Sort options help shoppers navigate and make sense of large sets of results. They improve the shopping experience by giving shoppers a more organized, tailored way to view products (for example, sorting by price or rating).

With this update, you can now manage sort options directly in the Customer Dashboard, without using the API:

• View already configured sort options
• Create new sort options
• Update existing sort options
• Delete sort options you no longer need

How to get started

1. In the Customer Dashboard, go to Workspace → Indexes, then click Sort Options.
2. Click Create sort option.
3. Fill in the fields:
   • Sort by — internal identifier for the sort option (used by the system to reference it)
   • Sort order — whether results should be sorted ascending or descending
   • Display name — the label shoppers see in the sort dropdown (for example, “Price: Low to High”)
   • Path in metadata — the item field to sort on (for example, price, rating, or product.rating)
   • Position — the order this sort option appears in the list of sort options shown to shoppers
   • Visibility — whether this sort option should be visible to shoppers by default
4. Click Create to save.

To manage sort options in the dashboard, users require an admin role or an explicit  Sort Options permission within a custom user role. The default sort option by relevance is configured during the index setup and can be changed only via API. Changes to sort options require an index rebuild, which usually takes a few minutes. You can learn more about sort options in our API reference.

If you have any questions or feedback on the new feature or the Constructor dashboard in general, please connect with your Customer Success Manager or contact us through support@constructor.io.