F.A.Q.

No, our automatically generated related products, up-sells, and cross-sells live side by side with your manual recommendations. Automatically generated recommendations supplement your choices only when there are not enough manual items to fill out the number of slots you’ve specified.

Yes, you can specify manual related items, up-sells, or cross-sells in the usual way. These manual recommendations supersede automatically generated recommendations.

Related Products Manager uses hosted special-purpose servers to do an exhaustive analysis of your order, and page view data to find patterns your shoppers’ habits and translate them into product recommendations.

Powering through years of order and page view data requires a lot of processing power — more than a typical Magento server can handle. Instead of slowing down or crashing your Magento server, we use dedicated servers hosted by us to crunch the data. When you update your related products, up-sells, and cross-sells from the Admin panel, Magento sends our servers the information we need to generate results. Those results are then packaged and downloaded by Magento to be used to display related products, up-sells, and cross-sells on product and cart pages.

We try to use as little sensitive information as possible. Only product IDs, order IDs, visitor IDs, page view URLs, category data, and the information needed to tie them together is shared with CommerceStack servers. No personally identifiable information is transmitted. Practically speaking, we could tell you how many orders and visitors you’ve had and how much each item in the order was. We can make a guess as to which products were ordered based on the name of the URL but that’s about the limit of what we know. We never share this information with anyone and we don’t use it for anything but generating recommendations. If you ever want us to delete this data from our servers just send us an email at help@commercestack.com with your API User value.

Yes. All communication is done securely over SSL. No personally identifiable customer information is transferred. We do not track shoppers across sites using cookies.

We host special-purpose servers to do an exhaustive analysis all your page view and order data. These are powerful servers that come with significant ongoing costs. To ensure we can continue to operate the servers we charge a lower monthly fee instead of a high one-time fee.

Just click the Cancel button in the Account section of the Related Products Manager page in your Magento Admin. Your plan will be cancelled at the end of your monthly billing period and you will not be charged again.

Related Products Manager does not have any template functionality. It simply tells the built-in Magento template engine which products it should show in related products, up-sell, and cross-sell widgets. If the template shows up differently after Related Products Manager is installed it usually means that one of the products being shown has a name or description that is too long for the widget. This causes the widget to resize which can move its position on the page. To test this, disable Related Products Manager and then manually assign the same products as related products and view the page. You should see that the layout still appears broken.

Not currently but we are able to customize functionality to meet your needs. Email help@commercestack.com for a quote.

Contact help@commercestack.com with any problems. We’re a small company committed to getting your problem resolved as quickly as we can. Every support email gets handled by an engineer who works on the system.