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Tutorial step 6 – Customize listing search
Listing search allows your customers to discover products and services they need.
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In the previous step about listing fields, we already altered the search experience by adding a custom search filter. However, there are also some more general search configuration options, which can be adjusted from "Listings → Listing search". Let's go there.
Search type
Biketribe is a location-based marketplace, so we want the customers to start their journey by searching by location.
Keep "Location search"
On the listing search page, leave the search type as “Location search”.
Keyword filter
With location search, you can still allow customers to filter listings and search for a specific term. Let's do that.
Check "Display keyword filter"
Date range filter
Date range filter allows the customer to filter the search based on which bikes are available at a specific time. That sounds handy for us, so let's keep it.
Check “Display a date range filter.”
Availability mode
We can decide if the search returns all listings that have some availability on the given date range, or only listings that have the full date range available. In our case, we assume that people don't want to rent a bike for too many days, so if they're using the filter for a specific week, they probably want to see bikes that are available on at least some of those days.
Choose "Partial availability"
Date range mode
Our bikes are available for multi-day bookings, so the filter should also reflect that.
Choose "Daily availability"
Price filter
Some people might want to filter out bikes that don't fit their budget.
Check “Display a price filter”
Price filter minimum and maximum value
We assume that no bike costs more than $500/day.
Write “0” in Price filter minimum value
Write “500” in Price filter maximum value
All done! Remember to save changes.
Next: commission and minimum transaction size
Now we're happy with how our listings work, and how they are searched. Next, let's look into how you monetize your transactions. Go to step 7: Configure commission and minimum transaction size.