Storefront search
Products → Search Settings controls the search box on your store.
- Live Search Enabled — show suggestions as shoppers type.
- Minimum Query Length — how many letters before suggestions start.
- Search Sources — what the quick search looks through: Search Products, Search Categories, Search Brands, Search Vendors (marketplace stores) and Search Pages. Products Under Categories groups product results by category.
- Display Options — Show Product Prices and Show Product Images in suggestions.
- Result Limits — the most results of each kind (Max Product Results and so on).
Click Save.
Help shoppers find products
- Make one word find another with search synonyms: open Settings → System → Search Management and, under Search synonyms, add one group per line with the words separated by commas, for example
t-shirt, tshirt, tee. Click Save. A search for any word in a group also finds products named with the others, in every storefront search: the suggestions as shoppers type, the search results page, Meilisearch and the WhatsApp bot. See Synonyms. - A product's Search words box (Availability tab, Promotion card) is not read by every search. Only the results list reads it, and only when shoppers filter by a product feature, your store hides out-of-stock products, or a category includes its subcategories; the shopping assistant's filtered search reads it too. The suggestions as shoppers type, Meilisearch and the WhatsApp bot ignore it, so put words every search should know in Search synonyms instead.
- Write clear product names that use the words shoppers search for.
- If new products don't show up in search, Search Management shows the search index status and can Reindex All Products.
- Home → Visitor analytics lists searches that found nothing (Store Analytics).