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Recommendation Engine

The right product. The right content.
Every time.

Product and content recommendations that learn what each visitor wants — on your ecommerce site, in your emails and in your app.

Choose from algorithms for every page — behaviour, AI similarity and merchandising — or a filter you write yourself, with fallbacks behind it. Shoppers can add to cart or save for later straight from the widget, and the same engine renders inside the emails you already send.

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Recommend anything

Recommend products. Surface content. Convert both.

Product recommendations

Picks for every page of your ecommerce store — home, category, product, cart, thank-you and search — each with its own algorithm. Complete the look

Content recommendations

Keep readers reading: what readers like them read next, more from the topic, or similar articles matched by AI. Go deeper on the topic Content recommendations

Recommendation badges

New, best seller, price drop or low stock on the picture — read from your catalog, switched on in the template.

Same picks, every channel

On your site, in email at open time, in web push, and in your app as JSON.

What it recommends

Product recommendations, page by page.

In your ecommerce store, every shopper sees products picked for the page they are on — predicted from what shoppers like them viewed and bought, and there from their very first page. On a product page, where shoppers go next; in the cart, what goes with it.

Tuned to your kind of shopFashion Complete the lookElectronics Accessories that fitHome Complete the roomBeauty & grocery Time to restockSports Gear for the same activity

Recommended

Automatic: one widget, every page

In the panel, Automatic is the first card when you set up a widget, and a new widget starts on it; pick All algorithms beside it to choose one yourself.

Popular near youAustin, TX · first visit
A merino watch capMerino Watch Cap$39A low trail running shoeTrail Runner Low$89A canvas weekender duffel bagWeekender Duffel$119A mustard knit beanieKnit Beanie, Mustard$45

A first visit: nothing personal to go on yet, so it shows what is popular where they are.

In this order — the first with something to show servesOn a product pageOn a category pageWith something in the cartOn every pageSo it is never empty

Every algorithm in the panel is one of five kinds: predictive and popular, crowd wisdom, their own items, what just changed, your rules.

On the home page

No product on screen yet

Intent isn’t clear yet, so the picks come from who the visitor is and what is popular.

Recommended

What each shopper is most likely to buy

Predicted for each visitor, learned from the shoppers who behave like them.

Personalized Recommendations
If it has no data yet: Popular in the Visitor's Country · Trending Now
Home page

Popular where they are

What shoppers in their location view most — so even a first visit gets picks that fit.

Popular in the Visitor's Country
On a category page

Narrowed to the category on screen

What sells, what is new and what just got cheaper, inside the category being browsed.

Recommended

The category’s best sellers, up front

The most-bought products in the category being browsed — the strongest signal on a category page.

Best Sellers
If it has no data yet: Most Popular
Knitwear

Cheaper than last time they looked

Products whose price dropped since the visitor’s last visit — a reason to come back to them.

Price Dropped
On a product page

Anchored to the product being viewed

Where shoppers go next, what they buy with it and what they viewed alongside it.

Recommended

Where shoppers actually go next

Learned from your shoppers’ own visits: the products they open right after this one, then the ones viewed together with it.

Viewed Next
If it has no data yet: Others Who Viewed Also Viewed · Similar Items (AI) · Most Popular
Under the product

What shoppers buy with it

Learned from your orders: what your other shoppers bought together with this product.

Cross-Sells
On the cart page

Built from what is in the cart

What goes with the cart, and one step up while they are still deciding.

Recommended

What goes with this cart

Learned from what your other shoppers bought together with the items already in it.

Cross-Sells
If it has no data yet: What Others Viewed Then Bought · Trending Now
Cart page

One step up

Higher-priced alternatives to what is in the cart.

Up-Sells
On the thank-you page

After the order

The order is placed: show what goes with it, and what shoppers like them bought next.

Recommended

The next thing they need

Learned from your orders: what other shoppers bought together with what was just ordered.

Cross-Sells
If it has no data yet: Last Bought Item: Those Who Bought This Also Bought · Trending Now
Order confirmation

What shoppers like them bought next

Learned from visitors who viewed the same items and then bought.

What Others Viewed Then Bought
On search results

When the search finds little

Alternatives beside a short list of results, from the visitor’s own search and browsing.

Recommended

More of what they searched for

Products matching the visitor’s last search — here, for headphones.

Matches Their Search
If it has no data yet: Personalized Recommendations · Most Popular
Search results

From the category they were browsing

Products from the category the visitor viewed last.

Inspired by Category
In email, web push and your app

The same engine, off the page

Products picked when an email is opened, the top pick in a web push, and the same algorithms as JSON for your app.

Any email platform

Picked the moment the email is opened

One HTML snippet in the emails you already send — each recipient gets products picked for them when they open it.

Inspired by Items in Cart
Your app or server

The same picks in your app

Fetch them as JSON from one address and draw them yourself, or show native rails through the iOS and Android SDKs.

Personalized Recommendations
Your catalog, your data

Your catalog and your orders, in sync.

Four ways in, one engine: your store, your feed or files, your own site — and your past and in-store orders, so it learns from every sale.

Your store

Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce, BigCommerce or Shopware, connected once by API with your own keys. Products, prices and stock, past orders and customers stay up to date on their own, and it only reads.

The recommendation engineYour catalog + your orders
Your orders, online and in-store

Upload past orders — one row per order line — and the engine starts from what already sold together instead of waiting weeks. A recurring feed or SFTP keeps it learning from every sale, in-store included.

The learning loop

And it learns from every signal.

Comprehensive, self-learning: it weighs many signals at once, and every round goes into the next build of the picks.

  1. 1ShownEach widget shows its picks — and only what was really seen is counted.
  2. 2Clicked and boughtEvery view, add to cart and purchase is recorded, for the item and the widget.
  3. It learnsFrom many signals at once: who the shopper is, what they view, add to cart, save, search for and buy, and where they are — the next build takes it all in, and clicks lift what works.
  4. 4A better pick next timeCloser to what sells; and an A/B test can hand the winner all the traffic.

Works on any site, whatever it is built on: one tag on any platform or custom build, with or without a store connection. Shopify also installs from its App Store. See Shopify, WooCommerce, Shopware or every integration. Your own fields: map products to up to two keys — Internal ID and SKU — so on-site events tie back, and add custom fields any time.

Formats, places and phones

How the widget comes to your site.

Show it as a slider, under the product.

Format
Placement

Slider: One row that slides — on a phone, one card and a peek of the next. Under the product: In your page, after the element you pick — click the spot on your site, or give a CSS selector.

Quick add to cart: the widget’s Add calls your store’s own cart and the shopper stays on the page, and a heart saves a favourite. The slider and grid set their own count of cards for desktop, tablet and phone — and every word of it comes in your shoppers’ language.

Set up with AI

Set up for your whole store. In minutes.

Connect your store and the AI does the rest: it reads your products and what your visitors look at, finds the spot on each kind of page, and places the widgets in your store’s look. Nothing changes on your site until you publish.

  1. Connect your store

    Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce, BigCommerce or Shopware. Or your product feed, or we read your product pages.

  2. It reads your store

    Your products, what visitors look at, and your kind of shop, so every algorithm is tuned to it.

  3. Where to show them

    It finds the spot on your home, product and cart pages and places each widget in your store’s look.

  4. Check it, then publish

    Each widget is opened on a real page of yours. See it as a real shopper, then publish.

Or one widget at a time: point and click in the visual editor, start from the template gallery, or ask the AI assistant.

Preview as a visitor

Check it for real people before anyone sees it.

Pick a person and see the widget, the email or the promotion exactly as they would get it — with the reason for every item. No more publishing and hoping.

Preview as
Wireless earbuds in their caseField Earbuds$59Others Who Viewed Also Viewed
Over-ear wireless headphonesOver-Ear Headphones$89Others Who Viewed Also Viewed
A canvas backpack, 25 litresCanvas Backpack 25L$89Others Who Viewed Also Viewed
A mustard knit beanieKnit Beanie, Mustard$45Fallback: Best Sellers

Why the last one? The algorithm found three items for Maya; the fourth slot came from the fallback, Best Sellers.

Nothing to go on: every slot came from the fallback, Best Sellers — the honest worst case for any widget that depends on behaviour.

  1. 1Pick a real person

    Find a visitor or a recipient — or a new visitor, never seen before — and see exactly what they would get.

  2. 2See why each item is there

    Whether the algorithm, a fallback or the filler put each one there, named on every item.

  3. 3In every editor

    Recommendations, promotions, reviews, emails, web push and the AI Product Finder.

How it works

How a recommendation is picked.

From your whole catalog down to the four products a shopper sees — in the order the engine takes them.

  1. 01Your catalog

    In stock, from your catalog. Where it comes from ↑

  2. 02The page’s algorithm

    The one made for the page it sits on, tuned to your kind of shop. Page by page ↑

  3. 03Skip what they own

    Viewed, in the cart, saved or bought: left out.

  4. 04Your rules

    Never these categories, one per brand, a gentle lift.

  5. 05Match the visitor

    What fits this shopper moves to the front. See it below ↓

  6. 06Fallbacks

    Any empty slot is filled.

  7. 07The widget

    Four products — then measured: a purchase within 7 days of a click.

Match the visitor

The algorithm picks for the page. Match the visitor puts what fits them first.

Stack a few match rules on any recommendation widget — brand, size or category from the visitor’s own history, their gender, prices like the ones they look at, where they are — and the products that fit each person move to the front. The algorithm still leads: the rules re-order its own top picks, and never fill the widget with random items.

The visitorA first visit

No history and no known gender yet: every rule comes up empty, so the widget keeps the algorithm’s own order.

The visitorBack for more Northline

Viewed and bought men’s Northline jackets in size M, mostly mid-priced.

The visitorAn Alder regular

Browses women’s coats from Alder in size S, at the premium end.

The rules, in the order you set
  1. 1Brandfrom their own historyGood for electronicsnone yetNorthlineAlder
  2. 2Sizefrom their own historyGood for fashionnone yetMS
  3. 3Genderunisex products match everyoneGood for fashionunknownMen’sWomen’s
  4. 4Price like theirswithin 30% of what they usually look atGood for premium and electronicsnone yetMid-pricePremium
You may also likeSimilar items · The algorithm’s own orderSimilar items · Re-ordered for this visitorSimilar items · Re-ordered for this visitor
Navy sherpa bomber jacket with a cream shearling collar
Sherpa Bomber, NavyNorthlineSizes M–XXLMen’sMid-price↑ from 3rd · priceNo match
Long moss-green down parka with a fur-trimmed hood
Alpine Parka, MossNorthlineSizes XS–XLUnisexPremium= 2nd · brand↓ from 2nd · size
Sherpa bomber jacket in sand with a cream shearling collar
Sherpa Bomber, SandAlderSizes XS–XLUnisexMid-price↓ from 1st · gender↓ from 1st · brand
Long orange down parka with a fur-trimmed hood
Alpine Parka, EmberAlderSizes XS–MWomen’sPremium= 4th↑ from 4th · price

The same rules wherever recommendations run: on your site · in recommendation emails · in the Canvas Builder · in the JSON API & feeds. Also in the panel: products near the visitor first, for local stores, and more in stock first, for merchandising.

How Match the visitor works, with recipes for each kind of site →

Reporting

See what every recommended product earned.

Crowd wisdom and AI pick the products; the report shows what each one did for your bottom line — every widget and every item, from shown to clicked to bought. Nothing hidden.

  1. 1Counted when it is really seen

    Times shown counts an item only when at least two thirds of it was on screen — not merely loaded.

  2. 2A sale follows a click

    A purchase counts for an item when it comes within 7 days of a click on it in that widget, and the widget’s revenue is priced from your catalog.

  3. 3What to do next

    Items shown a lot but rarely clicked, and items clicked well but rarely shown, flagged for you — by widget or by item.

And the rest of your traffic, side by side: website analytics.

More you can do

More you can do with every widget.

Promotions and coupons that pick themselves, products in the emails you already send, a finder that listens — and the test that proves it.

Similar Items (AI)

Matches for a product nobody has viewed

AI reads your titles, brands, descriptions and categories, so a new product has neighbours before its first visitor. Switched on in your catalog settings; it uses AI credits.

One switch for the whole account
AI Product Finder

Shoppers say what they need

A bar at the foot of the page: a visitor types what they need, and the assistant picks products from your catalogue, with a reason for each.

Languages

Every language, one widget

The widget translates its own words — titles, the add to cart button, labels — for every shopper, and your feed carries each language: set it, map its fields, and names and descriptions follow.

One widget for every market you sell in
Notify Me

Back in stock, or cheaper

A button beside Add to Cart: shoppers leave an email address or choose a browser notification, and hear when a sold-out product is back or its price drops.

Save the cart

Their cart, in their inbox

Leaving with a full cart, a shopper sees what is in it and a small form. Leave an email and the cart arrives straight away, ready to finish on any device.

Get Code for Emails

Picks in the emails you already send

Paste a code once into Mailchimp, Klaviyo or any platform: each recipient sees products picked for them, or their own promotion, when they open it.

Promotions

An AI promotion manager

Banners, offers and coupons in one list. Each visitor sees the one they are most likely to take, and it learns from what they click and buy.

Suggest with AI

A promotion for each product

Banners drafted from your catalog — on sale, selling less than last week, overstocked or new — words and picture by AI. None shows until you approve it.

Cart value

A bigger cart, a bigger offer

Show an offer only from — or up to — a cart value, and a bar that counts down to free shipping as the cart fills.

Coupons

Codes made in your store

A unique code for each visitor, made in Shopify, WooCommerce or BigCommerce so checkout takes it — and the orders that used it are read back.

Sales-down boost

When orders drop or stock piles up

While orders trail the same time last week, your sale promotions move up; overstocked products get a boost; a sold-out one pauses until it is back.

Nearest location’s offer

The offer from the nearest store

Each visitor sees the offer valid at the location closest to them, and that store — open now, today’s hours, the distance and directions.

Promotion by email

Their own offer, with their own code

An email with the offer that suits each recipient, from your Promotions, and a code of their own — sent only when one fits them.

A/B test

Put one widget against another

Two algorithms, two designs or a widget against none. New tests ask for 98% confidence and 1,000 sessions before a winner is called — and auto-pick can give the winner all the traffic.

ROI calculator

What could recommendations add?

Put in your own traffic, order value and conversion rate, and see what recommendations could be worth on your store.

In the panel

Recommendations in the panel, screen by screen.

Pick the algorithm, design the widget, check it as a real visitor, then see what it sold — every widget counts its views, its clicks and the purchases within 7 days of a click. Real screens from the panel.

Set up with AISet it upDesignCheckWatch
New campaign in the panel: the Product Recommendations card, with Set it up with AI beside Build it myself
Open full size ↗
Set up with AI

One press: Set it up with AI

On the Product Recommendations card in New campaign: Set it up with AI does your whole store; Build it myself makes one widget.

Set up with AI

Your products, read and checked

From your store, a feed or your own product pages — and checked for what recommendations need: a picture, a name and a link, prices and categories, stock.

Set up with AI

What your visitors look at

Views, adds to cart and purchases from the last day, matched to your catalog.

Set up with AI

The spot on each kind of page

Each widget drawn on a picture of your own page, ready now, to move, restyle or switch off — on a computer and on a phone.

Set up with AI

Ready, before anything is live

Every widget, its page, what it shows today and when it turns personal. Then Publish to staging, and only you see it.

Set it up

From the algorithm to the preview

Pick an algorithm for the page, design the widget — tabs included — and preview it as a real visitor, with the reason for each pick.

Set it up

The algorithms, sorted by the page

Pick the page first — home, category, product, cart, thank-you, search results — and see the algorithms that work there, each with how many products it has data for.

Set it up

Your catalog, checked first

What the campaign needs from it — a picture, a name and a link, the price, the stock — and which products would show up as empty cards.

Set it up

The algorithm, its fallbacks, and what it skips

How the items are chosen, the fallbacks that fill an empty slot, what to leave out — and how many products can be recommended at all.

Set it up

What fits each visitor, first

Brand and size from their own history, gender, a price like theirs — the algorithm still picks the products, the rules put what fits first.

Design

Several recommendations in one widget

A Multi-Recommendation Widget: For you, Similar and Best sellers, each tab with its own algorithm and its own products.

Design

Every template opens in the editor

The widget on the right, its settings on the left — size, colours, what each card shows and in which order. Click any part of the preview to edit it.

Design

Articles have algorithms of their own

For you, new since the last visit, trending and more — and article cards to show them in.

Check

Preview it as any shopper

Pick a real visitor and see the products they would get, with the algorithm behind every slot.

Check

Check it before it goes live 1:14

QA sums up who it reaches and whether it runs, your own page shows which algorithm filled each slot, and the Simulator shows what it would pick for any product or a real visitor.

Check

Revenue the widget brought in

Orders and revenue attributed to the widget, and the funnel behind them: how often it was shown, seen, engaged with, added to the cart and bought from.

Watch

One widget for every page, on Automatic 2:28

It decides by itself on each page — what shoppers view next on a product page, best sellers on a category page, what goes with the cart — and falls back step by step, so it is never empty.

Watch

One specific recommendation, built start to finish 2:31

Bought together on the product page: the catalog and events it runs on, a design, the algorithm and its place on the page — in the real panel.

Watch

What one recommendation earned 1:15

The purchases and revenue it brought and its share of all sales — then each product it showed: how often it was shown, clicked and bought.

Watch

Your products in, with guided setup 2:09

Your store, a product feed, your own site or a file — a quick check before import, then a catalog that keeps itself current.

Watch

What shoppers do, coming in 1:35

Google Tag Manager, your own pages or a line your developer adds — each event checked as it arrives, and past orders uploaded so it starts from what already sold.

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Reading yourstore.com

As a new visitor would see it · about 4 minutes

  • Home page
  • Outerwear
  • Alpine Parka
  • Sale
  • Bag

Waypoint & Co. Done

Only: Recommendations · your plan

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‘You might also like’: picks from what they viewed
For: returning visitorsProduct page
Measure: revenue per visitor
2
Recently viewed on the home page
For: second visitsHome page
Measure: product views per visit
3
Bought together, in the cart
For: shoppers with a parka in the cartCart
Measure: average order value

1‘You might also like’: picks from what they viewed

TodayWith Personyze

Drawn on your own page — for a returning visitor who viewed the Alpine Parka.

— Common questions

Direct answers. No fluff.

The questions teams ask most when evaluating a recommendation engine. Got something else? Bring it to the call.

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What is an ecommerce product recommendation engine?

Software that decides, for each shopper, which products to show — on a product page, in the cart, in an email — from what shoppers like them viewed and bought. Personyze’s ecommerce recommendation engine runs from one tag on your site, with an algorithm for each page, your own rules, and the same picks in your emails and your app — and it learns from every visit.

Which algorithms does Personyze offer?

Leave a widget on Automatic — the first card when you set one up, and where a new widget starts — and it chooses by itself on every page: where shoppers go next on a product page (Viewed Next), the best sellers on a category page, cross-sells for what is in the cart, then personalized picks, what is popular in the visitor’s country and what is trending, with the newest products last, so it is never empty. Or pick All algorithms beside it, or a page, to choose one yourself: predictive and popular ones, crowd wisdom around the product on screen (Viewed Next, Cross-Sells, Similar Items (AI)), the visitor’s own items, what just changed in your catalog, and your own rules.

Does it adapt to my kind of store?

Yes. Personyze reads your catalog, works out what kind of shop it is, and tunes the algorithms to it. In fashion it completes the look: a black hoodie gets matching track pants and sneakers, never twelve more hoodies. In electronics it shows the accessories that fit this exact product, so after a TV come the soundbar and the wall mount. In home and furniture it completes the room in the same style; in beauty, grocery and pet stores it brings a product back when a shopper usually runs out; in sports it keeps to the same activity; and on a blog it leads to the next step on the same topic. It also reads what each product looks like, so a new arrival gets good recommendations the day it is added. Nothing to configure.

Does it work on my platform?

Yes — any website, whatever it is built on: one tag on any platform or custom build, with or without a store connection. Your catalog and your orders then come in four ways. Your store: Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce, BigCommerce or Shopware, connected once by API with your own keys. Products, prices and stock, past orders and customers stay up to date on their own, and it only reads. Your feed or files: The feed you already give Google Shopping or Facebook at its address, a file you upload, files your system drops by SFTP, or the REST API — in CSV, Excel, XML or JSON. We read your site: No feed at all? We visit your product pages and read each product’s name, picture and price. Your orders, online and in-store: Upload past orders — one row per order line — and the engine starts from what already sold together instead of waiting weeks. A recurring feed or SFTP keeps it learning from every sale, in-store included.

How does the widget appear on my site?

As a slider, a grid, a list, a bought-together strip or tabs — under the product, in the cart, on the home page, before, after or inside any element, or as a popup in the centre, a corner or on exit intent. Shoppers add to cart from the widget without leaving the page, and the slider and grid set their own count of cards for desktop, tablet and phone.

How do I set it up?

Your way: ask the AI assistant and it builds the widget, matches your site’s look, places it and checks it on your page; or point and click the spot on your page in the visual editor; or start from the template gallery and describe any change for AI to make. Cards can carry badges, an add-to-cart button and a wishlist heart, and developers can edit the HTML.

Can I control what gets recommended?

Yes. Skip what the visitor is viewing now, has viewed, has in the cart, has saved or has bought; never recommend chosen categories; keep only products on sale, with an image or from chosen categories; write a filter on any catalog field; show one per brand; and nudge the order with gentle boosts — more in stock first, new items, profit margin. Out-of-stock products are never recommended.

How do you handle new products with no history?

Similar Items (AI) reads your titles, brands, descriptions and categories, so a new product has similar items before anyone has viewed it. It is switched on once for the whole account in your catalog settings and uses AI credits. New in Stock shows what arrived since the visitor’s last visit, a widget can boost new items or keep a slot for them, and fallbacks fill a short list.

Does it learn and get better over time?

Yes — it is self-learning. It weighs many signals at once: who the shopper is, what they view, add to cart, save, search for and buy, and where they are. Every round goes into the next build of the lists, clicks lift what works within limits, and an A/B test can hand the winner all the traffic.

How do you measure what recommendations sell?

Per widget and per product: times shown (counted only when at least two thirds of the item was on screen), clicks and the click rate, and purchases — a purchase counts when it follows a click on that item in that widget within 7 days. Revenue is credited per widget, priced from your catalog, and items shown a lot but rarely clicked are flagged for you.

Can I A/B test recommendations?

Yes. Put one widget against another — two algorithms, two designs, or a widget against none. New tests ask for 98% confidence and 1,000 sessions before a winner is called, and with auto-pick on, the winner can get all the tested traffic. More on A/B testing.

Does it work in more than one language?

Yes. The widget translates its own words — titles, the add to cart button, labels — into each shopper’s language automatically, and your catalog feed can carry several languages: set a language and map which feed fields go with it, so names and descriptions show in the shopper’s language too.

Does it work in my mobile app?

Yes. Native product rails in your iOS and Android apps come through our SDK — Product Recs for Apps, the same engine and the same picks as on the web. For anything else — your back end, a kiosk, an email template — the JSON API returns a visitor’s recommended products from one address, by user id, email or the item being viewed.

What about open-time email recommendations?

One HTML snippet goes into the emails you already send, from Mailchimp, Klaviyo or any other platform, and each recipient gets products picked for them at the moment they open it, from what is in stock then. More on open-time emails.

Do you work for content sites without products?

Yes. Articles have algorithms of their own — what readers open next, what readers of this article also read, the most popular in its category, trending reads, content recommended for each reader and more — for publishers, knowledge bases and media sites. See content recommendations.

Does the recommendation engine work with the rest of Personyze?

Yes — it’s one engine shared across the platform. The same recommendations can render inside open-time emails sent through your existing email platform, the visitor signals behind them come from behavioral targeting, and you can A/B test algorithms and placements against each other. One tag, one visitor profile, every channel.

Get started

Your data, putting the right product in front of every shopper — and learning from every sale.

Self-learning recommendations, powered by machine learning on your shoppers’ behaviour: every view, search, cart and order goes into the next build of the picks, so what you show keeps up with what sells.

Free plan available · 30-day money-back · No annual lock-in