Merchant Groups?

[PNeate]

I use the API to perform Product searches, and this is all grand. However due to the fact that I have signed up with quite a few different type of merchants the search is carried out against all of them, which is returning a load of results.

I'll give you an example...

If you search for say "Xbox" you will get back not only all the merchant that sell stuff to do the Xbox but also all the mobile phone deals that give you a free Xbox.

I don't want to louse the mobile phone merchants but non do I want there result in this result set. I understand that I could pass a long list of merchant ID that I want to search under but that's loads of ids. So if there was some way of setting up merchant group on the AW side and then I could pass the group Id through so that the search would only be carried out on that group. I could also set up as many groups as I like for different targeted markets.

What ya think?

Cheers


Paul

[authcode]

Only a quick thought, but wouldn't using a more specific search category achieve this?

[PNeate]

Thanks for the reply Steve.

Could well do... But I don't want to restrict the search to a particular category, as that would mean that I would need to create a link between what the user enters as a search and the categories that I think that product will live in.

[authcode]

Good point, although wouldn't you need to associate a merchant group with a search term too?
Just trying to think if there is a way to achieve what you want without having to wait for new features to be added, which is the same situation I'm in.