User guide

Use AI Upsell Engine with confidence.

Learn what each part of the app does, when to use it and how to keep recommendations useful as your store grows.

Getting oriented

Your dashboard is the starting point.

After setup, the dashboard gives you a quick view of recommendation activity, influenced orders, attributed revenue and other performance signals available within your plan.

Recommendations

Review how product recommendations are performing and where shoppers are engaging.

Campaigns

Create cart-focused offers and messages that are scoped to the storefront and currency where they belong.

Support

Run Store Health, follow guided diagnostics and contact support with useful context.

Recommendations & FBT

Let real buying patterns lead, with AI helping when history is limited.

AI Upsell Engine blends recommendation sources so a new or low-history product can still have useful coverage. Genuine purchase patterns stay the priority when they are available.

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Product recommendations

Show related items on supported product pages using purchase patterns first, AI product matching when more coverage is needed, and safe fallbacks when appropriate.

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Frequently Bought Together

Help shoppers discover complementary items and add several products more easily. Products that require options such as size or color are handled safely.

Low order history is not a blocker.

Your catalog can still provide useful AI matching while the app learns from eligible multi-product orders over time.

Smart Cart & cart recommendations

Keep the recommendation journey going after add-to-cart.

Smart Cart

Show a focused post-add recommendation experience after a shopper adds a product. You can enable once-per-session behavior so the experience does not repeatedly interrupt the same shopper.

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Cart recommendations

Continue product discovery in supported cart experiences while the app keeps the active storefront and currency context in mind.

Use Settings to control which storefront has the widget installed and whether Smart Cart is enabled for that storefront.

Campaigns & AI Creator

Create targeted cart experiences without leaving the app.

Campaigns let you promote eligible products and offers in the cart. The number of active Campaigns you can run depends on your plan.

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Create the Campaign

Choose the storefront scope, eligible products, offer structure and shopper-facing messaging.

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Review currency behavior

The app checks the active storefront and checkout currency before returning shopper-facing Campaign content.

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Use AI Campaign Creator when useful

Generate Campaign ideas and supported copy from inside the app. AI generation uses the monthly allowance included with your plan.

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Measure the result

Review Campaign engagement and outcome signals, then refine the offer or messaging when needed.

Merchandising & optimization

Automation should follow your merchandising priorities.

Merchandising rules let you promote, exclude or guide products so automated recommendations stay aligned with what you want to sell. Rule limits scale with your plan.

Use rules for control

Guide product selection when you have brand, inventory or merchandising priorities that automation should respect.

Compare strategies

Where available, use supported A/B testing to compare recommendation approaches rather than relying on guesswork.

Apply changes deliberately

Optimization tools are designed around evidence thresholds and explicit controls instead of silently changing important settings.

Analytics & attribution

Look beyond clicks.

Use the analytics views to understand how recommendations and Campaigns contribute to shopper activity. Depending on your plan, you can review recommendation views, engagement, influenced orders, attributed revenue and longer-term trends.

  • Recommendation views count qualifying shopper-facing recommendation impressions.
  • Recognized bots and crawlers are skipped so they do not use your normal shopper allowance.
  • Influenced orders help show when recommendations were part of the shopper journey.
  • Attributed revenue gives you a revenue view tied to the app's attribution logic.
  • Analytics history grows from 30 days on Starter to longer windows on higher plans.
Storefronts & currency

Keep each storefront in the right context.

When you manage more than one BigCommerce storefront, select the storefront you want to work on before changing settings. Plan allowances determine how many storefronts can be active.

Multi-currency behavior

Recommendation and Campaign serving resolves the current storefront and checkout currency where relevant, helping prevent content intended for one storefront or currency from appearing in another.

Settings & AI catalog

Control the storefront experience from Settings.

Use Settings to choose the storefront, install or update the widget, manage recommendation behavior and review the settings available within your current plan.

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AI catalog matching

AI matching analyzes eligible products to help find related items when purchase history is limited. Your plan controls how many products can be analyzed.

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Storefront widget

Install, update or remove the widget per storefront. Normal installation uses BigCommerce Script Manager rather than direct theme-file edits.

Usage & billing

Know what counts toward your plan.

Recommendation views

Qualified shopper-facing recommendation impressions count toward the monthly allowance; recognized automated traffic is skipped.

AI generations

Supported AI creation features share the monthly AI generation allowance included with your plan.

Storefronts, Campaigns & rules

Your active storefront, Campaign and merchandising-rule limits depend on the plan you choose.

Support Center

Start with Store Health when you need help.

Store Health runs a read-only check of your store connection, billing access, selected storefront, widget installation, synced products, AI catalog status and recent sync health.

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Store Health

Generate a support reference you can share with us so you do not need to copy raw technical logs.

Pro support tools

Pro adds Priority AI Support and the Placement & Styling Inspector. AI Support can suggest next steps but does not silently change theme files, billing, Campaigns or storefront settings.