Testing recommendations

You can test your dynamic offer implementation when you implement Digital Recommendations or dynamic recommendations for the first time.

About this task

If you already are running Digital Recommendations, you can use the same procedure to test new and changed zones, offers, or recommendation plans.

This automated process tests your implementation of Digital Recommendations with real data that is under your production client ID before you launch or change your production website. Using your test site with your test client ID prevents the business reports for the production website from being affected.

Procedure

  1. Log in to Digital Recommendations with your supplied production client ID.
  2. Set up the offers, rules, recommendation plans, and zones that you want to test in Digital Recommendations.
  3. Create the corresponding site zones on a test website.
  4. Ensure that the offers you created run successfully at least one time.

Results

When a request for recommendations is received from your test website by using your test client ID, the system automatically returns recommendations as though they are requested by your production client ID.
Parent topic: Test recommendations