Merchandising rules

Your own rules, applied after AI and automatic ranking: pin, exclude and boost.

ProMerchandising → Rules

Store-wide rules

RuleEffect
Never RecommendThese products are never shown in any list
Never Recommend FromProducts in these categories are never shown
Always RecommendShown first in every list, when available
Boost CategoriesProducts in these categories rank higher in rule-based ordering

Exclusions also apply to AI candidates, bundles and recently viewed, and take effect immediately. Pins and boosts can take up to an hour to appear, as lists are cached.

Per-product pins

On a product's edit screen, the Recommendations (Pro) box has Always recommend with this product: up to 6 products shown first in that product's recommendations. It also lists the products it's Bought together with.

Final order of a list

  1. The product's own pins.
  2. Store-wide Always Recommend.
  3. Frequently bought together partners.
  4. AI picks.
  5. Rule-based fill, with boosted categories ranked higher.