Bestsellers Sidebox
The Bestsellers sidebox lists products in order of most sold with the top selling product listed first.
On the home page, the Bestsellers sidebox lists the most sold products across all categories.
From a Category page, the Bestsellers sidebox lists the most sold products of that particular category only. So if there are no bought products in the category the Bestsellers side box is not displayed.
By default, the Bestsellers sidebox is not displayed on product pages.
The Bestsellers sidebox only includes current products. It does not include disabled or deleted products (even if the total sales of that product is still higher than other products).
Set the minimum and maximum number of products to include in the Bestsellers sidebox in Zen Cart Admin:
Admin > Configuration > Minimum Values > Best Sellers to set how many times the product is to be sold before it is considered to be a best seller
Admin > Configuration > Maximum Values > Best Sellers for Box to set the number of best sellers to display in the sidebox.
You may wish to customise the Bestsellers sidebox to exclude particular categories and/or products. For example, exclude Gift Certificates or free gifts from appearing as top sellers.
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#1 by zenned on 9 October, 2009 - 11:07 am
Ahh, thanks for this. I couldn’t work out why the bestsellers box wouldn’t show on certain category pages. I thought it must have been a setting in Admin but now that you’ve spelled it out it makes sense.
#2 by kerrin hardy on 13 October, 2009 - 11:12 am
Zen Cart has more built-in logic than you might see on first look and something like the Bestsellers sidebox is a good example.