How to create a wishlist (favorite products) for your customers in your WooCommerce store

Creating a list of preferences within the online store is one of the procedures that contribute to increasing purchases within the store, as many visitors enter online stores to search for their favorite products or that they plan to buy when money is available at a certain time, or when they access discount coupons for products or Other reasons that prompt a visitor to add a product to the favorites list for reference at another time. 

The appearance and method of displaying the favorites list varies from one store to another, and there are many WordPress plugins that you can benefit from by showing the ( Add to Favorites ) button on your store’s products, and each plugin has its own features and features. 

Inside this article, you will find a group of WordPress plugins that show the favorites list on the store’s products, and easily customize their look and feel. 


The most popular additions to show the (Add to Favorites) button

The following add-ons perform one function, which is to show the list of preferences within WooCommerce products, but each add-on has its own features and features distinct from the rest of the other add-ons, so choose what suits you according to the features that you find appropriate for the look and feel of your online store. 

1. Add WishSuite

The WishSuite add-on comes as one of the add-ons that helps you display the Add to Favorites button within the store easily, as you can control the look and feel of the Add to Favorites button through an easy control panel especially for the addition and you can control all its options easily, and you can also choose to have it displayed Add to Favorites button inside the product pages or within the main store page. The picture shows the appearance of the Add to Favorites button immediately after installing and activating the add-on.

When you enter the special settings page tab immediately after its installation, you will find all the options that you can control in the way the preferences list button appears. You will find the following options from which you can activate the appearance of the preferences button within individual product pages, or within the main store page that displays the list of products. : 

The following settings also allow you to control the location and appearance of the preferences button within the store, where you can choose for the button to be displayed after the (Add to Cart) button or a kiss or even above or below the product image within the store, in addition to the ability to change the text that appears on the button Preferences, where you can write ( Add to Favorites ) or any other text that you deem more appropriate for visitors to your store

You can also activate the share button so that visitors can share their favorites list with their friends, which helps in further disseminating your products to more customers. You will find the option to activate social sharing for the preferences list within the add-on settings

After you have finished customizing all the settings for the store’s preferences list button, you can now show the preferences page within the store’s main menu to make it easier for visitors to access the preferences list at any time and make purchases from within it. 

You can create a new page from within the control panel and give it the appropriate title ( Favorite Products ), then paste the short code [wishsuite_table] into the page and publish the page:

When you enter that page where you pasted the short code to show the wish list, which is generated using the add-on, you will find that it contains all the products that you have added to your wish list.

You may have also noticed that social sharing icons appear at the bottom of the Favorite Products page, because we have previously activated the sharing option from within the add-on’s settings page.


2. Add YITH Wishlist

The YITH Wishlist add-on is also one of the add-ons that is easy to use and is also available in Arabic. You will find its settings appearing completely in Arabic if it is the primary language within your site, and therefore you will not find difficulty in dealing with its options within the control panel. 

Once the add-on is installed directly, the Add to Favorites button appears below the Add to Cart button on the product pages in the store. When you click on the Add to Favorites button, a message directly appears informing the customer that the product has been added to the Favorites list. Next to it, a button to go to the Wish or Preferences page appears, where you can The customer can browse his list of preferences and control them, whether by addition or deletion

When you go to the wish page, you will notice that buttons for sharing the preferences list appear on various social media platforms. You can hide or show these options from within the special settings page in addition.

On the other hand, you can show the ( Delete from Favorites ) button after the visitor clicks on Add to Favorites for any product? Of course, you can control the look, appearance, and properties of the add to favorites button after clicking on it, as you can choose to show a link to the favorite products page or even a link to delete the product from favorites.

You can also activate the Add to Favorites button on the main store page, which displays all the products within your store as follows

To activate this option on the store page under all the products that are displayed, you can enter the add-on settings page and activate this option. You can also specify where the button will appear, whether before or after the add-to-cart button.

The add-on also provides a short code that you can paste into any new page you create or even an existing page so that the preferences list will be displayed inside it directly after pasting the short code inside it. You can get the short code for the preferences list page from within the add-on settings page easily.

You will also find within the settings page many options through which you can control the appearance and form of the wish list page, where you can choose the items that are displayed within the page to users and customers.

The settings list for this add-on is long, and you can go in and browse all of its settings, and you will find dozens of options that help you customize the look and feel of the preferences list button and page and control them as desired.


3. Add WPC Smart Wishlist

In the same list, we recommend the WPC Smart Wishlist add-on as it also displays the Add to Favorites or Wish List button within the online store, but it contains a distinctive control panel and provides many options that you may not find in the rest of the other add-ons, through which you can control Show or hide the Add to Favorites button for visitors who are not registered on the site. You can also set up the deletion of products from the Favorites list after a certain time has passed on them inside the list without returning to them. 

The image from inside the add-on settings page shows the options through which you can control hiding or showing the list to unregistered visitors, as well as the ability to control deleting products from favorites after some time has passed:

Also within the settings page, you will find the short code for the desires or preferences page, which you can copy and paste into any new page that you create, and then designate it as the preferences page or favorite products for visitors to your site, and you can show it within the main menu of the store for easy access. 

You can also activate or disable the sharing buttons on social media platforms for the store’s favorites list:

Also, in the addition options, you will find the ability to control the texts that are displayed, whether on the preferences page or on the Add to Favorites button, where you can write texts that suit the visitors of your online store and the type of products you have:


4. Add TI Wishlist 

The TI Wishlist add – on displays an assistant installation program to set up the add-on and its options in full. You can follow the special instructions or ignore them and access its settings from within the control panel later: 

If you choose to complete the installation of the add-on and customize its settings using its setup wizard program, several tabs will appear before you through which you can choose the most appropriate settings for your store so that the Add to Favorites button will be designed in the way and shape you want.

Then, after completing the settings you prefer to show the add to list button, now from within the store page and the products page, the visitor can click on the add to favorites list button, and immediately after that a pop-up window will appear for him offering him the option to go to the shopping cart or close and complete browsing.

You can go to the add-on settings page at any time to customize the look and feel of the preferences list for store visitors


5. Add Wishlist and Waitlist

You can also rely on the Wishlist and Waitlist add-on, as it has a feature that is not available in most other wishlist add-ons, which is that it helps you create a ( waiting list ) for the store’s customers. If a product runs out of its stock inside the store, visitors can add this product to the waitlist. A notification will be sent to them via email when the product is back in stock.

After installing and activating the add-on, you can enter the general settings page of the add-on to choose the wish page as well as the waiting page

After completing these settings, now when the visitor enters the store, you will see an icon added to the preferences or wish list below all the products that are displayed in the store.

When a product is out of stock, another icon will appear below it, in addition to the waiting list. When the customer adds the product to the waiting list, he will be automatically notified by email when the product is back in stock.

Therefore, when one of the products of the product becomes out of stock, the visitor will be able to know when the product will be available again after adding it to the waiting list, which ultimately helps in increasing sales within your online store due to customers following their favorite products and seeing the latest developments. When it is back in stock. 

Conclusion

Thus, we have learned that providing the add button to the favorites list is considered an easy and uncomplicated procedure, and one of the specialized add-ons can be used to do this in a very short time. 

Displaying the button to add to the wish list or preferences is considered one of the important things that must be made available within the store, as it encourages the customer to add his favorite products to purchase them at the appropriate time. 

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