Shopify Search & Discovery

Love this app for customising recommending products, the filter section needs a lot more customisation for me to be able to consider using it but being able to customise recommended AND matching products has been great for my customers & helping them find what they need visually. The one big downside is the automated recommendations, they make hardly any sense & I can't turn them all off - I have to do it one by one then replace all of them manually, it's taking me 4-6 minutes to do each product & I am dreading having to go through it again when I release a new collection. Great especially for an app I don't need to pay extra money money for, but time consuming

I downloaded the app and was impressed with its user-friendly interface. It's so intuitive that I would even be willing to pay for it. However, there is a significant flaw in the filtering feature that renders it useless for our needs.

The problem lies in the static nature of the filters. For instance, if I select 'Brown' under the 'Color' filter and 'L' under the 'Size' filter, the app returns 'nothing found.' This is because the filters are not dynamically linked, meaning that the app does not take into account the relationship between the two filters.

It would be great if the app could have a dynamic filter behavior where choosing values from different filters wouldn't result in the frustrating 'nothing found' message. For example, it would be helpful if selecting 'Brown' would automatically eliminate 'L' from the 'Size' filter, preventing users from encountering a dead end.

Overall, the app has great potential, but the filter issue needs to be addressed to make it more practical for users. I hope the developers can implement a dynamic filter behavior soon.

Excellent app, and in my experience, usually much easier to use native apps from Shopify. The only thing I think it's missing is a "Re-direct" section, where you could manually say if someone searches for "X" re-direct them to a URL.

Like searching "Delivery", you could re-direct them to the delivery page rather than return 0 results.

Also, the ability to manage the filters a bit more, something like sort type, vendor by A to Z, Z to A, most results to least etc etc

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Response to Shopify feedback:

Agree the suggestions work well for the most part, however, there are instances where we no longer sell a brand for example, it would be nice to manually direct people to a "missing brand" page explaining where it's gone.

Other scenarios might be people searching "finishes" like "Brushed Brass" I would like to ideally URL redirect that search to all of our products with the colour filter "Brushed Brass" ticked for example.

I used this app to control Shopify's suggestions of alternative products as organically it wasn't doing a great job. The app works well and easy to set up and implement. It would be great though if the developers could address a couple of issues. The list of product recommendations set up appears oldest 1st. I'd prefer it to be shown the other way around so I can see where I've got up to without having to scroll through pages of ones set up. Also, a facility to 'duplicate' some recommendations to copy to other source products would be a nice time-saving feature. And finally on the website a carousel would be useful so more than 5 of the 10 recommend products can be seen.

It would be incredibly helpful to define more than one filter set and have the ability to indicate which filter set should be used on a collection template. Right now I am forced into having one set of filters for every collection, even when collections are comprised of different product categories that have unique search criteria (filters).