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excentos offers a free trial so that you can test Guided Selling solutions and test Product Guides / Product Selectors.

By providing a free test of our solutions, we aim to provide you 100% transparency of our platform and services and enable you determining whether Guided Selling can really contribute to your business goals.


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information for our new customers in the free trial phase.

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Free Trial Phase

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 You can explore our features and thoroughly test whether the Workbench and our Product Guides really

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fulfill your requirements.

Not Included per Default

You can use all features of the excentos Workbench, except:

  • Publish: the Publish and Integrate integrate your Product Guide functionality is disabled. You can see an entire preview of your Product Guide in the Preview your Advisor view.
    However, if you want to publish your Product Guides built in the free trial phase, e.g. in order to integrate them into your Shop / CMS and test them live to gather user feedback, please let us know and we'll arrangeset you up.
  • ENTERPRISE features, advanced configurations and customizations: there are some features that require advanced configuration and customization, e.g. many of the features that are part of our PRO and ENTERPRISE editioneditions.
    Please let us know if you would like to learn more on how to work with our PRO or ENTERPRISE features and we'll be happy demoing them to you.


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Testing and optimization is crucial to excentos in order to achieve our goal of building the best Guided Selling platform out there. So please Contact excentos Support if there are any problems, if you have any suggestions or if you miss some features, and we'll be happy to learn from your experiences!

Introduction to the Demos - and what to know about each Demo

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We've included several demos with several purposes into your Workbench account, so please read on what to look at in which demo.

There are the following Demo Product Guides:

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  • optimized for both themes "River" and "Sunrise"
  • product data view
  • content
  • configuration of recommendation behavior
  • configuration of reasoning
  • internationalization: has German and Russian content

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  • recommendation behavior (there are only few products included so the recommendation behavior is not perfect)

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  • optimized for the theme "Sunrise"
  • content

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  • (product images not working currently)
  • recommendation behavior (there are only few products included so the recommendation behavior is not perfect)
  • configuration of reasoning (since the mainly used theme "sunshine" does not initially provide reasonings

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  • optimized for theme "River"
  • product data view
  • content
  • configuration of recommendation behavior
  • configuration of reasoning
  • Cross Selling (wink) (see the cross selling recommendations in the result list). Cross Selling is currently only available in the default theme.
  • internationalization: see the language switcher in the preview view and the languages view where we provide content in EN and DE

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  • optimized for theme "Earth"

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How to Access the Demos

The demos can be accessed in the normal list of Product Guides, i.e. navigate to the menu "Product Guides" and then "View all Product Guides". Please note that depending on your requirements, excentos might not offer every demo in your test account.

What can you do with the Demos?

If you want to play around with the Demo Product Guide, you are welcome to add or delete Stages, Questions and Answer Options or change the data binding or recommendation behaviour. Please be aware of that excentos does not refresh your Demo Product Guide, so once you have deleted or changed some of its elements or the entire demo, they are gone. 

If you want us to refresh your demo to the initial status, please let us know and we will take care of it.

Product Data of the Demo "Bike Advisor"

If you want to understand how excentos built the Demo Bike Advisor Product Guide including the product data, you might want to check how the Questions and Answer Options are connected to the Bike Advisor product data file. You can examine the data binding option of each Question / Answer Option of the demo and compare it with this data file that excentos used to configure the Demo_BikeAdvisor:

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(info) You can compare the comma-separated values (CSV) or the OpenDocument Spreadsheet (ODS) file. The ODS file will directly open in Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice Calc, depending on the software you have installed on your PC. On the other hand, the CSV file often opens in a text editor per default which is far less easy to read.

You can learn a lot more about how to work with product data in the Prepare your Product Data section.

Analytics View

The Analytics View displays the usage data of your Product Guides. We selected only some reports to be integrated into the Workbench. Our full Web Analytics Suite contains a lot more data, reports and views than included in the Workbench. Please note that your free trial account contains demo data only and not productive data.

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Read on: Visit the Demo Product Guides