🔍 Search for Products
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Ali Ryder
In the main navigation menu, the search feature doesn't return products. That seems to be a problem!
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Jane bartholdy
I have a problem some of my product are not showing in the App
Calvin Correli
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I'll get it done.
David B. Alexander
Calvin Correli This is a bit of an aside, but I really enjoy all the supporting software and activities Simplero offers. The feature requests area, the technical support area, the "latest simplifications and improvements" dropdown, and the online forums and discussions, all feel light, inviting, and (most important?) quite functional.
Calvin Correli
David B. AlexanderAmazing. So glad to hear that, David!
Ali Ryder
Calvin Correli Justine Weir can anyone provide a reason why this has been neglected for so long? Now that there is a new and improved search page with a drop-down that lets you filter to just show certain types of objects, it seems particularly inexplicable why my products aren't being returned in search results.
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Cyndi ENAC
We also have a catalog of 120 products and growing each month so now that there is a catalog feature we need to allow the potential purchasers to search.
Adding the option to assign multiple categories to one product would be nice too.
Ali Ryder
Okay since there's been no movement on this in 6 months, let me elaborate.
I have a catalog of 100+ products. That's a lot! The most efficient thing for me to do is to make use of the Catalog Sales Page, since everything for the product would all be in one place. But alas, since my users cannot search for Products, but they can search for pages, I have to make a separate sales page for each of my 100+ products, just to make them appear in the search results! Sure, for some of my high-value products I want to have a nice sales page. But for a lot of my low-value products I would rather not put in the effort.
Also, I can display the product catalog on a Page, but then it's showing like 100+ results. It's a lot of scrolling to just find the product that one might want. You could use the CTRL+F to search in the page, but the actual Simplero search does not return these products.
Because products can only be in one category, (https://requests.simplero.com/feature-requests/p/putting-a-product-in-multiple-categories) I can't even usefully use the product categories feature to have multiple sections and say "here are the products you might like if you're interested in X, here are the ones that are related to Y" because some products can be in more than one category.
I'm constantly getting emails asking if I have a product that does X or Y, even though they're on my website, because it's so hard to search for that information.