Website Search Features

ON-Site Search

Selecting the platform with the right site-search capabilities is a necessity for high conversion rates and good user experiences. This article reviews and compares the site search features for the top five ecommerce platforms. We will be reviewing:

  • VTEX Commerce
  • Adobe Magento
  • SAP Business One
  • BigCommerce
  • Shopify

ON-Site Search

Feature
VTEX IO
Magento Commerce
Shopify
Promoted Search Results
Highly Flexible
Minimal Features
Features Availbile with Customization
Configurable Search
Highly Flexible
Highly Flexible
Features Availbile with Customization
Synonyms and Search Redirecting
Highly Flexible
Highly Flexible
Feature available in app store
Faceted Search Options
Highly Flexible
Highly Flexible
Feature available in app store
Suggested Search Results
Highly Flexible
Highly Flexible
Feature available in app store
Visual Search
Feature available in app store
Feature available in app store
Feature available in app store
Search Technology
Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch
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Search Merchandising
Highly Flexible
Highly Flexible
Feature available in app store
Pagination
Minimal Features
Highly Flexible
Features Availbile
Technical Feature Comparison of ON-Site Search 2021

Ecommerce Platform On Site Search Feature Comparison

FEATURE

$ 39
99
Monthly
  • Deployment
  • Data Versioning (CMS, Templates, Catalogs)
  • Test Harnesses
  • Caching and CDN Support
  • High Availability Resources
  • Horizontal Scalability on Demand
  • Microservices Architecture
  • Session Externalization
  • External Authentication (I.E. SAML)
  • Page Load Speed
  • Lighthouse Score
  • Development Stack

VTEX IO

$ 39
99
Monthly
  • Highly Flexible
  • Minimal Features
  • Minimal Features
  • Features Available
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Under Review
  • Under Review
  • ReactJS, GraphQL

MANGENTO COMMERCE

$ 39
99
Monthly
  • Highly Flexible
  • Highly Flexible
  • Highly Flexible
  • Highly Flexible
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Under Review
  • Under Review
  • PHP, Javascript

SHOPIFY

$ 39
99
Monthly
  • Highly Flexible
  • Features available
  • Unavailable
  • Features Available
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Under Review
  • Under Review
  • PHP, Ruby on Rails

Technical Feature Comparison of Top Ecommerce Platforms 2021