Customize Filter Options for Improved Search Results

Customize Filter Options for Improved Search Results

Shopify Updates: 

Enhance Your Store's Filtering Experience

The Shopify Search & Discovery app now offers the ability to manage filter values that lead to no matching results. This feature ensures a smoother shopping experience for your customers, helping them find the products they want more efficiently.

Why Is This Update Important?

Filters are essential for narrowing down product searches, but values that result in no matches can confuse customers and add friction to their shopping experience. With this update, you can decide how these filter values are displayed to improve usability and clarity.

Customizing Filter Settings

  • Move Values with No Matches to the End: Keep all filter options visible, but organize them so values with no results appear last, reducing distractions.
  • Hide Values Completely: Remove filter values that don’t lead to results, allowing customers to focus only on relevant options.

These changes can be implemented easily in your Shopify admin. Navigate to the Search & Discovery app, go to Settings, and adjust options within the Empty Values card.

Learn More

For detailed instructions and additional help, visit the Shopify Help Center. Take full control over your store’s filter settings to offer a seamless browsing experience.

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