We are switching inventory systems to Lightspeed and converting about half of our products to variant items from basic items. We have a large inventory and heavily rely on filtering for customers to navigate the website. We are currently using the Boost Filter & Search app to accomplish this. Each filter is based on tags using prefixes. This allows me to filter products under multiple values of the same filter option.
Example, if a bong is red and blue then I will tag it “Color:Red, Color:Blue.” Variant items do not have unique tags so this makes it impossible to filter variant and basic products under the same option.
Boost Filter & Search changed the code so that any variant based on the option “Color” works as a prefix. Example, if a bong is a variant by color then I would name the variant “Red”. The bong would filter on the collection page under option “Color” as “Red”. This means that each variant in a product can only have one color option and there cannot be any other variant in that product with the same color. Example, a bong comes in opaque teal and transparent teal they would not be able to both filter under option “Color” as “Teal”.
I need to be able to filter each variant uniquely with multiple values. I also need variant and basic items to filter under the same option on the collection page.