Balance Factors

Balance factors are used to help rank products based on scores, these can be related to price, sales, stock, age and usually an assortment of balance factors are applied to a page to rank the products according to different priorities for example, high price and high stock.

What are the default types of Balance Factors?

• Weighted Availability - combiniation between
• High Margin
• Stock Coverage
• On sale
• Full Price products
• Newest products
• high stock
• Low stock
• Low price
• High Price
• Largest Saving
• Most Views
• Most Sales
• Top Seller Value
• Alphabetical
• Stock Availability

These are all available by default in Remarkable Commerce Manager, to add one of these balance factors to be applied on your pages. Click add a new balance factor and pick it from the drop down list.

How to apply Balance Factors

Each balance factor has a score from 0 to 100, this score is then multiplied by the weighting. Each balance factor is then added together to give an overall score for that product. The site will then rank by these. Therefore it doesn’t make any mathematical difference if they add up to 100% or not. If you have four balance factors, for example, and you wanted them all to be of equal weight you could give them each a score of 25%. But this would have the same end result as if you gave them a score of 100% each, the only difference is that the score would be higher on the 100% example but the relative position would remain the same.

How to add a new balance factor?

1. Go to the merchandising module
2. Select Advanced > Balance Factors.
3. Click Add New Balance Factor.
4. Select Custom.
5. Add a factor name and description.
6. Select the Match field that the balance factor is looking in, then the specific Value.
7. Then select the operator, selecting from equal to, contains, greater than and less than.
8. Then click Save.

An Example To make a balance factor to rank socks at the top of an accessories page. The Match field would be Merch Pages and the value # would be #socks. The operator would be contains. So it is saying look on the merchandised page for the value socks. The balance factor could then be applied to the accessories page and set to 100, then the socks would show first.

Negative balance factors

We've added the ability to dampen certain balance factors so products can be pushed to the bottom instead of the top.