What to bring
Bring a catalogue sample and the questions people ask when choosing between similar items. Include products that are often confused or difficult to find.
For a Wood Green retailer, adding more products can make the website harder to use. We help organise categories, product details and filters around the differences customers actually care about.


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Wood Green is a Haringey centre, distinct from Tottenham and its surrounding centres. A local retailer may also deliver beyond the area, so store information and delivery rules need separate explanations. Within the catalogue, the useful work is often in the data: consistent sizes, materials, compatibility or other meaningful attributes. Filters can only help when those details are reliable. We review the records before adding more controls to the page.
Bring a catalogue sample and the questions people ask when choosing between similar items. Include products that are often confused or difficult to find.
Test the catalogue with a customer-style description rather than an exact product code. Check that the result is relevant and that unavailable combinations are explained clearly.
These are the questions we would work through for this Wood Green brief. The final scope depends on your current site and how the business operates.
Ask which product differences change a customer's choice. Use those criteria to decide categories and filters instead of exposing every internal stock field.
Make units, names and options consistent across comparable items. Correct missing values so filtering does not hide products unintentionally.
Try a specific item, a broad need and an unavailable combination. Give customers a useful way forward when no exact match is found.
Alif Meem Fragrances is a public Xapner ecommerce reference for category discovery and shopping. It is not a Wood Green client or proof of a particular search or filtering feature.
Before developing an online shop or WooCommerce filter, agree the product attributes your team can maintain consistently. A small set of reliable choices is more useful than empty categories and contradictory labels.
A few details worth settling before design or development begins.
Only imperfectly. Data cleanup is usually part of the job; a sophisticated filter cannot compensate for missing or contradictory product attributes.
It may help a larger range, but search needs useful product names and descriptions. We would test real customer terms before deciding how much functionality is needed.
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