Capabilities
What it can do
- Intent-aware retrieval
- Catalog-grounded results
- Native fallback
validation
Mainspring Search
Help shoppers find products using natural language without losing Shopify's native search safety net.
In plain words
What Search does for your store
Search helps a shopper describe what they want in everyday language and matches that request only to products in your active catalog. If the match is not reliable enough, the store can fall back to Shopify's normal search instead of showing a made-up answer.
Help shape what comes next
Register interest or apply for early access
Early-access participation is limited to stores that meet the product’s data and validation requirements.
Requirements
What it needs
- Indexed active catalog
- Search placement enabled
Boundaries
What it does not do
- Preview quality depends on catalog detail
- Unavailable products are filtered
Setup
How your store gets ready
- Complete indexing
- Review offline quality
- Enable preview
- Publish after evidence approval
How results are produced
Evidence before action
- Normalizes shopper intent and ranks grounded catalog candidates
- Falls back to native results when confidence is insufficient
Frequently asked questions
What merchants usually need to know
Can Search invent products?
No. Results are grounded in the synchronized Shopify catalog.
Evaluate
Documentation and trust
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Next step
Register interest in Search.
Registering interest does not activate the product or change your subscription. Mainspring will confirm eligibility before any preview access.