i want it... now! LOL. Ive been waiting for a "layered navigation" for my site for so long.

Thanks, guys!


The selections come from the Type Properties of the products belonging to the category. So, assuming that your products already have Type Properties setup, you just select our faceted search category template and presto, you have faceted search. This client did not have any Product Types or Type Properties setup, so they had to set all of that up before we could launch.


When you edit a Manufacturer in the admin you now have the ability to assign Collections to it. Then when you're editing a product, there is a Collections dropdown that updates with a list of the available collections based on the Manufacturer you have selected.



Share it? No. Sell it, yes.

Wallace,

I just sent you an email.

Bede & Matt,

Just sent you both emails.

<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Aaron, please email me more information about faceted search and pricing. Thanks!

P.S. I had to recreate my account to login. For some reason I wasn't able to login and retrieve my password. So, I had to create a new account.

Michael, I don't have your contact info. Can you give me a call at the phone number below? Thanks!

Aaron, please email me to [email protected].
Thanks!

We back-ported our faceted search to work with BV 2004! Check it out: http://forums.bvcommerce.com/de...lt.aspx?f=95&m=67376

I wanted to bump this thread as we have recently adopted Aaron's Faceted Search.

We are very impressed with how this has improved our navigation flow. No more do we have to create sub categories for manufacturers or product types properties. Simply assign your product to a manufacturer, set your category to use the faceted template and you are all set. Have product type properties that you want to filter? Simply set the product property to allow faceting and once again, you are all set (as long as you are using the facet category template of course).


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These categories contain hundreds of products but you can quickly filter the it down to just the products that match your criteria. Best of all, you can use the back button, copy/paste filter URL's, and every filter combination is crawable by search engines.

I've seen a decrease in our bounce and exit rate since adopting faceting. I contribute the decrease to the ease of customer's being able to find what they are looking for quick and easy. The top level template also acts as a great landing page. Combine all these features with their toolkit and you have a very powerful store.


[quote="Aaron"]

The selections come from the Type Properties of the products belonging to the category. So, assuming that your products already have Type Properties setup, you just select our faceted search category template and presto, you have faceted search. This client did not have any Product Types or Type Properties setup, so they had to set all of that up before we could launch.

We partially had product type properties set up for our products. However, having manufacturers displayed was a huge priority. Our next stage is going through our catalogs and finding what properties our customers would filter. It's a bit harder in our industry so it will take a bit more time then most stores to figure out what works best.

Overall we are very impressed. I highly recommend it.

Emphasis on very impressed and highly recommended!