At Constructor, we know that merchandisers are always looking for ways to maximize the visibility and performance of newly launched products, especially in fast-changing verticals like apparel. Merchandisers often pay extra attention to ensure that these new items get the right visibility in product discovery, allowing algorithms to catch up and rank them accordingly. To make this process even easier, we’re excited to introduce a new report that gives merchandisers insights into how newly added items are performing after they’re launched.

Here’s what’s new:

1. A new table within the Conversions section of Analytics, which focuses specifically on items added to the catalog within a selected time period and features metrics such as clicks, add-to-carts, and purchased items.
2. A new Insights block on the homepage of the dashboard, featuring the number of items added to the catalog in the past 7/30 days, the total number of items purchased, and the top five performing items.

This update allows merchandisers to see up-to-date performance data and take timely actions based on how new items are performing. By regularly checking this data, merchandisers can ensure new products get the visibility they deserve and are aligned with the overall business goals.

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 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.

We’re excited to announce a new update in the Searchandizing dashboard that provides greater clarity and control for our customers.

What’s new?

You can now separately track the last manual and AI modification dates for search queries and browse categories.

Here’s what you’ll see:

• Modified by User & Modified By: The date and source of the last manual modification (e.g., user email or API).
• Modified by AI: The date the last automatically generated rule was added.

Why it matters:

This update helps you:

• Easily identify when your team last made a manual change.
• Understand how often Constructor’s AI is optimizing Group Attractiveness rules.

Over the last quarter, we have continuously enriched search and browse analytics in the dashboard with data on purchases and revenue. We’ve always used this data in our machine-learning algorithms, but we want merchandisers to have greater visibility into it too. After all, these are the key metrics for making business decisions.

We are super excited to announce that dashboard users can now track the performance of search and browse pages, including categories, facets, and collections, with purchases and revenue data available over time and split by platform. This will help identify the impact of marketing and merchandising initiatives targeted at particular pages.

There are two ways to find these analytics. You can navigate to Analytics > Search/Browse, scroll to the tables below the charts, and select a page. You can also find the page through Interact and proceed to its analytics from there.

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're excited to introduce Item Variation Slotting, a powerful new feature that adds greater control and granularity to our existing Item Slotting rules.

What’s New?

Item Variation Slotting allows merchandizers to pin or feature a specific item variation on a Browse category page. For example, rather than pin a certain shirt in the #1 slot of the “Shirts” category page, a merchandiser can pin that shirt in blue or in a size large in the #1 slot.

Benefits for Merchandisers

Item Variation Slotting is designed for merchandisers aiming to refine their visual merchandising strategy. This feature enables you to:

• Promote the new flavor of a popular sparkling water drink
• Create a row of blue sneakers followed by a row of red sneakers
• Feature matching holiday outfits for the whole family

For setup and other details, please refer to our Product Documentation.