Adding an alphabetical filter

[hostaonline]

Hi Folks,

Newbie to setting up a website and need some advice on how to  add a couple filters to my products to give my customers a great experience. We own a garden nursery specializing in a single variety of perennial. I've been able to set up the filter for the flower colour of each variety as well as the filter for the leaf colour (and combination of colours). However, I'm struggling to figure out how to offer a filter for the customer to search all products alphabetically (A-C, D-F etc.) as well as by the Nursery Association's mature plant size listings (mini, small, medium, large and giant). We will have about 900 varieties on offer in the next year so we really need a customer to be able to filter easily on multiple levels so as to narrow things down significantly. We are currently moving from 'Trade' to 'Xtra' 5.1.0 and have locked our site during the switch as I need the time to add products and translate the English as we are a bilingual site. We have purchased the 'Xtra' theme and have switched over to it. We also have the Shopify's Search and discovery app up and running. A site that I'm inspiring to look like is www.nhhostas.com . Any help or hints would be greatly appreciated.

[EcomGraduates · Accepted solution]

You can create a custom filter based on product titles using Shopify's Search & Discovery app. 

• Use tags or a custom metafield for the first letter of the product title (A, B, C, etc.).
• Add these tags to each product.
• Then, you can configure the filter to show products by these tags.

[hostaonline]

I'm so confused at this point🤔I have letter tags on my products but am in
Search and Discovery App and I'm lost as I don't understand what "source"
to use. I'm sure it's try simple but I'm just not seeing what I need to
do. Glenn