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Bestsellers presets surface your top-selling products to every kind of shopper — identified or anonymous, in email, on-site widgets, or personalized blocks. Popularity is scored first by order volume, then by view count as a tiebreaker, so items customers actually buy float to the top. There are three presets to pick from, each tuned for a different placement.

Bestsellers

Site-wide top sellers across your full catalog.

Category bestsellers

Top sellers calculated separately for each category.

Bestsellers from previously viewed categories

Top sellers from the categories a customer browsed in their last session.
See Types of recommendation presets for the details on each preset — refresh cadence, limits, and how they pick products.

How to set it up

1

Open Product Recommendations

Go to Content → Product Recommendations → Create recommendations preset.
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Choose the preset and Click Create

Pick Bestsellers, Category bestsellers, or Bestsellers from previously viewed categories depending on where you’ll show recommendations.
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3

Name the preset and Click Create

Give it a descriptive name (for example, Homepage bestsellers) so you can find it later, then continue.
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4

Configure settings for your chosen preset

Settings vary slightly by preset.Bestsellers
  • Recommend from — optionally restrict the source pool to a product segment. Leave empty to draw from your full catalog.
  • Consider product actions for the past — the time window used to score popularity, between 1 and 180 days. Shorter windows react to current trends; longer windows produce more stable results.
Category bestsellers
  • Recommend from — optionally restrict the source pool to a product segment.
To get recommendations for categories, process Product.Categories.Take(<number of collection items>).Recommendations as a collection.Bestsellers from previously viewed categories

Recommend from — optionally restrict the source pool to a product segment. Leave empty to draw from your full catalog.
  • Recommend from — optionally restrict the source pool to a product segment. Leave empty to draw from your full catalog.
  • **Consider product actions for the past **— the time window used to score popularity, between 1 and 180 days. Shorter windows react to current trends; longer windows produce more stable results.
5

Start the preset

Click Start. The preset appears in your list with its current status and the timestamp of its last update.
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