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Shoppers describe the RV they want. The site finds it.

Filter sidebars work when a shopper already thinks in your categories. Most do not. They think "something we can tow with the truck we already own that sleeps the four of us", and a filter sidebar has no row for that.

Why filters lose shoppers

A filter interface asks the shopper to translate their situation into your taxonomy before it will help them. Every step in that translation is a place to give up, and on a phone there are a lot of steps.

The dealers who benefit most are the ones with deep catalogues. Above roughly 300 units, findability stops being a nice-to-have and becomes the thing that decides whether inventory produces leads or sits invisible.

What the search actually reads

Length, sleeps, floorplan type, price, weight, tow rating, condition, location — parsed out of a sentence and run against live inventory.

It is backed by our own RV spec library, which fills in floorplan data that arrives thin from your DMS. A catalogue is only as searchable as its worst-populated record, so enrichment is not a side feature here — it is what makes the search work at all.

  • Runs against live inventory, so a sold unit stops appearing
  • Falls back to conventional filters rather than a dead end when a query is ambiguous
  • Location-aware for multi-store groups

Detail

Plain-English inventory search — questions

What happens when nothing matches?+

The shopper gets the nearest alternatives with the relaxed constraint named — "nothing under $45k with those specs, here are three at $47k" — rather than an empty results page, which is where sessions end.

Does this replace normal filters?+

No, both are there. Shoppers who like filters keep using them; the search is for everyone else.

Our DMS data is patchy. Will search still work?+

That is what the spec library is for. Units arriving without sleeps counts, lengths or weights get matched against our own floorplan data so they remain findable.

See it on your own inventory.

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