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Netcore Unbxd continuously evolves to help you deliver more intelligent, personalized shopping experiences. In this section, you’ll find the latest feature rollouts, performance enhancements, and platform updates designed to optimize product discovery, boost conversions, and elevate the customer journey.
April- May 2025
OWASP Compliance for Search/Browse Console
We’re pleased to announce that the Unbxd Search and Browse Console is now fully compliant with the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Top 10 standards.
This enhancement reflects our ongoing commitment to protecting customer data and improving the security of our platform.
No action is required from customers. These improvements have been implemented at the platform level and are automatically applied.
1. Vector Search for Smarter Product Discovery
We are excited to announce the release of Vector Search, a powerful AI-enabled feature designed to make product discovery more intuitive and accurate for shoppers on your eCommerce platform.
Unlike traditional keyword-based search, Vector Search understands the intent behind a user’s query and delivers results that match the meaning, not just the exact words.
- Vector Search: Uses machine learning to understand semantic relationships between user queries and product data.
- Hybrid Search Mode: Combines keyword-based results with semantically relevant results to enhance result quality.
- Fallback Search Mode: Automatically activates Vector Search when traditional search shows limited or no results.
For more information, refer to Vector Search documentation
2. Measurement Search
Measurement Search is a new AI-powered search enhancement in the Unbxd platform that allows shoppers to find products based on specific, measurable dimensions such as size, weight, price, or pressure.
This feature supports more precise and intuitive search experiences for end users, especially for dimension-driven product categories like fashion, furniture, appliances, and hardware.
For more information, refer to Measurement Search documentation
3. Website Preview for Enhanced Debugging Capabilities
Website Preview is a powerful enhancement to the Unbxd Search platform that automatically enriches your product catalog by extracting key product attributes (such as color, material, fit, and style) using Artificial Intelligence.
Even if these attributes aren’t manually added to your catalog, the preview functionality can derive them from product titles, descriptions, and other content, ensuring your products appear accurately in search results and filters.
This works in synergy with the following Unbxd AI Models:
| Model | Function |
|---|---|
| Content Model | Analyzes catalog data to structure and enrich it using attributes like title, color, size, brand, etc. |
| Intent Model | Understands the shopper’s true intent, even in natural language queries like “ergonomic chair under $200”. |
| Ranking Model | Scores products based on relevance, user engagement, and availability to determine result order. |
| Fallback Model | Uses semantic understanding to return related results when exact matches are unavailable. |
For more information, refer to the documentation.
4. AI-Suggested Similar Queries
We are excited to announce AI-Suggested Similar Queries to help improve the shopper experience by surfacing relevant, intent-driven search suggestions.
What it does:
- Recommends additional search terms and category-based suggestions based on past user behavior, search trends, and semantic understanding.
- Helps users refine their search, discover products faster, and significantly reduce zero-result queries.
Example:
If a user searches for White Dresses, the system might suggest related queries like white dress, white shoes, white bag, or white sneakers.For more information, refer to the documentation.
5. Visual Search
We’re thrilled to announce the enhancement of Visual Search , a next-generation AI-driven feature that empowers shoppers to search for products using images instead of text.
It has been significantly enhanced with improved capabilities and a refreshed user experience. This upgraded version delivers more accurate results, faster performance, and better integration, making it more powerful and intuitive than ever before.
What it does?
Using Visual Search, users can easily find a product even if they dont know the exact product names.
Visual Search allows users to:
- Upload an image or paste an image URL.
- Get real-time product recommendations that match visually with the input image.
- Interact with image markers (dots) to view similar items for specific products within a multi-item image (e.g., dress and shoes).
For more information, refer to the Visual Search documentation.
6. Product Card Viewer
We are pleased to announce the General Availability of Product Card Viewer, powerful visual tool that enables merchandisers and business teams to preview how products will appear to shoppers on Search and Browse pages.
This feature bridges the gap between data configuration and on-site presentation by linking specific product attributes (like title, price, and image) to how they are rendered in product listings.
Why is it so important?
The Product Card Viewer gives teams an at-a-glance preview of product listings directly in the Unbxd console. It ensures that key product information is prominently displayed, making merchandising more effective and product discovery smoother for shoppers.
Refer the Product Card Mapping documentation to learn more.
7. Bulk Export/Import Field Configurations
We are excited to announce the General Availability of the Bulk Export/Import Field Configurations feature. This new capability allows users to export and import field configuration settings in bulk, making catalog setup and management faster, more scalable, and less error-prone.
Whether you’re working across multiple environments or updating field properties for large product catalogs, this feature simplifies the process and ensures consistency in your configuration strategy.
Click here to know more.
8. Bulk Upload for Searchable Fields
We have introduced bulk upload and bulk download of searchable fields under Manage section.
January - February 2025
Refer here for detailed documentation for the below.
1. Enhanced Browse Preview
We’re making category exploration smarter than ever! The new Category Picker Widget lets you effortlessly generate category paths from:
- Analytics
- Field Names
- Predefined values It gives you a rich Campaign Insight Section giving you a complete view of campaigns tied to these paths complete with key performance metrics.
2. Smarter Site Picker Experience
Finding your site just got easier. Sites are now grouped in a neat accordion view by region, helping you quickly navigate and manage them without the clutter.
3. Enhanced Merchandising Enhancements
We’ve streamlined how you manage merchandising campaigns by introducing the Kebab (፧) menus on the Promotions page. Now you can Apply same rule to more queries or Add another campaign with a click. We also have enhanced New Preview Options for Search and Browse
- Note: Only available for live campaigns.
4. Date and Time Experience
Wherever you see a timestamp, you’ll now also see the associated time zone as well, making logs and tracking more transparent.
5. Friendlier Toast Notifications
We’re saying goodbye to intrusive error banners. Errors now show as floating footers that gently fade away after a few seconds, which are informative but non-intrusive.
6. Fields Sorting
Have full control and clarity in your configuration by easily organizing your settings by sorting Field Names alphabetically or **Search Weight **by priority from High to Non-searchable, or the other way around.
7. Unified and Improved Admin Portal
Admin tasks just got more intuitive. A consolidated portal now manages all admin activities seamlessly. Menus have been reorganized for clarity, and Legacy items like Back to Site Details have been retired for better usability.
Highlights:
- Info is now Site Details.
- Users are now managed under Profile Icon > Unbxd Team Management.
- Products, Merch Settings, and Site Features moved under Site Settings.
- New Analytics page to view aggregator API errors.
8. Better Navigation for Catalogs
Quick access, right where you expect it! Catalog has moved to: Manage > Catalog > Feed Status
9. Cleaner Segments Table
Clarity meets function. The Segments table has been redesigned to improve readability and interaction.
10. Upload & Download Made Simple
Now even more intuitive. Bulk Upload and Bulk Download are now separate menu items, reducing confusion and improving workflow clarity.
11. Clean Website Preview
A clutter-free preview experience. We’ve removed the Website Preview footer for a cleaner visual display.
12. More intelligent Table Behavior Across the Platform
Tables now work the way you’d expect!
- Page state is retained on refresh
- Pagination and filtering added across all Phoenix tables (except ROR)
13. Complete Facet Flow Revamp
Facets are now faster and easier to manage — all from one place!
- No need to toggle across pages. You can manage CRED operations directly in Merchandising > Facets. Just configure Field Rule and Facetable flags in Field Properties, and you’re set! You can also add and rank facetable fields effortlessly using a clean, guided flow
14. Stronger Password & Session Policies
Security gets a serious upgrade! New password rules have been introduced:
- Minimum 12 characters.
- Mix of upper/lowercase, numbers, special characters.
- Common passwords blocked.
- All sessions are logged out upon password reset.
- Only one active session allowed by default.
- Automatic logout of oldest session when limits are exceeded.
- Unlock button available in Admin for account recovery.
15. Streamlined Searchable Fields Workflow
Simplicity at its best. We’ve removed the Apply button; now, Save Changes is your go-to action. Easily compare with AI Recommended Search Weight before publishing changes
16. UI & UX Improvements Everywhere
A more polished, intuitive experience:
- Updated No Data Found images.
- Removed “Add Facets” from FTU to prevent confusion.
- Dropdown improvements in Segments and Attributes.
- For long value lists, you now get an input field instead of an empty dropdown.
- Global is nowApplied to all users across the platform.
- Typeahead is now Autosuggest; Commerce Search is now simply Search.
- New Sync button to re-index Autosuggest feed immediately after config changes.
17. A/B Testing Metric Labels – Refreshed and Reframed
Search Metrics
Refer to the table below for the changes:
| Old Label | New Label | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| HITS | Page Views | Category page views |
| CLICKS | Clicks | Product clicks on browse pages |
| CLICK THROUGH RATE | Click Rate | Clicks / Page Views |
| CART | Carts | Products added to cart from browse |
| CART THROUGH RATE | Cart Rate | Carts / Page Views |
| ORDERS | Sale Through | Orders after browsing |
| REVENUE | Revenue | Revenue from browse |
| CONV RATE | Conversion (%) | Sale Through / Page Views |
| CTR | CTR (%) | Clicks / Page Views |
| AOV | AOV | Revenue / Sale Through |
| RPV | RPV | Revenue / Page Views |