FiboSearch – Ajax Search for WooCommerce vs Sokol

The most popular WooCommerce product search plugin. It gives your users a well-designed advanced AJAX search bar with live search suggestions. By default, WooCommerce provides a very simple search solution, without live product search or even SKU search. FiboSearch (formerly Ajax Search for WooCommerce) provides advanced search with live suggestions. Who doesn’t love instant, as-you-type suggestions? In 2025, customers expect smart product search. Baymard Institute’s latest UX research reveals that search autocomplete, auto-suggest, or an instant search feature is now offered on 96% of major e-commerce sites. It’s a must-have feature for every online business that can’t afford to lose customers. Why? FiboSearch helps users save time and makes shopping easier. As a result, Fibo really boosts sales. Features ✅ Search by product title, long and short description ✅ Search by SKU ✅ Show product image in live search results ✅ Show product price in live search results ✅ Show product description in live search results ✅ Show SKU in live search results ✅ Mobile first – special mobile search mode for better UX ✅ Details panels with extended information – “add to cart” button with a quantity field and extended product data displayed on hovering over the live suggestion ✅ Easy implementation in your theme – embed the plugin using a shortcode, as a menu item or as a widget ✅ Terms search – search for product categories and tags ✅ Search history – the current search history is presented when the user clicked/taped on the search bar, but hasn’t yet typed the query. ✅ Limit displayed suggestions – the number is customizable ✅ The minimum number of characters required to display suggestions – the number is customizable ✅ Better ordering – a smart algorithm ensures that the displayed results are as accurate as possible ✅ Support for WooCommerce search results page – after typing enter, users get the same results as in FiboSearch bar ✅ Grouping instant search results by type – displaying e.g. first matching categories, then matching products ✅ Google Analytics support ✅ Multilingual support including WPML, Polylang and qTranslate-XT ✅ Personalization of search bar and autocomplete suggestions – labels, colors, preloader, image and more Try the PRO version FiboSearch also comes in a Pro version, with a modern, inverted index-based search engine. FiboSearch Pro works up to 10× faster than the Free version or other popular search solutions for WooCommerce. Upgrade to PRO and boost your sales! PRO features ✅ Ultra-fast search engine based on the inverted index – works very fast, even with 100,000+ products ✅ Fuzzy search – works even with minor typos ✅ Search in custom fields with dedicated support for ACF ✅ Search in attributes ✅ Search in categories. Supports category thumbnails. ✅ Search in tags ✅ Search in brands (We support WooCommerce Brands, Perfect Brands for WooCommerce, Brands for WooCommerce, YITH WooCommerce Brands). Supports brand thumbnails. ✅ Search by variation product SKU – also shows variable products in live search after typing in the exact matching SKU ✅ Search for posts – also shows matching posts in live search ✅ Search for pages – also shows matching posts in live search ✅ Synonyms ✅ Conditional exclusion of products ✅ TranslatePress compatible ✅ Professional and fast help with embedding or replacing the search bar in your theme ✅ and more… ✅ SEE ALL PRO FEATURES! Showcase See how it works for others: Showcase. Feedback Any suggestions or comments are welcome. Feel free to contact us via the contact form.

Boost WooCommerce sales with instant Ajax product search — live suggestions, fullscreen popup, SKU search, and GA4 analytics. Check Demo | Documentation | Upgrade to PRO WooCommerce’s default search loses you sales. Smart WooCommerce Search replaces it with a fast, intelligent Ajax search that shows real-time product suggestions — with images, prices, and categories — before your customer even finishes typing. Improve the default WooCommerce search or create a fully custom search widget in a few steps. The Smart Search plugin delivers real-time suggestions in a beautiful fullscreen popup with support for synonyms and recent searches — seamlessly integrated into any theme or page builder. Smart falcon search pre-builds a dedicated search index for blazing-fast results on large catalogs. Sub-100ms search response even with 100,000+ products. Free Features: Data indexing – new feature! Full Screen Mode Recent Searches Search results with images and prices Google Analytics integration (GA4) – new feature! Simple integration into default search widgets Advanced caching (Memcache, Redis) – new feature! Search by product SKU or EAN Search in product Categories Search in product Tags Selected product categories Allow/disallow searching in selected product categories Exclude “Out of stock” products from search results Multiple words search Elementor compatible DIVI compatible WPBakery Page Builder compatible Visual Composer compatible Search Exclude plugin compatible WPML compatibility – new feature! Polylang compatibility – new feature! Discover all PRO features with a 14-day free trial — no risk, cancel anytime. Upgrade to PRO and boost your sales: Internal Analytics with top search queries, no-results phrases, and most-clicked products “Did you mean” Keywords / Synonyms Product Variations Popup – Shoppers can now select product options (size, color, and more) and add items to cart directly from the search popup Add to Cart button in search results Relevance configurator Grid layout Search in Custom Post Types Search in Custom Taxonomies Search in Custom Fields Search in Product Attributes Search in Product Brands Product labels (Featured, Sale, Out of Stock badges) Stop words ACF plugin compatibility Custom Post Type UI plugin compatibility Ultimate WooCommerce Brands plugin compatibility Automatic plugin updates More customization and styling settings SKU search/ EAN search Have questions? Contact us.