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Topic: Recently Viewed Items

Posted By: MarkCoyle
Subject: Recently Viewed Items
Date Posted: 25-July-2006 at 3:32pm

Hi

a feature that would be generally useful in a future version is showing a customer items that have recently viewed (but not ordered). Amazon etc use this and it's very good.

cheers
Mark

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Posted By: ProductCart
Date Posted: 25-July-2006 at 5:24pm

Yes, we agree and already have this on our internal wish list, so it will likely be included in v3.1. You can see a ProductCart store where the customer actually implemented this customization:

http://www.maximstore.com/ProductCart/pc/viewCat_h.asp?idCategory=22 - http://www.maximstore.com/ProductCart/pc/viewCat_h.asp?idCat egory=22

Go ahead and start clicking around on several product details pages, and then notice that your recently viewed products will appear on the subsequent product details pages. They did a very nice job on the site (imo).

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Posted By: MarkCoyle
Date Posted: 26-July-2006 at 4:46am

Hi all,

thanks for confirming this will come soon.

I like the example done in the store link provided - very neat.

It would also be good to show this information on the 'featured products' page to a customer when implemented.

Amazon for example show it this way at the store home page when the customer returns to it.

cheers

Mark

Posted By: fidjiti
Date Posted: 29-May-2007 at 9:31pm

EI,
Are you all still adding this (recently viewed items) feature for the new version 3.1 in June? I just want to make sure, so I don't try to program this myself. :)

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Posted By: ProductCart
Date Posted: 31-May-2007 at 8:40am

Yes, a "Recently Viewed Products" feature will be included in v3.1. It will function like this:

A separate file (pc/smallRecentProducts.asp) will be included in the shopping cart interface (similar to what we do with the small shopping cart summary -- pc/smallShoppingCart.asp).

The file will display a list of N recently viewed products when N > 0 (nothing will be shown when N = 0).

The list of recently viewed product IDs will be saved to a cookie on the customer's system.

The store manager will have a way to indicate the maximum products to show (e.g. 10 recently viewed products) via a variable that can be changed at the top of the file.

Ability for the visitor to clear the list.

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Posted By: MarkCoyle
Date Posted: 31-May-2007 at 9:23am

Excellent news, I know this will be very popular with our customers.

People get used to seeing such features at Amazon, so seeing it in our stores will help re-enforce the professionalism we bring.

I'm intrigued about other things coming in v3.1. Is there a list?

cheers

Mark