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Elastic is a hosted search service platform that helps businesses of all sizes to offer relevant and timely search experiences for end users of e-commerce platforms. Elastic integration helps the store owners implement faster, predictive, and optimized search results, which enhance the user experience exponentially on any e-commerce solution, compared to the default nopCommerce search.
If you want the best way to integrate Elastic search services into your nopCommerce solution, then nopStation is here with its Elastic Search Integration plugin. This search integration plugin is one of nopStation’s many class-leading plugins for nopCommerce. This plugin lets customers easily search and filter through name, SKU, short description, full description, meta title, meta keywords, and much more, letting them find what they’re looking for.

PRE-REQUISITES

The plugin requires you to install the Nop-Station Core plugin first.
An Elastic account is needed

INSTALLATION

Download the Elastic Search Plugin from our store https://nop-station.com/customer/downloadableproducts
Go to Administration → Configuration → Local plugins
Upload the NopStation.ElasticSearch zip file using the "Upload plugin or theme" button
Go to Administration, reload the 'list of plugins'. Install 'Nop-Station Core' Plugin first and then install 'Nop-Station Elastic Search'
To make the plugins functional, restart the application

ELASTIC ACCOUNT CONFIGURATION

Register or Login into your Elastic account
Go to Elasticsearch Dashboard → Create an index
Name your index and click on Create my index
Click on Create an API key
Name the API Key and click on Create API key
Copy Elasticsearch URL and API Key and paste into plugin configuration page

CONFIGURATION

Go to Admin → Nop Station → Plugins → Elastic Search → Configuration
Enter the Elasticsearch URL
Enter the Elasticsearch Index name as given in the cloud
Check any of Basic authentication or API Key authentication
Enter the User name and Password if Basic authentication is selected
Enter the Encoded API key if API Key authentication is selected
Check to include fuzziness.
Set fuzziness.
Check to include minimum should match.
Set minimum should match.
Check to include operator.
Set operator.
Check to include max expansions.
Set max expansions.
Check to include tie breaker.
Set tie breaker.
Allowed sorting options. Click 'Update index' if the value of this property is changed.
Check to allow customers to filter by product rating.
Click Save button
Click Update index button to update Elastic index according to the plugin configuration

UPDATABLE ITEMS

Here you can see all the products list which are not yet updated with elastic.
Click Update all button to update

UPLOAD EXISTING PRODUCTS

Go to Admin → Nop Station → Plugins → Elastic Search → Upload Products
Enter product ID range
Click Upload button

Elastic search documentation