Show shoppers products as they type

Instant live search for your Joomla ecommerce store, with built-in analytics that tell you exactly what your customers couldn't find. That second part is the one that makes you money.

Search results with price and stock

Choose from four display modes and four layouts, and use the analytics to see what shoppers search for.

Live Instant Search
Results appear as the shopper types, after the number of characters and delay you set.
Four Display Modes
Dropdown inline, full-screen Modal, Top Offcanvas panel, or a classic Redirect form. Fits any header design, any theme, any layout without custom CSS work.
Four Result Layouts
Simple List, Card Grid, Mega two-column with type rail, or Compact Suggestions. The Card Grid renders your actual product card, consistent catalog experience, right in the search dropdown.
SKU and UPC Smart Ranking
Type a part number or scan a barcode and the exact product surfaces at the top. Exact SKU match first, exact UPC second, partial matches third. Power buyers and trade customers love this.
Price and Stock in the Dropdown
Formatted price and In Stock / Out of Stock appear on every product result, right in the dropdown. The shopper knows before they click. Fewer dead-end product page visits.
Product Thumbnails in Results
Product images in the dropdown with configurable size and aspect ratio, seven ratio options including 1:1, 3:2, 4:3, 16:9, and automatic cropping. Shoppers confirm the right product visually before clicking.
Zero-Result Search Report
Every search that returned nothing, ranked by frequency, visible in your Analytics dashboard. It is a direct transcript of what your customers tried to find and couldn't. That is a stocking list. Act on it.
Search Volume Trends
Total searches for any period vs the prior equal-length period, with a direction indicator and percentage change. Daily volume chart shows spikes from email blasts, seasonal patterns, and sale events.
Keyboard Navigation and Accessibility
Arrow keys move through results, Enter opens one and Escape closes the list. Screen reader live announcements on every state change. WAI-ARIA 1.2 combobox pattern.

The Zero-Result Search Report

Most ecommerce analytics tools make you dig for the zero-result data. Findbar puts it front and center in your J2Commerce Analytics dashboard. Every search that returned nothing, ranked by frequency, updated live. It is a list of catalog gaps, synonym mismatches, and missing product pages.

Top 10 zero-result search terms, ranked by frequency
Zero-result rate as a percentage of total searches
Total searches with period-over-period trend comparison
Top 10 successful search terms, what your customers actually want
Daily search volume chart, any date range, live in your Analytics view

Part Numbers Beat Product Names

Trade buyers, procurement teams, and repeat customers don't search by product name. They paste a SKU. They scan a barcode. They type the first five characters of a contract number. Findbar ranks exact SKU matches first, exact UPC matches second, and partial matches third, so power buyers find what they came for without scrolling.

Exact SKU match surfaces at position one, every time
Exact UPC or barcode match at position two
Partial SKU/UPC matches ranked third, everything else follows
Configure which search fields are boosted in ranking
Title, description, SKU, and UPC all independently toggleable

Four Ways to Put Search Everywhere

Your store header is a limited-space real estate decision. Findbar gives you four display modes so you don't have to make it a painful one. Drop it inline as a Dropdown. Pop it full-screen as a Modal. Slide it from the top as an Offcanvas panel. Or use Redirect mode for a classic form submission to a dedicated search results page. All four work with Bootstrap 5 and UIkit out of the box.

Dropdown, results appear beneath the search field
Modal, full-screen overlay launched from a header icon
Top Offcanvas, slides from above the page, space-efficient
Redirect, traditional form submit to Search Results page
Bootstrap 5 and UIkit templates both included

Launch with more today. Help every shopper find it tomorrow.

The answer is in the search log. Findbar collects it, surfaces it, and shows you exactly which searches are dead-ending, so you can fix them. Your competitors are flying blind. You don't have to.

Live Instant Search
Four Display Modes
Four Result Layouts

Use Cases

Finding the Missing Synonym

Home Goods Store

A home goods Joomla ecommerce store carries cookware, linens, and furniture across 1,400 SKUs. After installing Findbar, the store owner checks the zero-result report at the end of week one. "Duvet" appears 47 times. The store calls them "comforters." Nobody was finding them. A synonym added. The next week: zero dead-end searches for that term. An unmeasured number of sales that were previously disappearing, recovered. The fix took ten minutes. The data took zero extra work to collect.

Trade Buyers Search by SKU

Auto Parts Store

A Joomla auto parts ecommerce store serves both DIY consumers and professional mechanics. The pros search by part number, always. Findbar's SKU ranking puts the exact part at the top of every result, price and availability visible right in the dropdown without clicking through. Professional mechanics who used to make calls to verify stock now order directly online. The top 10 search analytics report shows the most common queries are all SKU prefixes, which tells the owner that catalog navigation menus are largely irrelevant to the trade segment. They simplify the nav. Checkout rate from search visits climbs.

Limited Drops with Stock Visibility

Boutique Fashion

A small fashion Joomla ecommerce store runs frequent limited drops. Stock sells out fast. Findbar is set to Modal mode with the Card Grid layout, same card as the catalog, and "Show availability" turned on. When something sells out, Out of Stock appears in the dropdown immediately. Shoppers stop clicking through to empty product pages. Bounce rate on sold-out pages drops. After each drop, the owner checks zero-result searches to see which styles shoppers came looking for after they sold out, which becomes the restock priority list for the next drop. Findbar turned search data into a pre-order intelligence tool.

Contract Buyers Order by Number

B2B Supplies Catalog

A B2B Joomla ecommerce store sells commercial cleaning supplies and equipment. Trade account buyers order by contract SKU numbers assigned to specific products. Findbar is configured with word match "Begins With," SKU and UPC ranking enabled, and sort order set to relevance. Buyers type the first five characters of their contract SKU and get the exact product. The analytics show the top search terms are all SKU prefixes, confirmation that search is the primary navigation path for this customer segment, not the catalog menus.

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