BigCommerce
Product Filter & Search

added a spell check on the quick search and main search page. If there's a misspelt word, it will suggest the correct spelling.

SKU is searched, it will automatically redirect the customer to the product that matches the SKU.

added a manage sort order feature to each facet found on your filters page. This allows you to customize the sort order of that filter values.

added a hide values feature for the Category Tree facet found on your filters page. This allows you to hide categories that you do not want to show in the category tree.

added a new display type for product option color swatches called Swatch list. This will show your swatches as a list with the color name next to each swatch. You can view an example here.

added a new layout to our search; it changes the standard two-column to a one-column layout. We recommend enabling this from your search settings.

to exclude from the search term; this will give more accurate search results.

you to redirect customers to pages if certain keywords are searched.

you to add Synonyms for search terms, for example, if you search "iPhone" or "iOS", you can make it search "Apple".

added a new feature to our search which will search through your blog posts and display results.

added a new category search filter. This allows customers to search through the active category searching through Product Names, Brands and SKU's. This filter has two display options: Sidebar & Above products. When sidebar is selected it will show a search box in your normal filter, the ideal place would be to place this filter at the top of the facets. When Above products is selected, it will show a search bar the full width of your product grid, allowing customs to search from there. You can view a demo here, currently its set to Above Products

improved the usability of our mobile sidebar filter.

added an option in your settings to display your filter in a slide-out panel rather than a click to expand.

added the ability to add multiple filter building values using the separator ||.

improved the speed and overall stability of the filter.

increased the number of stores that sync in a queue from 1 to 3. This should help process the queue quicker.

made huge improvements to the filter speed, search speed and all-round speed in general.

changed the permissions of our apps API scope to allow customer group pricing and price lists.

added Search Stats to show you more details on what your customers are searching and what products are being clicked.

adjusted our navigation and added in a Search section.

added an option to display the slider as a detailed slider. See our demo here. This works with all sliders.

added queue for syncing, this is to prevent our server overloading. Your queue position will be shown on the Filter Sync page.

created a new BigCommerce app called Product Questions, this allows your customers to ask questions about your products which are displayed on your product page. View more information here.

added the ability to change the filter mobile button text. You can find this on your settings page.

We've added an option so you can customize the color of the filter counts and checkboxes.

We've added an option to hide the filters counts. If the number of products in a category is large then the calculation to make the counts can take a few seconds. To speed up the filter you can turn the counts off.

We've added an option to show the second image on hover. This can be enabled on the settings page.

We've added a new filter builder so you can create filters directly in our app.

We've renamed our Data Management page which is now called Filter Sync.

We've added a new sync recent button to the Filter Sync page, this will sync only the products that have been added/modified since the last sync.

We've added webhooks so your filter data is as close to real time as possible and will update automatically once you've made a change in BigCommerce. Once webhooks are enabled there will be no need to sync your filter. The only data that is not automatically synced in Product Options and Ru

We've added a new standard filter called Featured Products which will allow your customers to filter by featured products that are set in BigCommerce.

We've added placeholders when the filter is clicked to show the filter is loading.

We've added a new sale filter, it will display two values, On Sale and Not on sale.

We've added a new display type called blocks, this is ideal for stores with Size filter. You can find the option under display as on the filter page.

We've enabled HTTP/2 on our server which results in quicker search results.

We've created a new app called Price Offers. It allows you to add a Best Offer and/or a Price Match button on your product pages. View more information here

If there's only one top level parent category the category tree filter will be expanded as default.

We've removed certain characters from our URL's once the filter has been clicked.

We've improved the price and custom field sliders to stay on the value the customer chooses rather than going to its nearest result.

We've added a filter for the search page. This will only work with Stencil themes. Please see installation page for instructions

We've added a page called data management. This page will allow you to choose which data you want to automatically/manually sync. Also it allows you to remove Custom Fields/Product options that you're not using. The less data for your store the quicker your filter will load. Sync buttons and count buttons have been moved from the dashboard to the data management page.

We've removed the filter data page.

We've added a link in the header to report any issues you're experiencing.

We've added a page dedicated for our help videos.

We've added a lazy loader that displays more filtered results on scroll which in return produces quicker loading results, you can configure the amount of products to show from your settings page

added a new standard filter called Category Tree, this allows customers to expand categories to narrow down their products.

We've added a custom field import page, this enables you to upload custom fields from a BigCommerce backup.

Our filter now allows for product Variants.

We've redesigned the filter page from the ground up making it easier to add/edit your filters.

We've improved the filter loading speed, especially stores with a large number of products.

We've added a feature where your product images will change once the filter has been clicked if you have different images for color SKU's.

We've added the ability to add multiple users to access the app. To give users access to the app you need to edit the users account in BigCommerce (Account Settings > Users), scroll down to Single Click Apps and enable Product Filter.

We've added product options to the Filter Sort Order page. This will allow you to manage the sort order that the filter values show in.

We've added a new page called Value Replacer, This is ideal for stores that have different color/size values per manufacturer. For example Light Blue, Aqua, Navy Blue can be replaced with "Blue" or SM, S, SML can be replaced with "Small".

We've added a new page called Filter Cache, this will show which filters in categories/brands are currently cached and allows you to purge the cache.

We've added the ability to include out of stock products in filtered results.

We've added a new search results filter. When a customer uses your stores search bar our script will show a popup with the search results with your selected filters in the sidebar.

We've added dark mode for dark mode enabled macs with Safari 12.

We've added a feature that swaps product images on product options filters if you have rules setup to change images on selection.

We've improved our filter sync function, it will now sync your products faster and use less server resource.

We've added a feature to show swatches in your filter instead of the color names. You have to have swatches enabled on your product options. To enable swatches on your filter go to your filter page, edit your color filter and change "Display as" to swatches.

We’ve fixed an issue where some users couldn't delete filters. Now all filters can be deleted except from Filter ID 1.

We've released our brands page filter. Your filter will now show on brand pages.

We can now should your product options swatches on the product results once the filter has been clicked.

We've added a feature to allow you to manage the sort order of Custom Field filter values.

We've increased the speed for all filters (big & small stores).

We've added a feature to hide filter on individual categories. You can find this feature by clicking the cog icon next to your filter.

As the number of features are increasing we need to adapt the design to contain the features in an organised way so we've redesigned the filter page. The filter page now shows an overview of the filters and the cog icon next to it will open a popup for you to adjust the filters.

We've added a support link to our nav under the Additional section for easy access to report any issues you may be facing.

We've added 4 sync buttons to your dashboard. This will only sync the requested information (ideal for larger stores). The sync buttons are for Custom Fields, Categories, Product Options and Brands. There is no time limit on these buttons but please do not abuse the links.

We're re-arranged the Dashboard.

We've added a feature which allows you to collapse/expand filters and you can choose to have it collapsed as default from your filter page.

We've added a feature which allows you to add a small explainer image next to each filter header, this is shown when you hover over the tooltip.

We've added a display column on your filter page which allows you to choose the display type as a slider for custom fields.(like price slider)

We've added information onto the header of the filter table. Hover over the tooltip which looks like this "i" next to each filter header and it will explain what each column does.

Force update is now called Product Sync.

We've moved the profile & payments back to the main nav due to confusion and made an account section.

We've added a logout button to the account section

We’ve rebuilt the user interface from the ground up.

Payment and profile pages are now in top right hand corner under company name.

We’ve renamed the previous dashboard page to “Filter” as this is more relevant.

We’ve created a separate dashboard page where you will be able to see an overview of your filter. We’re going to be adding more widgets to the dashboard very soon.

We’ve created a page that will show all of the product data that we hold for your store.

We’ve fixed an issue with some products going to a 404 page due to the URL containing a large number of characters.

We’ve added a right sidebar with our Twitter feed to keep users up to date with new features.

We want to make sure we’re meeting your requirements at all times. If you have an idea of a feature that could help you and your customers with their filtering experience please submit a feature request from the menu.

We’ve added a page to add your custom CSS. Please only edit this page if you have CSS knowledge.

We’ve integrated Yotpo & Stomped review system. So now the reviews will show after the filter is clicked. This can be controlled from your settings page.

We’ve added a new feature that when the filer is clicked it adds onto the URL which allows customers to select the filter, click on a product, click the back button and their selection will still be showing. You can also use these URL's for promotions.

We’ve added an “Add new filter” button, so you can add as many new filters as you need easily.

We’ve moved the navigation to the side to make it easy to see all options.

We’ve cut out two steps of our installation process for Stencil themes, we now automatically inject the filter script for new installs.

Implemented a feature to add a Filter Refine Bar above each filter for customers to search, turn this on from your configuration page

Implemented a feature to hide 0 counts as the customers is filtering, turn this on from your configuration page

Improved installation to automatically inject out script into your store (cuts out copy and paste)

Implemented a “size” product option merge, if you have multiple product options with the display name “Size” these will all now be merged into one.

Fixed issue with filters breaking if they contain a + (plus) or a – (minus).

Fixed issue where the price filter wasn’t working correctly on some templates.

PDF invoices and receipts for previous transactions can now be viewed from the payments page.

We’ve integrated our payment system with the filter. Current users can view previous transactions, see their current card and update their card. New users can start a subscription all from our new payments page.

We’ve removed the countdown from the filters, this is now shown on the payments page, for new users it will show a countdown of your free trial and for subscribed users it will show a countdown until their next payment.

We’ve modified the header to a simpler look and added our new payments page under Account.

Fixed issue where the filter labels were not sorting in the correct order

We’ve added an installation page to separate it from settings. We’ve also improved the setup process to make it a lot easier.

Added a feature where the page scrolls up when the filter is clicked so customers can see the results quicker

Added default sort order so you can choose the order of products once the filter has been clicked.

Fixed issue where stock wasn’t counted if customer managed stock through SKU.

Fixed issue where “FILTER CLICKS THIS MONTH” shows 0 for customers who haven’t purchased stats. It now shows purchase stats link.

Fixed issue where it was showing stats graph & tables with no data to customers who haven’t purchased stats. It now shows purchase stats link.

Fixed issue on all filter clicks table where the filter label wasn’t showing.

Redesigned settings page.

Fixed filter table sorting bug that stopped users being able to change the order of their filters.

Improved stats by adding “Best Performing Filters” and “Best Performing Categories” tables and merged all filters.

Enabled filter visible/hidden on settings page.

Fixed issue with clear cache on force update.

Restyled user interface.