Fast and Intuitive Search Solution for Large E-Commerce Catalogs

Smart e-commerce site search is one of the best ways online catalogs can quickly serve relevant products and information to visitors. Your online store can use it for specific search queries that visitors type into the search bar, for displaying products within categories, for faceted filters, for creating landing pages on the fly, and more.

High-quality site search works in a split second, shows relevant results, corrects common spelling errors, and can be tweaked to adjust what clients see at the top of their results.

Steersman Business Suite comes with a blazing-fast, built-in smart e-commerce website search out of the box. The system supports product categories, faceted filters, and on-site search through our advanced website search module – fully integrated, tweakable, with no third-party systems to learn, integrate, or maintain.

Steersman smart website search

Reliability

As a native microservice, Steersman Search simply works – there are no unstable integrations to maintain, ensuring your search availability and performance remain uninterrupted.

Speed / Performance

Processing times and responses for large datasets are done within an average of 0.05 seconds. As the system is native to our Product Information Management system and the Next.js-based e-commerce front-end infrastructure, data transfer and display times are extremely fast.

Technology

Our search uses Elasticsearch technology at its core.

Faceted filters and landing pages

Search queries for faceted filters are structured to eliminate duplication, feeding into standardized URLs, ensuring that filter query result pages are indexable and crystal clear to search engines. Duplicate content across multiple URLs, reached via a variation in faceted filter selection order, is completely resolved – save bandwidth and earn search engines’ favor for conserving their resources.

With our search, you can build landing pages based on product type, filter selections, and other criteria in minutes. And since our URLs are normalized, any page can become a landing page, with dynamic content and a static URL. There is no need to chase redirects and rebuild addressing architecture to let the marketing team assemble the pages they want.

On-site search

With auto-complete, auto-correct, and weighted database fields, Steersman’s advanced e-commerce site search understands what visitors are seeking and displays it to them. Help your visitors find and buy what they want via auto-complete search query suggestions, category listings that fit the search query, and specific products or product variants.

Scalability

Whether your catalog has 100 or 10,000,000 products, most relevant results will be shown within microseconds.

Results control and boosting for merchandising

Steersman can adjust the weight of various data fields to determine the most relevant results. Aside from tweaking data field importance ratings, you can define multiple business intelligence aspects to push products up or down, based on factors such as profitability, stock levels, sales history, or other relevant criteria.

Analytics

Because the search is native to the system, all business and website traffic analytics are consolidated and available out-of-the-box as part of the Steersman Business Suite. You will see insights on conversions from search, search terms, and be able to compare performance across products, categories, and more.

Cost comparison

Instead of special integration efforts and $500+ monthly fees for using sophisticated third-party search systems, you get it out-of-the-box, completely integrated with the entire e-commerce catalog, checkout, customer portal, inventory and manufacturing management, and accounting system. Steersman Business Suite manages all your business processes, in addition to the e-commerce front end, and provides the same sophistication in site search and faceted filtering that would normally cost over $ 10,000 in other systems during the first year.

Alternative solutions

If you have an existing website and catalog, and don’t believe that consolidating systems may be beneficial for you, you can integrate with third-party e-commerce website search services from specialized companies that aren’t affiliated with Steersman: SLI, Searchspring, Hawk Search, Algolia, Bloomreach, Innovent, or others. The cost to utilize such third-party website search services typically ranges between $500 and $ 2,000+ per month, plus the costs of integration setup and maintenance.

Information to consider when deciding on e-commerce systems

• Product information management systems benefits and things to look into
• Benefits that users and site owners can get from an advanced on-site search system
• Smart search auto correct technologies and considerations
• Basic price strategies and common price management systems issues

How to get Steersman’s advanced e-commerce site search

Steersman Search comes as a component of Steersman Business Suite, an all-in-one business automation system.

Work with Steersman directly or through your web agency to set up Steersman Business Suite and website SaaS. Front-end design, layouts, and coding can be done by Steersman or capable design and implementation partner firms.