Do I have to write all the content of each guide?

No. You write the introduction and, if you wish, a conclusion, advice per criterion and extra questions. The ranking, the picks, the comparison table, the statistics and the base FAQ are generated from the catalog.

What happens when a price or a stock level changes?

The guide is flagged for recalculation. It is recalculated on the next visit, by the cron task if you scheduled it, or with the rebuild button in the back office. A ranking is also recalculated after a maximum age, 12 hours by default, to follow scheduled discounts.

My features contain text such as "90 min". Can I use them?

Yes. The numeric criterion extracts the number from the value, with a decimal comma or point. Products without a value can be excluded by making the criterion required, and minimum and maximum thresholds leave out products outside the range.

Can Google index the guides?

Yes. Each guide has its own URL, a canonical, hreflang per language and Article, ItemList and FAQPage structured data. The ranking is rendered on the server: the visitor adjustment panel only changes the display in the visitor's browser.

How is the revenue of a guide calculated?

When a visitor clicks a product from a guide, the first party cookie dfbg_attr remembers that product for 30 days. If it is added to the cart and ordered, the module attributes the order and the amount excluding tax of that product to the guide, converted to the default currency. Only validated orders are counted. Measurement can be turned off in the configuration, otherwise the cookie must be listed in your cookie policy.

Is it compatible with PrestaShop 9 and multistore?

Yes, from PrestaShop 8.0 to 9.x with the same ZIP. Each guide is assigned to the shops you choose and rankings are calculated shop by shop.

PrestaShop Buying Guides 8 & 9: Which Product to Choose

PrestaShop Buying Guide Module 8 & 9: “Which Product to Choose” Pages Built from Your Catalog

"Which product to choose" pages that rewrite themselves when your catalog changes.

Searches like "which X to choose for Y" bring visitors who are ready to buy, but a hand-written buying guide turns wrong as soon as a price drops or a product goes out of stock. This module builds the page from your product features: you choose the categories compared and the criteria that matter, with their weight, and it calculates a score out of 100 for each product. The ranking, the picks, the comparison table, the statistics and the FAQ are generated, then recalculated when a product, a price or a stock level changes.

At a glance

One page per buying intent, titled as the customer's question
Score out of 100 calculated from features, price, sales and newness
Best overall, best value for money and small budget pick chosen automatically
Recalculated when a product, price or stock changes, with an honest update date
Ranking adjustable by the visitor and revenue tracked for each guide

PrestaShop 8 & 9 JSON-LD Article, ItemList, FAQPage Automatic updates Revenue tracked per guide Multistore

30-day refund

12 months updates

24h support

The long version

Everything you'd want to know before you install.

A detailed look at how PrestaShop Buying Guide Module 8 & 9: "Which Product to Choose" Pages Built from Your Catalog works, why we built it the way we did, and the thinking behind the features above.

§ 01

Why buying guides belong on a shop

Searches such as "which robot vacuum to choose", "best drill for beginners" or "which mattress for back pain" come from customers who have decided to buy but not yet what. Category pages do not answer them, and a hand-written blog post ages fast: the recommended product goes out of stock, another one drops in price, and the page becomes wrong without anyone noticing.

§ 02

A ranking calculated on your features

For each guide, you choose the categories compared, an optional price range, then the criteria. A "values" criterion gives points to each value of a feature, a "numeric" criterion compares the numbers read in the values (battery life, power, weight), and price, sales and date added complete the picture. Scores are brought back to 100 and weighted by the importance you give to each criterion. The back office preview shows the ranking and the score of each product on each criterion before publication.

§ 03

What the visitor sees

The page starts with your introduction and the number of products compared, then the three picks with the reason for each. The numbered ranking shows, for each product, its score, the share of each criterion, its strengths and points to consider, with the price and the cart button. Then come the comparison table, a "How to choose" section per criterion based on the figures of your catalog, your conclusion and a FAQ. The visitor can also set the importance of the criteria and a budget: the ranking reorders in the page.

§ 04

SEO

Each guide has its own URL, meta title, meta description, canonical and hreflang. Article, ItemList and FAQPage structured data are generated, with the author when filled in. Guides are added to the sitemap of the gsitemap module with their last modification date, which matches the last real change of recommendation. The related categories show a link to their guides, which creates internal links in both directions.

§ 05

Measure what each guide brings in

The module counts views (one per visitor and per day, bots excluded), clicks to products and add to cart clicks. A product clicked from a guide is remembered for 30 days: if it is ordered, the order and the revenue excluding tax of that product are attributed to the guide, including when the payment is confirmed by a webhook. You see which guides deserve more work and which ones bring nothing.

PrestaShop Buying Guide Module 8 & 9: “Which Product to Choose” Pages Built from Your Catalog

The short version.

Criteria that come from your product sheets

A complete page without writing product by product

Up to date, and honestly dated

The visitor adjusts, you measure