Install and Configure Recommendations

Deploying Product Recommendations to your storefront requires that you install, configure, then create the recommendations in the Admin UI.

Install Product Recommendations

Install the magento/product-recommendations module with Composer:

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   composer require magento/product-recommendations

The magento/product-recommendations module requires the following dependencies:

• data-services — This module enables behavioral data collection by tracking user events on the page. This type of data is required by Adobe Sensei to compute product affinities based on production shopper behavior like product views, products added to a cart, and checkouts. Adobe Sensei then uses this information to create and train machine learning models for each website and store view. This unlocks recommendation types like “Customers who viewed this, also viewed…”, which automatically adjusts with shopper behavior over time. Magento and Adobe Sensei do not collect personally identifiable information.

• saas-export — This module syncs catalog data. This type of data provides product information to the Product Recommendations service so it can accurately return product names, pricing, images, URLs, inventory and availability, and other attributes.

  If you prefer, you can install the above modules explicitly using Composer: composer require magento/data-services and composer require magento/saas-export

Update your Product Recommendations installation

Like all of Magento, Product Recommendations uses Composer for installation and updates. To update the magento/product-recommendations module, run the following:

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composer update magento/product-recommendations --with-dependencies

If you need to update to a major version, such as from 1.0 to 2.0, you need to edit your project’s root composer.json file. For example, let’s open the main composer.json file and search for the magento/product-recommendations module:

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"require": {
    ...
    "magento/product-recommendations": "^1.0",
    ...
}

Let’s bump the major version from 1.0 to 2.0:

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"require": {
    ...
    "magento/product-recommendations": "^2.0",
    ...
}

Save the the composer.json file and run:

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composer update magento/product-recommendations --with-dependencies

Uninstall Product Recommendations

If needed, you can uninstall the product-recommendations module.

Configure Product Recommendations

After you install the magento/product-recommendations module, you must configure the module by specifying the API Key and selecting a SaaS Environment.

To ensure catalog export is running correctly, confirm that the cron jobs and the indexers are running and the Product Feed indexer is set to Update by Schedule.

When you successfully link to Magento Services through the API key and specify the SaaS Environment, the catalog sync initiates and behavioral data collection begins on your storefront.