How-to guides

• Migrate to the Retail API

  If you used Recommendations AI in beta, migrate it to the generally available Retail API.

• Switch to the Retail console

  If you used the Recommendations console for Recommendations AI, migrate to the Retail console.

• Before you begin

  Set up your project to use the Retail API.

• Import catalog information

  Learn how to upload catalog items to the Retail API.

• Record real-time user events

  Record user events used to train models.

• Import historical user events

  Import user events used to train models.

• Create serving configurations

  Create a serving configuration for generation recommendations or search results.

• Set up alerts

  Use Google Cloud's operations suite to monitor data upload health.

• Monitor and troubleshoot

  View errors and error logs for data import and Retail API requests.

• Create models

  Create your recommendation model.

• Get recommendations

  Generate recommendations using your model.

• Use recommendations in emails

  Include recommendations in email messages.

• Query and paginate

  Create search requests and paginate your results.

• Adjust result size

  Adjust the size of search results with query expansion and relevance thresholding.

• Filter and order results

  Filter and order search results.

• Boost results

  Boost or bury search results.

• Configure attributes

  Learn about attribute configuration settings.

• Serving control rules

  Learn about serving control rules.

• Create and manage controls

  Create and manage serving controls and site-wide controls.

• Update inventory

  Update inventory-specific fields for Retail Search.

• Update local inventory

  Update local-inventory-specific fields for Retail Search.

• Import completion data

  Import completion data used for auto suggsetion.

• Manage catalog information

  Retrieve, update, and delete catalog items.

• Manage user events

  Import, view, update, and delete user events.

• Manage models

  List, view, and delete models for Recommendations AI.

• Manage controls

  Add, view, edit, and delete controls for Retail Search.

• Manage serving configurations

  Create, view, and delete serving configurations.