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Sorting / Filtering Products in Perch Shop

We have been building a couple of shops now with the Perch Shop addon and we keep running into the issue of sorting tools in the products view once the product counts get a bit high.

example of perch shop products view

Is there any functionality in Perch for providing sortable columns, search, or filtering within the product view? Are there any possible workarounds if there is not any functionality for it?

Thanks in advance!

James Harrison

James Harrison 0 points

  • 4 years ago
Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew 394 points
Perch Support

Runway 3 will include more filtering and sorting features for the Control Panel.

That's good news - will Perch 3 (Standard) support filtering and sorting as well?

Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew 394 points
Perch Support

No it will be Runway only, if you have enough products to need it you should be using Runway anyway.

Well, we do all our own custom routing with our sites, haven't really had a case scenario to switch to Runway. That's a bit of a shame then. So no workarounds with Perch standard?

Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

The workaround is to upgrade to Runway. Shop is designed for Runway primarily.

Ok, good to know. So then we should take into account that Shop's future lies with Runway and the divide will grow between the two platforms.

Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew 394 points
Perch Support

Yes - as we have always explained with Shop it was designed for Runway. The Perch use case is selling one or two products. Future releases will widen the gap between what is possible with Perch and Runway in order to keep Perch focussed on small sites and simple use cases.