Getting started

Welcome to AB Tasty Commerce. Commerce brings catalog management, ranking rules, recommendations, merchandising, and search together in a single app. This page mirrors the in-app Get started onboarding so you can go from an empty account to a live, data-driven catalog.

What changed: Commerce is the successor to the former Recommendations & Merchandising and Search products. The underlying concepts (strategies, rules, ranking blocks, RECO/MERCH ids) are the same, they are now unified under one Commerce app and navigation.

The Getting started checklist

The onboarding screen presents a checklist organized into three groups. Each group shows its own progress (for example, 0/3 or 2/2 completed). Work through them top to bottom.

1. Connect your catalog

Bring your products into Commerce. This group has three steps:

Step	What you do
Connect catalog source	Choose where your product data comes from (see below).
Set catalog basics	Define the core settings for how your source catalog is imported.
Import your catalog fields	Map the product fields you want available for rules, filters, and strategies.

Once your catalog source is connected and the first synchronization completes, your products appear under Catalog (the header shows the product count and the last update, for example "Last update: about 8 hours ago from Shopify").

2. Unleash algorithmic power

Feed performance data into Commerce so the ranking algorithms can use real metrics such as views, purchases, and revenue:

Step	What you do
Connect analytics source	Link your analytics tool.
Enrich catalog with analytics data	Attach behavioral metrics (for example pageviews_last_30_days, revenues_last_30_days) to your products.

3. Unleash personalization power

Enable the front-end signals that make recommendations and merchandising personal:

Step	What you do
Install JS tag	Add the AB Tasty tag to your site so visitor events are collected.
Set visitor context variables	Define the dynamic context (such as page type, category, viewed items) passed to your strategies.

Groups can be completed in any order, but connecting the catalog first is recommended, most other steps build on the products it imports.