Integrating Merchstack Product Discovery with your Storefront

Overview

Learn how to use Merchstack to power unique product discovery experiences across your customer-facing interfaces, like your storefront.

Merchstack is modular and can fit into your commerce stack in different ways, depending on your needs. This guide will explore how Merchstack fits into your stack when it is being used to power your storefront experiences.

What Merchstack powers on your storefront

• Category Details

  

  Merchstack enables you to power all category details that a user would see on a PLP (like the Category Name, Meta Descriptions, and Banner Copy).

• Category Assortments

  

  Merchstack returns product assortments for a given category slug, alongside all the data you need to build each product tile on your PLPs.

• Text-Based Search

  

  Merchstack offers a text-based search capability to power the search-input box and resulting product listings for your customer's search inputs.

• Search Suggestions

  

  Merchstack allows you to return and present search suggestions to your users to help guide their search experience as they type in the search input box.

• Category Breadcrumbs

  

  Merchstack enables you to power your breadcrumbs for categories and manage how they display on your PLPs to enhance navigation.

• Facets & Filters

  

  Merchstack offers facets and filters, allowing your customers to narrow down product assortments based on characteristics like size, color, brand, and more. These are customisable and dynamic, appearing only in relevant categories and standardising facets for an improved customer search experience.

• Sorts

  

  Merchstack allows your customers to toggle between different sort methods, providing flexible options for how the product assortments are ordered on any PLP.

• Related Categories

  

  Merchstack allows you to power related categories on your PLPs giving your customer's the ability to navigate to similar or adjacent product assortments.

• Indexable Facets

  

  Merchstack recommends and powers facet-based listing pages based on what your customers are searching for externally and what products you have.

• Category Navigation

  

  Merchstack provides a hierarchical category navigation, allowing your customers to see and navigate to a parent category or any number of sub-categories.

• Multi-Locale

  

  Merchstack is equipped with multi-locale support, enabling your storefront to cater to diverse customer bases with localized content, currency, and language options.

• Multi-Store

  

  Merchstack allows you to offer a different catalog with entirely different categories to specific markets—specify who can see what or give your customers the control.