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Customer reviews: Shopify Search & Discovery

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The Shopify Search & Discovery app helps merchants enhance their store's search functionality, product recommendations, and navigation. Reviews from real users provide insights into its performance, ease of use, and impact on sales—helping you decide if it's the right fit for your business.

Reviews (528)

Overall rating
4.2

What Merchants Think

Merchants generally view the "Shopify Search & Discovery" app as a valuable tool for enhancing their store's search capabilities and product discovery. While many appreciate its functionality and the ability to offer better search experiences for customers, some have expressed concerns about certain limitations and areas for improvement. Overall, the app is seen as a crucial addition for stores looking to enhance user experience and search precision.

Key Strengths

  • Offers improved search functionality and product discovery.
  • Free to use, providing a cost-effective solution for merchants.
  • Helps increase site conversion rates.
  • Facilitates cross-selling and complementary product recommendations.
  • Easy to integrate and setup within stores.

Common Concerns

  • Limitations on filter options, such as the maximum number displayed and customization per collections.
  • Search limitations, including issues with SKU searches and search result filtering by image.
  • Some features, like filter visibility, are language-specific and may not work well with multiple languages.
  • Insufficient customization options for presenting search results and product recommendations.
  • Challenges with integrating and functioning seamlessly with certain Shopify themes and large inventories.

Final Thoughts

The "Shopify Search & Discovery" app is a well-received tool that enhances a store's search efficiency and product discovery capabilities. While its free nature and core strengths make it a preferred choice for many merchants, there are areas that require further enhancements to address limitations and improve user experience. Continued development and updates will likely increase its adoption and efficacy across diverse store requirements.

Luxury Lairs

Aug 22, 2024  on Shopify

Excellent app for featuring 'frequently bought together' on product pages and boosting products in search

Zelouf Fabrics

Aug 19, 2024  on Shopify

The search app is good, but there's lacking features. If you have a store with more than 5000 items, the filter doesn't show and there's no way to filter a collection by product count. Out of stock items are hidden in search, but forget about it if someone is browsing products. Customize filters with metadata works fairly well, but for some reason adding thousands of data points to group makes the app not show all the data to group it in the app, but shows it to the customer on the website ungrouped.

Pawsome Hub

Aug 17, 2024  on Shopify

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VIVACIDADE

Aug 15, 2024  on Shopify

Ich habe sie heruntergeladen und sie war einfach, klar verständlich, super vorbereitet und automatisiert aufgesetzt mit flexiblen Änderungs- und Anpassungsmöglichkeiten bei bedarf und das for free! Also sehr gelungen würde ich sagen. Ich gebe eben nur 4 Sterne weil ich, seit ich das neue Theme Dawn-Version 15.0.2 nutze, keine Abschnitte für Ähnliche Produkte mehr hinzufügen kann. Die Alten bestehen aber noch. Das ist super schade und ich weiß auch nicht ob das zusammenhängt. Kann mir hier vielleicht jemand helfen?

MexicoMiAmor

Aug 15, 2024  on Shopify

Wir sind sehr zufrieden mit der App. Sie erweitert die Funktionen für Shopify kostenlos, so kann man Suchfilter einführen bzw. die Suche allgemein verbessern und Produktempfehlungen zufügen, die von vielen Themes auch unterstützt werden. Sie läuft ohne Fehler und mit einer guten Menüführung. An dieser Stelle hat Shopify wirklich eine tolle eigene App beigesteuert.

The Architectural Forum

Aug 07, 2024  on Shopify

How can Shopify have a native search app that doesn't allow customers to search for items via their SKU?? All of our products have specific SKU names that are intrinsic for liaising with customers. I now have 3 Shopify stores that are causing so much frustration - a massive problem that could be solved with one simple fix. Shopify, surely its time to fix this?!

OEURON.Shop

Jul 27, 2024  on Shopify

Nachdem ich die App gründlich erforscht und mich intensiv mit dem erfreulichen Weg des Verkaufs beschäftigt habe, kann ich mit Überzeugung sagen, dass diese App die Beste ist! Von der Benutzerfreundlichkeit bis hin zu den vielfältigen Funktionen – alles ist darauf ausgerichtet, das Einkaufserlebnis so angenehm und effizient wie möglich zu gestalten. Die Entwickler haben wirklich an alles gedacht und bieten einen herausragenden Service. Absolut empfehlenswert!

X Over 0

Jul 22, 2024  on Shopify

The Availability filter does not work. For whatever reason, it displays the total product count instead of the inventory count AND it's not even recognizing variants, so it's completely useless. Outside of this app, the inventory counter is displaying correctly on the product page so obviously the problem is with this app. This availability filter code is no good. Hand coded filters used to work on Shopify but because of this newfangled junk, they don't anymore. This app has to be enabled for ANY filter to display - so you can get hand coded filters to show up, but they will only display error msgs, because Shopify 2.0 only accepts filter content from apps. I'm not a fan of chunking out useful features into a bunch of add-ons. UPDATE: found a source of incompatibility between this app and Shopify 2.0 free themes V 15.0. In facets.liquid, ALL filters print value.count. Value count = the number of product LISTINGS. This is only relevant to count by category, like qty of products that are t-shirts, qty of products that are hats, etc. This is entirely useless for inventory. I've managed to decouple the Availability filter from this irrelevant nonsense by using {%- if value.label contains "stock" -%}. However I've tried literally THOUSANDS of call combinations, logic, and assigns within this if clause and cannot get it to print the actual in stock inventory. I've been able to get it to print a fixed qty, or a (0), or a total product listings count, or even the total value of products in the cart. Anything but the inventory qty seems to work here. Please reply with the exact code needed for this to function properly. Thanks!!!! UPDATE #2: Thank you for responding but, that's honestly not an adequate solution whatsoever. As you pointed out, IT WILL NOT SUM, which means that will return a string of values that will read for example: "(4)(45)(9)(3)(1)(1)(3)(6)(2)(1)....etc." It could break the screen border with this nonsense. And it looks janky, which will bounce customers off the site instantly. AND your suggestion to do this as another layer of app bloat on the app sandwich is perfectly absurd. Let me know when Shopify is ready to give serious support and tell me how to CODE a reasonable solution into facets.liquid and it's associated .js and .css theme files. It's an embarrassing oversight on the part of Shopify that there is no availability filter that shows in stock goods vs out of stock goods (regardless if the out of stock can still be custom ordered). Site visitors should be able to easily filter products on this basis because it affects how quickly the product will be shipped. Is this really a condition Shopify wants it's sites to perform poorly on? Isn't that kind of contrary to the whole mission of good ui > good seo > good revenue? You have a feature that is not working as advertised. Please fix it or tell me how I can fix it IN THE THEME FILES WITH CODE. Don't come at me with any more apps, alternatives, or substitutes. I assure you I am either already employing them or have tested them and found them inadequate.

Yourdecoration.nl

Jul 11, 2024  on Shopify

Het is een zeer simpele app en niet geschikt voor een e-commerce bedrijf anno 2024. Er is een maximum van 5000 producten als je er meer hebt dan verschijnen de filters niet. Wij hebben een collectie van 7000 fotolijsten ik moet de filters zodanig instellen zodat ik onder 5000 kom. Dat betekent dat ik 2000 producten niet zichtbaar heb. Verder heb je niet de mogelijkheid om sorteer optie te tonen. Bij het instellen van filters worden niet alle waardes in de app getoond. Op de website zie je bijvoorbeeld 20 kleuren en in de app 10. Al met al zeer basic.

Dplatafina

Jul 11, 2024  on Shopify

There is only one thing that for me holds this app from getting 5 stars, and that is no compatibility with category metafields. Category metafields are great for variants, but cant be filtered by this app. Hopefully this will be added in a next update.

Alubike

Jul 09, 2024  on Shopify

Funciones de búsqueda muy buenas. Aun que me encantaría que tuviera la opción de colocar términos de búsqueda en lugar de opciones de producto o secciones.

Bahru Leather

Jul 09, 2024  on Shopify

Great app that is easy to install and simple to integrate and setup. Only feature missing is a Buy Now or Add to Cart button for the products so that customers don't have to leave the main item page to simply buy an add on.

Toria's Creations 13

Jun 15, 2024  on Shopify

It's great! I am on a Starter Plan with Shopify and yet I was still able to use this app that categorizes the search function so now it is easier to find just t-shirts or just mugs instead of going through all the main pages. It's great! I am pleased. Thank you so much!

The Booty Life

Jun 10, 2024  on Shopify

So it took me a while to find an app that would do exactly what I needed and this does it. Complimentary products because I have several items all with the same design and each has a unique design number in the title like BL#7. Only reason I did not give a 5 was because the search function when searching for items to add to the complimentary doesnt work well at all. Search for BL#7 and you get 50 items with BL#105 etc. If the search function returned only the matches it would be perfect.

MERE-ENFANT

Jun 09, 2024  on Shopify

Application très pratique pour aider les visiteurs de ma boutique à trouver facilement les produits. Je recommande.

AMARINSKY

Jun 06, 2024  on Shopify

Hasta el momento el resultado de la aplicacion es buena, seria mas simple si las recomendaciones se apoyaran a los metags

Amaris Creative Collective

May 28, 2024  on Shopify

DESTROYED my meta-fields for my products. Want to add a weight for calculating shipping? DON'T USE THIS APP. It left me with four USELESS meta-fields instead of my product weight and size. UNBELIEVABLE.

Trade Sports

May 03, 2024  on Shopify

There is no reason why this app should get anything less than 5 stars in 2024. This app gives you complete control over how you cross sell products and seems to have the ability to learn over time what would be best options to cross sell with other products. Also it's complete free and works really well to tap into SEO markets with google giving you the most chances to have your item shown to prospective buyers.

Powerflex

Apr 25, 2024  on Shopify

Our contracted Shopify Partner, GSATi suggested we implement this app as a free alternative to DooFinder. Ever since turning on semantic search and boosting products, we've seen a significant increase in site conversion. My one suggestion would be to automatically turn on semantic search as a function of the app when onboarding.

BUDWING

Apr 23, 2024  on Shopify

Melhor aplicação do mercado ! Usa-a e muda para sempre a forma como o teu cliente navega no teu site!!

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