120 posts tagged with "Product Experience Manager"

MINOR Text match relevance scores on search results

Search hits now return a breakdown of how their text relevance score was derived, giving merchandisers a window into ranking decisions for debugging and relevance tuning.

What's New?

• text_match_info on each hit - Every hit includes the overall relevance score plus additional signals such as best_field_score, best_field_weight, fields_matched, tokens_matched, num_tokens_dropped, and typo_prefix_score
• Diagnose ranking - Use these signals to understand why one product ranks above another, or to build custom relative metrics for relevance evaluation
• Internal ranking signals, not display metrics - Scores are not normalized to a 0–100 scale and are only comparable within the same result set, so they are intended for debugging rather than shopper-facing "match %" display

For details see:

• Search

MINOR Synonym tuning settings on search profiles

Search profiles now expose a dedicated synonym_settings object so you can control how synonym matches are ranked and resolved at search time, independent of typo tolerance settings.

What's New?

• Demote synonym matches - Set demote_synonym_match to rank results matched via a synonym below direct (non-synonym) matches
• Prefix synonym resolution - Set synonym_resolution_allowed_on_prefix to allow incomplete (prefix) query tokens to resolve to synonyms at every token position
• Typo-tolerant synonym resolution - Set number_of_typos_allowed_when_resolving_synonyms (0, 1, or 2) so misspelled terms can still trigger a synonym expansion; this setting has moved here from typo tolerance

For details see:

• Search Profiles

MINOR Faceting on date fields

Date fields can now be used as facets, so users can filter results by dates such as when a product was created or last updated. Faceting is supported on both core date fields and custom (flow) date fields.

What's New?

• Custom date field faceting - Date-typed custom fields are now facetable, joining the existing string, integer, float, and boolean facet types
• Core date field faceting - Enable faceting on built-in date fields such as created_at and updated_at by setting facetable in core_field_overrides
• Re-index required - A re-index is required for the change to take effect

For details see:

• Indexable Fields

MAJOR A Revamped Product Editing Experience

We've completely redesigned the Product Editor in Commerce Manager, making it faster and easier to manage your catalog with greater clarity and less friction.

What's New?

• Side-by-side editor - The editor opens alongside your product list, so you can select and switch between products without losing your place or disrupting your workflow
• Preserved search & filter criteria - Active search and filter settings are retained as you navigate between products, making bulk review and updates far more efficient
• Global saving - Changes are automatically queued as you work across sections; save everything at once with a single button, or discard to revert to the last saved state
• Streamlined section navigation - Product sections are organized into four clear areas: Product Details, Categorization, Pricing, and Inventory
• Variation navigator - For products with variations, switch between them using the variation selector or expand the product list table to navigate child products directly
• Reorganized layout - The most relevant fields are prioritized up front, less frequently updated fields are read-only by default, and empty fields are hidden to reduce clutter, with a secondary view available when needed
• Integrated custom attributes - Attribute templates are built directly into the Product Details tab, with inline value updates, expand/collapse via the toolbar, and a toggle to hide empty fields
• Improved categorization - Assign products to hierarchies, nodes, or tags with ease, using a secondary pane to search, select multiple nodes at once, and remove them with a single click
• Redesigned pricing tables - Pricing is displayed in a structured table with inline value entry, currency visibility toggles, and tax inclusion mode controls; volume and sale pricing options appear only when in use
• Unified inventory experience - Inventory is organized by location for a clearer view of stock levels, with multi-location support and quantity management consistent with the broader inventory section in Commerce Manager

Explore the new experience today in the Products section of Commerce Manager

MINOR Synonym Sets for Catalog Search

You can now define groups of equivalent or related terms so shoppers find products regardless of the exact wording they use.

What's New?

• Manage synonym sets - Create, list, retrieve, update, and delete named synonym sets, scoped to an organization or a store
• Multi-way and one-way synonyms - Treat terms as fully equivalent (sneakers, trainers, running shoes) or map a root term (fruit) to its synonyms (apple, mango, peach) in one direction only
• Attach to search profiles - Reference synonym sets from a search profile's synonym_sets attribute so they apply at search time, with locale and symbol-indexing options per item

For details see:

• Synonym Sets
• Search Profiles

MINOR Stopword Sets for Catalog Search

Define sets of common, low-value words (such as "the", "a", "an", "is") to ignore during search so results stay relevant and free of noise.

What's New?

• Manage stopword sets - Create, list, retrieve, update, and delete stopword sets, scoped to an organization or a store
• Per-locale sets - Maintain one stopword set per locale, with a default set for unspecified locales
• Asynchronous sync - Track each set's sync status (pending_sync, synced, sync_failed) directly in API responses

For details see:

• Stopword Sets

MINOR Handling typographical errors (misspellings) and prefix matching for search profiles

Search profiles now expose fine-grained control over how forgiving and predictive matching is, both at the profile level and per field.

What's New?

• Typo tolerance - Configure typo correction with number of typos (misspellings), length thresholds, token-dropping behavior, split/join handling, and synonym typo resolution
• Prefix matching - Treat the last query token as a prefix so results appear as shoppers type (for example, "red app" matches "red apple"), with a profile-level default and per-field overrides
• Per-field overrides - Override num_typos and prefix on individual fields in your field weight configuration

For details see:

• Search Profiles

MINOR Stemming and tokenization controls for indexable fields

Indexable Fields can now fine-tune how text is analyzed, improving recall for descriptive content and giving you control over how terms containing special characters are indexed.

What's New?

• Stemming - Enable Snowball stemming per field so a search for "running" also matches "run" or "runs" on both custom and core fields
• Token separators and symbols to index - Control how text is split into tokens and which special characters are preserved, at the collection level or per field
• Core field overrides - Apply stemming, tokenization, and sorting settings to built-in fields like name, description, and sku using core_field_overrides

For details see:

• Indexable Fields

MINOR Planned changes to pagination on some endpoints to align closer with the platform standard.

We're planning to introduce some minor changes to the way pagination works on some endpoints on or after 1st September 2026. We do not expect these changes to cause problems with existing customer implementations in most cases but are announcing in advance as there is a slim possibility that this may be a breaking change for some.

The following endpoints will be affected:

GET /pcm/products
GET /pcm/products/{productID}/children
GET /pcm/products/{productID}/nodes
GET /pcm/products/{productID}/custom-relationships
GET /pcm/products/{productID}/custom-relationships/{customRelationshipSlug}/products
GET /pcm/hierarchies
GET /pcm/hierarchies/nodes
GET /pcm/hierarchies/{hierarchyID}/nodes
GET /pcm/hierarchies/{hierarchyID}/children
GET /pcm/hierarchies/{hierarchyID}/nodes/{nodeID}/children
GET /pcm/hierarchies/{hierarchyID}/nodes/{nodeID}/products
GET /pcm/custom-relationships

For more details see: Product Pagination

MAJOR Catalog Search - Built-in Search for Your Storefront

Elastic Path now includes Catalog Search, a fully integrated search service that provides fast, relevant product discovery for your storefront. Search is built directly into Elastic Path Commerce Cloud and your catalogs, eliminating the need for third-party search vendors and complex integration work.

What's New?

• Store search enablement - Enable search for your store or organization and go live without configuring a separate search provider.
• Automatic catalog indexing - When you publish a catalog, products are automatically indexed and become searchable. Multiple catalogs (e.g., live and pre-live) can be indexed simultaneously, with catalog rules and shopper context controlling which catalog a shopper searches.
• Configurable searchable attributes - Control which product fields drive search results, including product name, description, SKU, and custom extended attributes from your templates.
• Faceted search and filtering - Shoppers can filter results by categories, attributes, price ranges, and more. Configure which attributes are facetable to power your filtering UI.
• Sorting - Sort search results by relevance, price, or custom attributes.
• Typeahead and keyword search - Provide instant suggestions as shoppers type, guiding them toward the right products and categories.
• Search profiles - Create different search behaviors for different use cases. Weight fields differently (e.g., emphasize size and material for rugs, finish and style for lighting), apply filters, and configure boost rules.
• Query boosting - Promote or demote products based on categories, tags, or attribute values. Boost seasonal collections, featured products, or sale items to the top of results.
• InstantSearch.js adapter - Integrate search into your storefront using the popular InstantSearch.js library with our adapter package.

For details see:

• Catalog Search Overview - Enable search for your store
• Indexing - Configure searchable attributes
• Profiles - Set up search profiles and boosting rules
• Setting Up Catalog Search (API) - API-based configuration
• InstantSearch Adapter - Build search UIs with InstantSearch.js

MINOR Catalog Delta Files for AI Product Feeds

Elastic Path now supports using Catalog Delta Files as a direct data source for OpenAI Product Feeds, enabling near real-time synchronization of product changes into AI-powered search, discovery, and agent workflows.

What's New?

• Delta files as AI ingestion source - Catalog Delta Files can now be used as an official feed input for OpenAI Product Feeds to support AI search, recommendations, and shopper agents.
• Change-based updates only - Delta files include only created, updated, and deleted products, eliminating the need for full catalog re-ingestion.
• Automatic generation on publish - Delta files are produced automatically during full and incremental catalog publish events.
• Optimized for AI pipelines - Reduced ingestion cost, faster update cycles, and improved data freshness for AI-driven experiences.
• Supports full product lifecycle changes - Includes updates to attributes, availability, pricing references, and product deletions.

For details see:

• Using Catalog Delta Files

MINOR Catalog Rules Now Support Account Tags

Catalog rules can now target accounts based on their tags, enabling flexible tag-based segmentation for B2B scenarios. Use the new account_tag_ids field to apply catalog rules to groups of accounts sharing common tags (e.g., "enterprise", "premium", "beta-testers").

What's New?

• Target account groups by tags instead of managing individual account lists in rules.
• Simplify management of pricing tiers, regional catalogs, and beta programs through tag-based segmentation.

For details see:

• Configure Shopper Catalog Rules
• Price Segmentation Guide
• Account Tags in Commerce Manager
• Account Tags API

MINOR Enhanced Date Parsing with Locale Support in PXM Product Import

We've added locale-aware date parsing to Product Template Date fields in PXM Product Import, reducing import failures and improving data accuracy by interpreting dates using region-specific formats.

What's New?

• Commerce Manager automatically detects your browser's locale and applies it to product import requests.
• API supports locale query parameter for en-US, en-GB, and en-CA date formats.
• Unsupported date formats fall back to default parsing, ensuring your imports continue to work.

See Product Import

MAJOR Semantic Search Service

• Neural Query Understanding: Integrated NLP-based entity and intent recognition to extract product attributes, use cases, and category signals from user queries.
• Dynamic Faceted Filtering: User-configurable facets with real-time filtering across vectorized results.
• Synonym Expansion Engine: Per-tenant synonym sets influence both keyword and vector searches for better semantic matching.

MINOR In Product Experience Manager (PXM), merchandisers can now gain greater control over Dynamic Bundles by configuring minimum and maximum purchase quantities for product options; for example, this makes it easier to design flexible curation boxes where customers can select their desired amounts of each included item.

See Dynamic Bundles.

MAJOR 🚀 A Revamped Hierarchies & Nodes Experience.

We've completely redesigned the Hierarchies & Nodes experience in Commerce Manager, making it easier and more efficient to organize, group, and manage your products into hierarchies.

What's new?

• Powerful search – Quickly find nodes without manually browsing the hierarchy.
• New table view – A familiar file-system-like structure for easier node management.
• Hierarchy indicators – Instantly see if a node has children while browsing.
• Two-pane layout – Browse the hierarchy and edit nodes side by side.
• Deep links to product list page – Jump directly to product lists for maximum efficiency.
• Custom attributes – Store additional metadata for hierarchies, nodes, and pricing.
• View preferences – Customize how you interact with the hierarchy.
• Fresh visual design – A modern, streamlined interface for better usability.

🔎 Explore the new experience now in the "Hierarchies" section under "Merchandise" in Commerce Manager.

MINOR Improved List Pages. We've enhanced the table functionality on our list pages with the following:

• Select which headers show on the table with customizable headers
• View up to 100 items on the page
• Hover over dates to see the date and time details for your location's time zone as well as UTC time zone
• Dynamic search that shows all results with related terms
• Select filters and bookmark the page to return and view the page with selected filters again.

We are making similar changes on list pages across Commerce Manager in the upcoming days.

MINOR In Product Experience Manager (PXM), we have introduced an endpoint to list all nodes across all hierarchies.

See Get all nodes.

MINOR In Product Experience Manager (PXM), we have introduced breadcrumbs to hierarchies and nodes. Breadcrumbs display an ordered list of parent node IDs, slugs, and names (including locales).

MINOR In Product Experience Manager (PXM), we have introduced an endpoint to manage relationships between hierarchies and root nodes. This endpoint can be used to set sort order values for root nodes.

See Create relationships between a hierarchy and child nodes.

MAJOR In Product Experience Manager (PXM), we have introduced a new feature to allow stock to be managed in multiple locations

Multi-location inventories allow more flexibility in managing stock which enables scenarios such as Buy Online, Pick Up In-Store. This change has changed the format of requests and responses to the inventories service and to avoid any breaking changes has not been applied to existing stores that use this service.

For more information, see Multi-location Inventory API

MAJOR In Product Experience Manager (PXM), we have introduced Custom Relationships. Known as Product Relationships in Commerce Manager.

Custom Relationships enable merchandisers to link products in ways that strategically enhance the shopping experience. For example, you can establish connections between cross-sell items, suggest upsells, or create themed collections tailored to specific customer interests. Custom relationships can be configured as either bi-directional or uni-directional, offering flexibility in how products relate to each other. These relationships are easily managed through Commerce Manager and the PXM API.

See Custom Relationships.

MAJOR In Product Experience Manager (PXM), we have extended Custom Attributes support for Hierarchies and Nodes.

Custom attributes in (PXM) offer a powerful way to store additional metadata for hierarchies, nodes, and prices. These attributes, structured as key-value pairs, enhance flexibility by enabling businesses to tailor data for both internal operations and customer-facing catalogs.

See Custom Attributes.

MAJOR We have introduced the ability to "deep link" in Commerce Manager

We have improved the way we handle organization and store switching. We now have the organization and/or store id stored the url, so you can easily share the url with others and they will be taken to the same organization and store you were in when you copied the url.

You can now have multiple tabs/windows open in your browser and switch between organizations and stores without having to worry about losing your state.

This does mean any bookmarks you have for say https://euwest.cm.elasticpath.com/products will no longer work as expected because it doesn't have the store/organization id in the url. You should instead be redirected to the store selection page and once you select the store you will be taken to the correct page.

MINOR In Product Experience Manager, we have removed the manage_stock field from the response for the Get all Products in a shopper catalog endpoint. This field is still displayed in legacy catalog responses. For more information, see Get all Products in a Shopper Catalog.

MINOR You can now obtain details of component products of configured bundles when making an Add Product to Cart request. For more information, see Including Resources.

MINOR The Price Book Import API now supports importing price custom attributes. You can add custom attributes to a product price, allowing your storefront to dynamically use these attributes in it's pricing and display logic. For more information, see Import a price book and prices.

MINOR Variations and variation options are now exposed in the responses for the following endpoints:

• Get a products in the Shopper catalog API. See Get a Product.
• Get a Product in the Products API. See Get a Product.

This enables you to see the variation options a child product represents.

MINOR You can now extend product prices by adding custom attributes to a product price. This enables you to optimize your pricing data, enhancing your ability to respond to market dynamics and customer preferences. For more information, see Add a product price to a price book.

MINOR A new Get all Prices endpoint allows you to retrieve all prices for a product, irrespective of the different price books that include that product's price. For example, you can filter for all prices for a specified sku, or filter for all prices changed before or after a given date. This will retrieve prices from all price books. For more information, see Get all product prices.

MINOR Commerce Manager: A new and improved Bundle Builder is available. The new bundle builder features an upgraded visual design, making it easier to use and more intuitive, with a smoother interface that simplifies the bundle creation process. For more information, see Creating Bundles.

MINOR Commerce Manager: Improved account search functionality to enable more effective filtering by name, legal name, registration ID, and external reference. For more information, see Searching Accounts.

MINOR The following endpoints now support beta filtering.

• Get all price books
• Get all prices in a price book
• Get all price modifiers

Beta filtering uses a new syntax that is an evolution of the original syntax, allowing more characters and formats. For more information, see Beta filtering.

MINOR We have improved the application of cart-level promotions to ensure accurate discount distributions, addressing issues where discounts were incorrectly redistributed in certain situations involving exclusions.

MINOR We have added the capability to configure the storage of null values in Custom API Entries. For more information, see Null Values.

MINOR On October 18, 2022, we notified customers that the bundle_configuration object was misspelled as bundle_configuation in the cart, cart items, and order items, and has been deprecated. We recommend using bundle_configuration to create bundle configurations.

MINOR In Product Experience Manager, a new endpoint Get all nodes in a hierarchy, retrieves all nodes in a hierarchy, including both parent and child nodes. For more information, see Get all nodes in a hierarchy.

MINOR The Configure a Shopper Bundle endpoint now supports using the include parameter to retrieve key attribute data for the products in a product bundle. This is useful because, when your shoppers select the products in the bundle that they want to purchase in your storefront, you can then display all the relevant product information to your shoppers. See Configure a Shopper Bundle.

MINOR You can now configure the expiry time of Account Management Authentication Tokens to implement an idle timeout feature. For more information, see Implementing Idle Timeout.

MINOR We have Introduced a new eCommerce Admin role with capabilities for PXM, promotions, orders and account management. For more information, see Store Roles.

MINOR We have introduced support for float field types in Commerce Extensions to support your business needs. For more information, see Custom Fields.

MINOR We have added events for Custom API entries. You can integrate Commerce Extensions with your external systems by observing the appropriate events. For more information, see Custom API Entries.

MINOR Shoppers can now select a bundle that has a default list of products. Shoppers can choose to have all the default products, keep some of the default products or change the default products completely. This is useful, for example, if you want a new addition fragrance in a fragrance bundle to appear as the default option. For more information, see Dynamic Bundles.

MINOR Commerce Manager: You can now add and edit nodes using the new Nodes view in Commerce Manager, enabling easier management of your nodes. For more information, see Creating Parent/Child Nodes.

MAJOR We have introduced a new feature, called Promotions Builder, powered by our Rule Promotion engine. This feature offers you the flexibility in providing diverse discounts to shoppers, supporting discounts of varying complexities, ranging from code-based customer discounts to Buy X Get Y discounts, fixed price promotions, cart fixed discount, and many more based on your business needs. Moreover, it is compatible with our existing legacy promotions capability, ensuring a smooth transition to the new Promotions Builder. For more information, see Promotions Builder in Commerce Manager. To create promotions using API, see Rule Promotions. To apply Rule Promotions API in carts and orders, you must enable the use_rule_promotion field in Cart Settings.

MINOR The Get all Products and Get all Promotions endpoints now support beta filtering. The new syntax is an evolution of the original syntax, and allows more characters and formats. For more information, see Beta Filtering.

MAJOR You can now use product tags to store or assign a key word against a product or service that you sell in your store. For example, you could tag the products that you sell by color. This allows your shoppers to search your products by color, enabling them to quickly find what they are looking for, increasing the likelihood of a purchase, and boosting conversion rates. For more information, see Product Tags.

MINOR A new count attribute maintains the published release count of catalogs in the catalogs Release object. For more information, see Catalog Releases.

MINOR The product locale description character limit is now 7600 characters. For more information, see Create a Product.