Magento: Increase Customer Loyalty by Adding Free Items to the Shopping Cart

A high customer loyalty is vital to all online store owners as it is not only leading to satisfied customers but also to an increased number of sales. There are several ways to achieve this goal – from running a customer loyalty program to optimized order processing and short delivery times. As customers do love free gifts, it’s pretty straightforward to implement an appropriate Magento extension and add free (promotional) items to the shopping cart.

Check out the following Magento modules (More will be added shortly):

Auto Add Promo Items by Amasty

This extension gives you the option to automatically add a single or multiple free promo items to the cart and even allows you to run classic ‘Buy 1, Get 1 Free’ promotions. To avoid any customer confusion, free products will be clearly marked. Auto Add Promo Items is also supporting configurable & bundle products as well as coupon codes and is compatible with responsive Magento themes.

You should also check out Amasty’s Product Labels module which allows you to add colorful badges to product images clearly indicating it as a free gift. Also you can promote this offer via their Promo Banners extension and display banners according to flexible shopping cart price rules. Check out the new features in terms of promotions and deals.

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Add Free Product to Cart by aheadWorks

As the tin says, this extensions is automatically adding products to the shopping cart if certain criteria have been met. These conditions can be defined via an unlimited number of flexible rules including different rules for different stores and customer groups, active time period, multi-rules per order, and “Buy X get Y free”. It supports simple, virtual and downloadable product types, allows to suggest additional discounted items and to offer gift delivery free of charge.

Add Free Product to Cart is compatible with AJAX Cart Pro and Checkout Promo which have been developed by the aheadWorks team as well.

Purchase Add Free Product to Cart from just $99 »

Free Gift Pro by MageWorld

Free Gift Pro allows you increase customer loyalty by running special promotions and must-have incentives for both new and loyal existing customers. Via flexible rules you can set up various offers such as “Buy X get Y free” (BOGO), “Spend more than $, choose X free items from a list of 5” or “Buy any item from Category A/Brand B and get Y for free”. By displaying appropriate up-sell banners you can even encourage your customers to spend more to get free gift(s). The number of free gifts can be limited by the way, e.g. first 10 customers only.

MageWorld have added two pretty cool features to the Free Gift Pro extension: You can now offer free gift(s) for sharing purchases on social networks. Also it is supporting Visual Report to display Order Value and Free Gift Value in line charts.

Purchase Free Gift Pro for just $167 »

Free Gift by Extendware

Free Gift allows you to auto add free gifts to your customers cart when they purchase certain products. Give away promotional gifts such store branded products like T-shirts or pens for instance. This module is working both with and without coupon codes and is supporting bundle and configurable products as well as products with custom options. Launch “Buy 1 get 1 free” promotions in no time.

Set up an unlimited number of free gift rules and only add free items once specified shopping cart price rule conditions are met, e.g. only for orders exceeding $200. Also multiple promotional items are supported.

Purchase Free Gift for just $79 »