Recommender Basics: The Recipe Builder

The Recipe Builder allows you to build out your recipes and global ingredients to then be applied to your Merchandise Blocks. 

Access the Recipe Builder by following the below steps.

1. Navigate from the home menu to Solutions.
2. Go to Recommender.
3. Then Recipe Builder.

Select a previously configured recipe, or click Create a Recipe.

1. Title: The title of the recipe in use. 
2. Tabs: Recipe and Global Ingredients tab. The global ingredients tab allows you to edit global ingredients for all recipes.
3. Add: Add additional ingredients to a base ingredient.
4. Base ingredient: Select the ingredient to change it, or select the gear to edit settings of the current base ingredient. 
5. Activity to use for reference SKUs: You can either use purchased, browsed, or cart abandoned (up to 25 products referenced). This is based on most recent activity being requested.
6. Backup Ingredient: It's recommended to use a recipe as a backup ingredient because the general backups do not use global ingredients, and need to be used cautiously.
7. Customer/Product Reference Tab: Allows you to switch between customers and products to use as a reference.
8. Reference customer/activity: View specific SKUs and activity from a customer by clicking into their information. 
9. Preview window: Using the reference products from (8), this will show what will be recommended. Green: good, yellow: not so good (usually backup), and red: bad but still applicable (usually final backup). Returns up to 25 products.
10. Search: This bar lets you look for a product via SKU or Title, or a customer via email.

Click here to learn more about building out recipes.