Score-Based Recommendations

Score-based recommendations are a more advanced recommendation type in Quizify. Instead of linking answers directly to products, you assign point values to answers, define score ranges, and link each range to product recommendations. The customer's total score determines which products they see.

How It Works

The scoring system works in three stages:

Answers carry point values. You assign a numeric score to each answer option in your quiz — for example, 1 point for a mild response, 3 points for a moderate one, 5 points for a strong one.
Points accumulate into a total score. As the customer moves through the quiz and selects answers, their point values add together to produce a final total score.
The total score falls into a range. You define score ranges — for example, 0–10, 11–20, 21–30 — and link each range to a specific product recommendation. Quizify identifies which range the customer's score falls into and displays the products for that range on the result page.

When to Use Score-Based Recommendations

Score-based recommendations are the right choice when your products suit a spectrum of outcomes — where the difference between one recommendation and another depends on the overall picture rather than any single answer.

Common use cases include:

Severity or concern level — a skincare quiz where mild, moderate, and severe concerns each point to different product strengths
Experience or skill level — a fitness or nutrition quiz where beginners, intermediate users, and advanced users need different products
Lifestyle intensity — a wellness quiz where answers reflect how active, stressed, or health-focused a customer is overall

If the right product for a customer depends on their cumulative profile rather than one specific answer, score-based recommendations are likely the right approach.

How It Differs from Normal Recommendations

In Normal (answer-based) recommendations, each answer links directly to products, variants, collections, or product tags. The result is the union of everything the customer selected. Score-based recommendations do not use direct answer-to-product links. Instead, the total score is what determines the recommendation — individual answers only contribute their point values to the overall total.

This means:

One answer alone cannot determine the result — the full picture of the quiz matters
Products are mapped to score ranges, not to individual answers
The result is always a single range outcome, not a combination of multiple answers' linked products

Setup Overview

Setting up score-based recommendations involves four steps:

Set your quiz to use score-based recommendations in the quiz settings
Assign a point value to each answer option across your questions
Define the score ranges that cover all possible totals
Link each score range to the product recommendations for that outcome

See the related guides — Assigning Score Values to Answers, Defining Score Ranges and Outcome Labels, and Mapping Score Ranges to Product Recommendations — for detailed instructions on each step.

You need to plan your score ranges carefully before publishing. Make sure your ranges cover every possible total score a customer could achieve, so no customer ends up without a recommendation.

Frequently asked questions

Can one answer affect multiple scores?

In Quizify's standard score-based setup, each answer contributes one point value to the single running total. The scoring is cumulative — all answer values add together. There is not a separate score per question; there is one overall score that all answers contribute to.

How does score-based recommendation work?

Score-based recommendations work by assigning a point value to each answer option. As the customer moves through the quiz and selects answers, their point values add together to produce a total score. You define score ranges and link each range to a product recommendation. When the quiz ends, Quizify checks which range the customer's score falls into and shows the products for that range on the result page.

How is the final score calculated — average or total?

The final score in Quizify is a total, not an average. Every selected answer's point value is added together to produce the final number. When you define your score ranges, you should design them based on the minimum and maximum totals a customer could achieve across all questions in the quiz.

When should I use score-based instead of Normal recommendation?

Use score-based recommendations when the right product depends on the customer's overall profile rather than their individual answers. If your products suit a spectrum — for example, mild, moderate, and strong formulations, or beginner, intermediate, and advanced products — and the customer's position on that spectrum is determined by the sum of all their answers, score-based is the right choice. If individual answers clearly point to specific products, Normal recommendations are simpler and work just as well.