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Personalised commerce on Crystallize

One catalogue. A different store for every shopper.

Photo Store re-arranges every page for the person looking at it — using nothing but what they have bought. No segments to maintain, no rules per customer, no black box.

Same store, same moment — the front page for each shopper.

350products, one catalogue
0segments or rules per customer
7places in the store that personalise
Instantre-ranking, inside search itself

The idea in one picture

Products have a taste profile.
So do shoppers.

You know the idea from music streaming: the app learns your taste and plays more of what fits. Photo Store does the same for a catalogue. Every product is described by what it is and who it is for, every shopper builds a profile in the same words, and the store puts the best matches first.

Match
What they share
1

Describe products once

Tag what a product is — and who it's for.

The tags your team already keeps in the product catalogue become its taste profile. Nothing else to maintain.

  • Three lenses. Which brand and camera system it belongs to, what people use it for, and what kind of gear it is.
  • Order matters. A Tamron lens made for Nikon is mostly Tamron, but also a little bit Nikon — so a Nikon shooter still finds it.
  • "Fits anything" stays neutral. A tripod that works with every camera doesn't pull every accessory buyer towards every tripod.
2

Shoppers profile themselves

Every purchase teaches the store a little more.

The profile is built from real orders in Crystallize. No surveys, no guesswork, and nothing about the customer is hard-coded.

  • Recent counts more. What someone bought last month says more than what they bought two years ago.
  • Big decisions count more. A £5,000 lens says more about a photographer than a memory card.
  • It keeps learning. Place an order and the next page already knows.

What they bought

becomes
3

Match

The best matches rise to the top.

For every page, the whole catalogue is lined up against the shopper's profile. The more a product has in common with them, the higher it goes.

  • Across all three lenses at once. Right brand and right use beats either one alone.
  • Never the wrong system. A Nikon photographer isn't shown lenses that don't fit their camera.
  • Inside search itself. No separate recommendation engine, no overnight job — it happens as the page loads.
4

Your rules stay in charge

Taste is one ingredient. You decide the mix.

Next to the shopper's taste sit the things a merchandiser cares about: what sells, what earns, what's in stock, what's on campaign and what's new. Every page gets its own blend.

  • Drag the slider. All the way left and everyone sees the same bestseller shelf. All the way right and the shopper's taste leads.
  • Instant. Merchandisers tune it live in the store and watch every page re-order as they drag.
  • Commercially sane. A great match that's out of stock won't sit on top.
Store rules Shopper taste

5

No black box

Every position can tell you why.

Each product on each page comes with its reasons: how much came from the shopper's taste and how much from your own rules. Merchandisers tune against facts, not hunches.

  • In the store, click the score on any product card to see the breakdown.
  • Same answer every time. The breakdown adds up to exactly the position you see.

Everywhere in the store

One profile. Every page.

The same taste profile and the same rules work wherever products are shown — so the whole store feels like it knows the shopper, not just one widget on the front page.

Front page & campaigns

Banners and product picks ordered for the shopper.

Oliver opens on Nikon Instant Savings, Mia on DJI Deals.

Category pages

Same filters for everyone, a different order for each.

In Lenses, the glass that fits their camera comes first.

Search & suggestions

The words typed lead; taste breaks the ties. Typos are forgiven.

"nikkon" still finds Nikkor — ranked for Oliver's Nikon Z kit.

Menu

Each category in the menu shows its three best picks for this shopper.

Product page

"Similar products" found automatically, plus picks for the shopper.

No hand-made "related products" lists to keep up to date.

Basket & checkout

What's in the basket counts most: add-ons that complete it, never a second version of the same thing.

A Nikon lens in the basket suggests Nikon bodies — never another lens.

Why it matters

Personalisation your team can actually run.

Ready on day one

It runs on the product tags you already keep. There's no model to train and no history of millions of sessions required.

Merchandisers in control

Taste never overrules the business. Margin, stock, sales and campaigns keep their say, tuned per page.

Explainable

Every position comes with its reasons, so decisions are made on facts — and can be explained to anyone.

Fast

The ranking happens inside the search itself, at search speed, on every page and every result.

One setup, every surface

Front page, categories, search, menu, product pages, basket and checkout all use the same profile.

B2C and B2B, any market

Consumers and business buyers, UK and US, own prices and tax — the same approach for all of them.

See it live

Open the store and switch shopper.

  1. Open the store. As a new visitor you see the store's own bestseller shelf.
  2. Pick Oliver, Amelia or Mia in the top right, and watch every page re-arrange.
  3. Click the score on any product card to see why it sits where it does.
  4. Open the Vector lab at the bottom right and drag the rules around.
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