This page contains some info for our new customers in the free trial phase. We've included some Demo Product Guides into your Workbench account to show example configurations and to show our themes.
Free Trial Phase
Welcome to the free trial phase of your Workbench account! We are happy to offer you a free test so you can explore all our features and thoroughly test whether the Workbench and our Product Guides really fulfil your requirements.
You can use all features of the excentos Workbench, except:
- Publish: the Publish and 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 arrange - 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 ENTERPRISE edition.
Please let us know if you would like to learn more on how to work with our ENTERPRISE features and we'll be happy demoing them to you.
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
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:
| Name of the Product Guide | what to look at | please don't look at... |
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| Bike Advisor |
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| Coat Advisor |
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| Camera Guide |
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| Bra Finder (under development) |
| recommendation behavior (it's just a theme demo and does not contain realistic product data and content) |
(see the cross selling recommendations in the result list). Cross Selling is currently only available in the default theme.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:
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.
