Utilizing the power of the WooCommerce sales funnel can boost your online sales and revenue.
According to a study by Marketo, 96% of visitors are not ready to buy. As a result, while many online stores receive a fair amount of traffic, conversions and sales remain disappointingly low.
The reason most people don’t convert is that they are not greeted with a clear path to purchase.
A sales funnel can guide your website and visitors from getting to know about a product to completing a purchase.
If your online store is built with WooCommerce, you can easily introduce a sales funnel to provide your users with a defined shopping experience.
The best part is that you can guide them to make additional purchases by strategically recommending relevant products at different stages.
In this blog, we will share how you can build a WooCommerce sales funnel that will boost your sales and simultaneously increase average order value.
So, let’s begin.
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A sales funnel refers to the step-by-step process that a potential customer goes through when purchasing a product from a store.
It includes four stages: Awareness, Interest, Desire, and Action, At each stage, marketing strategies and tactics are employed to guide the customer smoothly through the funnel toward conversion.
Let’s learn about each step in a bit more detail:
As you can see, the basic sales funnel is about four stages where it guides users. buy a specific product.
But why settle for minimum sales when you can make users buy more products with a single order?
Well, you shouldn’t!
That’s where the WooCommerce sale funnel comes into play. It takes the content of a basic sales funnel and utilizes the user’s interest to offer relevant products at different stages of the buying journey to maximize the order value.
Move to the next section to find out more about the WooCommerce sales funnel.
The WooCommerce sales funnel follows the same path as the basic sales funnel, taking users from an awareness stage to action.
But in this case, it extends users' journey to buy more product purchases, which results in an increased average order value.
Plus, with WooCommerce automation, you can keep the customers’s sales funnel going with post-purchase communication to ensure repeat sales.
So, here are the steps that the WooCommerce sales funnel follows to make sure your customers order maximum value:
Optimize your sales strategy by introducing multiple conditional upsell opportunities. For instance, present another offer if users decline the initial upsell or present a different one if they accept it.
We hope now you understand how a WooCommerce sales funnel differs from a basic sales funnel and how it can help you to grow your business revenue faster.
Now, let’s look at some reasons why you should leverage this sales technique.
To make the most of your e-commerce business, you need to use a WooCommerce sales funnel. Here are some of the benefits of leveraging a WooCommerce sales funnel:
Hopefully, by now, you can comprehend the importance of using a sales funnel in your WooCommerce store.
Now let’s have a look at 5 of the best WooCommerce sales funnel plugins with their main features and prices:
FunnelKit Funnel Builder is the ultimate solution for creating beautiful sales funnels in WooCommerce.
It’s considered one of the best WooCommerce sales funnel plugins because of its intuitive user interface and extensive functionality that helps you boost sales.
Along with a sales funnel, you can also create stunning global checkout and offer a frictionless checkout process to your users. Moreover, you can create opt-in lead generation funnels, too.
Here are some of the main features:
Price: You can use FunnelKit Funnel Builder for free with limited features. The pro version starts with $99/per year. With a Plus package or above, you get access to the sliding mini cart.
FunnelKit Automations is the best solution for collecting leads and nurturing your audience with pre and post-purchase emails.
Basically, if you want your WooCommerce users to convert through an email marketing funnel, then this plugin should be your number one choice.
Here are some of the key features:
Price: You can get started with FunnelKit Automations for free. The pro version starts from $249/Year.
Thrive suite is an all-in-one solution for creating a website, sales funnel, email list, scarcity campaign, and online course.
It consists of multiple plugins, including Thrive Theme Builder, Thrive Architect, Thrive Leads, Thrive Quiz Builder, and others.
Here are the key features:
Price: Thrive Suite costs $299/year.
Elementor is one of the most popular page builders that you can use to build stunning landing pages.
It also integrates with WooCommerce and allows you to customize its pages, such as the shop, checkout, and thank you pages.
Here are some of the key features:
Price: You can use Elementor for free. The pro version starts at $59/year for a single site.
MonsterInsights is the best WordPress analytics plugin that makes it super easy to track the activity of your WooCommerce website.
It gives you more insights you can use to optimize your funnel and make more sales.
Here are some of the key features:
Price: A free version of this plugin is available. The pro version starts at $99.50/year.
at $99.50/year.
As you can see, FunnelKit Funnel Builder is the most potent tool. With FunnelKit, you get almost everything you need to create and maintain successful sales funnels.
🔔 Note: The best part about FunnelKit Funnel Builder is that you can create a global sales funnel for your WooCommerce store and also create an individual sales funnel for each product of your store.
Now, move to the next section to find out how you can create a global WooCommerce Sales funnel using FunnelKit Funnel Builder.
Here, we will create a WooCommerce sales funnel page that will take users through all the steps we talked about to make a purchase with maximum order value.
To follow along, you will need to install To follow along with the process, you need to install and activate both:
🔔 Note: Also keep in mind that to add the in-cart product recommendation step in your WooCommerce sales funnel, you will need to install the FunnelKit Funnel Builder package plus and above.
That’s because these packages include the premium features of FunnelKit Cart, like in-cart product recommendations and a mile-stone-based reward system.
🔔 You can refer to the documentation on how to install and activate FunnelKit Funnel Builder.
To offer in-cart product recommendations after users add a product to their cart, you need to activate the mini cart and also set up upsells.
Navigate to FunnelKit ⇒ Cart and turn on the “Enable Cart” option.
Move to the Upsells tab to set up the product recommendations.
FunnelKit Cart shows the assigned upsell or cross-sell products to each product as product recommendations.
Here you can choose whether you want to recommend cross-sell products, upsell, or both.
You can set how many product recommendations to show and set up default upsell products in case any product doesn’t have upsells assigned to it.
One unique yet useful feature of FunnelKit Cart is its sleek interface, you can assign upsell and cross-sell products right through this plugin settings without having to edit every single product separately.
⭐⭐ To learn more about how to recommend products in a sliding cart, check our blog on WooCommerce cart upsell.
For example, for a round neck t-shirt, you can offer a polo as an upsell, a belt, or sunglasses as a cross-sell.
With FunnelKit Cart, as mentioned earlier, you can offer both cross-sell and upsell product recommendations in the cart.
Users can add products to their cart with a single click on the “Add” button. After that, you can go to the checkout page directly by clicking on the “Checkout” button.
For more details, you can check this video below as well 👇
To create the rest of the steps of the WooCommerce sales funnel from checkout to thank you, we need to create a store checkout that will replace the default WooCommerce checkout page.
For that, navigate to FunnelKit ⇒ Store Checkout and click on the ‘Create Store Checkout’ button.
After that, select your favorite page builder. Now you can build your WooCommerce sales funnel from scratch by using one of the prebuilt templates.
Here we are going with the Elementor page builder and using a prebuilt template.
To select a template, hover on the template you like and click on Preview.
Now, choose whether you want a single-page checkout or a multi-page checkout.
After that, click on “Import This Funnel,” provide a name, and click on Done to import this funnel as your default checkout.
Now a WooCommerce sales funnel with three steps—checkout, one-click upsells, and thank you—should be imported.
Click on the checkout step to edit it.
Now, you can click on the “Edit Elementor Template” button to customize the content and style of the checkout page.
Scroll down to the “Checkout Form Fields” section, you can edit the checkout fields. You reorganize the field and add, edit, or delete any field and sections within the checkout form according to your needs.
To add an order bump offer, come back to the store checkout page and click on “Add Order Bump”. After that, provide a name and click on Add.
Now you will see different order bump skins, to import the one you like, hover on that and click on Import.
Search for the product and add an order bump. You can offer multiple products as order bumps here. After that, click on Add.
Choose the product, then add the product description, exclusive text, and image size. You can add custom images as well.
Click on “Save” to update.
On the products tab, you can offer discounts on the order bump offers.
Now you must be thinking, will this order show up for all the customers that land on the checkout page?
Well, ideally, this offer shouldn’t be visible to all the users because this way, the order recommendations wouldn’t be relevant and hamper the user experience.
With FunnelKit Funnel Builder, you can solve this as well. You can set conditions on when to offer the order bump.
To set the condition, move to the Rules tab. Here you can set up conditions based on different metrics like Cart Total, Cart Category, Cart Item Count, User Role, Cart Product tags, etc.
Here we will use Cart Product tags. Using this, we can offer different order bumps based on product tags added to those products.
To set the condition, select Cart Product tags, then choose the match style, then search and add the tags.
Here we set the rule that if cart items have the product tag t-shirt, then this order bump will be offered.
Note: You can add multiple order bumps based on the products you offer on your WooCommerce store.
And use different rules like “Cart Product tags,” “Cart Category,” etc., to offer different order bumps for different products.
For instance, if you sell skincare like face wash, scrubber, etc., along with clothing, you can add another order bump like Pore Cleansing Sheet that will only be offered if users use any products from the beauty category.
You can add as many order bumps as you want and effectively offer relevant product recommendations using the rules feature of FunnelKit Funnel Builder.
For more details, check our blog on WooCommerce order bump.
Here is a preview of the multi-step checkout page with order bumps:
When you import the template, it also imports a one-click upsell offer. All you need to do is edit that and add the product you want to offer.
First, click on the existing Offer.
You will land on the Design tab; here, you can click on the “Edit Template” and customize the design and content of the upsell template.
Move to the “Products” tab. Here you can add the upsell offer. For that click on “Add Product”, search and add product and click on Add.
Note: You can click on the upsell offer name and change it for convenience. Here we have renamed the offer as track pants to match the product we are offering.
Now you can add a discount to the offer as well. After that, on the “Product Selection Settings”, you can set different settings like:
Make sure to click on Save to update the settings.
You can offer multiple upsell offers as well. On the sales page drag and drop to change the order. Here we have added another upsell named Jacket.
Once you add multiple upsells, on the top placed upsells, you will get additional product-related settings “Dynamic Offer Path” so the system knows what to do if users reject/ accept the first order.
Here for On Acceptance, we will redirect buyers to the next upsell offer Jacket, and incase they reject they will be redirected to the thank you page. This is how upsells and downsells work.
Again like Order bump, we need to set rules on which upsell to offer for which base product to maintain relevancy. For this come back and click on the Upsell step.
Here you can set the different rules. For instance, if the base product is from the “Tshirts” category then this upsell offer (track pants and Jacket) will be shown to them.
Here is what one of the one-click upsell offer looks like:
Like the other pages, you can customize the thank you page as well.
Here is a preview of the thank you page:
Note: You can see the power of the WooCommerce sales funnel in the screenshot above. Users can land on a product page worth $18.00 and end up purchasing products totaling $85.78, almost 5x more times.
The last step is to enable store checkout. For that, click on the Enable Store Checkout button.
Now, your WooCommerce sales funnel is ready!
🔔 Note: We will cover how to continue the sales funnel with email communication after the order confirmation step later in this blog.
So you should build WooCommerce Sales Funnels for your store and add all the relevant Upsells along the path described above.
Now there may come a time when you have a newly launched product or have a specific product with a special discount for a specific segment of your customers or you are running a highly targeted Facebook ad that talks about a specific product.
In such situations, you should create a separate sales funnel for individual products that will take you to a custom-made product landing page rather than the default product page. Because It makes sense to create a landing page and make them land on a dedicated page and pitch only specific products.
However, the rest of the steps stay quite similar.
Here is a visual representation of how a WooCommerce sales funnel for an individual product works:
The process of creating a WooCommerce sales funnel for a single product is similar to creating a global checkout. You just need to create a separate funnel for each product.
⭐⭐ To learn about the process of creating a sales funnel for a single product, read our blog on how to create WooCommerce sales funnel for a single product.
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FunnelKit Automations comes with a clean interface that provides comprehensive insights into the performance of the WooCommerce sales funnel in a meaningful way.
You can check the performance of your global sales funnel or individual sales funnel separately in a structured way.
📈Check the performance of the global sales funnel
Navigate to FunnelKit Funnel Builder ⇒ Store Checkout and then to the Analytics Tab.
Here you will see the number of visitors, contacts, orders, revenue, order bumps revenue, upsell revenue, average order value, and revenue per visit.
Note: By default, FunnelKit shows data from the beginning to the current date. You can change the time period to see specific data for a specific timeframe.
If you scroll a little, you will find all the data in the form of a graph Below that, you can also find the different data like view, conversions, conversion rate, and revenue for each step.
Another way of checking how different steps of your WooCommerce sales funnel are performing is to use the new Canvas mode by FunnelKit Funnel Builder.
For that, go to the Canvas tab on the funnel page. Here, you can check out views, conversion, and revenue for each step.
📈Check the performance of individual sales funnel
To check the performance of each individual sales funnel, you need to go to that funnel and then move to the Analytics tab.
Here like the Global funnel analytics, you can see the performance in the form of data and graphs
With the sales funnel also, you can go to the steps tab and move to the Canvas mode to see the in-line analytics for each step of the funnel.
As you have seen, it's really easy to measure the performance of the sales funnel using FunnelKit Funnel Builder.
As much as we would want every person who enters the sales funnel to convert it may not happen with every user.
Some may abandon the cart in the middle after adding products to their cart.
Does that mean, you lose the customer for good?
No! You can still get customers to come back and complete the purchase with the power of abandoned cart emails.
But before you can send emails, you need to track the user's email and their order details so you can send them emails later.
To track cart abandonment and recover them, you need to install and activate FunnelKit Automations.
With this plugin, you can enable cart tracking, set the wait period, cool period, lost cart (days), etc to activate the cart track.
After that, you can set up automation to send reminder emails to the user who abandons their cart and encourage them to come back to complete the order.
You can send multiple emails after different intervals. In addition, you can offer a discount for a limited time if they complete the order successfully to motivate them to come back and make the purchase.
For more details on how to set up a cart abandonment email campaign using FunnelKit Automations, read our blog on “WooCommerce Abandoned Cart Emails”
Well, just because a user leaves your store doesn’t mean they are completely out of the sales funnel. You can still get them to come back and make repeat purchases.
Once users make a purchase, you need to send post-purchase follow-up emails to ensure a good shopping experience and as well as establish a strong relationship with customers. So, make sure you send
These are mandatory emails you should send customers so they have a great shopping experience. If they like the shopping experience on your site, they are likely to come back.
However, there are other strategies you can use to bring back customers and make repeat sales. You can utilize different email campaigns like
It can happen at times when someone enters your WooCommerce sales funnel and places an order, but how they didn't accept the upsell offer.
For such cases, FunnelKit Automation offers event triggers like one-click upsells offer rejected.
You can use this trigger to email users who rejected the upsell with a better upsell offer or maybe some discount to bring them back to make a repeat purchase.
Based on previous purchase history, you can email users informing them about the new collection of the same category they bought the last time. You can also share ther popular products from the same category to encourage them to make another purchase.
To learn more, read our blog on “product recommendations”
You can bring back customers who have been inactive for a long period of time with a winback campaign.
To learn how to run winback automation with FunnelKit Automations, read our blog on “WooCommerce winback campaign”.
You can send a one-month purchase anniversary email to customers to remind them about the last purchase. This can make users want more products.
To learn more, read our blog on “purchase anniversary email”.
These are some of the strategies we mentioned, with FunnelKit Automations, you can implement any promotional automated email and SMS notifications to keep your customers in the loop and encourage more purchases.
WooCommerce sales funnels are a game-changing strategy that can transform your online business.
Sales funnels aren't just about directing people to a product page; they're about nurturing, providing value, and building trust by offering relevant products and a smooth shopping experience.
As you have seen, with FunnelKit, you can easily create a WooCommerce sales funnel optimized to give your users the best shopping experience and thus boost your sales, increasing the average order value.
However, you need to remember that a sales funnel is not a one-size-fits-all solution. It's a dynamic process that requires continuous monitoring, testing, and refinement.
To know which sales funnel works for your audience, you can A/B test all your funnel pages using FunnelKit.
Overall, we can say FunnelKit is the most potent WooCommerce sales funnel builder that allows you to create, optimize, monitor, and refine your sales funnel effortlessly.
Plus, with FunnelKit Automations, you can continue to make sales even after users leave your WooCommerce store.
So, start building your sales funnel in WooCommerce using the best WordPress funnel builder today!
