Offline and historical orders

To improve recommendations, Episerver can import offline orders. These are customers' purchase-history data from offline sources, such as, phone orders and in-store purchases.

Using offline order data enables the following:

• Recommendations to draw on offline order information when other information is not available.
• Recommendations to draw on a merge of both online and offline data.
• Excluding products from recommendations if those products were already bought offline.

For Episerver to import offline orders, give them in the following XML format that contains the offline orders along with the user who placed each order and the products that were purchased. The following is a sample XML file showing only mandatory elements and attributes:

<orders>
    <order refCode="orderRef" orderDate="2017-04-23T14:25:00 GMT" currency="GBP" total="100.0">
        <user email="customer@email.com"></user>
        <product refCode="ref1" qty="1" price="50.0"></product>
        <product refCode="ref2" qty="2" price="20.0"></product>
    </order>
</orders>

The following is a sample XML file showing all the possible elements and attributes:

<orders>
    <order refCode="orderRef" orderDate="2017-04-23T14:25:00 GMT" currency="GBP" shipping="10.0" subTotal="90.0" total="100.0">
        <user email="customer@email.com"></user>
        <product refCode="ref1" qty="1" price="50.0">
            <attribute key="attr11">value11</attribute>
        </product>
        <product refCode="ref2" qty="2" price="20.0">
            <attribute key="attr21">value21</attribute>
        </product>
        <attribute key="attr1">value1</attribute>
        <attribute key="attr2">value2</attribute>
    </order>
</orders>

Additional topics

• Currency codes

Last updated: May 23, 2018