What is the difference between the standard version and the PRO version of Advanced Search ?
IN ADDITION to all the features of the standard version, the PRO version of the Advanced Search 5 module offers you the following features:
1) Automatic SEO page generation tool (facets)
- Two possibilities: creation of result pages one by one or in a bulk action
- Manual selection of the pages on which to make cross-links or activation of the automatic creation of links between the generated pages (bulk action)
- Simple tool (by drag and drop) to select the criteria on which you want to improve your SEO
- Automatic generation of SEO tags (meta title, meta description, meta keywords, H1 title tag) and simplified URL (all these fields are then freely customizable)
- Possibility to regenerate SEO metas (bulk action is possible)
- Possibility to create, for each language of the store, a SEO content that will be visible at the top of the page, and another that will be visible at the bottom of the page
- Possibility to list all URLs in HTML or CSV version to be able to add them where you want (in your menu, footer, blocks, slideshows etc...) and facilitate indexation by Google
- One-click access to Advanced Search sitemap
2) Setting up a step-by-step search
Step-by-step search guides customers through the criteria groups in the order you define. Subsequent groups adapt to their choices; they can skip a step when the corresponding link is offered. To run the search when they select a criterion in the last group, choose the corresponding submission method in the engine settings: selecting step-by-step mode alone does not force this submission method. Customers can then resume their selection at the step of their choice.
See also: configure a step-by-step search.
3) Customization of criteria groups using images
The PRO version can display criterion values with the “Images” method, with configuration for each language. Choose this method in the group settings, then add the images for its values in the criteria list.
This presentation is separate from the group title icon. In the standard 5.4.0 edition, the “Icon” field can also illustrate the title; it does not enable displaying the values as images.
4) Support for PrestaShop 9.2's Extra Properties
From version 5.4.0, Advanced Search PRO supports PrestaShop 9.2's Extra Properties. You can create criteria groups based on additional properties assigned to products, combinations, categories, brands and suppliers.
This feature requires PrestaShop 9.2 or later and is available in the PRO version only. Supported property types are integers, decimal numbers, booleans (Yes/No), text, dates and choice lists. Properties of type JSON or HTML are not supported. Text properties with a configured maximum length greater than 255 characters are also excluded.
What about performance? The search and indexing performance improvements introduced in version 5.4.0 benefit both the standard version and the PRO version. They are not reserved for the PRO version.