New features:

Avail SaaS can now use clicks as basis for recommendations. New method getProductsPredictionsFromClicks.

logClickedOn now also saves click data.

New features:

Availability. With the new method setProductValidity the validity of individual products can be changed in real-time.

Merchandising. With the new method getProducts you get a flexible way to choose what products to display.

Over a period of approximately seven days from release date the update will be rolled out incrementally to all customers.
New features:

New interfaces added which allows server-to-sever communication using JSON-RPC.

Metrics has received an overhaul and should now be more consistent and easier to use. Billing Info has been replaced with Export Data. Grouping of data is now possible. Measurement labels have been changed to more self explanatory names. My Overview added which gives an overview of key measurements. Default time unit for charts is now day. Before logAddedToCart put a product-session in the state added-to-cart only, now it also puts a product-session in the state clicked-on.

There is now an option in the Control Panel that lets you exclude items in shopping cart from recommendations. If checked, items logged with logAddedToCart will not appear as recommendations.

To enable logging of non-recommendations added to cart, the TrackingCode argument has been made optional in logAddedToCart.
For more information on the new features see our Tech Blog.

Added a set of new features:

A/B Testing. It is now possible to create two or more variations of a template and measure their performance.

Template Tracking. With the new methods logClickedOn and logAddedToCart the performance of individual templates can be measured by Avail SaaS.

Improved recommendation quality for recommendation based on a product, a set of products or a user.

Cart recommendations. Avail now supports uploading order identifiers in the transaction history. Use the new method getCartPredictions to get cart recommendations.

The new method getTwinsumers returns the users most similar to the argument user based on their purchase patterns.

Category names can now uploaded for a more friendly display in the Control Panel.

Avail SaaS can now keep track of the clickstream history of sessions and return recommendations based on this using method getClickstreamPredictions.

New template setting. It is now possible to auto filter on categories. When the setting under the categories tab is checked, the template automatically filters the recommendations based on the categories of the input.

New template setting. It is now possible to set a maximum number of products a template can return, no matter the number of recommendations each subtemplate return.

Multiple currencies are now supported in Metrics with the optional currency argument in method logPurchase.

Identifiers now support three more characters: at sign, full stop and hyphen-minus.

The data exporter has been updated and supports the new data types.
For more information on the new features see our Tech Blog.

The Data Exporter has been updated. jTDS drivers for MS SQL have been added as there are issues with Microsoft's own drivers.

Landing Page recommendations added. New methods getLandingPagePredictions and saveLandingPageData.

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