Product Merchandising in CS-cart stores

Firstly you need to decide what you want to promote: a particular product or a group of products by category. The product is at the end of the list if it’s included in the search results. Keywords must be specified. The merchandising rule won’t work without them. The product is at the top for particular keywords typed into the search box. The product is at the top of the list if it’s included in the search results. The product is always at the top of the search results no matter what the customer typed in. By default, all products have the No option. No promotion, the product is shown as is in search results. Besides the particular product, you can also promote a group of product items based on their categories. Let’s say you have a store that sells household products, and you want to promote a new product, Chemex Coffeemaker. You can create a promotional rule for this particular product so that it’s always displayed at the top of search results, no matter what a customer searches for. Product Merchandising is a feature that allows you to promote specific items or groups of items for search queries using particular rules. Rules by a category have a higher priority than rules by a product. You can manage the rules of Merchandising for particular products on the Products tab: View created rules Create new rules Edit rules Delete rules Creating a rule Go to Searchanise control panel > Merchandising section > Products tab. Click the + button in the top-right corner. Find the necessary products using filters. Change the Ranking options in the search results. Optionally, set up the Date range option. Note The Date range option allows you to set merchandising rules for a certain period of time you need. If this setting isn’t used, merchandising rules for the item will work until you delete them. Save the changes. Click the Force re-indexation button in the Dashboard section to start indexation. That’s it. After the indexation is complete, you can go to your storefront if you’d like to make sure the rules work as intended. Editing a rule Go to Searchanise control panel > Merchandising section > Products tab. Click the Edit merchandising button in the top-right corner. Change the Ranking options in the search results. Optionally, set up the Date range option. Save the changes. Click the Force re-indexation button in the Dashboard section to start indexation. That’s it. After the indexation is complete, you can go to your storefront if you’d like to make sure the rules work as intended. Deleting a rule Go to Searchanise control panel > Merchandising section > Products tab. Select the rule(-s) you want to delete. Click the Delete selected (…) button. Click the Force re-indexation button in the Dashboard section to start indexation. Categories You can manage the rules of Merchandising for the group of products assigned to specific categories in the Categories tab: View created rules Create new rules Edit rules Delete rules Creating a rule Go to Searchanise control panel > Merchandising section > Categories tab. Click the + button in the top-right corner. Find the necessary category. You can use a filter if there are too many categories. Change the Ranking options in the search results. Optionally, set up the Date range option. Note The Date range option allows you to set merchandising rules for a certain period of time. If this setting isn’t active, merchandising rules for the product will work until you delete them. Save the changes. Click the Force re-indexation button in the Dashboard section to start indexation. That’s it. After the indexation is complete, you can go to your storefront if you’d like to make sure the rules work as intended. Editing a rule Go to Searchanise control panel > Merchandising section > Categories tab. Click the Edit merchandising button in the top-right corner. Change the Ranking options in the search results. Optionally, set up the Date range option. Save the changes. Click the Force re-indexation button in the Dashboard section to start the indexation. That’s it. After the indexation is complete, you can go to your storefront if you’d like to make sure the rules work as intended. Deleting a rule Go to Searchanise control panel > Merchandising section > Products tab. Select the rule(-s) you want to delete. Click the Delete selected (…) button. Click the Force re-indexation button in the Dashboard section to start the indexation. Export/Import Export To export the merchandising rules, follow these steps: Go to the Searchanise control panel > Merchandising section > Export/Import tab > Export part. Click the Download as CSV button. Choose the directory to save the exported file. Import To import the merchandising rules, follow these steps: Important info The file must contain the header fields: Object_id – Product ID or Category ID Object_type – the “product” or “category” value Ranking – one of the Ranking options. If it is set the Keywords ranking option, the file must contain the Keywords header field These header fields can be optional: Use Date Range – “Y” or “N” Start Date – YYYY-MM-DD format End Date – YYYY-MM-DD format Timezone Offset Go to the Searchanise control panel > Merchandising section > Export/Import tab > Import part. Select the CSV Delimiter, which is used in the imported CSV file. Click the Choose file button and choose the file for importing. Click the Import button. You can see the imported values in the Products tab. Click the Force re-indexation button in the Dashboard section to start the indexation. That’s it. After the indexation is complete, you can go to your store and check out how it works in the search results.

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