Features
- Lightning fast: Layers’ global infrastructure returns results in milliseconds.
- Real-time data ingestion: Layers ingests and indexes any updates to your catalog within seconds, so search results stay current.
Search
- Semantic search: Match on the meaning of a search query as well as its keywords. Learn how Layers interprets intent in Query Understanding and tune behavior in Search Behavior Settings.
- Visual search: Let customers search with photos. Configure image inputs in Search Behavior Settings and test results in Test image search.
- Query understanding: Layers interprets queries using expansion, intent detection, and context.
- Predictive search: Provide real-time suggestions and autocomplete.
Merchandising
- Merchandising rules: Create custom merchandising rules to organize and present products on category pages.
- Product sequences: Build product sequences to show specific products in a fixed order, such as new arrivals, bestsellers, or curated collections.
- Blocks: Create configurable product recommendation widgets that display personalized suggestions based on behavioral data, similarity, or curated collections across your storefront.
- Dynamic linking: Pin specific products to the top of collection pages for ad campaigns, so customers see the products featured in your ads. Works automatically via
utm_productsURL parameters when the Layers tracking pixel is installed. Contact support to enable. - Rich sorting features: Create sort orders from metrics, priority rules, product attributes, and weighted attribute groups to control the order products appear in.
- Rich facets: Implement Filters / Facets with custom grouping and ordering so customers can narrow their results.
- Variant breakouts: Display individual product variants as separate tiles on collection pages, so customers see every available option.
- Semantic redirects: Create redirects that match search intent and send customers to the most relevant page.
Collaboration
- Real-time collaboration: Work on merchandising rules and sort orders simultaneously with your team. See live cursors, automatic field locking, and leave threaded comments.
Discovery
- Similar products: Show products that are visually and semantically similar to the one a customer is viewing. Learn how to test similar products in Lab.
Get started
Start with these platform guides to merchandise your categories and configure search.Merchandising category pages
Learn how to organize and present products on category pages.
Creating complex sort orders
Order products on a page using multiple criteria.
Add facets
Add faceted search so customers can filter results by product attributes.
Search behavior
Adjust search settings to tune relevance.
Developers
Use the Layers APIs to build search, browse, and recommendations into your storefront.Available APIs
Semantic search REST API
Use the Search REST API for real-time, typo-tolerant search.
Image search REST API
Use the Image Search API to let customers find products by uploading images or searching for visually similar items.
Similar products REST API
Use the Similar Products API to find visually and semantically similar products to a specific product in your catalog.
Browse REST API
Use the Browse API to query merchandised category pages, retrieve product information, apply filters, and customize sort orders.
Predictive search REST API
Add real-time predictive search and autocomplete.
Blocks REST API
Retrieve personalized product recommendations using configurable blocks based on behavioral data, similarity, or curated collections.