Additional Features¶
Apptus eSales Lifestyle includes several additional features that work across different parts of the system.
Custom prices¶
Supplying custom prices for variants enables displaying visitor specific prices, or showing prices within the same market in different currencies.
It can for example easily be integrated with external currency providers and is suitable for retailers supporting shipping to multiple locations, but not fully supporting different markets. Custom prices are fully compatible with price filtering and sorting, and prices will automatically be updated and rendered in both product listings and in price filters.
If a product lacks price information for a given price id, that product will be omitted from all results where that price id is specified in a request. For example, if searching for jackets with EUR as the price presentation, jackets without a custom price provided in EUR will be omitted from the search result.
For more information about custom prices in the data feed, see the Format Specification.
How to use
The applicable price identifier should be provided as a query parameter. This must match a provided price id in the data feed.
Keeping the state of which price identifiers that are applicable to different clients, such as selected currencies, is assumed to be stored externally.
Ratings¶
Supplying ratings as the standard rating attribute for products in the data feed enables the feature of displaying rating stars in product cards in all product listings.
A product rating is supplied as a value from 0.0 to 5.0. Rating of actual products and score aggregation is assumed to be handled elsewhere, e.g the value to import is the current rating to display.
How to use
Ratings are automatically included in a response to a query if they are present in the data feed.
For more information about ratings in the data feed, see the Format Specification.
Favourites¶
A personal input signal supported by eSales Lifestyle is a visitor's favourite products. Visitors can select and have their favourite products notified to eSales via the API.
How to use
When a visitor select a product as a favourite, send the Add favourite notification. When a visitor removes a favourite, send the Remove favourite notification.
Content¶
Content is a flexible and generic type of data, that can be searched for and ranked according to interest or newness. Typical entities that would be suitable to supply as content are for examples FAQs, magazine entries and inspirational articles.
Apptus eSales Lifestyle uses both user interactions and the provided content data, to determine how to rank content. Furthermore, multiple types of content can be added and used for separate purposes. For example, FAQs could be added as content to search in, while also adding the latest and greatest inspirational articles for presentation on the start page.
How to use
Supply the content items in the data feed.
To create a new separate endpoint for search, e.g. a standalone FAQ search, use the Content Search Page query. Content entities may also be included on the Search Page.
To retrieve content information, or list content according to newness or relevance, use either the Content Information query or the Landing Page query. Some requests require that the content lists to include are specified in the request body through a Page configuration.