{"id":5917,"date":"2016-08-17T07:15:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T07:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/blog\/?p=5917"},"modified":"2025-08-20T16:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T10:40:34","slug":"search-auto-complete-make-product-search-easy-for-your-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/17\/search-auto-complete-make-product-search-easy-for-your-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Product Search Easy for your Customers with Search Auto Complete Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serving people with what they want as a need or luxury is an interesting as well as a tough job. You need to manage everything simultaneously starting from stock, packing, shipping, delivery of products, customers and their accounts etc. And you also need to focus on your Business benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The success for your business can be calculated by counting on the profit you have made from products or by counting on the number of happy and satisfied customers you have. A happy customer helps in making the best business. However, you need to maintain in creating best customer experience at every stage of the online shopping.<\/p>\n<p>The <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/search-autocomplete-m2.html\">Auto Complete Search Extension for Magento <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/magento-module-development\"><sup>\u00ae<\/sup> 2 <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/search-autocomplete-m2.html\">\u00a0<\/a><\/span> helps you to create the user experience at the very first stage of shopping i.e. product search. This extension gives search results for the products while the customer is entering the keywords in the search field.<\/p>\n<p>It shows the relevant products in the search results with some basic product details and Add to Cart button.<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0Let us see what <strong>features<\/strong> this extension has:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Shows the product in search results with 3 characters in the search field<\/li>\n<li>Optionally shows category, parent category and CMS pages of the searched products<\/li>\n<li>Check all the found products by clicking on View All option at the bottom<\/li>\n<li>Displays the number of products found in the search results<\/li>\n<li>To make the purchase easy it comes with Add to Cart button with products<\/li>\n<li>Different attributes for the products can be selected to show in the search results<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>How to apply the Extension in your store?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Now as you know about the Auto Complete Search Extension, let us proceed with applying the extension in your store. For this, you need to configure the extension as shown below:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Sign in to the Magento Extension Administrator Panel.<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to <strong>Stores &gt; Configuration &gt; M-Connect Media &gt; Auto Complete Search<\/strong>. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5918\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Auto-Complete-Search-Configuration.png\" alt=\"Auto Complete Search Configuration\" width=\"298\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Auto-Complete-Search-Configuration.png 298w, https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Auto-Complete-Search-Configuration-256x300.png 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/li>\n<li><strong>General Setting <\/strong>Screen opens.\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5919\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/General-Setting-On-Screen.png\" alt=\"General Setting on Open Screen\" width=\"659\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/General-Setting-On-Screen.png 659w, https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/General-Setting-On-Screen-300x106.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/General-Setting-On-Screen-655x233.png 655w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Enable: Select yes to enable the extension on your store.<\/li>\n<li>Number of Searched Product: Here, you can mention the number of products appearing as the search results. In the screen shot above, it is mentioned 25. You can put the number as per your requirements.<\/li>\n<li>Minimum characters needed for Search: The minimum number of characters which are needed to search any product on the <span>Magento store<\/span> is 3 by default. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/minimum-character-for-search.png\" alt=\"Minimun Character Needed for Search\" width=\"570\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/minimum-character-for-search.png 570w, https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/minimum-character-for-search-300x77.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Enable View All Link: Enable or Disable to show the View All link on the search results page. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5921\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Enable-View-All-Link.png\" alt=\"Enable View All Link\" width=\"570\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Enable-View-All-Link.png 570w, https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Enable-View-All-Link-300x77.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/li>\n<li>View all Link Text: In this field you can give the name to the view all link. Here, View All is mentioned and it will appear at the bottom of the search results.<\/li>\n<li>Display Search Results Count: Select <strong>yes<\/strong> to display the number of products found in the search results.\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5923\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Display-Search-Result-Count.png\" alt=\"Display serach Result Count\" width=\"515\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Display-Search-Result-Count.png 515w, https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Display-Search-Result-Count-300x165.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Display Product data: You can press Control and select the product data from the table to show on the product search results. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5922\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Display-Product-Data.png\" alt=\"Display Product Data\" width=\"560\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Display-Product-Data.png 560w, https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Display-Product-Data-300x125.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Display-Product-Data-262x110.png 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Avoid Pages in Search results: Select <strong>yes<\/strong> or <strong>no<\/strong> to avoid the display of pages in search results.<\/li>\n<li>Pages Unique Identifier:<\/li>\n<li>Category Search Enable: Enable or Disable displaying the category of the product on the search results page.<\/li>\n<li>Enable with Parent Category: Enable or Disable to show the Parent category along with the product category on the search results page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Click on <strong>&#8216;Save Config&#8217;<\/strong> to save the configuration settings.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Front-end View : <span><a href=\"http:\/\/ajax-autocomplete.m2.demo.mconnectmedia.com\/\">http:\/\/ajax-autocomplete.m2.demo.mconnectmedia.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Back-end Setting\u00a0 : <span>http:\/\/ajax-autocomplete.m2.demo.mconnectmedia.com\/admin_qzkxpt\/admin\/index\/index\/key\/f2e903bf38cd9526c85a9708b06beb717c8bc54d16dffd628711008fd4318e94\/<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Use the Auto Complete Search Extension specially developed for Magento 2 by <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/\">M-Connect Media<\/a><\/span> and help your customers with their searching and making them Happy!<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget to share your feedback about the extension. If you need any help while configuration, contact our <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mconnectmedia.com\/magento-module-development\">Experienced Magento<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> 2 extension developers<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 Happy Selling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serving people with what they want as a need or luxury is an interesting as well as a tough job. 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