More on Price Brackets

This page addresses some frequently asked questions as well as other important remarks regarding price brackets in a facet.

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

If a returned result has a price that belongs to two or more price brackets, then the product at hand will be displayed in all the price brackets it belongs to. For example, if a product has a price value of 10 and there are two price brackets, one ranging from 0 to 20 while the other from 0 to 30, the product will be displayed in both brackets.

Furthermore, If a product carries a price that is equal to both the upper bound of a bracket and the lower bound of the next bracket, Fredhopper will display that product on the latter. In general, any price on the lower bound will be included whereas any price on the higher bound will be excluded. For example, if a product has a price of 10 and in the price facet there are two price brackets, one ranging from 0 to 10 while the other from 10 to 20, the product at hand will be displayed on the price bracket ranging from 10 to 20.

Please keep in mind that the same stands for overlapping price brackets; consequently, if there are two price brackets, one ranging from 0 to 10 and the other from 9 to 20, a product with a value of 10 will be only displayed on the latter.

Important Points

If Fredhopper rounds up some of the displayed prices, then this is probably an issue caused by the user's localization settings. These settings can be edited by opening the Business Manager and selecting System and then going to the Localizaton tab. Here, a list of all the attributes used in Fredhopper should be presented along with their localization settings. Collapsing the price entry, one can see the the format field; the desired price presicion (number of decimal points) can be entered here.