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Filter

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

/ˈfɪltər/nounCommon term

In e-commerce, filter means: An option on a category or search page that lets shoppers narrow the products shown by features such as size, colour, brand or price.

In Turkish: filtre, filtreleme

How it is used

Used as a noun (add a filter, the price filter) and a verb (filter by size). Shoppers apply, clear or combine filters; teams decide which filters to show and check that product data fills them correctly. Developers call this faceted navigation.

Example sentences

  1. Most shoppers filter by size first, then by price.

  2. The colour filter doesn't work because half of the products have no colour data.

Common collocations

  • apply a filter
  • filter by price
  • clear all filters
  • price filter
  • sort and filter
  • category pageA page that shows a group of related products, such as 'women's shoes', usually as a grid that shoppers can sort and filter.
  • site searchThe search box inside an online store that lets shoppers find products by typing words, and the system that decides which results to show.
  • product catalogThe full set of products a business sells, together with their information such as names, categories, prices, variants and images.
  • product variantOne version of a product that differs from the others in a feature such as size, colour or capacity, usually with its own SKU and stock.

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