How to manage PrestaShop faceted search module on PrestaShop 1.7

If you’ve got a PrestaShop online store with a large product catalog, you already realize you need to make sure your customers can find what they want without too much guess-work. Your most prospective customers are the ones who use the search function on your site.

Only 40% of online stores offer faceted search, so adding it to your PrestaShop store can boost your conversion rates and make you much more familiar with online customers.

Within this article, I will introduce to you a short and simple tutorial about PrestaShop faceted search module on PrestaShop version 1.7. For PrestaShop older versions (1.4, 1.5 and 1.6) the module is named “Layered navigation block”. Its configuration page is similar with faceted search module, so if you’re using these older versions, this tutorial is still helpful.

What is PrestaShop faceted search?

Faceted search module is a default PrestaShop module that displays a block with the layered navigation filters. It allows the customers to define combined criteria to filter category products, giving more details in order to decrease the number of displayed products. This is a great tool for customers who know the details of what they want (color, condition and price range) but are unsure how to find it.

How to configure PrestaShop faceted search module?

  • In your PrestaShop back office go to Modules -> Modules and Services section
  • Choose Installed modules tab and type in the search field “Faceted Search” to find the module.
  • If the module is not installed, click the Install button. After installing the module, click “Configure” button.

Indexes and caches

To work appropriately, Faceted Search must stay up-to-date with your latest products, product attributes, and all product prices. That’s why it is required to re-index the data.

  • Index all missing prices: only add to the index the prices that were not indexed before.
  • Rebuild entire price index: add to the index all the prices, whether they were already indexed before or not.
  • Build attribute index: add to the index all the product attributes.

Let’s take a big note here:

You have to update your indexes every time your products’ data changes.

Filter templates

You can use the existing Filter template or add a new one. To create a new filter template, click Add new template button.

  • Set the new filter title into the Template name field
  • Choose the categories for which the filter will appear in the Categories used for this template.

  • You may enable/disable the suitable filters in the Filters section. Faceted search menu will add them to your filter template.

Each filter has respective options. You can select the appropriate style for each filter (Checkbox, Radio button or Drop-down list). You can also set the limit value of items.

  • When you’re ready, click the Save button.

Configuration

You can set the additional module settings in the Configuration section.

  • Show the number of matching products: hide filter values when no product is matching or show their number.
  • Show products from subcategories: show/hide the products from subcategories.
  • Category filter depth (0 for no limits, 1 by default): define the category filter depth.
  • Use tax to filter price: enable/disable the tax to the filter price.
  • Use rounding to filter price: enable/disable rounding to filter price option.

Finally, click the Save button to save the changes.

And we’ve finished! Now you can navigate to your front office and check how the navigation filters look.

 

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