Why Your Shopify Search Is Losing Sales (and How Live Search Fixes It for $4 a Month)
Visitors who use your search box are some of your most valuable. They already know what they want. But on many Shopify stores, search is an afterthought: type, press enter, wait for a full results page, scroll, and hope. Every extra step is a chance for them to give up.
Ajaxy Live Search turns your theme’s search box into instant, predictive search. Products, collections, pages and articles appear while the customer is still typing, so they’re found before they finish the word.
What changes for your shoppers
A customer types “linen sh”. Before they finish, the dropdown shows the Linen Camp Shirt (on sale), the Linen Relaxed Shirt and the Linen Blend Overshirt (out of stock), with prices. Beside them are the “Linen Edit” and “Summer Shirts” collections, a “Fabric care: linen” page and a “How to style a linen shirt” article. One click and they’re on the right product.
- Results as you type: products, collections, pages and blog articles in one dropdown, with suggested searches on top
- Sale and stock tags: show sale or out-of-stock labels on product results
- Keyboard shortcut: open search from anywhere with a shortcut such as ⌘K, and move through results with the arrow keys
- Recent searches: customers see what they searched last time, saved in their own browser
Built into Shopify, not bolted on
Powered by Shopify’s own search
Results come from Shopify’s predictive search, so they match your store’s search settings and are always current. There’s no separate index to build or sync. Add a product and it’s searchable straight away.
Lives in your theme
One theme block, rendered with your fonts and colours. It works with Online Store 2.0 and classic themes. It’s not an iframe and not a heavy third-party script, and you can style it with CSS if you want.
Works even when we’re offline
Your storefront talks to Shopify directly, not to our server. If we’re down, your search still works.
Attach it to any search box
Point it at your theme’s existing search input, or any element, with a CSS selector. Your theme’s own search box becomes live, so nothing in your design has to change.
Ready for every market
Dark mode for dark storefronts, full right-to-left support for Arabic and Hebrew, and every label (placeholder, section titles, “show more”, “searching…”) is a setting in any language.
SEO untouched
Live search adds search to your pages. It doesn’t replace them, redirect them or add new URLs for search engines to crawl.
Who it’s for
- Stores with more than a handful of products
- Stores with collections, guides or blog content customers should find
- Mobile-heavy stores, where scrolling a results page is painful
- Arabic, Hebrew and multilingual stores that need RTL and translated labels
60 days free, then $4 a month
One flat price after a 60-day free trial: no per-search fees and no tiers. Install it, add the block, point it at your search box. That’s the whole setup.
Some shoppers would rather ask than search. For them, there’s Ajaxy AI Sales Agent, an AI assistant that answers questions and adds products to the cart.