Can I control which products are promoted?

RecoMelon separates relevance from commercial influence

Merchants need control over product visibility, but manually forcing products into every recommendation can undermine shopper relevance. RecoMelon treats merchandising priorities as inputs to discovery rather than the only ranking rule.

Common merchandising controls

• Boost: increase the preference for an eligible product or range.
• Suppress: reduce or remove unsuitable products from an experience.
• Contextual priorities: apply commercial or catalogue logic appropriate to a surface, market or campaign.

What a boost should not do

A boost should not make an irrelevant product appear relevant. The objective is to influence ordering within a useful result space while preserving the shopper's underlying intent.

How this works in The Index™

The Index™ can combine natural-language relevance with catalogue and commercial priorities, giving merchandising teams more control than a purely semantic search ranking.

How this works in collections

Dynamic collection merchandising can respect the merchant's grouping logic while adapting product visibility using visual relationships, attributes and commercial context.

Testing merchandising rules

Review representative queries, products and categories before rollout. Watch for rules that improve commercial exposure at the expense of obvious relevance, and use InsightCore™ to evaluate the resulting shopper behaviour.