Link to an Existing Product

Background

The ultimate goal of the RSIN service is the deduplication of the entire catalog across all countries. It is used to clean up both existing products and newly-created ones.

Seller workflow

  • As a Seller, I decide to link my offer to an existing product.

Step Description Screenshot
Search in existing catalog. Screen Shot 2016-03-10 at 15.37.30
Find a similar product.
  • The search action is  performed in the entire catalog.
  • Products are sorted by relevance.
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Change Seller-specific attributes. Seller will be able to overwrite any attribute that was previously set as overwrite-able. Screen Shot 2016-03-31 at 12.14.10
Click “Sell yours” Seller will be redirected to product creation form with all the fields completed. They will only be able to update the attributes that were previously set as overwrite-able. Screen Shot 2016-03-31 at 11.52.12
 Complete the offer.  After completing the stock, price, and SKU, the Seller is ready to start selling. Screen Shot 2016-03-31 at 12.09.32

Quality Control Agent Workflow

  • As a quality control agent, I have the opportunity to link a new product to an existing one right before publishing to the Shop.
  • Regardless of Seller’s intention to not link their products, the quality control agent can later link them without interfering with the product content in any way.
  • Linking in this case only means that these two products share a common unique identifier, RSIN.
  • The RSIN will be pushed to the Shop.
  • It is the Venture’s responsibility to decide which one of the products will be leading and will define the customer experience.

Step Description Screenshot
Quality control process adapted to link incoming products to existing products.
  • Returns a list of five best-matching RSINs (according to a score based on a similarity search using the “sellable unit” sent in the request).
  • “Sellable unit”: a collection of product attributes that is able to uniquely identify the product.
Click link. The actions links a sellable unit to a particular RSIN.
This product is approved automatically.
Click “Review”
  • Allows the quality control agent to fall back on previous behavior.
  • By approving the product, a new RSIN will be created and the product will be registered as unique.
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Prerequisite

  1. Analysis needs to be run regarding how the existing algorithms are behaving on the Venture’s catalog.
  2. If adaptions are required, they need to be prioritized and conducted by the Venture-specific team.
  3. Roll out plan needs to include infrastructure setup and data preparation (e.g., training the algorithm, deploying on new Amazon instances, and testing the search relevance).
  4. This feature can only be enabled after all previous steps have been completed.