Smart Layout automatically displays and regularly reorders items based on data.
About this service
Automatically reorder items based on product data
Smart Layout analyzes product data and automatically sorts items by the number of orders/views, conversion rate, click value, and date added.
Automatically display items based on hashtags
You can automatically filter and reorder items based on their hashtags.
This feature is available only to those who subscribe to Shopping Curation.
Change the order of your items based on product data
Set the display conditions and the update time to reorder items based on product data.
Features
1. View all categories
Go to [Smart Layout] and select the categories you wish to switch to the [Auto layout] mode.
You can see the current display status of each category. (Auto layout/Manual layout/Scheduled/Not on display)
Click the display status icon of a category to change its display settings.
In product categories, only products that are included in [Recommended products] and [New products] can be displayed automatically. Select the display mode for [Recommended products] and [New products] in each product category.
You can search for categories by category name.
You can add up to 30 auto layout categories. See the number of categories that are on the [Auto layout] mode at the top-right corner.
2. Auto layout settings
You can adjust the display conditions in [Display conditions] on the left sidebar.
1) Auto layout
Select [ON] for [Auto layout] to enable the following settings.
2) Number of items
You can display up to 200 items in an auto layout category.
Depending on the display conditions, the number of items you set may not be the same as that of items that are actually displayed on your store.
3) Schedule layout
You can apply auto layouts right away or schedule them for later.
The scheduled time must be later than the current time.
3-1. Display based on product data
You can automatically update the product layout based on product data.
1) Sorting order
Sort items by the number of orders/view, conversion rate, click value, and date added.
* If you subscribe to SERA, click [Use real-time data sorting] to set the display conditions based on real-time data collected by SERA.
2) Update time/frequency
Product layouts are updated at 6 a.m. based on data from the previous day.
* If you subscribe to SERA, you can select the update frequency or click on the specific time to update your product layout.
If you select an update frequency and click [Save], the update frequency changes to [Custom] and the selected time is saved.
3) Data range
Select the date range during which you wish to collect data for Smart Layout.
3-2. Display with hashtags
Automatically displays products based on their hashtags.
1) Enter hashtags
You can retrieve and automatically display items by entering their hashtags registered in [Basic information>Hashtags].
2) Sorting order
You can sort items with the same hashtag by number of orders/views, price, and date added.
4. Exclude category
Add categories that you do not wish to display when using the [Auto layout] mode.
Select a category or a subcategory you wish to exclude and click [Add].
You can see the list of excluded categories below the [Add] button. If you wish to remove a category from the list, click the [X] button to its right.
You can choose to either exclude the selected categories from all main categories or only the one you are currently editing by using [Exclude from all categories] and [Exclude from this category].
① Exclude from all categories: The categories you select will be excluded from all main categories (e.g. home categories, product categories, etc.).
② Exclude from this category: The selected categories will only be excluded from the main category you are currently editing.
Select category
Select a category you wish to use on the [Auto layout] mode. You can adjust the settings for [Home categories] and [Product categories] separately.
Click the four-square button to view all categories.
In product categories, only products that are included in [Recommended products] and [New products] can be displayed automatically. Select the display mode for [Recommended products] and [New products] in each product category.
6. Product layout
You can preview how the products will be displayed on the [Auto layout] mode. You cannot manually add/edit/delete products on the [Auto layout] mode.
The update time is displayed at the top-right corner.
The product layout you see using the preview feature may differ from what your store will look like depending on when you save the update time/frequency settings.
Product information is shown on product images. (Selected sorting order/Product code/Product name/Price)
The display settings for out-of-stock products are the same as those configured in [Products>Categories>Product categories].