Under Instant Search settings, you can find the basic settings of the Rapid Search search engine, which you can use to customize your drop-down search box.
These settings are available in the Rapid Search admin > Settings > Instant Search menu. The menu is divided into several subfolders.
General settings:
In the General settings section, you can find the instant search's (suggestion box) default settings. Hovering over the small information icon will provide additional help for each setting.
Remove "Powered by": Enabling this setting removes the Rapid Search logo at the bottom of the search box. This is only available for paid plans.
Show block titles: This setting better separates the search suggestion groups in the search box. By default, this is enabled for desktops and disabled for mobile devices - the latter is to save space on the mobile view. By turning the buttons on and off, it is possible to adjust the display to fit your template, product range, and individual taste.
Show SKU: When enabled, the SKU of each product will appear in gray above the product title in the search box. It is recommended that you turn this button on in stores where visitors recognize or search products by their SKUs, i.e., as a store that sells tools or technical stuff.
Prices: Show or hide product prices in search suggestions. When set to hidden, prices, discounts, or discount badges for products in the search box will not be shown.
Advanced tip: Hide price by tag: You can hide prices for select products only by adding the "hide-price" tag to the product in the Shopify product page, tags section. If this is newly added, it is recommended to start a Manual sync in our Advanced menu.
Vendor: You can set the vendor in the Instant Search to hide or show above or below the product title.
Color settings: You can modify the colors of the Instant Search suggestion box here. Elements with the word "hover" refer to the element color while the mouse is hovered over the element.
Search Suggestions while typing:
Watch our video about this feature here, or read about it in detail below:
When a visitor starts typing in the search bar, Rapid Search's search box offers popular suggestions, collections, pages, and products; by default 5 popular suggestions, 3 collections, 3 pages, and 5 products. With this setting in the admin, you can increase or decrease the number of these suggestions shown in the search box, or even set them to zero. For example, if you don't want the search box to offer pages then simply set the number of pages here to zero.
The search box on the desktop is always broken into two columns, with product recommendations always on the right and popular suggestions, collections, and page recommendations on the left side.
Search Suggestions before typing:
Control what people see before entering their search query.
Watch our video about this feature here, or read about it in detail below:
In this case, Rapid Search displays by default 5 popular suggestions and 5 product suggestions in your search box to help visitors browse. These are the most popular products and the most searched keywords listed here based on the searches in the last 30 days. Rapid Search is constantly “learning” over the 30-day period, so with time, the keywords and products displayed here will become increasingly relevant.
During zero-character search order, you can increase or decrease the number of popular suggestions and popular products shown, and you can also choose to have search history displayed in the search box.
Sticky widget:
A sticky widget is a floating search icon that stays in a fixed position when you are scrolling up and down the screen. If your theme does not have a search bar and/or there is no place to insert one, inserting a sticky widget can be the ideal solution.
There is a possibility to choose if you want a sticky widget even when there is a search bar in place, or only when there is none, or do not have a sticky widget at all in the Show sticky widget field.
You may even set the placement of the sticky widget on your storefront at the Widget position and modify the colors in this section.
Full-page search overlay:
In the Full-page search overlay section, you can choose if you would like to Show a full-page search overlay only when the sticky widget is clicked on, or at any time a search bar or search icon is clicked on at your store.
To have a Search input placeholder different from the standard “Search” text, you may add it here.
