Humanising Online Product Search
Increased conversion and loyalty through preference-based guidance
Traverz Conversational Recommendation Technology

Filter-based Search: Frustrating, Impersonal and Outdated
Online product search is stuck in the 1990’s. Consumers experience frustration and information overload. They abandon, fail to buy, and don’t return.
How Traverz changes product search
Product ranking, driven by the user’s personal preferences
Intuitive two-way feedback to provide preferences
A much larger set of product features for users to engage with
An integrated conversational agent, that provides the user with shopping-assistant like interaction
Helping consumers discover, and make confident choices

Traverz supports the consumer right from the start of their journey – from initial awareness and discovery guidance, through to narrowing the search and the final step of making a confident purchase.
Through clever UX and AI, Traverz Conversational Recommendation does this by recognising that user preferences are fuzzy and developed iteratively through exposure, and opening an agent-based dialogue channel.
Seamless integration
Traverz Conversational Recommendation technology is integrated as a plug-in ‘layer’, that adds this cutting-edge product search mechanism to an existing e-commerce or marketplace platform without any disruption to existing processes.
- Standard APIs ensure synchronisation of the product data and product list.
- Relevant UI components from the Traverz Component Library are inserted into the platform front-end, to enable customer interactions with preferences and the agent.


“The technology that Traverz has developed is an important step towards commoditising conversational AI and allowing e-commerce players, big and small, to take personalisation to the next level”
Prof. Barry Smyth
Benefits
Unlock awareness phase
Traverz facilitates organic product discovery at the awareness stage. Instead of bouncing away, users are more likely to complete their discovery phase and move to search and purchase on the same platform.
Encourage upsell
Traverz organically broadens user consideration and encourages upsell. With a clearer understanding of their own needs, users seek more features and consider a wider range of options – often more expensive options.
Improve conversion
Traverz significantly outperforms filters in terms of purchase intent. Confident users are more likely to progress to the actions ‘Add to Basket’ (for e-commerce) and ‘Contact Seller’ (for marketplaces).
Improve loyalty
The preference-based Traverz experience with in-place feedback and a virtual agent generates confidence and is seen as very productive and memorable. This very significantly increases loyalty and word of mouth.
Deeper consumer insights
The Traverz in-place feedback and virtual agent ensure that consumers explicitly communicate their needs and wants. This insight is critical to key business decisions, such as which products to stock and the focus of marketing campaigns.
Avoid data issues
Filters require perfect product data, or they break. Traverz’s AI-based feature extraction not only goes beyond the standard product attributes, but also cleans up the original data - ensuring that consumers don’t lose sight of their ideal product.
Connect with users
The integrated virtual agent provides a natural communication channel and unlocks the dialogue with the consumer. No longer does the familiar product browsing experience need to be such an arms-length experience.
83
NPS Score
highlighting a clear positive distinction and likelihood to recommend
11%
More Likely
to add to basket / contact seller in a platform using Traverz technology
33%
More Likely
to return to a platform with Traverz technology
E-commerce
Bridging the online and in-store experiences
In e-commerce environments, the personalisation and guidance offered by Traverz are mirroring the in-store experience. Users feel like they are in the presence of a helpful shopping assistant. The Traverz Conversational Recommendation experience helps users break away from the ‘Amazon Default’ and pushes the site to the top of their list of destinations.


“I think if Appliance Online had [Traverz Preference Sorting] it would be my go-to site first. I would go there first, as opposed to ... Amazon or those comparison sites.”
Marketplaces
Alleviating decision paralysis and reducing complexity
Users are easily overwhelmed due to the size of the product range on marketplaces. Traverz inplace feedback, agent and preferences approach provides users with an accessible, iterative path to organically focus the search process toward relevant items within that vast range and take key KPI actions like ‘Contact Seller’.


“With the filters, I had to have a general idea what I was looking for. With Traverz, I didn't have to know what I wanted yet - I could have discovered it”
Once exposed to Traverz product search, there is no going back
Traverz sets a higher benchmark for online product search. Once consumers are exposed to this new standard, there is no going back – after they experience Conversational Recommendation, users materially re-evaluate their views on the standard Filter experience and consider them significantly less preferable.
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