Hi everyone,
I’ve run into an issue where the Search & Discovery filters are not showing in all collections. Could someone please explain how I can fix this?
The filters are enabled in the settings, but they are not displayed in the collection. I’ve attached screenshots for reference.
Regarding screenshots 1 and 4 — as you can see, it’s the same collection. The filters were visible there yesterday, but today they are no longer showing.
I would really appreciate your help. Thank you in advance!
I’ve just looked into this online, and if I understood correctly from other users, this app has a limit of 5,000 products. Once the number of products in a collection exceeds 5,000, the Search & Discovery filters stop working and no longer display.
This is actually very disappointing — now I’ll have to look for a third-party app that can handle a large number of products properly.
Hi @Roman_S
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Hi @devcoders , www.luxury-and-you24.de Thanks a lot
Hi @Roman_S
Are you using different templates for each collection, or the same one for all? Could you please share the collaborator code so I can check?
Best regards,
Devcoder
Yes, 5k products in collection is the limiting factor here.
But it does make some sense – it’s not only about speed and load optimization, but also about UX – 5k is too much to navigate effectively.
Split your products into smaller collections and continue using Search and Discovery.
I’d say that most custom filter and search solutions come with serious performance hit – since it’s no longer “native” to Shopify, collection pages are no longer rendered on Shopify servers, but instead the App code needs to be loaded in your browser first, then the code needs to fetch collection data from the app servers and finally, render collection grid on your page.
Hi @devcoders ,
I don’t see filters in collections where the number of products exceeds 5000. You can see this in the screenshots from my first post - in the men’s collection, the first screenshot shows exactly 5000 products. As soon as the number of products in that collection exceeded 5000 (see screenshot 4), the filters stopped displaying.
And yes, I created separate templates for the collections where it was necessary.
Hi @tim_tairli ,
thank you very much. You have actually confirmed my concerns.
Regarding splitting products into smaller collections - thank you very much for your suggestion, but unfortunately this solution doesn’t work for me. Therefore, I will need to look for filter solutions that can handle a larger number of products.
I’m not sure if I can ask this here, but perhaps you could recommend a suitable filter app that works well with large catalogs and is not too expensive?
Thank you very much in advance.
“Not to expensive” is very relative 
I had nice experience with 💸 Smart Search & Instant Search Pricing - Searchanise (or Searchanise Search & Filter - Increase sales with smart search result pages & custom filters | Shopify App Store) though it’s not recent.
Searchspring was pretty fast, but not cheap. Again, not recent experience.
thanks a lot
I will definitely take this into account.
There is no such restriction that “filtering works on 5000 products but not on 9500”. Yet, some filters may not work in bigger product sets (e.g. over 9k products) due to certain reasons:
Why does this occur:
Due to too many unique items (e.g. hundreds of vendors, tags or unique metafield values), filtering won’t be shown at all.
The size of your collection might affect indexing and, therefore, filtering will temporarily not work.
All your products might have the same unique values; thus, filtering is hidden by Shopify
Hi @Roman_S
Is your issue still not resolved?
