Product Merchandising in Magento 1 stores

Introduction

Product Merchandising is a feature that allows you to promote specific items or groups of items for search queries using particular rules.

Let’s say you have a store that sells household products, and you want to promote a new product, Chemex Coffeemaker. You can create a promotional rule for this particular product so that it’s always displayed at the top of search results, no matter what a customer searches for.

Besides the particular product, you can also promote a group of product items based on their categories.

Ranking options

Configure Merchandising

Firstly you need to decide what you want to promote: a particular product or a group of products by category.

To configure Merchandising rules, follow these steps:

Products

You can manage the rules of Merchandising for particular products on the Products tab:

• View created rules
• Create new rules
• Edit rules
• Delete rules

Create a rule

1. Go to the Searchanise control panel > Merchandising & Promo > Merchandising section > Products tab.
2. Click the + button in the top-right corner.
3. Find the necessary products using filters.
4. Change the Ranking options in the search results. 
5. Optionally, set up the Date range option.
   
   Note

   The Date range option allows you to set Merchandising rules for a certain period of time. If this setting isn’t active, Merchandising rules for the product will work until you delete them.

6. Save the changes.

   

7. Start the indexation by clicking the link in the top notice or the Force re-indexation button in the Dashboard section.

That’s it. After the indexation is complete, you can go to your storefront if you’d like to make sure the rules work as intended. 

Edit a rule

1. Go to the Searchanise control panel > Merchandising & Promo > Merchandising section > Products tab.
2. Click the Edit merchandising button in the top-right corner.
3. Change the Ranking options in the search results.
4. Optionally, set up the Date range option.
5. Save the changes.
6. Click the Force re-indexation button in the Dashboard section to start indexation.

That’s it. After the indexation is complete, you can go to your storefront if you’d like to make sure the rules work as intended.

Delete a rule

1. Go to the Searchanise control panel > Merchandising & Promo > Merchandising section > Products tab. 
2. Select the rule(-s) you want to delete.
3. Click the Delete selected (…) button.
4. Start the indexation by clicking the link in the top notice or the Force re-indexation button in the Dashboard section.

Clean up all rules

1. Go to the Searchanise control panel > Merchandising & Promo > Merchandising section > Products tab.
2. Select the Select all checkbox in the header of the table.
3. Click the Clean up button and confirm the action.
4. Start the indexation by clicking the link in the top notice or the Force re-indexation button in the Dashboard section.

That’s it. After the indexation is complete, all rules will be deleted and won’t affect the search.

Categories

You can manage the rules of Merchandising for collections on the Categories tab:

• View created rules
• Create new rules
• Edit rules
• Delete rules

Create a rule

1. Go to the Searchanise control panel > Merchandising & Promo > Merchandising section > Categories tab. 
2. Click the + button in the top-right corner.
3. Find the necessary category. You can use a filter if there are too many categories.
4. Change the Ranking options in the search results.
5. Optionally, set up the Date range option.
   Note

   The Date range option allows you to set Merchandising rules for a certain period of time. If this setting isn’t active, Merchandising rules for the product will work until you delete them.

6. Save the changes. 

   

7. Start the indexation by clicking the link in the top notice or the Force re-indexation button in the Dashboard section.

That’s it. After the indexation is complete, you can go to your storefront if you’d like to make sure the rules work as intended.

Edit a rule

1. Go to the Searchanise control panel > Merchandising & Promo > Merchandising section > Categories tab.
2. Click the Edit merchandising button in the top-right corner.
3. Change the Ranking options in the search results.
4. Optionally, set up the Date range option.
5. Save the changes.
6. Start the indexation by clicking the link in the top notice or the Force re-indexation button in the Dashboard section.

That’s it. After the indexation is complete, you can go to your storefront if you’d like to make sure the rules work as intended.

Delete a rule

1. Go to the Searchanise control panel > Merchandising & Promo > Merchandising section > Products tab. 
2. Select the rule(-s) you want to delete.
3. Click the Delete selected (…)button.
4. Start the indexation by clicking the link in the top notice or the Force re-indexation button in the Dashboard section.

Clean up all rules

1. Go to the Searchanise control panel > Merchandising & Promo > Merchandising section > Products tab.
2. Select the Select all checkbox in the header of the table.
3. Click the Clean up button and confirm the action.
4. Start the indexation by clicking the link in the top notice or the Force re-indexation button in the Dashboard section.

That’s it. After the indexation is complete, all rules will be deleted and won’t affect the search.

Export/Import

Export

To export the merchandising rules, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Searchanise control panel > Merchandising & Promo > Merchandising section > Export/Import tab > Export part.
2. Click the Download as CSV button.
3. Choose the directory to save the exported file.

Import

To import the merchandising rules, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Searchanise control panel > Merchandising & Promo > Merchandising section > Export/Import tab > Import part.
2. Select the CSV Delimiter, which is used in the imported CSV file.
3. Click the Choose file button and choose the file for importing.
4. Click the Import button. You can see the imported values in the Products tab.
5. Click the Force re-indexation button in the Dashboard section to start the indexation.

That’s it. After the indexation is complete, you can go to your store and check out how it works in the search results.