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Is it possible to sort the product results other than the default API sort order?
Products are sorted by popularity, which is a combination of click volume, user behavior, offers per product, and other factors. Do keep in mind that API product results are optimized for yield. As the API
Offer sort order varies by category type. In structured categories (e.g. Digital Cameras), offers are sorted by merchant bid price thereby maximizing monetization from our partnership. In unstructured categories (e.g. Flowers or Jewelry), offers are sorted by behavior relevance.
These default sort orders are optimized to provide better user experience and maximize revenue. You must display the results in this order on your site. However, you can provide your users with the options to sort their initial results by using the sb-[n] and so-[n] parameters.
Here are the sb-[n] options:
For store offers (type 1 and 2):
0 - default
2 - base price
3 - store name
5 - store rating
6 - total price
For products (type 3):
212 - best matches (default)
213 – price
214 - product rating
Here are the so-[n] options:
• For all types, you can control whether the order will be ascending or descending:
1 - ascending (min to max)
2 - descending (max to min)
We also have a Preferred Placement flag [ppp-1] that will change offer sort order in structured categories. This is the only pre-sorting that you can do before allowing your users to sort as outlined above. Here are the details:
In structured categories merchants can pay to become featured. In order to appear as a featured offer in a result set a merchant should meet a certain review rating threshold and the offer itself should be relevant to the search. To enable Preferred Placement, add the /ppp-1 flag to your query. This will cause the default sort order to be featured stores, smart buy, and then sorted by offer price. You may also control the number of featured offers using the /nf-N flag, where N is a value greater than 0.
