We’re constantly looking for ways to give our customers more tools and capabilities to understand and control their product discovery experience and this often translates into new functionality in our dashboard. As we’ve added all kinds of new products and features, we’ve heard from our customers that it can be sometimes challenging to find what they’re looking for - we heard, and we’re here to help. 

We’re excited to announce that we’ve revamped the navigation in the dashboard with refreshed sections and groupings of capabilities within those sections - for example, capabilities to manage the onsite experience in the Workspace section and analytics within the Analytics section. Feedback we received through the development process from dashboard users we previewed with was that the new navigation was really intuitive and easier to navigate. We can’t wait for you to try it out!

You can check out the new navigation by opting into the new experience using a toggle available in your profile section within the dashboard. We know that getting used to a big change like this can take time, so you’ll be able to toggle in and out of the new experience for the next couple of weeks to give you a chance to get used to it when it feels more comfortable for you. 

Opt in and out of the new navigation using the toggle in your profile section. 

For any questions, comments or feedback about this new experience, please connect with your Customer Success Manager or contact us through support@constructor.io.

The Attribute Enrichment Dashboard serves as a central hub where AI-predicted enriched attributes are showcased. Merchandisers working with product data can leverage this dashboard to review and validate the attributes added by AI. This step is crucial in ensuring that the enriched attributes align with the merchandisers' expectations and the overall product strategy.

We are excited to introduce a powerful enhancement to the Attribute Enrichment Dashboard: the ability to filter by product categories and types of enriched attributes. Filters streamline the process of reviewing and blocklisting attributes by giving merchandisers the ability to focus on specific product categories and attribute types. A more tailored view ensures that merchandisers can efficiently manage and optimize attribute enrichment for different product segments:

• For example, by selecting the "Footwear" category filter, merchandisers can view attributes enriched for shoes, boots, and sandals. This focused view enables them to optimize attribute enrichment specifically for footwear products.
• Or, merchandisers can filter for the "Color" attribute to focus specifically on attributes related to color options available for various items.

How It Works:

• Navigate to the Attribute Enrichment Dashboard.
• Select the "Filters" option located in the upper-left corner.
• Use the category filter dropdown to select a specific product category or multiple categories.
• Use the attribute filter dropdown to select the desired attribute type from the available options.
• The dashboard will refresh to show enriched attributes of the chosen type for the chosen category.

Attribute Enrichment Filters Button

Attribute Enrichment Filters Modal

For more information about this capability, please connect with your Customer Success Manager or contact us through support@constructor.io.

Starting today, you will be able to see who last modified rules in Search, Browse and Campaigns in the dashboard. Changes made to Searchandising rules will have both timestamp and user information attached, however changes made prior to today will not have any user information shown. This feature will appear on the Searchandising list page as a new column beside Modified timestamp. With this release the ability to filter changes made by a specific user is also added to the listing view, allowing customers to quickly find out what changes a specific user has made. Surfacing this information can be especially useful for troubleshooting and auditing purposes.

Modified By column in Searchandising list view

Modified By filter options for users

For more information about this capability, please connect with your Customer Success Manager or contact us through support@constructor.io.

In our continuing effort to ensure you can deliver the very best experience for your customers and your business, we’re very excited to announce the latest feature within our Merchant Intelligence product: the ability to A/B test recommendations pods right within the customer dashboard! This adds to the existing A/B testing capability for global search and browse merchandising rules.

Setting up a new test is easy: just select the recommendations pod you want to experiment with, the strategy to test against, and the division of your users who will see each variant, and presto! Your experiment will begin immediately and you’ll know for sure which is the most optimal experience for your customers.

Talk to us about how A/B testing can increase your KPIs. Reach out to your Customer Success Manager or contact us at support@constructor.io.

Variation Slicing Searchandising Rule is now available for Search and Browse.

You can find this new Searchandising Rule in the sidebar along with our other rule types when adding a Search or Browse rule.

The Variation Slicing Rule was already available via API but is now available in the dashboard. This rule allows the separation of product variations into individual product tiles on a given search term or category page. With this rule, you will now have the ability to slice out product variants based on a specified attribute, such as size, pattern, color, style, etc. This can be especially helpful for customers with product variations that you want to show individually to your end users based on context. Say for example on a search for a specific style of shirt you want to highlight all the color options you have - now you can easily do this with Variation Slicing!

For more information about this capability, please connect with your Customer Success Manager or contact us through support@constructor.io.

Allowlist Searchandising Rule is now available in Search to further refine product listings.

Applying an Allowlist Rule to query: “apple”

You can find this new Searchandising Rule in the side bar along with our other rule types when adding a Search rule.

The Allowlist Rule allows you to further refine your result set for specific types of products. With this new rule type, you will now have the ability to filter products based on a specified attribute or combination of attributes, like category, brand, color, etc. This can be especially helpful in situations where you want to provide a specific or highly curated set of results to your end users.

For more information about this capability, please connect with your Customer Success Manager or contact us through support@constructor.io.

We're excited to announce the Export Feature in the Attribute Enrichment dashboard. Now, you can generate CSV export files containing the AI-enhanced attributes for items and variations with a simple click!

This marks an additional step in empowering our customers to effortlessly integrate AI-enriched product data outside of just their search engine. An advantage with Constructor’s Attribute Enrichment module is that you automatically get access to enriched attributes within every experience Constructor powers, but we’ve been looking for ways to make our AI-enriched attributes usable outside of just the experiences Constructor powers. With this export functionality, you can now import enriched attributes for use in PIM or syndication systems, off-site, and anywhere else having correct product data could be a benefit. While we're on the path to even more seamless integrations, this feature allows you to upload enriched data via CSV for immediate impact.

Whether you're aiming to update the data in your PIM system or prefer to review and analyze data in familiar spreadsheet tools, the Export Feature offers increased flexibility. The CSV format ensures compatibility with a wide range of applications, allowing you to work with the data in the way that best suits your needs.

For more information about this capability, please connect with your Customer Success Manager or contact us through support@constructor.io. We will be happy to demo it for you!

As the leading expert in search and product discovery, Constructor knows the difference an excellent search User Experience can make on key retail metrics such as purchase revenue and add-to-carts. With this in mind, we're excited to announce that now you can have Constructor's Search and Autocomplete UI components on your store - which on their own have generated lifts of up to 2.5% in conversion and 2.8% in revenue for our customers - with the easiest possible setup experience on your Salesforce SFRA storefront.

With the new Constructor Autocomplete UI SFRA Cartridge, you can have Constructor's Autocomplete UI Library's default components up and running on your SFRA storefront with literally one additional click of a button in your Salesforce dashboard storefronts. A flexible solution, you can further customize the components' style and behavior as desired through an overlay of the cartridge's files - the best and easiest way to install our components on a partner storefront.

SFRA is Salesforce's Reference Architecture, a storefront solution that blends proven methods in site creation, promotion and technical architecture to offer an out-of-the-box design for merchants to build sites as distinctive as their brands. As one of our important eCommerce partners, we're excited to expand support to our components through this channel.

Set up your Autocomplete UI SFRA Cartridge on your Salesforce path

Learn everything about the new cartridge on our Documentation, and visit the AppExchange listing to get the cartridge. For any questions on the SFRA Cartridge, please don't hesitate to reach out to partners@constructor.io.

Not on SFRA, but still interested in adding our potent Search and Autocomplete UI into your storefront? Don't worry - the library is open-source and can be implemented in any store. For support on how to get up and running, reach out to your Customer Success Manager or contact us through support@constructor.io.

We’ve heard loud and clear from customers how much they love our recent release of Search Searchandising Campaigns which helps streamline merchandising efforts across multiple search terms. With that, Browse Searchandising Campaigns is a natural expansion of that capability. With this release, we’re adding the ability to select multiple categories or browse facet pages when creating browse rules. The experience is similar to what merchandisers already know and love in Search Searchandising Campaigns but adapted for the Browse context. 

Browse Facet Page selector

The Searchandising Preview experience the same in Search and Browse Searchandising Campaigns where merchandisers will be able to see all the browse pages that the Searchandising rule or set of rules is applied to, with the ability to toggle between the individual pages to validate each of them individually within the campaigns view  All existing Searchandising rule types are available within Campaigns. This release will increase merchandiser efficiency just in time for the holiday season when it comes to creating rules for Browse Categories or Facet Pages.

For more information about this capability, please connect with your Customer Success Manager or contact us through support@constructor.io.

Global Content in Search and Browse is here just in time to support your sitewide holiday promotions!

New Global Content searchandising rule 

You can find this new searchandising rule in the side bar when adding a Global Search or Global Browse rule.

All the functionality and flexibility of Content Rules have been incorporated into Global Content Rules, and now adding this rule will push content across all your search queries or all browse pages saving you valuable time for this busy time of the year. This can be especially helpful in situations where you are merchandising for sitewide promotions or special events.

For more information about this capability, please connect with your Customer Success Manager or contact us through support@constructor.io.