How to Build an Alexa Skill for your Online Shop with Recolize in 15 Minutes?

Building an Alexa Skill is very easy if you combine it with Recolize personalized product recommendations. In the following I will describe the required steps and during the course of this blog post we will develop a sample skill that you can use as a starting point for your individual skill. The sample skill is available on our Github account.

We will create a so-called Custom Alexa Skill that will be able to simply answer the question “Alexa, open Recolize and ask what can you recommend to me today?” or “Alexa, open Recolize and ask what is the recommendation for today?“.
Therefore we need the Skill definition and additionally a AWS Lambda function that will trigger our Recolize recommendation API. The beauty of AWS Lambda is that you do not need to provision any servers but the so-called serverless framework will only be active if someone asks Alexa to trigger your skill. For more information on AWS Lambda functions see the official documentation.

We use the official Ask CLI commands to easily deploy both the skill itself as well as the Lambda function that will call the Recolize API.

How to Build an Alexa Skill for your Online Shop with Recolize in 15 Minutes?
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5 Reasons for Offering Automated Product Recommendations in an Online Shop Blog

Many online shops are also offering a blog to generate SEO traffic and inform their customers of interesting updates. Blogs are a great way to make an online shop feel more human and up-to-date when updated regularly. But as shop owner the main goal of a blog is of course to bring traffic back to the online shop and also convert blog visitors to online shop customers.

Therefore here are the 5 reasons why you should offer automated product recommendations in an online shop blog.

5 Reasons for Offering Automated Product Recommendations in an Online Shop Blog
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HALLHUBER wins 2. Place at the Shop Usability Award

Our customer HALLHUBER relaunched its online shop in February and moved from Magento 1 to Magento 2. With this switch a beautiful new design and usability concept was implemented.

Directly after the relaunch HALLHUBER participated in the german Shop Usability Award and won the 2nd place. We are very proud to be part of this award-winning new shop and we’ve implemented a completely individual design for the online shop based on their amazing new concept. In the screenshots above and blow you can see the Recolize integration on the home and on a product page.

HALLHUBER wins 2. Place at the Shop Usability Award
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Recolize Becomes PrestaShop Premium Partner

PrestaShop is one of the world’s most popular E-Commerce platforms with a growing international community. Currently, it is used by more than 270,000 eCommerce retailers. With just one click, all of them can now offer our personalized product recommendations to their customers. The installation of the Recolize module takes place directly in the PrestaShop Back Office.

Recolize Becomes PrestaShop Premium Partner
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