Migrate from Classic Personalization

The Advanced Personalization feature creates a profile for each individual based on how they use your website or app.

This feature isn’t available on every plan. Refer to your pricing plan to see if it’s included.

Benefits

Advanced Personalization offers several advantages:

It’s easier to set up. Advanced Personalization automates and, hence, speeds up the deployment of a personalization strategy.
It generates unbiased user profiles. Classic Personalization can lead to biased or inconsistent user profiles. By automating the process, Advanced Personalization helps eliminate these biases.
It predicts user preferences. Advanced Personalization can predict what users might like or dislike. This means it can better customize the experience for each user based on their unique tastes.
It generates more accurate user profiles. Advanced Personalization generates user profiles based on signals from your users. The stronger the signals, the more accurate it can be in understanding each user.
It enhances monitoring and testing. You can use the Algolia dashboard to inspect your user profiles, simulate search personalization experiences, or conduct A/B tests.

Before choosing to migrate from Classic Personalization to Advanced Personalization, you need to consider the following:

Advanced Personalization deactivates Classic Personalization. You won’t be able to update your Classic Personalization setup. This includes, your strategy, facets, and personalizationImpact.
Your events and index data won’t be changed by the migration.
User profiles stop personalizing search results. Classic Personalization will stop personalizing search results for already generated user profiles until your Advanced Personalization setup is complete.
Migration can be rolled back during beta. To revert to Classic Personalization, contact the Algolia support team. By rolling back the migration, you lose all changes made in Advanced Personalization.

This inactivates the Classic Personalization feature and you’re redirected to the Advanced Personalization section in the dashboard.