Create Powerful Sales Funnels with the Upsell Plugin and Thrive Automator

The Upsell Plugin is a powerful tool that helps you create sales funnels on WordPress. And, the best part is that it fully integrates with Thrive Architect and Thrive Automator!

Watch the video or keep on reading to find out how you can integrate the Upsell Plugin with Thrive Suite to get the most out of your sales funnels!

What’s the Upsell Plugin?

The Upsell Plugin is a premium WordPress plugin that allows users to create sales funnels with minimal time and effort.

What makes the Upsell Plugin better over other sales funnel tools is that it fully integrates with most of the visual page builders available for WordPress. This means you can build your sales funnel pages without having to know how to code or relying on a specific visual builder tool.

And I can tell you first hand… there is no better way to build powerful sales funnels than with Thrive Architect. And, when you combine it with the Upsell Plugin, you can now achieve conversion focused sales funnel designs that provide a smooth customer checkout experience.

How Does the Upsell Plugin Connect to Thrive Architect?

There are three steps to creating a sales funnel with the Upsell Plugin and Thrive Architect.

Let’s walk through a real-life example to show you how it works now…

How to Create a Sales Funnel with the Upsell Plugin and Thrive Architect — Step-By-Step

Ok, just to recap…

A typical sales funnel consists of:

In this example, we’re going to offer a $199 online course on our main sales page.

For the upsell product, we’ll pitch a one-on-one coaching session worth $499. The upsell product sales page will load whenever a customer clicks the buy button on the main product sales page.

And for the downsell product, we’ll pitch a $48 masterclass whenever a customer clicks the “No thanks, maybe next time” anchor text link option (instead of the buy button) on the upsell product sales page.

Finally, we’ll use the Thank You page to display our customer’s order details after purchase.

Let’s begin!

Create a Sales Funnel with the Upsell Plugin and Thrive Architect

For the first step, you’ll need to create each of the pages of your sales funnel with Thrive Architect.

Thrive Architect makes doing this easy since it provides you dozens of tutorialized template sets that each include different Sales Page templates, Upsell Page templates and Thank You page templates. Just select the templates you like, follow the tutorialized copy on the template to customize a conversion focused sales page, and click “Publish” at drag and drop speed.

Once your funnel pages are ready, you simply record the URLs for each page so you can link them to the appropriate calls-to-action on each page, as well as add them to appropriate redirect options inside the Upsell Plugin, which we’ll cover how to do shortly.

You can do the same for your sales page OR display a call-to-action button instead that redirects customers to a dedicated checkout page. Which method works best to generate more conversions? You’ll have to A/B test that to find out for your business. To do so, you can use Thrive Optimize — our A/B testing add-on plugin for Thrive Architect.

In my example, since I have the check-out form embedded on my main product sales page, it means I don’t need to assign a redirect URL to a call to action. I simply assign the Upsell Plugin to redirect customers to my upsell product page if they click the buy button on my main product sales page. 

You can do this within the product settings of your main product inside the Upsell Plugin dashboard:

Also for this example’s main product sales page, you don’t need to assign a “skip purchase” redirect URL to anything because there isn’t an option given to skip a purchase. If people don’t want to buy the product, they can simply leave the site. 

When it comes to the upsell product sales page and the downsell product sales page however, we do need to include two calls-to-action on each of those pages:

Take a look at how I do that on the upsell product sales page for this example:

My “Add for $499/month” buy button links to the one-on-one coaching session upsell product URL assigned inside the Upsell Plugin. You can grab this link from the URL Options tab for your upsell product inside the Upsell Plugin. 

Notice how there’s also a “No thanks, maybe next time” anchor text link option for customers underneath the buy button? This is important as it provides customers the option not to purchase the upsell product if they don’t want it. And this is where the Skip Purchase URL option comes in handy inside the Upsell Plugin. 

The same goes for designing downsell product sales pages and setting up your downsell product inside the Upsell Plugin. That way, should a customer pass on your upsell product offer, you can redirect them to your downsell offer instead.

Finally, you need to assign a Thank You / Order Confirmation page redirect in the Upsell Plugin for after customers have made their purchase:

To display the details of a customer’s order on your Thank You page, simply embed the [upsell_orders] shortcode Upsell Plugin provides, and it will automatically display your customers’ purchase details for you.

What Triggers and Actions Are Available with the Upsell Plugin?

Impressed by what you can do with the Upsell Plugin and Thrive Architect? 

Well, hold on tight because Thrive Automator takes things to the next level!

Let’s take a look at some of the actions, triggers and automation recipes you can create with the Upsell Plugin and Thrive Automator…

To begin, here’s a list of triggers that the Upsell Plugin offers for Thrive Automator:

You can also find the list of available triggers and suggested automations on the dedicated Thrive Automator Apps website.

Examples of Possible Automations

With the above triggers, you then automate dozens of actions for your sales funnels. 

Let’s take a look at some of the most popular automations being used today.

When an upsell product purchase is completed, add the customer to your email marketing service — such as Active Campaign or Drip — with an assigned tag.

This is an awesome way to add people into any of the 25+ email marketing services that currently integrate with Thrive Automator.

When an upsell subscription is created, grant the customer access to a Thrive Apprentice product.

If you’re building or running a membership site business, you can add people to a specific Thrive Apprentice product when they sign up to a subscription product via the Upsell Plugin.

How to Start Using This Integration

In order to start using this integration you’ll need:

As soon as you install these two plugins, you’ll be able to use the above triggers and actions to set up a number of awesome automations inside Thrive Automator.

Here’s a quick step-by-step procedure on how to create automations using The Upsell Plugin and Thrive Automator:

If you have any questions about this integration, you can contact the Upsell Plugin team directly.

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