Luigi's Box

Luigi's Box is a set of e-commerce tools that help you to increase your sales by upgrading the shopping experience. We use Luigi's Box to provide a better and personalized search experience in autocomplete and search results, including product filter on the search results page. We also provide users with personalized recommended products on homepage, product detail and in the basket and basket popup window. More information about Luigi's Box can be found on their website or in their documentation.

  • autocomplete does not include the number of found entities as Luigi's Box does not provide this information
  • search filter (e.g., price range) is limited by already selected filters

Installation

You can find installation steps on the GitHub page of our package. If you use the default Shopsys Platform installation, the package is already enabled by default.

Search providers implementation

With the implementation of Luigi's Box, we have introduced search providers for easier switching between search implementations.

There is abstract class SearchResultsProvider that needs to be implemented for each search provider and provides functionality for enabling and disabling the search provider on specific domains. This enables you to use different search providers for different domains, that could be helpful for A/B testing or for different approach on B2B and B2C domains.

Next, you need to use one of the existing search result provider interfaces:

  • ArticlesSearchResultsProviderInterface
  • BrandSearchResultsProviderInterface
  • CategoriesSearchResultsProviderInterface
  • ProductSearchResultsProviderInterface

Last you need to define your new provider in services.yaml and set priority of the provider.

Shopsys\LuigisBoxBundle\Model\Product\ProductSearchResultsProvider:
    arguments:
        $enabledDomainIds: '%env(LUIGIS_BOX_ENABLED_DOMAIN_IDS)%'
    tags:
        - { name: 'shopsys.frontend_api.products_search_results_provider', priority: 100 }

The first provider of each type with the highest priority that is enabled on the domain will be used.

Filters (facets) setting

Filtering functionality in Luigi's Box is provided via facets. These provide filtering options and number of results for each option. Luigi's Box support needs to set them up for you to make filters work correctly. By default, these facets are used:

  • availability_rank_text
  • brand
  • labels
  • price_amount

Parametric filter

Parametric filter uses Luigi's Box AI for suggesting the best filter options for the user based on filtered products. You can read more about this in Luigi's Box docs.

Luigi's Box uses data provided by searching and GTM to analyze user behavior and thanks to that provides personalized product recommendations. These recommendations are displayed on the homepage, product detail, and in the basket and basket popup window.