Answers before installation

Kea Search Pro is a premium search module for ecommerce stores. It includes autocomplete, product results, filters, relevance controls, storefront customization, setup, search analytics, and rule-based product visibility.

Search Pro is focused on store-native search: relevance scoring, field priorities, synonyms, typo tolerance, fuzzy matching, product data, filters, and analytics. Kea Labs Cloud is the managed service for semantic search, image search, recommendations, visual discovery, hosted infrastructure, and larger AI discovery work.

The PrestaShop module is sold as a one-time purchase. It does not add a mandatory monthly subscription for core search, filters, and rule-based product visibility. The official purchase page and displayed price should be checked on PrestaShop Addons when the listing is open.

Search Pro for PrestaShop does not require Elasticsearch. It uses a custom SQL-backed search engine with relevance ranking inside the store stack instead of an external search server.

Search Pro supports PrestaShop 1.7.6.0 and newer, including PrestaShop 8.x and 9.x. PrestaShop 9.2 is the latest version checked in the current test set.

Search Pro supports storefront customization for search layouts, product cards, styling, CSS, and theme integration. Custom themes should still be checked before launch.

Search Pro is designed with PrestaShop shop and language context. Complex multistore or multilingual stores should be checked before launch; send Kea Labs the store setup if this is a purchase blocker.

Search Pro is installed as a PrestaShop module and configured from the PrestaShop Back Office.

The setup flow lets the team configure search, build the index, check the storefront, and enable Search Pro when the team is ready. Module search can be turned off if the team needs to return to the previous search.

Yes. The safer path is to install the module, configure search, build the index, check the storefront behavior, and only then decide whether Search Pro should handle production search.

Search Pro builds a search index from store product data. The module includes initial indexing, product update handling, and reindex controls.

We benchmarked Kea Search Pro with 10,000, 30,000, and 50,000 products using a one-language, feature-light test catalog and a moderate mixed search workload. The tested starting configuration used 2 vCPU and 2 GB RAM for MySQL through 30,000 products. The 50,000-product run used 4 vCPU and 4 GB RAM for MySQL. These are planning baselines, not capacity guarantees: languages, combinations, indexed fields, filters, query patterns, and concurrent traffic can change the result.

Use the measured application, MySQL, and free-disk allocations as starting points, not as complete production-server requirements. The host also needs resources for the operating system, the main store database, PHP workers, logs, backups, temporary files, and other modules. Allow additional free disk while Search Pro builds a replacement index and keeps the current index available.

Additional MySQL CPU helped most in the 50,000-product test when multiple searches ran concurrently. It helped less with an individual broad query that required more database work. More CPU can improve parallel capacity, but it does not make every query proportionally faster; broad queries, filters, and catalog structure still need representative testing.

Yes. Search-as-you-type layouts may send several requests during one typing session, including requests that calculate available filter values and result counts. A classic search box sends its main request after submit, which can reduce request frequency when traffic is a concern. It does not make an individual query cheaper or replace proper server sizing. Check the layout in Preview for storefront behavior, then test expected traffic in a staging or equivalent environment.

Search Pro includes search merchandising controls for product visibility: exact-query rules, product and category rules, pinning, boosting, burying, hiding, category priorities, preview, and explain views.

Merchants can use merchandising to promote seasonal products, support campaigns, give strategic brands or margin-friendly products more visibility, reduce visibility for products that should not lead, or hide products from specific search results.

Search Pro's rule-based merchandising is part of the store-native module and does not require a mandatory monthly search subscription.

Merchandising works as a controlled business layer on top of search behavior. Shopper filters, product eligibility, store context, and rule boundaries still matter.

Some query-level merchandising can be handled at search time. Product-score, category-priority, or index-time changes may require an index refresh, so the team can check the rule before relying on it.

Search Pro merchandising focuses on search result control. Banners, behavioral personalization, A/B testing, broad contains-style query triggers, and visual drag-and-drop category-page grids belong to a different solution or custom scope.

Search Pro includes autocomplete, product suggestions, result pages, faceted filters, relevance controls, synonyms, typo tolerance, fuzzy matching, search merchandising, interface customization, setup, indexing, and analytics.

Search Pro includes filter visibility, filter ordering, searchable facet settings, and feature-value mapping for bool and color feature facets. This helps stores turn messy catalog data into clearer shopper-facing filters.

Search Pro supports layout adaptation, product-card presentation, styling, CSS customization, and deeper theme integration by a developer, agency, or Kea Labs.

Search Pro analytics include popular queries, zero-result queries, clicked products, and search activity signals that help merchants improve product data, synonyms, filters, merchandising, and content.

Customers will be directed to the official PrestaShop Addons listing when it is open for purchase. Until the public purchase page is enabled, use the PrestaShop page or contact Kea Labs with a store you want to check.

Search Pro fits agency projects around search setup, relevance tuning, merchandising rules, filter configuration, storefront customization, theme work, launch help, and analytics checks. Agencies can contact Kea Labs with the client store, catalog shape, theme, and search goals.

Use Kea Labs Cloud when the store needs semantic search, image search, recommendations, visual discovery, API-first integration, hosted capacity, provider-managed operations, or contractual service levels.