Customize Dropdowns, Add & Remove or Re-Label
You may need to filter on something else besides just make model year. The Make/Model/Year extension has been used in all industries, aftermarkets, and specialty equipment manufacturer markets. Examples include spare parts for washer machines, sewing machines, and other miscellaneous spare, performance, and accessory parts manufacturers.
Hide options that do not have product
Will hide options that do not have product. Will only show Makes/Models/Years that will yield matched product results. Keeps dropdowns clean and concise which avoids loosing or confusing the customers.
Easily change drop down order
You can choose to show the "Year" as the first option. So in your backend it would be:
Make»Model»Year
But for the front-end customer it would be:
Year»Make»Model
Select Box Animation
The extension is customizable as to how you want to "animate", or unveil each select box in succession. They select boxes can be:
- Shown
- Hidden
- Disabled (grayed)
My Garage / Low Profile Mode
After the user makes a selection you can have the search box collapse into a low profile "My Garage" type display. This neatly tucks away the drop downs, allowing the user to change or clear if desired. If the user clicks the 'change' link the drop downs will toggle back into visibility.
Customizable Year Sorting Direction
The available years can be sorted in either ascending or descending order, so if you sold parts for more older cars, you would want to number your years from past to present, so older cars were easier to select. If you sold parts for mainly newer cars you would probably want to number your years present to past (in descending order).
Adding a 'Category' Selection To The Search Options
You can optionally include a 'category chooser' to allow the user to search parts that fit their vehicle from a specific category. You may choose to have "all" as the first option to search all categories, or you may disable the category chooser which will cause it to search all categories by default.
Category Chooser
You can easily control which categories to display, if at all, and how they are presented to your customer.
Ajax Mode or Offline Mode
You can run in either AJAX or OFFLINE mode. The difference is Offline mode will give a smoother experience. AJAX mode will keep your actual page size down.
Offline mode serializes the hierarchy into a javascript array and includes it into your page. If you have many many options you will want to use AJAX mode. Having the choice gives you the ultimate freedom of customization.
Search on Category Pages (Hide/Show)
Choose to show/hide the search filter from specific categories. In this way you may only have a single automotive category. Or maybe you have all automotive categories except a few.
Site Search From Homepage (Hide/Show)
Choose wether or not to have a "site vehicle search" on your homepage
Vertical, Horizontal, Anywhere Where and Way You Want it.
You can display the automotive search anywhere in your site, the left column, the right column, horizontally, vertically, in your main content(center).
It is a custom Magento block. There is a setting to show it horizontally or vertically and it can be moved anywhere in your template by changing the word "left" to to "right", for example.
Vehicle In Session
The vehicle is stored in the customer's session while browsing your store(s). The vehicle that is selected is clearly displayed at all times.
Runs in all modern browsers
Supported in all Modern Browsers as defined by the YUI specification. Fully compatable with MSIE, FF, Chrome, Opera, and all modern browsers. Users the JQuery javascript library.
Multiple Industries
Can be used for things other than cars (eg. sewing machines, Ipods™, RVs, trucks, washing machines, spare parts, machine parts).
make sure to see our Wheel, Adapter (notes), and paint codes modules
Supports Multiple Stores
Ability to add vehicle search to more than one store and manage from one backend.
Multiple Results Display Styles
After choosing their vehicle from the homepage, product from all categories can be displayed in a standard Magento grid, or can be displayed in our proprietrary product results page that you can apply CSS to. This allows users to expand and collapse categories, similiar to how "folders" on your computer work.
The vehicle the user is searching on is clearly displayed at the top of the page.
Customers can easily navigate categories of products that fit their vehicle
One Page Shopping
As part of the "group view" search results, you can choose to enable one page shopping. This will allow customers to view full product details without leaving the search results page. The product details is loaded via ajax into a javascript modal dialogue window.Related
My Vehicle - The "my vehicle" or "my garage" feature works in unison with the search.
Faceted (layered) Navigation - How the extension integrates with Magento's layered navigation.
Search Results Styles
Universal Products
Bundle/ Kit Products - If you sell "kits", enables you to tag vehicles to each component of the kit.
Search Engine Optimization - Creates a special vehicle site map.