Prefixbox (vendor — faceted-search software, concedes against interest) — skip faceted search if catalog <200 products; implementation cost outweighs UX value

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."

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).

Confidence: Single-source / vendor. Corroborated by HawkSearch (vendor — concedes against interest) — for catalogs of "just a few dozen products," basic search and navigation are adequate and Luigi's Box (vendor) — independently corroborates the skip cutoff: "smaller catalogs with only a few hundred products may not require this level of complexity".

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.