Product Recommendations API would be very welcome

[Josh.Countertop.dev]

Product recommendations used to be one of the only type of Tiles you could build on POS - now that they’re gone I think there’s a big gap in cross-sell and recommendation apps built specifically for POS.

Access to the native product recommendations API(s) or a way to access storefront API would quickly enable this. (Community won’t let me post a link to docs)

There’s one or two that “work with POS” but use a different system and aren’t necessarily designed retail-first (with staff in mind).

[PaulNewton]

For api development feature requests and discussion use the actual developer forums.
Waaaaay better experience, signal to noise ratio, and actual chance shopify-staff might respond.

Come correct and SEARCH first.

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Since OP couldn’t add links , here are some relevant notes and links for this thread:
So there is NOT a direct , intuitive, sane, frictionless connection to product-recommendation data in shopify-POS.

• Such as through the POS search https://shopify.dev/docs/api/pos-ui-extensions/latest/target-apis/standard-apis/product-search-api/
• Nor is “recommendations” a prop/connection on the Product object https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/objects/Product
• • Though the product query notes the query can be used to IMPLEMENT recommendations that just means fully custom logic, algorithms etc on the devs side of things. That query doesn’t actually facilitate recommendations it’s just a work surface: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/queries/products#:~:text=Implement%20product%20recommendations

There is , technically /sigh, product recommendation api’s just not direct POS recommendation api.
Both are meant for storefronts, one of which is AJAX so made with the online-sales channel themes in mind.
https://shopify.dev/docs/api/storefront/latest/queries/productRecommendations
https://shopify.dev/docs/api/ajax/reference/product-recommendations
https://shopify.dev/docs/storefronts/themes/product-merchandising/recommendations/
https://shopify.dev/docs/storefronts/themes/product-merchandising/recommendations/related-products

So hypothetically a dev could make a middleware to ping possibly the storefront-api or that ajax-api as an unathenticated public endpoint barring any issues with things like captcha’s. Proxy’ing it to POS.

there’s also the whole “AI” LLM thing happening with MCP
https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/build/storefront-mcp/servers/storefront

Though really such things are INTRODUCTORY features, READ: marketing bullet points, serious business should build their own , or integrate with services/apps/apis that SPECIALIZE in algorithmic product recommendations.

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