Overview
Layers gives Shopify Plus merchants everything they need to power lightning-fast search, visual discovery, and intelligent merchandising—without the price tag or complexity of industry leading alternatives.
Features
- Lightning Fast: Delivering results in milliseconds, our global infrastructure ensures your customers aren’t kept waiting.
- Real-Time Data Ingestion: Any updates to your catalog are ingested and indexed within seconds, ensuring your search results are always up-to-date.
Search
- Semantic Search: Employ advanced natural language processing to understand the meaning behind search queries, not just keywords.
- Visual Search: Allow customers to take and upload photos to search with and find visually similar products.
- Query Categorization: Understands query intent and learns over time to predict and generate hyper-relevant results based on user history and the latest browsing trends.
- User-Intent Processing: Our system intelligently interprets user intent, especially when searching by price or category, to deliver the most relevant results.
- Predictive Search: Provide real-time search suggestions and autocomplete as customers type, improving the search experience.
Discovery
- Merchandising Rules: Create custom merchandising rules to strategically organize and present products on category pages, boosting conversion rates.
- Rich Facets: Implement powerful faceted navigation with custom grouping and ordering to help customers refine their product selection efficiently.
- Rich Sorting Features: Create sophisticated sort orders using conditions, product attributes, and weighted attribute groups to precisely control how products are displayed and prioritized.
- Product Sequences: Build product sequences to showcase specific products in a predetermined order, perfect for new arrivals, bestsellers, or curated collections.
- Similar Products: Help customers discover related items by showing visually and semantically similar products to what they’re viewing.
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Get Started
Begin your journey with Layers by exploring our intuitive platform. These features are designed to empower you to effectively merchandise your categories, enhance search capabilities, and keep customers engaged.
Merchandising Category Pages
Learn how to strategically organize and present products on category pages to enhance the shopping experience and boost conversion rates.
Creating Complex Sort Orders
Discover how to prioritize product display based on multiple criteria, making it easier for customers to find their preferred items.
Add Facets
Implement faceted search to offer customers a more granular way to filter results and find exactly what they need.
Configure Search
Customize your search settings to optimize relevance and ensure customers find what they’re looking for quickly.
Visual Search
Set up image-based search capabilities to allow customers to find products using visual references.
Developers
Our extensive documentation and APIs are designed for developers to fully leverage Layers’ capabilities within your e-commerce ecosystem.
Available APIs
Semantic Search REST API
Employ our Search REST API for real-time, typo-tolerant search functionality that’s both fast and relevant.
Image Search REST API
Employ our 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
Implement real-time predictive search and autocomplete functionality to enhance the user search experience.