AlFinder Dashboard Guide
Everything you need to know to use the AlFinder dashboard on Salla โ step by step, with real screenshots.
Dashboard Overview
Your real-time snapshot of AlFinder's performance across your store.
AlFinder Script Status
The toggle at the top of the page controls whether AlFinder is active on your storefront. Turn it on to activate search and recommendations. Turn it off to pause AlFinder without losing any settings.
Performance Metrics
Six cards show your key numbers: total revenue contribution, recommendations revenue, conversion rate, products purchased, search operations in the last 7 days, and top/negative search keywords. Click any card to see more detail.
Best Performing Products
A ranked list of the products customers discovered and purchased through AlFinder.
Store Products
Shows how many products are synced with AlFinder. Click 'View All Products' to browse the full catalog.
Download Dashboard
Use the download button at the top left to export your dashboard data as a report.
Search Customization
Full control over your search bar appearance, behavior, results layout, filters, and content rules โ across 9 dedicated tabs.
Customize Search Form
Controls the visual appearance of the search bar on your storefront.
Toggle 'Enable Search Bar' on to show AlFinder's search bar. Toggle it off to hide it.
Set the placeholder text that appears inside the search bar before a customer types. Enter a separate message in Arabic and English.
Adjust 'Search Border Radius' (in pixels) to control corner roundness. 0 = sharp corners, higher values = pill shape.
Use the color pickers to set the search icon color, voice search icon color, and voice search background color.
Toggle 'Enable Voice Search' on to allow customers to search by speaking.
Click 'Save Changes' when done.
Dynamic Filter Tree
Lets customers narrow search results using filters like price, category, or brand.
Toggle 'Enable Dynamic Filter Tree' on.
The Active Filters panel shows currently visible filters (Price and Categories by default). Drag and drop to reorder them.
Check any filter in the Available Filters panel to add it: Brand, Color, or Size.
Use the color picker to set the filter label color.
Click 'Save Changes'.
Search Results Layout
Controls how many products appear per row and what shows when there are no results.
Choose a layout: Single Column (default), Two Columns, or Three Columns.
Use the plus and minus buttons to set how many products appear per column.
Enter a 'No Results' message in Arabic and English โ this appears when a search returns nothing.
Click 'Save Changes'.
Search Content Settings
Controls what information appears on each product card within search results.
Choose a Search Bar Design: 'Default' shows a simple list; 'Product Card' shows image, name, and price in the dropdown.
Under Shared Settings, check 'Show Out-of-Stock Products' to include unavailable items in results, and 'Show Discounts' to display original prices alongside discounted ones.
Under Default Design Settings, toggle visibility of the product image and price, and set their colors using the color pickers.
Enable 'English Prices' if you want prices displayed in English numerals regardless of site language.
Click 'Save Changes'.
Advanced Search Settings
Fine-tune how AlFinder's search engine interprets and ranks queries.
Spelling Correction Tolerance (0โ2)
Set how many character errors AlFinder corrects. 0 = no correction, 1 = one character, 2 = two characters.
Semantic Search Sensitivity (0โ100)
Controls how broadly AlFinder interprets queries. Low values = strict keyword matching. High values = conceptual matching. Default is 40.
Image Search Threshold (0.0โ1.0)
Sets how closely a product image must match an uploaded photo. Higher = stricter. Default is 0.7.
Semantic Search Priority
Choose 'Mixed' (default) to balance keyword and semantic matching, or favor one approach based on your catalog.
AlFinder Search Page
Enable this to activate a dedicated AlFinder-powered search results page. Click 'Edit' to configure where the search element appears on your storefront.
Language Support
AlFinder supports 28 languages out of the box: Arabic (Gulf, Egyptian, Levantine, and Saudi dialects), English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Czech, Hungarian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Greek, Bulgarian, Romanian, Indonesian, Hindi, Thai, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hebrew, and Persian. Language detection is automatic โ no configuration needed.
Synonyms Management
Map alternative words to products so customers find what they're looking for even when they use different terminology.
Toggle 'Enable Synonyms' on.
Click 'Add New Keyword' and enter the primary keyword along with its synonyms.
Save. The synonym group will appear in the list below.
Edit or delete any group at any time.
Click 'Save Changes'.
Pinned Keywords
Pre-set search suggestions that appear when customers click the search bar โ before they start typing.
Toggle 'Enable Pinned Keywords' on.
Enter a section title in Arabic and English. Leave a field empty to hide the title for that language.
Click 'Add Keyword' and enter the keyword you want to surface as a suggestion.
Save and click 'Save Changes'.
Recommendations
Configure product suggestions across your homepage, product pages, and cart.
Homepage Recommendations
Control all recommendation blocks shown on your homepage. Click 'Add New Recommendations' to create a block, set its title and product logic, then save.
Product Page Recommendations
Add 'You May Also Like' or 'Customers Also Viewed' sections to individual product pages. Click 'Add New Recommendations' and configure the block.
Cart Recommendations
Recommend products when customers view their cart to encourage add-ons before checkout. Click 'Add New Recommendations' to create a block.
Settings
Toggle 'Show Out-of-Stock Products in Recommendations' to include or exclude unavailable products from all recommendation blocks.
Manual Recommendations
Define product relationships manually to control exactly what gets recommended alongside each product.
Related Products
Click 'Add Related Products', search for the primary product, select the products to link it to, and save.
Complementary Products
Link products that work well together and are likely to be purchased as a set.
Fixed Products
Pin specific products permanently in a recommendation slot, regardless of what the AI would otherwise suggest.
Related Categories
Link categories together for cross-category recommendations.
Bulk Upload
Use the 'Upload CSV File' tab on any of the four tabs to upload relationships in bulk. Use the 'Download' button to export existing data first.
Analytics
View AlFinder's revenue and performance data over any custom time period.
Enter a Start Date and End Date using the date pickers.
Click 'Apply Filter' to load the data for that period.
Review the performance metrics shown on the page.
Click 'Download Analytics' at the top left to export the data as a file.
Search Analytics
Understand how customers are using search โ what's working and what's not.
Search Operations (Last 7 Days)
Total number of searches performed in the past week.
Total Search Revenue Contribution
Revenue attributed to search interactions since you joined AlFinder.
Positive Keywords
Keywords that successfully led customers to products they engaged with. These confirm your catalog is well-matched to demand.
Negative Keywords
Keywords where customers searched but found no useful results. Use these to improve product titles or add synonyms in Search Customization.
Top Keywords (Last 7 Days)
Most searched terms this week with frequency bars. Use these to inform Pinned Keywords and Merchandising rules.
Click 'Download Search Analytics' to export the data.
Product Card Customization
Control how product cards look in search results and recommendation widgets, with a live preview.
Match Store Design
AlFinder inherits the styling from your existing store theme. No extra configuration needed.
Custom Design
Switch to Custom Design mode for full manual control. A live preview updates in real time as you make changes.
Wishlist Icon
Customize the wishlist button: icon style, color, size, visibility, and position (top-left or top-right).
Add to Cart Icon and Button
Customize the icon type, color, and size for the cart icon. Style the button appearance separately.
Product Card and Content
Control the overall card layout and which fields are visible: product name, price, discounted price, and more.
Click 'Save Changes' to apply.
Merchandising
Create rules to boost specific products to the top of search results based on conditions you define.
Click 'Add Rule' to create a new merchandising rule.
Enter a rule name (used internally to identify it).
Define the conditions that trigger the rule โ for example, a specific keyword, tag, or category.
Define which products should be boosted and by how much.
Save the rule. It will appear in the searchable list and take effect immediately.
Examples: boost 'Sale' tagged products, promote a specific brand during a campaign, or surface new arrivals.
Frequently Bought Together
Train AlFinder to identify which products customers tend to buy together, then use that data to generate bundle recommendations.
Step 1: Aggregate Order Data
Set a From Date and To Date to define the period of orders to analyze. Click 'Sync Co-Purchase Data' to pull that history into AlFinder.
Step 2: Run the Algorithm
In the Algorithm Activation section, enter a Minimum Support value. This is the minimum number of times two products must have been bought together to be treated as a pair. Lower values capture more pairs; higher values focus on the strongest combinations.
Step 3: Activate
Click 'Run Algorithm'. AlFinder processes the data and begins using results to show 'Frequently Bought Together' recommendations on product pages.
Re-run at any time as new order data accumulates to keep recommendations fresh.
Tips for Getting the Most Out of AlFinder
- โReview negative search keywords weekly to improve product titles and add synonyms.
- โUse the script status toggle during campaigns to pause AlFinder temporarily without losing your settings.
- โCombine Frequently Bought Together data with Manual Recommendations to reinforce high-margin bundle suggestions.