Adding products to your inventory as upsells

Learn what upsells are and how to add products as upsells for other product offerings.

You can learn more about the Advanced tab here: Step 5: Managing advanced settings on products.

New to the Product Builder? Read the first article in this series for an introduction to the Product feature.

Accessing the features mentioned in this article

Where can I find this feature using the top menu?

• Inventory > Products > Products > Add Product/Add New Product
   

What more do I need to use this feature?

• Admin permissions to manage inventory or restricted permissions to View products and assets and Manage products and assets.
   

Which Checkfront version supports this feature - classic items, classic products, or both?

• Your account must have access to classic products (Inventory > Products), a key feature of our classic products version of Checkfront. This feature is not available for use with classic items (Inventory > Items) in our classic items version. → Learn more about products. 

Upsells are products that you can attach as optional or preselected add-ons to products to build packages and bundled offerings, such as optional meals or merchandise.

You can link an existing product or create specific upsell products to link to other regular products.

 

Regular vs. upsell products What is the difference between selling a regular product and an upsell product? A product marked as upsell only shows as an upsell to its parent product and does not display independently on the main booking pages. A product marked as a regular product can still be added as an upsell, but these products do display on the main booking pages.

You can follow these high-level instructions to create a new product to be used exclusively as an upsell for another product.

1. From the Products list (Inventory > Products), click the +New Product button.
2. Under the Details tab, select the Upsell option under What are you selling?.
3. Finish configuring your product. Make sure to Activate the product. 

Only activated products appear in the Upsell drop-down list (Product Builder > Advanced tab).

Configurations not supported Note that we do not support nested upsells at this time. We support adding an upsell (B) to a product (A), but that upsell cannot have an upsell (C). For example, we support a kayak rental (A) with an optional upsell of a picnic basket (B), but the picnic basket cannot have an upsell for beverages (C).

Next Steps

In the following article in this series, we explore linking your upsells to your product using the product builder.

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