Integration Guide

October 4, 2021

Integration Guide

E-commerce Site Analysis

The first step toward an effective DataSource integration is to identify how content is used throughout your e-commerce site.

We recommend the following uses.

  1. Product Detail Page
  2. Category Navigation
  3. Faceted Search
  4. Natural Search
  5. Search Results Page
  6. Product Comparisons

A) Product Detail Page

An ecommerce product detail page will include high-quality images, a qualitative product description, a list of specifications, product videos, features and product comparisons.

We recommend the following content use on your product pages.

  • Product Images (Primary Image with the Image Gallery)
  • Brand Logo
  • Logo Programs
  • Title / Description
  • Rich Content:
    • Marketing Text
    • Key Selling Points
    • Product Features
    • What’s in the box?
    • PDFs
    • Videos
    • Media Gallery
    • 360° Spin and Flash Tour
    • Hotspots
    • Compare Tables
  • Main Specifications
  • Extended Specifications
  • Accessories / Warranties

B) Category Navigation

DataSource SKU categorization provides a flexible, ecommerce-oriented hierarchy of classes and categories that you may use to enable customers to browse your catalog by category.

The comprehensive list of DataSource product categories includes information technology, consumer electronics, appliances, photo equipment, office products, toys, etc.

DataSource provides an advanced ecommerce-friendly 5-level alternative categorization.

Categorization Structure

If you define your own category structure we can help you align our categorization with your unique taxonomy.

C) Faceted Search

Searchable Attributes is a set of granular product attributes that enable faceted search functionality and custom sub-categorization of products for easy filtering. Customers
specify product characteristics which narrows the choice of products. Faceted search should never return an empty search result.

DataSource provides the information on what attributes are recommended for parametric search and comparison, what is the optimum display order and the value ranges for numeric attributes as memory or diagonal size.

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D) Natural Search

Searchable Attributes are ideal building blocks for both natural language and parametric search. The Searchable Attributes provide a powerful basis for natural language search because the result set only includes products that contain
the specified attribute or value. Compared to typical natural language searches that scan marketing texts, attribute-based searches have higher relevancy.

E) Search Results Page

Thumbnail Images and Product Titles / Product Descriptions enable customers to further refine search facets, select products for comparison and drill down into product detail pages.

F) Product Comparisons

Searchable Attributes or Specifications both support very targeted product comparisons. Products in the same category are described by the same attributes, so it is easy to display two or more products side by side to provide quick
feature comparison.