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Product filters sidebar

For categories with a lot of products, offering a way to filter items can help your customers more easily find exactly what they're looking for, and bring them that much closer to buying.  

Features include:

• Operates independently of specific product features, giving you total control over what filter options are offered
• Create and manage unlimited groups of filters 
• Apply any combination of filters to any product
• Only filters with at least one assigned product visible on the page will be displayed
• Customers can apply any combination of filters to refine results
• Works with product sorting, so customers can choose how to order their results
• Page address updates as filters are selected, meaning you can link directly to filtered results from anywhere
• Enable or disable filters site-wide with one click

The product filters feature is available on the Advanced plan or as an add-on for the Ecommerce plan.

Add it to your site

1. Ensure you're on the Advanced plan (or have enabled this add-on for Ecommerce).
2. In the Manage products section of the shop app, scroll down to the automatic "Filters" category and to begin with, ensure it's offline.
   
3. Filters are set up and managed as subcategories grouped under this special "Filter" category. To start using it, first you'll need to add a filter group:
   • At the bottom of the Manage products page under the "Add a category" heading, choose "Filters" for parent category.
   • Enter the name of your filter group (eg. Colours) as the category name, then click Next.
   • In the Edit category window that appears, only the first 3 fields (parent, name and display status) will be used by the site - you can ignore the rest. 
4. Then add your filters:
   • Under the "Add a category" heading, choose the filter group you set up in the previous step (eg. Filters > Colours)
   • Enter the name of your first filter (eg. Red) as the category name > Next > toggle on "Show on site" > Save changes > close the window.
   • Repeat this process to add all the filters under this particular group. 
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 to add as many groups of filters as you need. 
6. Once you've finished setting up your filters, it's time to edit your products. Under the Categories tab, tick each filter appropriate for that product, then save changes. 
7. When you're ready for the product listing pages to start showing the filters, return to the Manage products page and toggle the Filters category to Live.
8. Now whenever a customer visits a page with products that have assigned filters, the filter sidebar will automatically show up on the page. Only filters with at least one product to show will be displayed.