Filters and Faceted Search

Product filters are an interactive element of e-commerce user experience that help reduce a large product range to a smaller selection, allowing the user to focus on the products they are interested in. CloudSuite offers basic filtering based on the available attributes (multi-select) and category navigation.

For large catalogs, you can filter even further using faceted search aka guided navigation. Facets are a subset of filtering to narrow the search results, helping searchers to quickly find what they are looking for without endless scrolling. Think of setting fixed ranges (price, size) or additional filters based on grouped product properties (temperature, color, material), that you can use to refine your search.

Example

• Between facets, the filters are applied as AND.
• Within a facet, the filters are applied as OR.

So filtering on e.g. brand = 3M and brand = Apple AND filtering on color = blue will result in all products from 3M and Apple that are blue.

If multiple variants are displayed as 1 product on your lister page, selecting multiple values e.g. colors (fashion) all the selected colors are displayed in your search results.