what do i need to change for the following "scenarios" in regards with the product matching?
1) not group at all any similar products
2) group similar products from the same merchant only
3) a combination of 1 and 2... meaning that no grouping is done unless its from the same merchant
4) group similar products based on "product identifier" -SKU, ISBN etc-
i understand that currently the products are matched when using exactly the same titles but i find myself having various merchants having the same title but different products, for example i occured 3 merchants having the same title ( " test " ) one of them was a book the second was a feminel product and the last one was some sort of drug kit and because i have three sites i want to "implement" a different strategy to each of them to see what fits best...thats why i am asking
thanks!!!
thanks for your swift reply
your answer made me thinking
isnt it better to add some sort of solutions:
1) unique merchant id at the end so you have the following outcome : only merchant similar products are matched and the others not
2) unique category id at the end so you have a more accurate product matching in general?
what do you think? is it doable? (and how plzzz ;-) )
Hi KGP,
Could you perhaps give some examples of how you want the matching to work as I'm afraid I'm not quite sure what you mean. The script should already be comparing identical products from different merchants; it isn't possible to have similar (do you mean identical) products for the same merchant as they product name has to be unique per merchant (this is where you can use Text After / Text Before to make product names more unique)...
Thanks,
David.
Hi KGP,
A merchant having the same title for different products can often be resolved by combining the product name with another field in order to create a more unique product name.
This is a common scenario with clothing merchant feeds; where the product name field might contain "Jumper", but other fields contain the colour and size of the jumper. In this case, the additional fields that provide additional product name resolution can be combined using the Text After / Text Before filters; which accept placeholders in order to bring in the value of other fields in the feed.
For example, if the colour field is COLOUR and the size field is SIZE (exactly as seen in the sample data on Feed Registration Step 2), then you could add a Text After filter to the product name field containing the text:
" %COLOUR% %SIZE%"(without the quotes, but not the SPACE at the start - that's important otherwise there won't be any space between the product name and the colour!)
Grouping by EAN / SKU / ISBN is possible, but only really practical where all your feeds contain such information. The first stage in implementing this is to add an appropriate field to your site so that it can be registered / imported; based on the instructions beginning here:
http://www.pricetapestry.com/node/313#comment-1210
...and then regarding comparison by that field;
http://www.pricetapestry.com/node/775
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
David.