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Free eCommerce Site Search for Magento and Shopify

Posted on March 21, 2017 by Antony Kattukaran

Date: November 5th, 2017. This offer is no longer in effect as we reached the free quota.

In 2015, when Tagalys won the TechinAsia National Finals, one of the judges suggested: “Why not offer e-commerce Search for FREE? “. Back then, Tagalys was fully loaded, meaning we offered 1 packaged solution for all clients without the ability to break down our algorithm & features in parts. But each client’s needs are different and today the team has re-architectured Tagalys to offer Site Search free for any retailer with less than 5,000 monthly searches & 20,000 active products along with a few value-added features. Google used to offer free Site Search (not tailored for e-commerce), but they pulled the shutters. Interested – SIGNUP NOW

Value Additions in the PAID e-commerce site search plan

If your business has the budget to configure & continuously maintain indexes across SOLR, LUCENE, Elastic Search, etc., for your e-commerce store. Save time & money. Get Tagalys. Listed below are the value-added features we offer you in our PAID plan with availability/SLAs that will meet, maybe exceed your internal requirements.

Trending & Localized results: Do not show only relevant results (Free plan). Show the products that have the highest probability of sale based on engagement data. 80% of your visitors will not scroll more than 3 pages of Search. Allow Tagalys to determine what products to display for each search query

Search Suggestions: Auto-generate text suggestions and display the top X to your visitors that predictively change as they type. Interested – SIGN UP NOW

Multi-Store & Currency: No problem. Easily configurable with our integration kits.

Spell Check: Visitors make mistakes when they type. With fuzzy logic, these mistakes can be corrected on the go, providing frictionless site search experiences. Interested – SIGNUP NOW

Synonyms: Unlimited Synonyms. Show your visitors the right products no matter what they call them. Cell phone vs. Mobile phone, Trouser vs. Pant.

Catalog updates: Update your search indexes LIVE via push integration mechanisms or choose the easy way out to synch your catalog once a day.

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If Site Search is not configured in your e-commerce store, help us, help you. Interested – SIGNUP NOW

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Predictive Site Search suggestions for Magento e-Commerce

Posted on December 28, 2016 by Elza Abraham

The starting point of any eCommerce Site Search experience, are search suggestions. There are a few shortcomings in the existing suggestions available at Magento. This makes an unwelcome experience for your visitors.

Predictive search suggestions

As most humans have experienced search with google, they invariably would be pleased with Google-like suggestions. In other words, suggestions that autocomplete themselves with the user entered search query forming a subset of each suggestion. Interested – Sign up now.

Prioritized Search suggestions

Online visitors have high expectations as many of them might have also engaged with retail sites like Walmart, Amazon, Asos, etc.. Getting search suggestions wrong makes a retailer looks amateurish as visitors expect this as a bare minimum. A well-designed search suggestions product limits the suggestions between 5 and10 suggestions but this could vary by category. Here are a few examples

Ensure search suggestions have results

As simple as it sounds we have encountered many online stores that auto-generate suggestions but do not keep tabs on the potential results it will display or how inventory changes in time. This is the first epic fail.

Ensure search suggestions have accurate results

Showing 5 to 10 search suggestions and leading visitors to a page where the search results have no connection with the suggestions that were clicked on, is 100% going to lead to bounce or a lost customer. We have encountered this issue at many brands that use the default suggestions on Magento, which generate suggestions but results are not accurate. Interested – Sign up now.

Spell check

Visitors are humans and bound to make mistakes. Autocorrect what your visitors type into correct suggestions that ease the search experience and guide them into correct results. Interested – Sign up now.

Consider historical searches

In addition to generating search suggestions from the available attributes and tag data within the product database, leveraging historical search data and also showcasing them in suggestions is likely to increase conversion rate. This is because historical search data is representative of what your visitors are asking from you. Considering them in the right suggestions is likely to convert visitors into customers.

Configurable or customizable

With all of the above working for you, having the ability to configure what suggestions to show and disable certain suggestions, gives the retailer a chance to control consumer experience and promote business interests alongside customer needs.

Support currencies and languages

When your online store supports multiple languages and currencies, make sure suggestions support the same. Showing a visitor from Hong Kong suggestions and pricing based in USD is bound to decrease visitor engagement. Tagalys ensures suggestions follow the same language and format enabled in your Magento store to support your global business.

At Tagalys we serve all of the above needs to further enhance the visitor shopping experience at your Magento powered eCommerce store. We love Magento and proud to associated with one of the fastest and largest platforms for eCommerce. While Magento focuses on its core competency, it allows products like Tagalys to add to their ecosystem to continue enhancing visitor experiences at Magento powered eCommerce sites.

Tagalys maximizes conversion rate & gives merchants visual control of products displayed in Site Search & Category pages at their online store. To know more about our solutions and features, get in touch with us now.