Hi All,
First question on the forum. Has anyone built “Year, Make, & Model” filters?
I have an Airtable database that contains products applicable to specific vehicles, and it would be nice if the user can filter their vehicle using a YMM filter system.
I’m assuming I can write custom code for this, was curious if anyone has accomplished this.
We have built a year, make, model system, using Smartsuite and Softr.
Ours is not the typical system you see out there (reason being we sell multiple products that fit specific models, but all have different year ranges, yet we want to display the data on a single page).
You have a look it via this link: Shop By Vehicle - Lockdown Security
We have the Softr pages embedded within our Shopify site.
The way we structured it, user selects their make + model vehicle, then browses that make + model page, and using both modals and tabs, we display what we have for the vehicle.
We use tags for the user to select the vehicle year, same for things like transmission, or product brand. The reason we use tags (instead of dropdown) is because when you embed a Softr page on another site, the dropdown selector “drops down” too far on mobile, rendering it useless. Tags works across all (desktop, tablet, mobile), and while it doesn’t look great, actually proves better for selection.
Thank you for the reply. The way you have it makes sense.
Interesting use of “Vehicle Type” instead of a filtered “Model”. I may give that a try with your year tag selection.
BTW - The website looks great. Easy, functional, and clean!