It’s easy for many online store owners to treat their post-purchase ‘thank you’ page – in other words, the page that greets the buyer immediately after they have made an order – as a bit of an afterthought. This page is also sometimes referred to as the ‘invoice page’, because in a lot of cases, it just contains the order details.
Simply leaving your ‘thank you’ page like that, though, would be a mistake. After all, this is a part of your site that those shopping with you will almost certainly look at, even if just to remind themselves of the specific details of their purchase – so it has sales-boosting potential in its own right.
With that in mind, here are just some of the elements you might consider incorporating into your site’s ‘thank you’ pages.
Suggestions of related items
This is something that Amazon has long done for its shoppers, suggesting to them items – such as key accessories – that others who bought the product they have just bought also ordered. It’s a great opportunity to flag up other offerings – such as adapters or batteries – that the customer might suddenly realise they also need.
An opportunity to sign up for email newsletters
You’ve got a captive audience, so why not use it to build up your store’s email contacts, tempting the customer to provide their email in exchange for further product updates, deals and advice?
One-click account creation
Inviting the customer to create an account with your site after they have placed their order will hammer home the message that you ask for their permission first, instead of signing them up for anything automatically. This, in turn, will help to boost the trust they have in your brand.
Sharing tools
Many shoppers like to tell their friends about things they’ve bought lately – so why not include Facebook, Twitter and Instagram share buttons that enable them to do so with a single click? It’s a step that will also get more people talking about your brand on social media in the right ways.
How-to videos
If the customer has just bought a product that they might need a little help to get to grips with, incorporating a ‘how to’ video into this key page of your site is likely to be appreciated. It’ll help to cultivate loyalty from shoppers who will see your site as a genuinely useful source of information, while minimising their need to reach out to your support team.
As you can see, a post-purchase ‘thank you’ page doesn’t have to be a mere plain confirmation of the shopper’s order. There’s a lot of scope to use yours as a means of increasing brand recognition, sales and revenue.
For a more detailed discussion about the website design knowhow that we could bring to your own brand, why not contact the Piranha Designs team in Gibraltar, London or Edinburgh today?
