RecoMelon merchandising controls: ranking, boosts and product visibility

Relevance and merchandising should work together

Purely manual merchandising is difficult to maintain across a large catalogue, while purely algorithmic ranking can ignore commercial context. RecoMelon is designed to combine both.

What can merchandising influence?

Depending on the RecoMelon experience, teams can use product and catalogue priorities to influence visibility while the underlying discovery logic continues to consider relevance.

• Promote strategically important products or ranges.
• Suppress unsuitable products from an experience.
• Account for catalogue availability and market context.
• Shape search, collection and recommendation experiences around commercial priorities.

How this relates to The Index™

The Index™ uses dynamic merchandising so natural-language search can remain responsive to shopper intent while also reflecting the catalogue and commercial priorities defined by the merchant.

How this differs from fixed manual sorting

Fixed sorting applies the same ordering regardless of the shopper's intent. RecoMelon can use merchandising as an input to a contextual discovery decision rather than treating it as the only ranking signal.