Constructor’s facet group sorting algorithm uses multiple factors to determine which facets are most attractive to shoppers to optimize for e-commerce sales. Yet, there may be instances where merchandisers need to step in and strategically curate the facet experience—hide or change the order of facet groups and/or options within those groups—on certain pages.

That's why we’re excited to expand the dashboard capabilities to merchandise facets to search query pages. Previously, this control was only available on category and collection pages.

This added flexibility allows for smarter, more contextual merchandising. For example:

• During promotional periods, slot 'On Sale' facet group at the top for related search queries.
• Increase visibility of the private-label in the list of brands for key search queries. 
• Hide irrelevant facet groups or options that may appear due to catalog data inconsistencies — such as hiding the 'Gender' facet for 'diaper' searches.

Whether you’re running a campaign, optimizing a product line, or removing noise from the shopper journey, this update gives you more precise control over product discovery experience.

You can find more examples and step-by-step instructions on how to use the feature in Constructor Documentation Guides.

If you have any questions or feedback on Constructor dashboard, please connect with your Customer Success Manager or contact us through support@constructor.io.

At Constructor, we are constantly looking for ways to make it easier for merchandisers to manage their e-commerce business and drive results. However, multi-index customers with operations in different regions and languages face the challenge of ensuring consistency in their merchandising strategy across all of their indexes. Recreating the same rules is cumbersome and time-consuming. That's why we have the Granular Rule Copying feature, and today, we are updating it to support copying rules to different search query pages in the target index. 

Previously, if the query spelling in the target index was different from the source index — which often happens in the case of different languages— merchandisers were unable to copy rules between queries. This meant they often had to manually adjust rules for each region, leading to inefficiencies and missed opportunities for a unified merchandising strategy.

With this update, merchandisers can now copy manual and/or automatic rules from one query in a source index to a different query in a target index, even if the spelling of the queries differs. This helps you maintain a consistent merchandising strategy across multiple regions without the need to manually replicate rules in different languages.

Here are the steps to access the feature:

1. Select Workspace in the side menu of the Constructor dashboard, then select Searchandising.
2. Choose Search & Autosuggest at the top of the listing page.
3. Locate the rule, then select the three-dot icon on the far right of the rule row.
4. Select the copy (middle) icon from the options displayed.
5. On the pop-up, specify new query, rule types, and target index(es).
6. Select Continue in the bottom-right corner of the pop-up.
7. Review the target indexes listed on the following page, then select Start in the bottom-right corner of the pop-up.

If you have any questions or feedback on Constructor dashboard, please connect with your Customer Success Manager or contact us through support@constructor.io.

What’s new?

Faceted Slotting is here to give merchandisers the power to slot items within filtered (faceted) shopping contexts on Browse and Collection pages. With this new capability, you can now:

• Pin items to specific positions after shoppers apply filters like Gender=Mens, Brand=Brembo, or Style=Contemporary.
• Easily navigate and manage slotting rules for refined experiences from a centralized facet searchandising view.
• Drag and drop items or add them manually to the exact spot you want in a filtered results set.

Why it matters:

Until now, item slotting was limited to root-level pages—great for general visibility, but not ideal for targeted merchandising strategies. With Faceted Slotting, you can:

• Showcase the right items in the right context—like highlighting men's t-shirts only when Gender=Mens is selected, or promoting specific coffee blends when users filter by roast.
• Deliver highly personalized and performant shopping experiences by tailoring product placement based on user intent.
• Save time with a streamlined, intuitive UI for managing slotting across multiple filtered views.

📌 Note: Currently available for Browse and Collection pages only. Support for Search, Campaigns, and additional rule types is on the roadmap.

Learn more in the documentation.

Questions or feedback? Reach out to your Customer Success Manager or contact us at support@constructor.io.

We’re excited to announce a new feature in Interact that brings unprecedented clarity and transparency to your product ranking experience.

What’s New?

• More transparent Ranking Explanations – get a detailed breakdown of the factors influencing the ranking of products on your PLPs. Understand why items appear in a specific order, whether due to item attractiveness, product popularity, personalisation, or other signals.
• Updated Recall Reasons –  we’ve refined the recall reasons to provide more actionable insights into why certain products are surfaced.
• New Ranking Insights – discover the most impactful factors driving your rankings, whether it’s a group of signals or specific searchandising rules.
• Explanation tooltips – always be able to understand the ranking factors at play 

Understanding the "why" behind product rankings and recall is critical for effective merchandising. With this update, you’ll gain the insights needed to trust and optimize the retrieval and ranking process, ensuring your best products are always front and center.

Check more details about this update in our documentation.

If you have any questions or feedback on the updated feature, please connect with your Customer Success Manager or contact us through support@constructor.io.

We constantly strive to provide merchandisers with a holistic view of performance across all stages of the product discovery journey. To deepen this understanding, we are excited to announce a significant update to Recommendations analytics.

With this latest release, merchandisers can now track key business metrics, such as purchases and revenue, for specific recommendation pods. While we've always used this data in our machine-learning algorithms, we want to give merchandisers greater visibility into it. After all, these are the critical metrics for making informed business decisions.

When viewing a specific pod's analytics, purchases and revenue—alongside familiar metrics such as sessions, views, clicks, and add-to-carts—are now available for tracking over a selected period of time and segmentation by platform (Desktop, Android, iOS, etc.). Together, they provide a comprehensive view of recommendations performance, from a pod's appearance in the shopping journey to the completion of a purchase.

There are two ways to find these analytics. You can navigate to Analytics > Recommendations, scroll to the table below the charts, and select a pod. Or, you can also find a pod through Workspace > Recommendations and click the analytics icon next to a certain pod.

If you have any questions or feedback on analytics in the dashboard, please connect with your Customer Success Manager or contact us through support@constructor.io.

We are introducing the ability to "Searchandise any Pod" in the dashboard. This feature allows merchandisers to apply rules to any recommendation pod, regardless of the strategy in use (e.g., bestseller, alternative, bundles, complementary, user featured, etc.).

What is the benefit?
It gives merchandisers more granular control over recommendations, customizing pod content across multiple strategies without development support. This can enhance business metrics, such as promoting specific items or filtering recommendations by new arrivals or brands.

Where to find it?
To use this, go to the Recommendations workspace and select Add New in the top-right corner of the page. Select Recommendations rule, select any pod, and apply rules and conditions.

Redirects page lists all the redirects that have been created and allows users to create more redirects or manage existing redirect pages. With this update the redirects page have revamped to the newest design standards, adding the emails of the users who last made a change to a redirect and by default, lists all redirects instead of just current redirects (currently do not show upcoming or expired redirects by default).

What’s new?

We’ve supercharged the strength and flexibility of our Boost & Bury rules, giving you 10x more control over how products are ranked in search and browse experiences. With this update, you can now:

• Create precise Boost & Bury rules using a percentage-based strength selector (from 5% to 100%).
• Use a convenient slider or hotkeys for quick adjustments: Weak (3%), Moderate (7%), Strong (10%), and 3xStrong (Rocket button 🚀).
• Apply these rules across various use cases, from single queries to global campaigns, including Search, Autosuggest, Browse Categories, Facet Pages, Collections and Recommendations.

Why it matters:

This update gives merchandisers unparalleled control over product visibility to align with business goals. Whether you’re showcasing new arrivals, promoting sale items, or managing inventory strategically, you can now achieve nuanced ranking adjustments with fewer rules. By eliminating the need to stack multiple identical rules, this enhancement saves time and ensures more precise outcomes for complex merchandising strategies.

Learn more in the documentation.

We know how essential it is to track key business metrics like purchases and revenue, and we understand the need to share this valuable data across your team—from product managers to analysts and marketing experts. That’s why, following our recent dashboard updates, we’re excited to announce that purchases and revenue data are now available for export in the Top Search Queries, Top Categories, Top Collections, and Top Facets reports.

With this release, you can now download these metrics alongside other performance data, giving you a more complete view of how your search and browse experiences are driving sales.

Please note that we’ve also updated column names in the export reports to ensure they align with the metrics displayed in the dashboard. If you have automated processes or macros set up for these .csv files, this update might impact your setup.

We’re always looking for ways to improve your experience with Constructor data. If you have specific data needs or use cases, please reach out to your Customer Success team or contact us through support@constructor.io—we’d love to hear from you and continue to enhance our platform for your business.

We are excited to announce a new update to the Interact tool that brings powerful business metrics directly into your workflow. Now, merchandisers can view total number of purchases and revenue generated by a page, and the number of purchased items for each recalled item right in Interact. 

The  metrics are calculated over the last 30 days, giving you an insight into the impact a page has on your business. For more detailed analytics, you can navigate from Interact to the page analytics section and explore how metrics evolved over time and on different platforms, including desktop, mobile browsers, and mobile apps, if applicable.

If you have any questions or feedback on the analytics in the dashboard, please connect with your Customer Success Manager or contact us through support@constructor.io.