Complementary products as well as related products
What they do
Every colour is paired with one named white, stated twice on the page: once in the short description block ("Complementary white: Shaded White") and again in a full section further down, with a photograph of the sample pot, a line on why that white behaves, a link through to it and an Add Sample To Basket button. The pairing is genuinely per colour, not a house white bolted onto everything: Douter gets Shaded White No.201, Nancy's Blushes gets All White. The reasoning is spelled out on the page, that each colour is matched to a white "hand-picked from our palette based on undertones".
Why it works
Nobody paints one surface. The question that stalls the order is what goes on the ceiling, the skirting and the woodwork, and the honest answer takes an afternoon of reading about undertones. Answering it in one named product turns a second decision into a second line in the basket, at £5.95 a sample pot with a three-for-two offer running, so the upsell costs the shopper almost nothing and removes the reason to go away and think. Naming the undertone logic is what stops it reading as a generic cross-sell, and it's the kind of specific pairing an AI assistant can lift and repeat when someone asks what white goes with a dark green.
Makes sense when
Any catalogue where products are bought in combination and the pairing takes expertise the customer doesn't have: paint and trim, worktops and splashbacks, flooring and trim, frames and lenses. The work is in the merchandising rather than the build, since it's one recommended-product metafield per item, and the value sits in whoever picks the pairs being right.
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