Help PrestaShop shoppers find products fast with instant AJAX autocomplete search
PrestaShop instant search autocomplete helps your store replace weak native search with self-hosted results that guide high-intent shoppers as they type. When customers use search, they often already know what they want; better matching, suggestions and product context can reduce dead-end queries and move them faster toward relevant products.
The module can guide native search traffic to localized search pages and enhance configured search inputs and forms. Instant results can include products, categories, CMS pages, manufacturers and suppliers, with configurable minimum characters, typing delay and limits. The engine supports exact, prefix, contains, fuzzy and variant scoring, plus synonyms, rewrite rules and boost rules, with simulator tools for checking behavior.
Search analytics log queries, clicks and conversions, including purchase matching against recent search activity within a 30-day window. The module also supports manual indexable search SEO pages, sitemap append for active indexable pages, zero-result suggestions, recent search history and localized URLs for search, pagination and sorting.
- Native search improvement. The module can replace weak native search behavior and send shoppers to localized search pages. Settings define which search input and form are enhanced.
- Mixed-result preview. As the customer types, matches can include products, categories, CMS pages, manufacturers and suppliers, with limits for start timing and result count.
- Scoring and matching controls. The engine supports exact, prefix, contains, fuzzy and variant scoring multipliers, plus synonym expansion, rewrite rules and boost rules. A simulator helps inspect scoring behavior.
- Revenue-attribution reports. Reports connect shopper terms, clicks and completed orders inside a 30-day window, showing which on-site demand leads to sales.
- Indexable result entries. Staff can define URL, language, descriptions, active state and indexing for dedicated result views; the sitemap includes only active entries allowed for indexing.
- Helpful zero-result behavior. The engine includes zero-result handling with popular products and related suggestions when configured. The 404 page can also show a search recovery block.
- Personal history support. Shoppers can keep, remove, clear and merge recent searches. Visitor history can merge when a customer logs in.
- Localized search paths. The module creates language-aware search URLs for base search, paginated search, sorting, SEO pages and live results. Language links can also follow the localized search path.
PrestaShop instant search suggestions
PrestaShop Smart Search - Instant Search replaces weak native search with instant, self-hosted search that helps shoppers find products as they type. Search failures cost money because high-intent visitors often use the search box when they already know what they want, and a typo or missing synonym can send them away empty-handed. This module adds live results with product context, typo tolerance, synonyms, product boosts, pattern rewrites, search analytics, a simulator, indexable search landing pages and optional search interface support.
Help high-intent shoppers find products faster
Instant results with thumbnails, prices and categories reduce the gap between a shopper's intent and the product page. That is important because search users are often closer to purchase than casual browsers, and every failed query can waste a valuable visit. Typo tolerance helps recover searches where the customer knows what they want but does not spell it exactly as your catalogue does.
Turn search data into merchandising decisions
The queries dashboard shows what people search for, including zero-result searches and search-to-purchase behaviour. That data exposes real customer language, missing synonyms and products that deserve boosting. Without it, merchants guess which search problems cost sales and may spend time improving the wrong parts of the catalogue.
Create search landing pages that can bring traffic
Indexable search landing pages let selected searches become structured catalogue entry points with page titles and filters. These pages can help search engines discover valuable product groupings that do not fit a normal category. More useful entry points can bring qualified traffic, while the sitemap option helps those pages get found.
Scoring, synonyms and query analytics for search
It runs on your server and avoids sending search queries to an external search service. It gives Back Office controls for synonyms, boosts, redirects, field weights, analytics and simulation, so store teams can tune results without editing code. It is built for PrestaShop 1.7, 8 and 9, and its self-hosted approach keeps search data under your store's control.
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Referencemprsearchrevolution
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In stock2147483647 Items
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PrestaShop CompatibilityPS 1.7 – 9.x
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Pricing ModelOne-time Purchase
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Module TypeFront & Back-office
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GDPR RelevantNo
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Business GoalIncrease Traffic
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External Account NeededNo
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Module ComplexityComplete Solution
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Customer Journey StageEngage Shoppers
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Works With PlatformNo External Platform
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Smart Search Revolution replaces PrestaShop's basic search with real-time AJAX results, typo-tolerant matching, synonyms, redirects, boosts, analytics, and SEO search landing pages. It helps shoppers find products by product data, category, brand, supplier, attributes, features, tags, and common alternative wording.
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v2.8.132026-05-27
- AddedLearn adaptive search signals
- AddedAdd adaptive search ranking
- AddedAdd localized search sort URLs
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Works Well With Smart Search Revolution
Modules our team genuinely pairs with this one — and exactly why each belongs in the same setup.
Workflow
Smart Search Revolution replaces weak native search with self-hosted results, guiding high-intent shoppers as they type and moving them faster toward relevant products. Search is for people who already know roughly what they want; browsers who are still exploring a large catalogue need a different route.
Filter Revolution covers that exploratory path as a separate tool, offering faceted filters with checkbox, radio, dropdown, slider and colour controls, clean filter URLs and SEO landing pages for selected combinations. It helps shoppers narrow rather than search by name.
Used alongside each other, the two cover the two main ways people find products: typing a query and refining a listing. High-intent searchers get fast, relevant matches while browsers narrow large categories with structured filters, so fewer shoppers hit a dead end whichever path they prefer.
Complement
Smart Search Revolution sharpens the search box, turning typed queries into self-hosted suggestions and relevant matches for shoppers who already know what they want. Search only helps once a shopper decides to type, though; many arrive wanting to browse your structure first.
Mega Menu serves those shoppers as a separate navigation tool, turning a large catalogue into structured tabs and dropdown columns for categories, CMS pages, custom URLs and promoted products, so discovery is easier on desktop and mobile.
Together they cover both discovery styles at the top of the page: the menu for shoppers who browse by structure and the search box for those who search by name. Whichever way a visitor prefers to start, there is a clear, fast route into the right part of your catalogue.
Complement
Smart Search Revolution helps high-intent shoppers find products fast by improving search matching and suggestions as they type. In a large catalogue, though, a shopper often opens several results, wanders off, and then struggles to get back to the items they were weighing up.
Recently Viewed Products covers that return journey as a separate tool, remembering viewed products in the shopper's browser for 30 days without requiring login, and showing a compact history block so familiar items are one click away.
Used alongside each other, search gets shoppers to products quickly while the history block keeps those products reachable afterwards. The combination suits larger catalogues where people compare several options across a session, reducing the friction of finding the same item twice and supporting a smoother path back toward a decision.
Workflow
Smart Search Revolution guides shoppers to relevant products quickly with self-hosted, type-ahead results, which is ideal when someone wants to reach a specific item. But once search surfaces several similar candidates, the shopper's next job is choosing between them.
Product Compare handles that next step as a separate tool, adding compare buttons to lists and product pages, keeping a saved shortlist while shoppers browse and sending them to a side-by-side comparison view, four products by default.
Run together, the two cover finding and then deciding: search narrows a large catalogue to the contenders, and compare lays those contenders out for a clear head-to-head. Shoppers move from a vague query to a confident choice without leaving the store to evaluate options elsewhere.
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