You can set product filters in your store, which lets your customers find what they need more easily. Users can filter their searches by prices, categories, SKU, availability, special offers, brands, colors, sizes and more.

Enable filters

To turn on product filtering for your store:

1. Select Settings > Product filters on the left-hand sidebar.
2. Click Enable filters.

Your store will display a list of filters that are most relevant to your catalog based on the information about your products like price, stock level, category, options and attributes.

For example:

• If you use categories for grouping your items, you’ll get a Categories filter.
• If your products have sale prices and stock levels specified, On sale and In stock filters will be enabled.
• In case your products have common options like sizes and colors, the store will create Size and Color filters for you.
• If you have added brand names as product attribute values, they will become a Brand filter.

Add new filters

To add a new filter to your store:

1. Select Settings > Product filters on the left-hand sidebar.
2. Click Add Filter Criteria. Here you may find some filters that match fewer products, but can also be useful to shoppers.
3. Click Add, then enable the newly added filter.

To add additional product attributes to appear in filters:

1. Select Settings > Product Types on the left-hand sidebar.
2. Create a product attribute that your products will share.
   
   
3. Navigate to your Catalog and click Edit on the product that should be filtered by this attribute.
4. Open the Attributes tab and fill in values to the attribute field for each product, then save these changes.
   
   
5. Navigate to Settings > Product Filters and click Add Filter Criteria.
6. Add the attribute as a new filter.
   
   

As you create new attributes and options for your products, new filtering options will be available to you at the Product Filters page.

Manage filters

You can remove and sort filters to create a perfect filtering tool for your buyers.

To temporarily disable an active filter:

1. Select Settings > Product filters on the left-hand sidebar.
2. Switch the toggle to the Disabled state on the filter to temporarily remove it, OR click Actions > Delete to remove it permanently.
   
   

To change the order of filters in the storefront:

1. Select Actions > Sort on the filter.
2. Drag and drop filters to sort.
   
   
3. Click Sort by next to a filter and choose how you want selections for this filter to be sorted: by ascending value (for example, in alphabetical order) or by descending number of products with this selection.

The order of filtering options will change in your store's dashboard and in the storefront.

Expand filters in categories

By default, the filter panel is collapsed and customers have to click Refine by to see the list of category filters in your online store. You can choose to instead always display the filters on the right-hand sidebar of the store page.

Below is an example of what the expanded filter panel looks like:

To expand product filters:

1. Select Design on the left-hand sidebar of your Shop dashboard.
2. Scroll to Storefront navigation & colors.
3. In the Product filters section, select Expanded.

The changes will be autosaved. To stop showing the expanded filter panel, you can collapse it again in the Design menu in your Shop dashboard.