Create New Recommendation
When you create a recommendation, you create a recommendation unit that contains the recommended product items.
Recommendation unit
When you activate the recommendation unit, Adobe Commerce starts to collect data to measure impressions, views, clicks, and so on. The Product Recommendations table displays the metrics for each recommendation unit to help you make informed business decisions.
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On the Admin sidebar, go to Marketing > Promotions > Product Recommendations to display the Product Recommendations workspace.
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Specify the Store View where you want the recommendations to display.
note note NOTE Page Builder recommendation units must be created in the default store view, but then can be used anywhere. To learn more about creating product recommendations with Page Builder, see Add Content - Product Recommendations. -
Click Create Recommendation.
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In the Name your Recommendation section, enter a descriptive name for internal reference, such as
Home page most popular. -
In the Select page type section, select the page where you want the recommendation to appear from the following options:
- Home Page
- Category
- Product Detail
- Cart
- Confirmation
- Page Builder
You can create up to five active recommendation units for each page type, and up to 25 for Page Builder. The page type is grayed out When the limit is reached.
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In the Select Recommendation type section, specify the type of recommendation you want to appear on the selected page. For some pages, the placement of recommendations is limited to certain types.
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In the Storefront display label section, enter the label that is visible to your shoppers, such as “Top sellers”.
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In the Choose number of products section, use the slider to specify how many products you want to appear in the recommendation unit.
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In the Select placement section, specify the location where the recommendation unit is to appear on the page.
- At the bottom of main content
- At the top of main content
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(Optional) To change the order of the recommendations, select, and move the rows in the Choose position table.
The Choose position section displays all recommendations (if any) created for the page type you selected.
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(Optional) In the Filters section, apply filters to control which products appear in the recommendation unit.
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When complete, click one of the following:
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Save as draft to edit the recommendation unit later. You cannot modify the page type or recommendation type for a recommendation unit in a draft state.
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Activate to enable the recommendation unit on your storefront.
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Readiness indicators
Some recommendation types use behavioral data from your shoppers to train machine learning models to build personalized recommendations.
Requires only catalog data. No behavioral data is needed for these:
- Most Like This
- Recently Viewed
- Visual Similarity
Based on last six months of storefront behavioral data:
- Viewed this, viewed that
- Viewed this, bought that
- Bought this, bought that
- Recommended for you
Popularity-based recommendation types use the last seven days of storefront behavioral data:
- Most Viewed
- Most Purchased
- Added to Cart
- Trending
Readiness indicator values are expected to fluctuate due to factors such as the overall size of the catalog, volume of product interaction events (views, adds to cart, purchases), and percentage of skus that register those events within a certain time window, as listed above. For example, during peak holiday season traffic, the readiness indicators might show higher values than in times of normal volume.
To help you visualize the training progress of each recommendation type, the Select Recommendation type section displays a measure of readiness for each type. These readiness indicators are calculated based on a couple factors:
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Sufficient result set size: Are there enough results being returned in most scenarios to avoid using backup recommendations?
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Sufficient result set variety: Do the products being returned represent a variety of products from your catalog? The goal with this factor is to avoid having a minority of products being the only items recommended across the site.
Based on the above factors, a readiness value is calculated and displayed. A recommendation type is considered ready to deploy when its readiness value is 75% or higher. A recommendation type is considered partially ready when its readiness is at least 50%. A recommendation type is considered not ready to deploy when its readiness value is less than 50%. These are general guidelines but each individual case can differ based on the nature of collected data as outlined above.
Recommendation type
Preview Recommendations preview
The Recommended products preview panel is always available with a sample selection of products that might appear in the recommendation unit when it is deployed to the storefront.
To test a recommendation when working in a non-production environment, you can fetch recommendation data from a different source. This allows merchants to experiment with rules and preview the recommendations before deploying to production.
Backup - indicates that there is not enough training data collected so a backup recommendation is used to fill the slot. Go to Behavioral Data to learn more about machine learning models and backup recommendations.
As you create your recommendation unit, experiment with the page type, recommendation type, and filters to get immediate real-time feedback about the products that will be included. As you begin to understand which products appear, you can configure the recommendation unit to meet your business needs.
Adobe Commerce filters recommendations to avoid displaying duplicate products when multiple recommendation units are deployed on a single page. As a result, the products that appear in the preview panel might differ from those that appear in the storefront.
Recently viewed recommendation type because the data is not available in the Admin.