Offering alternate product choices for your customers when the products are “out of stock” or showing recommend items on your WooCommerce Shop helps them to consider buying the products based on their needs.

Advantages

i) Customers Shopping & Buying Experience
Generally, customers will look into other sites when the products are out of stock/ the items they are expecting is not available on your site. You can avoid this kind of situation by showing alternate products to them which can help them to consider buying without leaving your site.

ii) Prevents Cart Abandonment
Customer adds their desired products to the cart & noticed that few products which they were interested are out of stock. In this case, there might be a huge amount of chance they can leave your site. Recommending an alternative can allow them to keep purchasing the items in their cart.

iii) Customer Satisfaction
Offering an alternative product lets your customers know that you care about their shopping experience.

In this article, you can look into the Best WooCommerce Alternate Product Recommendations Plugins.
As of now, there is only one Alternate Product Recommendations Plugin which we can look into in detail in this article.

Alternate Product Recommendations for WooCommerce Plugin
Alternate Product Recommendations for WooCommerce is a premium plugin developed by FantasticPlugins. Using this plugin, you can recommend alternate products to your users when a product is no longer available for purchase.

Features offered by this plugin are as follows,
i) Works for both Registered Users & Guest Users
ii) Option to update the product visit count when a user viewing the same product multiple times
iii) Site admin can see the following details in Product List Menu for each product,
– Product Configuration
– Product Status such as No of Visits, No of Purchases, Total Purchase Amount
– Order Details
iv) Inbuilt Product Designs are given for Alternate Products
v) Recommended Products can be displayed in Slider/Carousel
v) Messages are Customizable

How does it work?

You can use this plugin in the following use cases,

1) Product No Longer Available
– Generally, users can see a message link “Product is not available for purchase” when they visit the product for which the stock is not available.– Users can see the same notification but with alternate single or multiple items using this plugin which can help them to make a purchase.

i) Single Alternate Product
Users may consider buying an alternate product displaying on the product page when the product they have visited is no longer available for purchase.

ii) Multiple Alternate Products
Users will have options to decide which product to purchase by displaying multiple alternate products on the product page when the product they have visited is no longer available for purchase.2) Products Available to Purchase
You can display alternate product recommendations for users even when the product they are visiting is available to purchase.

i) Single Recommended Alternate Product
Users may consider buying an alternate product displaying on the product page even when the product they have visited is available to purchase.

ii) Multiple Recommended Alternate Products
Users will have option to decide which products can be purchased by displaying multiple alternate products on the product page even when the product they have visited is available to purchase.

3) Site admin can see & manage the products configured by this plugin.