Rebuy's Smart Search empowers Shopify merchants to enhance their Average Order Value (AOV) and revenue through seamless product discovery. With rapid, precise, and personalized search capabilities, our feature integrates robust data analytics for comprehensive insights. It's easy to set up and customize in minutes, eliminating the need for developer assistance.

Shopify merchants often struggle with building their own search UI or relying solely on vendors for updates, a costly and time-consuming process that limits control. Rebuy's solution harnesses AI for a self-configurable search system with modern UI and extensive customization.

Yes, Smart Search is compatible with Shopify-developed themes.

Smart Search is compatible with English-only content and the stores default currency. For multi currency support, please see here.

Yes, Smart Search can work in a Hydrogen Remix React headless setup. We will provide API documentation that allows merchants or partners to build out their frontend for Smart Search integration.

Smart Search supports faceted filtering on the Results Page. The Quick View does not include filter option settings.

On the Results Page, you can configure which filters shoppers see. Available filter types include availability, price, vendor, product types, product tags, product options (such as color, size, and scent), product metafields (up to 25), and variant metafields (up to 25). Filter display order is adjustable via drag-and-drop in the Results Page editor.

The Results Page filter panel layout can be set to Dropdown, Sidebar, or Flyout Filters. These settings are configured under Smart Search > Results Page Editor > General Settings > Filters.

Smart Search is compatible with English-only content.

Smart Search now supports content search, which surfaces blog posts and pages alongside product results. Content Search must be enabled separately for Quick View and the Results Page — both are disabled by default. In Quick View, a Matching Content section appears as shoppers type, displaying relevant blog and page titles as inline links. On the Results Page, a Blog & Pages tab appears alongside the Products tab, letting shoppers switch between the two. If Content Search is not enabled, only products and collections are returned.

Smart Search can hide out-of-stock variant options at the variant level using the Hide Out of Stock Variants setting. When enabled, variant options that are unavailable or out of stock are removed from the variant selector, so shoppers only see purchasable options. This setting is available in both the Quick View editor and the Results Page editor, under Variant Display. It applies store-wide and does not adapt to an individual shopper's browsing or purchase behavior. Filtering whole products by availability, based on Shopify's definition of out of stock, is handled separately by the Hide Out of Stock Products setting.

No, this is not currently an available feature.

No, this is not currently an available feature.

No, this is not currently an available feature.

Yes, both Quickview & Results page support the following SKU searches.

Subscription products can be returned via Smart Search, however they cannot be added using the Smart Search ATC button. Only the one time purchase option can be added.

Smart Search does not support pre-orders. Pre-order products are returned in Quick View and on the Results Page like any other product, but the Add to Cart button does not change to read "Pre-Order," and no release date or estimated ship date appears on the product card. A shopper can add a pre-order item to the cart directly from search results with no indication that it will not ship right away.

The Add to Cart button label in Smart Search comes from a single text field that applies to every product on that surface. The label changes only while an item is being added, after it has been added, or when the variant is sold out. Smart Search does not read Shopify pre-order purchase options, selling plans, or product tags to change the button.

Third-party pre-order apps are not integrated with Smart Search. If a pre-order app swaps in its own button and adds cart messaging on your product pages, that button and messaging do not carry into Smart Search product cards.

Here are your options:

Yes, you can set a fixed number for products per page within the Default Paging setting. This option is customizable, allowing any number between 1 and 100.

Continuous Scroll can be used alone or in combination with the Load More button. However, it cannot be used with the Default Paging options.

Currently, pagination settings are uniform across devices, but optimizing for mobile view with options like Continuous Scroll is generally recommended.

Yes, there is a limit of 30 keywords per keyword group.

There isn't a way to exclude a product from Quick View only. The closest workaround is a global Merchandising Rule set to Demote, which ranks the product below other results while keeping it searchable. If a customer searches for it directly, it still appears, just lower when there are other matches. Hide and Exclude don't fit this goal because they pull the product out of search entirely, including direct searches.

A Demote rule only affects ranking within actual search matches, not what appears before a customer starts typing. If the product still shows near the top of Quick View before any text is entered, check the Before User Starts Typing settings in the Quick View editor. That section pulls from its own source, such as Trending Products, and any configuration set in Keywords, Quick View, or Results Page overrides global Merchandising Rules. Trending products are generated automatically, so a single product can't be removed from that list on its own, and removing it would require a global Exclude or Hide that also takes it out of search results.

Quick View is the inline search panel that appears as shoppers type in your store's search bar. It displays product cards, suggested search terms, and collections in real time. Quick View does not include a filter panel or sort controls.

Results Page is the full-page search experience shoppers reach when they submit a search query. It includes faceted filters, sorting options, pagination, and — if enabled — Content Search for blog posts and pages.

The two surfaces are configured independently in the Rebuy admin. Settings and features enabled in one do not automatically apply to the other.

Not at this time.

No, this is not possible.

Currently, Smart Search works with the following review apps:

If your products aren't showing in Smart Search results, this usually happens when product data hasn't finished syncing between Shopify and Rebuy. To fix it, resync your product data and, if needed, clear the relevant caches:

If the right products still don't appear after resyncing and clearing the cache, check your exclusion and merchandising settings next.

If you have resynced and cleared the cache but the right products still aren't showing — even though they are active and in stock — the next thing to check is your exclusion and merchandising settings in Smart Search Global Settings. Any of these settings can keep a product out of your results, regardless of the product's status or its keyword group. Review the settings in the following table:

Start with Excluded Products and Excluded Collections, since those hide products directly, then review your Merchandising Rules for any rule that hides or demotes the products you expect to see.

The Hide Products option in the Excluded Collections setting controls whether the products inside an excluded collection are hidden from Smart Search, or only the collection itself is excluded. There are two outcomes:

If your goal is only to keep a collection from surfacing in Search while still allowing its products to be found, turn Hide Products off. Leaving it on actively hides all of that collection's products from shoppers, regardless of each product's status or keyword group.

After you remove collections from Excluded Collections or turn off Hide Products, the products may not reappear immediately, because Smart Search applies the change through a back-end sync. When a store has excluded a large number of collections and products, that sync takes longer to process and re-index the affected products. If your products do not appear right after you update the setting, allow time for the back-end sync to finish, then reload your storefront and run the search again to confirm the products now return.

If out-of-stock products appear at the top of your results instead of being pushed lower, the cause is usually that those products are set as Featured (pinned) products. Featured and pinned products take precedence over merchandising rules and are currently exempt from them. That means an out-of-stock merchandising rule — which normally pushes out-of-stock products lower — applies only to non-featured products. A product that is both featured and out of stock will still appear in its pinned position. To have an out-of-stock product follow the push-down rule, remove it from your featured/pinned products.

Featured and pinned products do not currently follow merchandising rules. Because you have manually pinned these products, they take priority and are exempt from merchandising rules such as the out-of-stock push-down. Merchandising rules apply to the rest of your non-featured results. If you need a specific product to obey a merchandising rule, do not pin it as a featured product.

Smart Search uses two separate sets of settings that work together: global settings and keyword settings. Global settings are the baseline rules that apply across all of Search. Keyword settings layer on top of that baseline and are more specific, letting you control results for particular search terms. Configuring a keyword group builds on your global rules rather than replacing them, so a product can still be affected by global settings — such as Excluded Products, Excluded Collections, or Merchandising Rules — even when it belongs to a keyword group.

Smart Search reads Shopify product metafields and variant metafields and makes them available as filter types on the Results Page. You can expose up to 25 product metafields and up to 25 variant metafields as shopper-facing filters, configured in the Results Page editor.

Yes, you can customize Smart Search using certain APIs provided in our developer docs. Additionally, you have the option to incorporate custom CSS into the Rebuy theme to make some adjustments according to your preferences. Please note that these customizations may be limited at this time.

By default, Featured Badges are enabled, but you can turn them off within the Smart Search settings.

If there are no results, nothing is returned, and we provide analytics on these searches so you can make the appropriate adjustments. If there are common search terms that yield no results, Keywords can be configured to display desired products.

We continuously improve our search functionality over time. Currently, our search engine integrates fuzzy matching, which automatically handles typos by matching search terms up to 3 characters. Additionally, we are implementing semantic search capability in the near future. If there's a common typo that isn't identified through fuzzy matching, users have the option to create a keyword group to address it.

Customer history is primarily pulled from cookie tracking. If customers are not signed into their accounts, 100% of the data is anonymous. This means that browsing history and interactions with the website are tracked through cookies, providing insights into customer behavior and preferences without requiring them to log in.

Currently, the Availability filter is automatically removed only when the “Hide Out of Stock Products” option is selected. To customize filters further, you may need to look at alternative filtering options in the Smart Search Results settings.

When the “Hide Out of Stock Products” option is selected, only products that are in stock will appear in search results. No additional customization for this setting is available.

Yes, deselecting the “Hide Out of Stock Products” option will allow the Availability filter to be displayed and configurable in the Smart Search Results page settings.

This setting has no significant impact on search performance and is optimized to enhance the user experience by filtering results based on product availability.

When a customer interacts with Smart Search and adds an item to the cart, the revenue generated from that purchase is attributed to Smart Search. This means that any item added to the cart directly from the search results page, quick view, or from the product detail page (PDP) after using search will count towards Smart Search RGR.

The Smart Search dashboard metrics accumulate and process in real time.