How to Activate Advanced Product Search

First things first: Have you signed up to Monocle Search using the Squarespace oauth button? If yes, there is nothing you need to do! We automatically activate Product Search for you, assuming you're on the Professional plan.

Why You Should Care

A driving factor for a successful online shop is getting your visitors to find your products quickly and in an engaging format. If you're using Monocle Search, it will automatically pick up on your products, but now show them in a particularly interesting way. For example, a list of prints may just look like this:

However, with Product Search set up correctly, the listings can look much more interesting:

With Advanced Product Search activated, you have:

• Pictures to make the browsing much more intuitive
• Current pricing
• Tags and filters for more fine-tuned search results

This guide will walk you quickly through how to achieve this effect on your site. Note that Monocle will still work as previously, meaning it will also find non-product results as before!

Adding your Products to Monocle Search

If you signed up using your Email address instead, keep reading.

1. Head over to the "Product Search" secion in the Monocle interface

2. You will need an API key to tell Monocle about your products. To do so, open your Squarespace interface in a new tab, and in your site settings, navigate to Developer Tools -> Developer API Keys. Click on "Generate Key" and generate one for your products with read-only settings.

3. Back in the Monocle interface, enter the key and click "Set API key".

Congrats! You should now see products showing up much nicer on your site. May your visitors find even more items they are looking for, even faster!