsell rather than writing another whole module. Anyone have similar thoughts or am I way off base here?
Re: Re: GSoC: Ubercart related products
I'm not sure. I can see a market for either automatic product recommendation based on customer data or store administered product linking. From a marketing standpoint I'm not sure what is more effective at generating sales, so I'll leave that up to people with numbers to bac up claims. I suppose the Recommender API would lead us more toward something like an Amazon.com clone, with their myriad ways of marketing things to me that I actually do want. I'm not sure how influenced I am by what other people purchased. In fact, I'm not sure I've ever clicked away from a product I was purchasing on Amazon.com to check out the "35% of people who visited this page bought X product." However, I have come back to purchase new products in categories from which I regularly purchase. That sort of marketing would be helpful...
Re: Re: Re: GSoC: Ubercart related products
Yeah, I agree. In the 6.x version of Upsell I've started using Taxonomy as an option for pulling "related" products from, to help in the automation of suggesting relevant content. However utilizing the Recommender API would not be a bad option to include. Dan, I feel like perhaps we should keep the "Customers who bought this" functionality separate from the "related by taxonomy / product content" - which could be added as a patch to Upsell which includes integration with Recommender. That way we can get the best of both worlds - and perhaps even allowing the option of manual entry, Taxonomy, AND Recommender engines to create the lists of related content during checkout or while viewing a product. Otherwise I feel like we'll be duplicating functionality and that's usually not the way to go. |
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