Expected duration: 30 minutes ⏳

Technical complexity: medium

<aside> 📌 Prerequisites

1. An Aqurate account (get it at aqurate.ai)
2. An active integration of your Magento data (how to connect your shop)
3. An active subscription with Aqurate Recommendations

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How it works

1. Download the official Aqurate Recommendations for Magento2 extension from here and add it to Magento2.
2. In the admin area, add your Aqurate credentials.

Communication with Aqurate Recommendations

• The Magento widgets are loaded through AJAX (to avoid FPC), and each AJAX call loads with a unique timestamp parameter.
• At each page load, the extension checks if the item already has recommended products in the Magento cache. If not, it will make an API call to Aqurate, get the recommended products and add them to the cache. This way, each pageview does not trigger an API call.

Initializing Sliders

In the following jQuery files, an owl Slider is initialized and applied to the page with the products from Aqurate Recommendations:

Product page:

Cleverplusplus/AqurateAi/view/frontend/templates/product/cross_sell.phtml

Cleverplusplus/AqurateAi/view/frontend/templates/product/substitutes.phtml

Cart page:

Cleverplusplus/AqurateAi/view/frontend/templates/cart/cross-sell.phtml