What’s new?

With Searchandising Campaigns, merchandisers can now define a single strategy and deploy it across multiple search, category, and facet contexts—without creating individual rules for each one. This new feature makes it simple to:

• Group together related queries, category pages, and facet pages into one cohesive campaign.
• Create boost, bury, and slotting rules that apply to all selected contexts at once.
• Save time with bulk actions like Select all and Show subcategories to include every relevant touchpoint with just a few clicks.

Why it matters:

Managing promotional strategies across fragmented contexts used to be time-consuming and error-prone. Searchandising Campaigns fix that by:

• Allowing merchandisers to align their strategy across the entire site—so a summer polo shirt promotion appears everywhere from “men’s shirts” to “brand=Ralph Lauren.”
• Reducing repetitive work with intuitive controls like context editing and dynamic subcategory visibility.
• Ensuring better control and consistency with centralised rule management and in-context previews of how changes impact shopper experiences.

Now, whether you’re spotlighting a new product launch or fine-tuning category-specific performance, you can do it all in one place—with precision, scale, and speed.

Learn more in the documentation.

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

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 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.

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.