About this plugin
io search engine: indexes the catalog, publishes it to the search engine and embeds the widget on the storefront by hooking into the theme’s existing search bar.
- Instant search with filters and facets.
- Multilingual catalog (WPML and Polylang supported out of the box).
- No theme changes required — the widget hijacks the existing search input.
- Push sync: changes in your shop reach findalo.io within seconds.
- Failover between primary and fallback origin if findalo.io is unreachable.
A Findalo account is required. The plugin is free; the search service is provided by Findalo under its own terms.
External services
This plugin is the connector between your store and the Findalo search service, a hosted (SaaS) search engine. Nothing is sent and no external script is loaded until an administrator connects the store to a Findalo account (setup wizard or WooCommerce → Findalo). Once connected, the plugin talks to the following hosts, all operated by Findalo:
- api.findalo.io / findalo.io — the Findalo API. The plugin sends your product catalog (names, descriptions, prices, stock, categories, attributes, images, URLs) every time it changes, and answers the service’s requests for: the catalog feed, the plugin/sync status, the connection handshake and verification, recent orders (order id, product ids, quantities, dates — used for “best sellers” and “frequently bought together”), the order status lookup used by the shopping assistant (order id or reference, billing email, order date, status and tracking, only when a shopper asks about their own order), and the text of your public CMS pages (used as the assistant’s knowledge base).
- widget.findalo.io — serves the search widget script, loaded on the storefront only when the store is connected and the widget is enabled. From the shopper’s browser the widget sends search queries, result clicks, add-to-cart events and cart context (cart total and product/category ids of the current page) to the Findalo API so it can rank results and attribute sales. On the “thank you” page the plugin pushes the purchase (order id, total, currency and line items — no personal data) to the widget so a sale that started from a search is credited.
- panel.findalo.io — the Findalo panel, opened by the administrator to authorize the connection and manage the search engine.
- buscador.findalo.io — a fallback origin for the widget and API, used automatically if the primary hosts are unreachable.
The plugin does not send WordPress user accounts, passwords, customer addresses or payment data. Personal data leaves the store only in the order-status lookup described above (the billing email a shopper types to identify their own order) and is not stored by Findalo beyond answering that request.
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