November 2021 Release Notes: Latest Updates and Improvements for Shopify

Welcome to this month's release notes! We've got a few product updates for you, along with enhanced integration with Langify and new integration with ShopperApproved. Check out what's new and how you can benefit from it:

We've released a new feature that will enhance your customers' search experience. This feature allows Searchanise to ignore spaces or hyphens in customers' search queries. Let's say you sell parts for remote speakers, and your clients search for "Motorola GP1200 Battery" using various spellings ("Motorola GP-1200 Battery" or "Motorola GP 1200 Battery"). Now, even if a customer uses space or hyphen in the product name, the search will return relevant product results:

Also, with the new feature, the app can now return search results for queries like "bath rug 20x30" for products with specific sizes, enabling your customers to easier find what they want:

If you're a Langify user, we are happy to announce that you can now display Langify translations in Searchanise Instant Search Widget and Search Results Widget. To do so, go to the Searchanise control panel, open the Translations section and click the Resync Translations button. Also, this is where you'll also be able to look up the date of the previous sync.

After the import has been finished, Searchanise will use Langify translations in its widgets. You can also manage the translations of Searchanise widgets' elements. Check the help article with detailed instructions to find out how to do it. After that, your international customers will enjoy your storefront and site search in their native language.

Our dev team constantly works on improving Searchanise. This time they've managed to take the stability of the app to a new level. Also, Searchanise is now compatible with the latest Shopify requirements.

And, to top it all off, we've also improved Google PageSpeed score, through the following things:

• added lazy image loading in Searchanise widgets;
  
• split Javascript widget files and reduced the main JS file by 50%;
  
• split CSS files and resolved the "Remove unused CSS" warning from GPS.
  

Thanks to it, the search results page loads faster, ensuring a smooth user experience for your customers.

We're happy to announce that Searchanise is now fully integrated with ShopperApproved. So, if you're a ShopperApproved client, you can turn on the integration in the Searchanise control panel, the Integrations section, and display product ratings and reviews in the search results to add social proof.