Rule Inheritance

Rule Inheritance allows one or more sites to use the rules from a parent site. The child sites do not have any rules in the system, and rely entirely on the rules defined for the parent site. The parent site's rules are maintained through normal means.

When you use Advanced Merchandising, you can manipulate recommendations to present products that are cross-sell items, like showing a backpack that is compatible to the laptop that the customer is looking at, or upsell items, such as a television that has more features than the one on the page.

Advanced Merchandising requires the product ID as the seed. As such, it only works on page types with product ID and does not work on pages such as the home page and category page. Also, Advanced Merchandising does not remove duplicates such as the seed product from the results list.

How It Works

For a site to be considered a reasonable candidate for Inheritance, it should meet the following conditions:

  • A significant percentage of shared catalog elements (categories, products, brand)

  • All related sites will have to share names of placements that are to be leveraged in Advanced Merchandising.

The parent site's rules are maintained through normal means.

  • To enable this feature, the child site must not have any rules defined.

  • A child site cannot also be a parent site.

  • Child and parent sites need to have a large overlap in catalog.

  • Inherited rules do not be editable, but we will show errors / issues with these rules

Each site must still maintain its own catalog and site configurations. Only the rule definitions are shared.

Usage

Parent Site

Retailer can create, update, or delete rules.

Child Site

  • Retailer can view the (inherited) rules for the site.

  • Retailer cannot add, delete, or modify (including changing the in-production indicator) any rule.

  • Retailer should see an indicator and review the errors if any attached to the rule, but cannot edit the rules.

Enablement

You can view Multi-Site Settings on the dashboard based on the access privileges. These options should be selected on the Advanced Merchandising page of the site that is to be the Parent site.

After viewing the inline warnings, you can select the child sites to associate with the current site from a list of sites for which you have access.

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