Elastic Search

Elastic Search is a highly scalable open-source, full-text search, and analytic engine that enhances users with fast and accurate results. Elastic Search has all the features needed to build powerful search Web applications, ranging from intranet to e-commerce site search.

With the help of this extension, the store owner can integrate the Elastic Search engine into their web store. It allows the admin to store, search, and analyze large volumes of data quickly and in almost real-time, helping the admin to update the products, categories, and CMS page data to an elastic server.

The module can be easily configured to provide critical features such as auto-suggestions, spell correction, synonyms, faceted search, price ranges, did you mean features, and more that make the extension best in class and more for customers who help them experience trouble-free shopping. The Elastic Search extension is a highly scalable, flashing fast restful search engine.

Business Value

If you're facing slow and poor search results on your e-commerce site. And looking for an alternative solution where you can retrieve quickly, the Elastic search is the only solution. 

Elastic search is a highly scalable, full-text, open-source search, and analytics engine for all types of data. The admin can provide a rich and smooth search experience using the Elastic search module to their customers. This will narrow the results of the search. And it will allow you to search and analyze large data volumes very quickly.

Account & Pricing

To make the Elastic Search extension can work, you need -

• Elasticsearch Engine v7.6 must be installed on the system and must be running. 
• Elasticsearch is free and open-sourced. You can download Elasticsearch for free from their page. 
• Elasticsearch has multiple subscription options. Check the info here.

Features List

• The admin can easily replace the MySQL search engine with the elastic search engine.
• The admin can easily update products, categories, and CMS pages data to the elastic server.
• The data is stored on the elastic server according to the Index Type.
• The admin can also use command-line tools to update website data to the elastic server.
• The admin can set Multi-Match Query or Simple Match Query as the search type for the Frontend.
• If a Multi-Match Query has been selected as the search type then the Customer can search data by name, SKU,  description, and a short description of the Product.
• If a Simple Match Query has been selected then the Customer can only find the Products by its name or SKU.
• It also has the Spell Correction Feature according to which the search engine automatically corrects the keywords even if they are typed incorrectly.
• “Did you Mean” feature allows the customers to search for the products if they mistakenly entered the wrong product name. So, this feature will suggest to them all the products which have nearby and the same product name.
• The admin can select character filters to replace or remove unwanted characters from the search input.
• The admin can also Select Language Stemmer store wise according to the store language.

How Does The Extension Works?

For the working of this module, it is a must for the store owner, Elastic Search Engine v7.6 must be installed and running. Once the module is installed, the admin can manage and configure the module from the admin panel easily.

Managing Elasticsearch Functionality 

The admin can navigate to the Elastic Search Setting and fill the required details for the working of the module. The admin can fill the required details like Host details, Port Number, Index Prefix, etc. Furthermore, the admin can check the connection status, and reset the connection as well.

Manage Search Settings

The admin has the option to choose from “Multi Match Query,” and “Simple Match Query” as a search type for the front-end. When selecting a search setting as “Multi Match Query” the customer can search the product by the attributes that are created by the admin. The attribute type must be text to perform the search query. Furthermore, if the selected search setting is “Simple Match Query” then, the Customer can search the product only by its name and SKU.

Select Search Filter

The admin can modify the search term provided by a customer using the token filter. There are four types of search filters available that the admin can use - Synonym Filter, Elision Filter, Lowercase Filter, and Stop Word Filter.

Select Language Stemmer

The admin needs to select the correct Language Stemmer according to the Magento 2 store language. In this way, the customer will be able to search only in the English language.

Select Character Search Filter

The admin can use the character search filters that are used to remove the unwanted characters from the search input by a customer. Theses filters are of three types - HTML Strip Char Filter, Mapping Filter, and Pattern Replace Filter.

Index Management 

The admin can use the index management to update the status of the index. The index needs to be updated whenever a new product is added to the store. Moreover, the admin can also use the command lines to update a large number of data.

Enhanced Search

This module facilitates a lot of search features for the customers. With the help of this module, the customer can easily search for a product with enhanced and advanced search options.

Search Suggestion

This module helps the customers to search most effortlessly. The customer can just enter a keyword and it will display the suggestions accordingly. Search suggestions can help the customers to look for the products based on the suggested products using the elastic search.

Did You Mean

The module also has a feature called "Did you mean" which allows customers to search for products if they have entered the wrong product name. So, this feature will indicate all products with the same product name in the vicinity.

The admin can also set the spell correction by which the Elastic Search Engine automatically corrects keywords even if they are typed incorrectly by the Customer. The admin may choose token filters to modify the search term provided by the Customer.

Benefits

For Store Owner

• It's easy to update the products, categories, and CMS page data to the Elastic server by admin.
• The admin can easily set AutoCorrect Search Results to Level 1 or Level 2 so that the engine can easily analyze the wrong inputs entered by the customer and display the related results.
• The admin may also use the command-line tool to update the website data to an elastic server.

For Customers 

• "Did you mean" enables customers to search for products if they have incorrectly entered the wrong product name so that this feature will suggest all products that have the same product name in the vicinity.
• Search suggestions help the customers to find out the relevant products based on the word type in the search box.

Live Demo

You can check the live demo from here.

Support Policy

• You get free 3 months of technical support included.
• You can buy 6 or 12 months extended support agreement.
• For issues, please create a ticket or send email to support@webkul.com
• Free lifetime updates of the module.