Improved Search Function

Thank you so much for adding the Search Function! We love the Store Locator and are happy to see the improvements over the last couple years. We do have some suggestions that would help our customers with a more user-friendly search experience:

Search Functionality

  • Improved city search: Allow search by city without requiring the state to be specified.
  • Enhanced partial name search: Enable finding stores by searching for part of the store name (e.g., “lemon” should return “Lemon & Lavender”).
  • Better handling of common names: Improve search results for common terms (e.g., “lavender”) to avoid overwhelming results or incorrect matches.

Additional Considerations

  • Consider implementing fuzzy search: This would allow for misspelled or partially correct search terms to still return relevant results.
  • Explore alternative search options: Offer additional search criteria like store type, product availability, or services offered.

Thank you for considering these additions as you continue to evolve this wonderful app.

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Hi @Dillon_Novak :wave:

Thanks a ton for such a detailed feedback!

I really like each of your suggestions and agree that they would enhance the search functionality. We’ll try to consider your ideas in the future, and I’ll make sure to update you here in case of any news :slightly_smiling_face:

Great news, friends: we’ve started working on optimizing the search logic!

It’s currently in the Design stage, but we’ll keep you updated on the progress here :blush:

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Great news that this feature is being worked on. I was shocked when I tried to search for a word in a location name, about, a badge, and it says no results! :scream: lol because now I don’t even know what the search even does.

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Thank you for your feedback, @Kate4!

You’re right, the search option could use some improvements, and I hope we’ll be able to finish the works during the quarter (it’s not a strict deadline, but we’re striving to meet it).

Right now, you can search by a store’s full name, ZIP, or address :slight_smile:

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Update: the feature was moved to the Development stage! :tada:

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