Many websites require to filter the result of recommendation algorithms, in order to increase the relevancy (and impact) of their recommendation banners.
Some filters are natively included in all ABTasty’s recommendation algorithms: the API cannot return a product that is flagged as unavailable or inactive in the product feed.
Many additional filters can be set directly in the platform.
You will find below a selection of the most used filters, by strategy.
Most popular filters
Filter name
Description
Strategies
Objective
Type
Promotions filter
Include or exclude items in promotion → depending on period of the year and pages
ALL
Boosting Conversion Rates
Items exclusion
Items inclusion
Ratings & reviews filter
Including in recommendation only items with a rating higher than 4/5 (depending on accessibility of ratings and reviews data feed)
ALL
Boosting Cart additions
Boosting Average Order Value
Items inclusion
Brand filters
Including in priority items from specific brand(s) or same brand as the input item
ALL
Increasing relevance
Items inclusion
Custom availability filters
Including in recommendation items available at specific stores (or marketplace etc.)
ALL
Increasing relevance
Items inclusion
Exclude (bought, cart, viewed) user items
Excluding from recommendation results items which have already been bought (or added to cart, or viewed) recently by the user
ALL
Increasing relevance
Items exclusion
Selected options filters
Exclude from recommandtion results items with less than XX options available in stock
ALL
Increasing relevance
Items exclusion
Exclude free items
Excluding from recommendation results gift cards, special packaging, or other “free items” that may be part of the catalog
ALL
Cleaning recos
Items exclusion
Exclude trash items
Exclude from recommendations items with no image or incomplete price or title or description or url
ALL
Cleaning recos
Items exclusion
Higher price filter
Including in recommendation only items with a price higher than a given threshold or higher than the input item’s price (for example, on product pages, showing only higher prices items)
Product page
Boosting Conversion Rates
Items inclusion
Same (sub)category filter
Including in recommendation results only items with the same category (or subcategory, or product type…) as the input item (viewing item, item added to the cart, cart item,…)
Product page
Increasing relevance
Items inclusion
Different category filter
Exclude from recommendations items from the same category, in order to promote cross-navigation
Category page
Boosting Average Order Value
Items exclusion
Lower price filter
Including in recommendation only items with a price lower than a given threshold or lower than the input item’s price (for example, on cart pages, showing only lower prices items)
Cart page
Boosting Average Order Value
Items inclusion