Consider a case where a customer is purchasing summer clothes for a baby girl on an online store. The possible actions that he/she can perform to search his/her desired product are as follows:

• Select ‘Product Type’ e.g.; ‘Clothes’
• Select ‘Gender’ e.g.; ‘Female’
• Select ‘Age’ e.g. ‘1-2 Years’
• Select ‘Season’ e.g. ‘Summer’

With ShopBy Attributes module installed on the store, the customer can simply click to select attributes ‘Clothes’, ‘Female’, ‘1-2 Years’, and ‘Summer’ on the navigation of the page. As the customer clicks on the options the results get filtered out automatically.

The implementation of ShopBy Attributes by Plugables makes use of product templates feature in AbleCommerce. The merchant defines a product template for the shop-by attributes. This template is then used to decide the options and option choices to be shown to the customer for selection.

Features

• Easy and convenient navigation for narrowing down to desired products based on their properties.
• Can be used with different kind of attributes and properties associated with a product using product template.
• Highlights current selections in the filter box.
• Remembers user selection and allows selection of multiple choices.
• User can add/remove selection criteria choices easily.
• Can be used on the catalog as a whole, or on a specific category only. The results display page is an AbleCommerce category display page.
• When applied on a particular category the products of that particular category can then be browsed and narrowed down using shop-by feature. Other categories may use different display page and may be browsed normally.
• Easy setup and installation.
• For each option choice the product count can also be displayed. This however is not recommended for large catalogs as it can affect the performance.
• Improves user experience and increases conversion rate.