Product recommendations are considered best practice, but you can also use explicit recommendations if necessary.
If you want to implement product recommendations, see Developer Considerations for Product Recommendations.
If you want to implement explicit recommendations, see the following topics:
| Developer topics regarding explicit recommendations | Description |
|---|---|
| Existing Applications and Explicit Recommendations |
Discusses tradeoffs to consider when choosing between explicit recommendations and product links. |
| General Considerations for Explicit Recommendations |
Discusses issues to consider during the requirements-gathering phase and the design phase. |
| Best Practices for Explicit Recommendations |
Discusses best practices to follow if you want to use explicit recommendations. |
| Business Objects for Explicit Recommendations |
Discusses the Recommendation business object, which is used for all explicit recommendations. Also discusses how you can modify this business object to extend explicit recommendations. |
| Analytics and Reporting for Explicit Recommendations |
Describes how Salesforce B2C Commerce reports on recommendations via pipeline processing reports and system logs. |