Customised sorting with Shopware 6 filters

If products are categorised and sorted according to certain characteristics, customers can find them much more quickly. Shopware offers filters and customised sorting to make this task easier. With customised filter options, you can improve the search and navigation of products for your customers and learn how to set Shopware filters to sort goods in different ways. Follow our step-by-step instructions and help your customers find products with specific characteristics as quickly as possible.

Customise Shopware 6 filters: Instructions for an error-free procedure

Filter properties allow you to offer a pleasant, uncomplicated shopping experience. This allows you to define items according to certain characteristics. If you want to create a product, you should create properties such as colour, size, width and much more. There are various options. For example, you can set various Shopware 6 filters, such as sizes (xs, s, m, l, xl) or colours. This tutorial shows you how to create a colour property. It is very simple. Select "Catalogues" - "Properties".

There you will see different properties. They can be different colours, sizes, materials and target groups. Next to each property there are property characteristics. For example, you can see red and white next to the colour. You can add an optional description on the right. You can then determine whether this property should be displayed in the product filter. If you click on the three dots on the right, you can edit the properties.

Set new Shopware filter properties

To create the new property, click on "Create property". A window then opens with basic information that needs to be created. Select colour shorts, for example. You can add the description. Tick the box next to "Show in product filter of product lists". Then you can define the "Display of the training selection". You should select "Colour". For sorting, you should select "Customised". You can also specify the position here. Set the position to "One" and save the changes you have made.

Definition of characteristics

The characteristic can be edited, deleted or added in the Characteristics section. If you add a new characteristic, you should fill in all fields. Enter the name, e.g. blue, and simply take position "One" to set the Shopware 6 filter order. You can also add a standard image, e.g. blue shorts. Then click on "Apply".

Once you have created filters, you must click on "Save".

To check where the created Shopware filter can be found, go back to Properties. There you will see Colour Shirts. If you click on "Catalogues" - "Properties" again, you will see "Blue" under Characteristic. This colour is now displayed in products. You can see a tick in the table.

How do you link products with properties?

If you want to assign properties as Shopware 6 filters to the respective product, go to "Catalogues" - "Products". Find the required item (e.g. shorts) to which you want to link the property and click on it.

In the next step, you need to configure Shopware 6 filters. To do this, click on "Specifications" - "Configure properties".

Then click on the required folder (e.g. colour shorts) and select the desired colour on the right. This change must then be saved.

You can also check whether the Shopware 6 filters you have created have been saved in the backend.

The saved option also appears in the storefront.

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