Product Rules give merchants deeper control over how Manifest recommends products. You can now boost, filter out, or recommend only specific products for any keyword. This ensures the assistant’s product suggestions always match your business priorities.
Why Product Rules Matter
Product Rules let you shape how Manifest responds to keyword-based searches. Whether you want to highlight certain items, avoid specific collections, or strictly show selected products, this feature gives you full flexibility.
This means more accurate, brand-aligned, and goal-driven product recommendations for your buyers.
Types of Product Rules
1. Boost Products
Highlight specific products so they appear more prominently when a customer searches using the added keywords.
2. Avoid Products / Collections
Hide specific products or collections for selected keywords so they do not appear in the product search results.
3. Recommend Specific Products
Show only the products you select for a keyword.
When this rule is applied, the assistant ignores all other product suggestions and recommends only the items defined in the rule.
Boost & Avoid Products – Two Ways to Configure
For both Boost and Avoid product rules, merchants can choose between two configuration methods:
Selecting Products
Manually choose specific products by using the “Add products” option.Add Custom Instruction
Provide a written instruction to guide the system.
Example: “Avoid shampoo products”, “Boost sulfate-free items”, etc.
The assistant will use these instructions to automatically boost or avoid products during search and recommendations.
How to Add a Product Rule
Navigate to the Manifest Dashboard.
Go to the Training section.
Click on the Products tab.
Scroll to the bottom and locate Product Rule.
Click on Product Rule.
Choose Add New Rule.
Enter a Rule Name and specify Key Search Items (you can add up to 5 keywords).
The same keyword can be used in multiple rules.
If a keyword conflict occurs, an error message will appear.
Choose General Product Search.
Select one of the following:
Boost Products → choose products to boost or add a custom instruction.
Avoid Products → choose products to filter out or add a custom instruction.
For Custom Instruction, describe how the assistant should boost or avoid products. You do not need to select any products here. The system will automatically boost or avoid products based on the instructions you provide.
Select the products you want to include based on your chosen rule type.
OR choose Recommend Specific Products and add the products that should exclusively appear for that keyword.
Click Save.
You can edit or delete any existing rule directly from the Product Rule list, where both options are displayed for each added rule.
Open your website.
Launch the Manifest Assistant.
Search using the added keywords, and the assistant will recommend products according to your rule.
If a merchant adds a rule for the keyword “best sellers”, the assistant will follow the Product Rule first—not the “Best Sellers” settings configured in products tab.
FAQs
1) What happens if two rules have the same keyword?
Manifest will notify you about the conflict and ask you to fix it before saving.
2) What is the difference between “Boost Products” and “Recommend Specific Products”?
Boost Products highlights selected items but still allows other relevant products to appear.
Recommend Specific Products shows only the chosen items for that keyword and ignores all other products.
3) Do Product Rules affect all customer queries?
No. They affect only the keywords you add to the rule.
4) What happens if no rule is matched?
Manifest will use the default product search settings and algorithm.
For further assistance or to raise feature requests related to Product Rule, please contact [email protected].