Start with your use case
Build your site Search
This page is your guide to everything you need to do to get started with Search on your web store.
- Pre-requisites:
Before you start integrating search you must create an Unbxd account and get API Keys required to complete the integration. Once you’ve created your Unbxd account, you can get all the keys in Manage > Configure Site > Keys within your Unbxd Console. - Direct Integration
Unbxd offers a platform-agnostic integration for your eCommerce site search. You can integrate Unbxd search by completing the following three steps :
Feed Preparation and Upload
Following resources can guide you for converting your catalog to Unbxd compatible format and uploading it on Unbxd systems:
Set up Analytics
Once you upload your catalog, the next step is to integrate analytics so that Unbxd systems can collect data to optimize your site search performance. You can integrate Unbxd analytics using one of the following methods:
Deploy Unbxd Search
The final step in the process of integration is to use Unbxd search to display search results for shopper’s queries. Unbxd offer RESTful APIs & SDKs for different platforms to allows easy implementation of our Search
REST APIs for Search & Autosuggest integration :
SDKs for Search integration :
- Platform plugins for Feed & Analytics integration:
E-commerce stores using Magento 2 (and higher), Shopify and Hybris platforms can use our pre-build plugins to integrate Unbxd search quickly. The platform plugins support seamless transfer of catalog and analytics data from your e-commerce store. Select the platform you are using to learn about integration steps :
NOTE: Platform plugins only support catalog & analytics data transfer. Step 3 to deploy search must be carried out in plugin based integrations too.
Manage Search
After uploading catalog and integrating analytics, you can start configuring your site search from the Unbxd console. The console allows you to control your site-search by adjusting relevance settings, control facets displayed on your website, track catalog upload status etc.
Merchandise your Catalog
The Merchandising section of the console provides useful controls that will help you merchandise products in your inventory. With merchandising you can:
- Promote popular products to increase revenue ratios
- Create slots of similar categories of products to rank higher on the display page
- Configure dynamic facets
- Create specific landing-pages for festivals and occasions
- Arrange filters to narrow-down results
With such merchandising methods, shoppers are sure to get their quick and intended products.
Use the following resources to learn more about merchandising:
Reports and Insights
When the site is live, evidently you would like to track your site search performance, product reports, or the most searched queries. Such insights help you to tweak your search configurations or create merchandising rules to improve conversions.
Explore Unbxd Features
Some of the Unbxd search features are:
- AI and ML algorithms that monitor purchase behavior and self-optimize to connect shoppers to products that they are most likely to buy.
- Intelligent Fallback on the relevant queries when the original query has very few or zero results
- Catalog Auto enrichment that reduces search exits and null searches when there is a lack of accurate product description information.
- Tailor the search experience for each shopper by profiling each shopper in real-time.
Increase customer loyalty and overall customer lifetime value.
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