{"id":1783,"slug":"prefixbox-under-200-products-skip-faceted-cutoff","title":"Prefixbox (vendor — faceted-search software, concedes against interest) — skip faceted search if catalog <200 products; implementation cost outweighs UX value","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["kevin","smb-owner","candid-team"],"topics":["editorial-discipline","faceted-search"],"reference_body":"**Claim:** \"Your store has a small catalog (e.g., <200 products). Basic category filters solve most findability needs. The implementation cost outweighs value for your UX.\"\n\n**Source:** Prefixbox (vendor — sells faceted-search software, incentive to inflate need; here it concedes a skip threshold), \"Faceted Filtering and Faceted Search: Complete Guide\" (accessed June 2026).\n\n**Confidence:** Single-source / vendor. Corroborated by [[hawksearch-few-dozen-products-static-list-fine]] and [[luigis-box-few-hundred-products-skip-faceted-corroboration]].\n\n**Why this matters for Candid:** The most specific cutoff number — <200 products — in the brief. Even a vendor that sells faceted-search tooling places the threshold this high. Useful for the \"we have 80 products, do we need this?\" client conversation.","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[{"slug":"hawksearch-few-dozen-products-static-list-fine","title":"HawkSearch (vendor — concedes against interest) — for catalogs of \"just a few dozen products,\" basic search and navigation are adequate","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"rule-skip-faceted-search-below-200-items-stable-shallow","title":"R2 — Skip faceted search when the inventory is small (~under 200 items), stable, and shallow; a static list is fine","kind":"rule","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}],"incoming":[{"slug":"research-brief-searchable-structured-catalogue-working-tool-june-2026","title":"Research brief: the searchable, structured catalogue as a working tool — when records-not-prose pays off (June 2026)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"luigis-box-few-hundred-products-skip-faceted-corroboration","title":"Luigi's Box (vendor) — independently corroborates the skip cutoff: \"smaller catalogs with only a few hundred products may not require this level of complexity\"","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"caveats-searchable-catalogue-no-isolated-study-vendor-skip-thresholds","title":"Caveats for the searchable-catalogue brief: no study isolates catalogues as a variable; vendor-sourced skip thresholds; Baymard age; AI-eligibility under-sourced","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"rule-skip-faceted-search-below-200-items-stable-shallow","title":"R2 — Skip faceted search when the inventory is small (~under 200 items), stable, and shallow; a static list is fine","kind":"rule","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"}]},"created_at":"2026-06-21T13:17:12.701Z","updated_at":"2026-06-21T13:17:12.701Z"}