Want to increase your Average Order Value (AOV) by showing customers the products that naturally go together? 🛍️

That’s exactly what the Frequently Bought Together offer type in Hoppy Bundles is designed for.

With this offer, you can display a smart product recommendation slider on your product pages, powered by:

• 🧠 AI recommendations — Shopify automatically suggests Related or Complementary products for each product page
• 🎯 Specific products — or hand-pick exactly which products you want to recommend

Customers can add recommended products to their cart directly from the slider — without ever leaving the product page ✨

In this guide, we’ll walk you through the complete setup, step by step, so your Frequently Bought Together slider is live in just a few minutes ⚙️

📋 Before You Begin

Before creating your first Frequently Bought Together offer, make sure you have the following ready:

• ✅ Hoppy Bundles installed on your Shopify store
• ✅ The free Shopify Search & Discovery app installed — this is where Shopify stores the Related and Complementary product recommendations that power the AI mode
• ✅ A rough idea of whether you want AI to pick the recommendations for you, or prefer to hand-pick specific products yourself

ℹ️ The Frequently Bought Together slider does not create any discounts. Recommended products are added to the cart at their regular price — it’s purely a product recommendation tool 💡

✅ Initial Step — Enable the App Embed

For the slider to appear on your storefront, the Hoppy Bundles app embed must be enabled inside your Shopify theme.

Go to:

Shopify Admin → Online Store → Themes → Edit Theme → App Embeds

From there:

1. Open the App embeds section from the left sidebar
2. Find the Hoppy Bundles app embed
3. Toggle it ON ✅
4. Click Save

⚠️ Don’t worry if you skip this step — after publishing your offer, Hoppy Bundles will show you a reminder banner with a direct Enable App Embed button that takes you straight to the right place in the theme editor.

⚙️ Step 1 — Create a New Frequently Bought Together Offer

From the Hoppy Bundles app dashboard:

1. Click Create new offer
2. On the Select Offer Type screen, find the Frequently Bought Together card 🏷️ — “Show customers products that are frequently bought together”
3. Click Create FBT Offer

You’ll land on the Create Upsell Slider setup page — that’s the right place, Frequently Bought Together runs on the same slider engine 🛠️

The setup page is divided into two areas:

• Left side → Your settings, organized into 3 tabs: General, Design, and Targeting & Placement
• Right side → A live preview of your slider on both 🖥️ Desktop and 📱 Mobile, which updates instantly as you change settings

💡 The good news: the FBT flow comes pre-configured for you — the AI recommendation mode is already selected, and the slider title is pre-filled with “Frequently bought together”. You could literally just save and publish!

🏷️ Step 2 — Name Your Offer & Set the Slider Title

On the General tab, start with the basics:

Offer Name

This name is only visible to you inside the app — customers never see it. Use something recognizable for your own reference, like:

• FBT — All Products
• Frequently Bought Together Slider

Slider Title

This is the heading customers will see above the slider on your storefront.

For FBT offers, the title is pre-filled with “Frequently bought together” — the classic, instantly-recognizable heading. You can change it to anything you like, such as:

• Complete the look
• Pairs well with
• Customers also bought

⚠️ The Slider Title is required — if you leave it empty, you’ll see a “Slider title is required” error and won’t be able to save.

🔢 Step 3 — Configure Slider Settings

Still on the General tab, the Settings section controls how many products are visible at once inside the slider:

• Products per slide (Desktop) → How many products show per slide on desktop screens (default: 3)
• Products per slide (Mobile) → How many products show per slide on mobile devices (default: 2)

ℹ️ If you have more recommended products than fit on one slide, customers can swipe or navigate through the slider to see the rest — so don’t be afraid to recommend plenty.

🧠 Step 4 — Choose Your Recommendation Mode

This is the heart of your FBT offer ❤️ — deciding how the recommended products are picked.

You have two options:

Option 1 — AI Upsell (Frequently Bought Together) (pre-selected)

This is the default for FBT offers — and the recommended one 🌟

Shopify’s AI automatically decides which products to recommend, individually for each product page. No manual product picking needed — one offer covers your entire catalog.

Two recommendation types are available:

• Upsell Related Products (pre-selected) → Products similar to the one being viewed — great for showing alternatives and variations
• Upsell Complementary Products → Products that go well together with the one being viewed — the classic “bought together” pairing

⚠️ Important: AI recommendations come from the free Shopify Search & Discovery app. You’ll see a reminder banner with an Open Search and Discovery button — use it to configure your Related or Complementary products per product, otherwise the slider may have nothing to show.

💡 Related vs Complementary? Use Related when you want to show similar items (e.g. other t-shirts on a t-shirt page). Use Complementary when you want true “bought together” pairings (e.g. shoes + socks). Complementary usually converts best for FBT ✨

Max No. of Products

When AI Upsell is selected, an additional field appears:

Max No. of Products → The maximum number of recommended products shown in the slider (up to 10, default: 3).

ℹ️ This is just the maximum — if Shopify has fewer recommendations for a product, only those are shown.

Option 2 — Upsell Specific Products

Prefer full control? Hand-pick the exact products you want to recommend instead:

1. Select Upsell Specific Products
2. Click Select Products
3. Shopify’s product picker will open — search and select one or more products
4. Confirm your selection ✅

Your chosen products will appear as a list below the button, and instantly in the live preview.

💡 This option is perfect when you want the same set of recommendations everywhere — for example, always pushing your best-selling accessories.

⚠️ Heads up! Switching between AI Upsell and Upsell Specific Products clears your current product selection. Pick your approach first, then configure it.

🌍 Step 5 — Translations (Optional)

Selling in multiple languages? The Translation section on the General tab lets you translate the slider texts for each of your store’s languages.

This step is completely optional during setup — you can always come back to it later. For a full walkthrough, check out our dedicated Translation guide 📖

🎨 Step 6 — Customize the Design (Optional)

Switch to the Design tab to make the slider match your brand perfectly 🎨

Here’s a quick overview of what you can customize:

• Font → Use your theme font (default) or pick from a large list of fonts
• Typography & colours → Text size, weight, and colour for the slider title, product titles, prices, and the Add to Cart button
• Border → Border width and corner roundness (radius) of the product cards
• Background & border colours → For both the product cards and the button

All changes update instantly in the live preview on the right 🖥️📱

ℹ️ The default design already looks clean out of the box, so you can safely skip this during your first setup and refine it later. For a deep dive into every styling option, check out our dedicated Design & Styling guide 📖

📍 Step 7 — Choose the Placement

Switch to the Targeting & Placement tab and decide where the slider appears.

You have two placement options:

Below Add to Cart Button (Default)

The slider is automatically placed right below the Add to Cart button on your product pages — the perfect spot for FBT recommendations, since customers see it at the exact moment they’re deciding to buy. No extra work needed ✅

Custom (only on product page)

Choose this if you want to position the slider manually, anywhere you like on the product page.

When selected, the app shows you two things:

• Hoppy Bundles ID → Use this ID with the Hoppy Bundles app block in your theme editor to add, remove, or reposition the slider
• Hoppy Bundles code snippet → A small <div> snippet you can paste anywhere in your theme code

⚠️ The ID and code snippet only appear after you save or publish the offer — so save first, then copy them.

🎯 Step 8 — Set Targeting & Scheduling (Optional)

Still on the Targeting & Placement tab, you’ll find optional controls for who sees the slider and when 👇

👤 Customer Targeting

Control which customers see the slider:

• Visibility (Customer Login Status) → Show to all customers, or only to logged-in customers
• Show bar to → All customers, customers with a specific customer tag (e.g. premium, wholesale), or customers above a certain lifetime spent amount
• Hide bar from → Optionally exclude customers by tag or lifetime spent

🌍 Geolocation Targeting

• All world (default) → Show the slider to visitors from every country
• Specific countries → Click Select Countries to open the country picker, search, and select exactly where the slider should appear

🗓️ Scheduling

Perfect for limited-time campaigns:

• Start → Right now (default) or a Specific date and time
• End → Never (default) or a Specific date and time

ℹ️ All of these targeting options are optional. For most stores, the defaults (show to everyone, everywhere, always) work great to start with. For advanced setups, check out our dedicated Targeting guide 📖

🚀 Step 9 — Save & Publish

You’re almost done! 🎉

Save your offer

Whenever you make changes, a Save bar appears at the top of the page:

• Click Save to store your offer as a Draft 📝
• Click Discard to revert your changes

⚠️ On a brand-new offer, the Publish button stays disabled until you’ve saved at least once — so hit Save first.

Publish your offer

Once saved, click Publish in the top-right corner to make the slider live on your store 🚀

After publishing, Hoppy Bundles shows a confirmation banner:

• If the app embed isn’t enabled yet, you’ll see a “Make sure App Embed is active” banner with an Enable App Embed button — click it and toggle the embed on (see the Initial Step above)
• If everything is active, click Open Store to see your slider live on a product page ✨

You can Unpublish at any time to take the slider offline without losing your settings.

⚠️ Important Notes & Tips

• 🧠 AI mode needs Search & Discovery — without Related/Complementary products configured in the free Shopify Search & Discovery app, the slider may appear empty. Set this up before expecting recommendations to show
• 🔄 Recommendations are per-product — in AI mode, Shopify picks suggestions individually for each product page. One FBT offer covers your whole catalog automatically
• 💰 No discounts are applied — the FBT slider recommends products at their regular price. If you want discounted bundles, check out our Bundle or Buy X Get Y offer types instead
• 🔄 Switching recommendation mode resets your selection — changing between AI Upsell and Upsell Specific Products clears the products you’ve picked
• 🗑️ Deleting is permanent — the Delete action (top of the edit page) removes the offer and its analytics stats forever. This cannot be undone
• 📄 Duplicate offers easily — use the Duplicate action on any existing offer to create a copy and tweak it, instead of starting from scratch

🎉 Final Result

That’s it — your Frequently Bought Together slider is live! 🥳

Your customers will now see a smart recommendation slider on your product pages, right below the Add to Cart button. They can browse products that pair perfectly with what they’re viewing and add them to their cart with a single click — boosting your AOV on autopilot 📈

From the Hoppy Bundles dashboard, you can:

• ✏️ Edit the offer anytime to change the recommendation mode, design, or targeting
• 📊 Track performance to see how your recommendations are converting
• ⏸️ Unpublish whenever you want to pause the offer

Happy selling! 🚀

Updated on: 31/07/2026