Product Filtering/ faceted search allows shoppers to refine product searches based on multiple attributes like price, color, size, and reviews. Using filters on your storefront can make it easier for shoppers to navigate products by allowing them to search the way they want to. Product filters appear on category, brand, and search pages. The store must be on a Pro and Enterprise plan to enable product filtering.
Once product filtering is enabled for your store, a list of all available filters is automatically generated in Products -> Product filtering. We can manage which filters appear in the storefront, set category-specific filters, and change the sort order for the filter values.
Filters will only display on a storefront page if there are products available with those attributes. Each filter can have an unlimited number of values (such as red, green, and blue for a color filter), but only up to 500 of the most commonly-used values will be displayed in the storefront. If a filter has more than 15 values, additional values are displayed under a Show More link. Storefront can display up to 12 filters on any particular page.
The various filter types are:
- Category — filters by product category or sub-category
- Brand — filters by the product brand
- Price — filters by the base price of the product
- Rating — filters by product review rating
- Other — enables additional filters:
- Products with free shipping
- Featured products
- Products that are in stock
- Product Options — filters by product options.
- Custom Fields — filters by custom fields on products.
To enable product filtering:
Select control panel -> products -> product filtering -> enable. Use the category selector to switch between editing all categories or editing an individual category.
Click the checkbox under Visible to enable/disable a filter from showing on the storefront.
Edit the settings for each filter by clicking the ⋯ settings menu to the right.