[Cart-Power]

Dear friends,

We would like to introduce you the Live Search add-on.
 


The "Live Search" add-on is a sophisticated module which allows your customers to search products using a simple search form and receive the results instantly with the help of Ajax technology. Add-on sends one request only after a customer has finished character entering, so the search process does not overload your server. We developed special cache system to optimize search process as well. We tested search on the store with 35 000 products which are translated into 24 languages. We recommend you to see the video tutorial that we have prepared for this add-on.
Please do not forget to rebuild cache after add-on is installed. Go to Admin panel top menu > Live search > Live search cache and click the Rebuild cache button.
We also recommend you configure Cron job for cache rebuilding. Just add the following command in Cron Jobs:
wget -q "http://YOUR_DOMAIN/l...ord=PASSWORD"  

Features:

• various templates to display search field (rounded corners, underlined field, overlay and animated effects, option to show field in dropdown);
• includes sorting of displayed search results according to priority of fields in the database;
• optimized speed due to Internal Cache system;
• tested with 35 000 products which are translated into 24 languages;
• a special system of the fields weight for the relevant search
• cache products functionality with the usage of the special page and cron script;
• automatically caching after the product is created/updated/deleted;
• ability to turn on using cache for live search and regular search separately;
• search request history with detailed information about search patterns and their frequency;
• ability to clear search history, ability to delete separate search phrase;
• ability to determine the minimum number of characters required for starting search;
• ability to show/hide ajax loader for live search process;
• ability to offer some suggestions according to the characters typed;
• the ability to postpone the initiation of the search process for some time;
• easily adjusted search area (search is available in keywords, features, options, product codes, categories (new!), subcategories;
• ability to add stop words to a product to exclude it from search results;
• easily adjusted search results area (number of products, product codes and prices, presence and width of thumbnails, the Add to cart button with the Quick view and Add to cart functionality;
•  ability to export / import stop-words via .csv files. 

Cart-Power Live search add-on on storefront:

Settings of Cart-Power Live search add-on into Admin panel:
 
Page of Live search cache:

Cart-Power Live search history:

Live search Fields weight:

Live demo:

• Customer area
• Admin area

Compatible:

• CS-Cart version 3.x.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x, 4.2.x, 4.3.x, 4.4.x;
• Multivendor version 3.x.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x, 4.2.x, 4.3.x, 4.4.x.

Official product page here.

Watch video guide.

Посмотреть обсуждение модуля на форуме CS-Cart на русском языке
 
Let us know if you have any additional questions.

[Flow]

Now that is how cs-carts search should have been. Thanks

[Darius]

Such addons are the only reason I will go over upgrade process from 2x after 4.2.1 will be released

[Cart-Power]

Now that is how cs-carts search should have been. Thanks

Thank you for review =) May be, Ideally, search must include pages and categories. How do you think?

[Cart-Power]

Such addons are the only reason I will go over upgrade process from 2x after 4.2.1 will be released

We are glad that it is really useful =)

[Party]

This add-on is a great alternative to Searchings’ however it missing some important features such as “Stop Words”, where users can add stop words to products they don’t want to appear in search results under certain keywords.

For instance I have 100 products named “bigman” and other products named “man”, so every time customers search for “man”; the “bigman” products also show up in search results. So my customers getting irrelevant search results.

Dear Cart-Power, please consider to add this function in the next release – I will be more then happy to pay again for upgrade.

[Cart-Power]

This add-on is a great alternative to Searchings’ however it missing some important features such as “Stop Words”, where users can add stop words to products they don’t want to appear in search results under certain keywords.

For instance I have 100 products named “bigman” and other products named “man”, so every time customers search for “man”; the “bigman” products also show up in search results. So my customers getting irrelevant search results.

Dear Cart-Power, please consider to add this function in the next release – I will be more then happy to pay again for upgrade.

We will consider to include this feature in add-on. If you need add this function in the nearest time, we can offer you to perform it as custom development.

[nalbertus]

Does the add-on also makes it possible to search on the custom-made features items (same as used in te filter). Currently it is not possible to display items based on the names or numbers from the features allocated to the product

[Cart-Power]

Does the add-on also makes it possible to search on the custom-made features items (same as used in te filter). Currently it is not possible to display items based on the names or numbers from the features allocated to the product

It is possible to configure search by short description, full description, keywords, product code. Do you mean ability to choose these options for customers?

[nalbertus]

in the admin I can go to products --> features and add a new feature. For example I have a winestore and one of the features is "year". 2010, 2011, 2012 etc.

I can use the feature as a filter. But the search option in cs-cart does not search bij features.So if I search on 2010 which is allocated to a product it will not find the product. Am I right? The only option I have is to put the featues of every product in the keywords bar of the product.

Does your add-onn makes it possible to configurated it to also include the features of the product in the search results

[Cart-Power]

in the admin I can go to products --> features and add a new feature. For example I have a winestore and one of the features is "year". 2010, 2011, 2012 etc.

I can use the feature as a filter. But the search option in cs-cart does not search bij features.So if I search on 2010 which is allocated to a product it will not find the product. Am I right? The only option I have is to put the featues of every product in the keywords bar of the product.

Does your add-onn makes it possible to configurated it to also include the features of the product in the search results

Thank you for the explanation. Unfortunately, there is no such ability in current version. But we can add it for you as custom development. Please, email us if you are interested in it.

[Party]

Thanks, Cart-Power.

I will wait for the next release, i hope you will consider this in short time so more people will enjoy this addon.

in the admin I can go to products --> features and add a new feature. For example I have a winestore and one of the features is "year". 2010, 2011, 2012 etc.

I agree, it will save us tons of time if we can search by product "Options" as well, rather than include those keywords from options. If the search results can also include "images" of product options then this will help as well in terms of accessibility.

[Cart-Power]

Dear Friends,

We would like to inform you, that we have added new features to Live Search add-on.

• ability to search by product features
• ability to search by product options
• ability to add stop words

Full new description of add-on is below.

The "Live Search" add-on is a great module, which allows your customers search products by using simple search form and get result instantly with help of Ajax technology.

Features:

• work with responsive themes
• using ajax technology
• allows configure search parameters such us: search in short description, full description, keywords, search by product code, search by product features, search by product options
• search by exact phrase or any word
• ability to add stop words for product to exclude product from search by some word
• configure amount of entered symbols to start search
• limit of products in search results
• show/hide thumbnails
• set thumbnails size
• show/hide product code
• show/hide product price

Add-on is compatible with 

• CS-Cart version 3.x.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x, 4.2.x, 4.3.x, 4.4.x;
• Multivendor version 3.x.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x, 4.2.x, 4.3.x, 4.4.x.

Live demo:

• admin area
• customer area

Do not hesitate ask any questions.

Thank you.

[Flow]

Search by features

[Cart-Power]

Search by features

What's wrong?

[Cart-Power]

Dear Friends,

We have added ability to search by product options also.

Thank you.

[Flow]

What's wrong?

Nothing! That was my very suprised and happy expression.

[Cart-Power]

Nothing! That was my very suprised and happy expression.

Thank you for the explanation =) Smile a little confused us =)

[Cart-Power]

Dear Friends,

We have done one good change of Live Search add-on, which made it faster. You could check it on our demo.

There were some bugs with fast entering of symbols also. We have fixed it also.

Please, let us know if you have any questions.

[clips]

Does this work with CS 4.2.?

Also, will it work with responsive theme?

Right now your site doesn't mention either.