New Version of Live Search Add-on for CS-Cart
Live Search Version 3.0 (Sep 16, 2019).
Compatibility: CS-Cart 4.3.6 or higher
Make sure that you use CS-Cart version 4.3.6 or higher. If an older version is installed, you need to upgrade CS-Cart to version 4.3.6.
What is New: Redesigned Live Search view
Ability to Customize the Live Search view
You can change the colors of the live search main elements on a separate page.
Buttons "To Wishlist" and "To Comparison List"
Animated Search Motivation
Animated text in the Search field that attracts attention and encourages action.
Featured Products and Suggestions
You can add search phrases and set the Featured products and Search Suggestions for them. Besides suggestions can be formed automatically from the search history.
Settings:
Result:
Spell check added
Yandex.Speller was integrated to check spelling in the search queries. If the search returns no results and the search phrases for the query are not set, the corrected word variants will be shown.
Categories in the search results
Separate section for categories and the ability to show the category path added.
Now you can either group products by the category or show category label for each product.
Ability to Show Brands in the Search Results
Redesigned Search History
Analytics has become much easier. We divided the Search History into 3 sections:
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All search history
Use this data to analyze search queries on your site.
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Grouped phrases
There you can see a list of the most frequent search queries in your store. If you see many requests for a product that you do not sell, you can consider to start selling it.
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Product clicks
The summary table shows the products, the total number of clicks for each product and the list of clickable search phrases.
Breakdown of search queries clicks see on the product details page:
Products > Products > [Product_name] > Search by Product tab
Why is it useful? Bring products with higher conversion requests to the home page. Analyze why some products have low click-through rates and correct them. So you can increase sales.
Ability to Enable/Disable Search History Recording
In the previous version it was enabled by default and there was no option to disable it.
Cache Generation Mechanism was Improved (for Large Stores)
In the previous version only one common cache table was generated for the Live search. Now a separate cache table is generated for each language used on the storefront. As a result, the number of rows in each table reduces. The add-on will check the storefront language and will search through one single table instead of all database tables. It takes less time to process such a request.
Ability to speed up search in the stores with large product databases
The Search is accelerated by indexing the beginnings of words and limiting the number of fields that are searched through.
Ability to Search by Vendor (Multi-Vendor)
Enables search by the Vendor name field. All products of the Vendor will appear in the search results. Works in Multi-Vendor edition only.
Price is 79 USD
How to Upgrade?
If you have a license with an active upgrade subscription — download the distribution package of the new version from the detailed order page in your personal account.
If the subscription has expired - renew it in your personal account on store.cart-power.com.
Check out the Live Search Demo.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us in this thread or via the contact form on our website.
Обсуждение модуля на русском форуме CS-Cart.