Search Features

Facets 

Facets are created to help the shoppers narrow down their search results. With a single query, the search results page is flooded with numerous products. But for shoppers with an intent to buy a particular product or refer to a category, facets are extremely helpful. Facets provide various categories of product attributes. Like, for a cosmetic query: brands, color, ratings are the suitable facets to let the shoppers find their product. For a dress, facets range from size, color, type, brand etc. 

Variants

Variants define various attributes of the same product. If a product type ‘dress’ is available in different colors. Then keeping the product ID same, the different colors of the product will be displayed on the search results page. So, when the shoppers hover on a product, they can see the different colors it is available in and click to add it to the cart. The variant ID of the product changes but product ID remains the same.

Multi-Value

When the same product has different image angles, it is called having multiple values of the same product. Like if shoppers search for MACbook, they can see different images of the same product for clarity.

Typo Tolerance

The spellcheck or ‘Did you mean’ feature helps to avoid zero results by providing probable results of the misspelled queries. When a shopper types a wrong spelling of the query, instead of showing ‘No Results Found’ that is an unpleasant experience, display ‘Did you Mean’ option with 2-3 product suggestions that are close to the typed query based on the context-aware algorithms by Unbxd. Our analytics tracks the frequency of similar misspelled queries and ranks spelling suggestions accordingly.

A lot of times shoppers find their intended products in the ‘Did you Mean’ suggestions.

Synonyms

Synonyms help the shoppers to find their intended product by providing similar words for a query. Like ‘flip-flops’ is added as a synonym for ‘slippers’ or ‘pants’ for ‘trousers’.
Synonyms are also added to identify the shoppers’ intent based on geolocations. Adding them helps to avoid zero results for a query.

Bucketing

Bucketing allows you to group products with a common field value into groups known as buckets, returning the top products per bucket, and the top buckets based on what documents are in the groups. It is necessary that every bucket field is also the facet field in your eCommerce store.

Pagination

Pagination allows to display a certain number of products on pages. The ‘start’ parameter is used to offset the results by a specific number.
The rows parameter is used to paginate the results of a query. It indicates the number of products in a single page.

Sorting

Sorting can be applied  on the field name to group the products either by ascending or descending order.

Banners / redirects

In case of an occasion, upcoming sale, or festivity, create a relative image and display it on your site. Such eventful images draw the shoppers toward a collection of products catering to a specific category of occasion.