Product Discovery Developer Guide
Welcome to our developer guide for Crownpeak's Product Discovery solution.
Introduction
Please make sure to follow the guidance for the product you are integrating with. Your Crownpeak Technical Consultant will make sure to inform you which Product and which of it's Services are enabled for you, as well as the instance and environment you should be using for different requests.
Through this documentation you will learn about:
Real-time catalog integration to get your product data into search, merchandising, and recommendations.
Integrating our tracking platform into your website, configuring activities, and implementing a/b tests.
Embedding XO recommendations into your site.
Implementing search using XO.
We also have best practices guides covering the Tracker, Item Catalogs, and Fredhopper Implementation.
Fredhopper
Our Fredhopper guide covers integrating your data with Fredhopper, front-end integration for merchandising, search and recommendations, implementing our tracking, and our a/b testing framework.
Catalog Data Integration
Your Technical Consultant will advise you on what method to use to integrate your catalog with Fredhopper. Presented here are guides to the different methods.
Items API
The Items API supports streaming of catalog/data updates into Fredhopper
CSV or JSON Files
The Fredhopper Catalog also supports full and incremental file based catalog feeds.
Front-End Integration
Implement Fredhopper Search, Listings, Product Detail Pages, and Recommendations.
Front-End Tracking
To take benefit of advanced features in Fredhopper such as Insights and A/B Testing, you need to implement the Activity tracker.
This guide covers both Fredhopper and XO implementation.
A/B Testing
If you've implemented Fredhopper Insights, you can use A/B testing to try different configurations of your rules, rankings and modifications; to see what performs best.
XO
Our XO guides cover implementing our real-time data integration, recommendations and search.
Catalog Data - Items API
Covers the structure and implementation of real-time catalog data through our items API.
Front-End Tracking
To take benefit of advanced features in XO such as recommendations based on analytics, you need to implement the Activity tracker.
This guide covers both XO and Fredhopper implementation.
XO Recommendations
Covers implementing XO recommendation widgets into your sote, with API guidance and our Chrome extension for testing and validating recommendation results.
XO Search
Covers implementation of the XO search service with API references and examples.
Additional Resources
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