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title: "Filters: sort your products by size, color or material | Vivlab POS"
description: "Create filters such as size, color or material, tick their values on your products, then find your products in the list or let your customers narrow down the online catalog."
url: https://docs.vivlab.com/en/pos/facets
---

# Filters

A filter describes a characteristic of your products, for example color or size. Its values are called facets: **Color** is the filter, **Red** and **Blue** are its facets. Filters are shared with the dashboard and your online store, where customers use them to narrow down the products of a category. At the register, they sort the [product](https://docs.vivlab.com/en/pos/products.md) list.

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## What do you want to do?

- [Create a filter](#creer-un-filtre)
- [Tick the values on your products](#cocher-les-valeurs)
- [Add, sort or hide values](#reglages-d-un-filtre)
- [Disable a filter](#desactiver-un-filtre)
- [Delete a filter](#supprimer-un-filtre)

## Create a filter {#creer-un-filtre}

The list shows each filter's **Name**, its first **Facets** and its **Status** (**Active** or **Inactive**). Hover over the **+** counter to read the other values. **Search for a filter** finds a filter by its name.

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1. Open **Store** > **Filters**, then click **Create a facet filter**.
2. Enter the **Facet filter name**, shown to your customers online, for example **Size**.
3. In **Values**, type **S** and press **Enter**, and so on. You can also paste a list, one value per line.
4. Click **Save**.

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The filter is active as soon as it is created. It stays empty on the online store until a product carries its values. The **Preview**, on the right of the window, shows the filter as it appears in the online catalog.

::: info Manager role
Filters are managed with the **Manager** role. See [Team](https://docs.vivlab.com/en/pos/staff.md).
:::

## Tick the values on your products {#cocher-les-valeurs}

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1. Open **Store** > **Products**, then the product's form.
2. In **Product categorization**, click the **Filters** field.
3. Tick the product's values, for example **S**, **M** and **L**, click **Validate**, then **Save**.

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In the product list, **Filter** then offers this filter and its values: choose **Size** > **M** to show only the products that carry this value.

::: tip Filters and variants
Filters don't read variants. A T-shirt sold in S, M and L must have these sizes ticked in **Filters**, on top of its variants.
:::

## Add, sort or hide values {#reglages-d-un-filtre}

Click the filter in the list, then:

- to add a value, type it in **Add a value, or paste one per line**, then press **Enter** or click **Add**;
- to change the order, drag the value by its handle. A value you have just added can be moved once the filter is saved;
- to hide a value without deleting it, click the eye (**Hide this value**). The trash can deletes the value.

Click **Save**. Two values with the same name are marked **Duplicate**: rename or delete one of them, or your customers will see it twice.

## Disable a filter {#desactiver-un-filtre}

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1. Click the filter.
2. In **Visibility**, set the **Facet filter status** to **Disabled**.
3. Click **Save**.

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The filter disappears from the online store. The values ticked on your products are kept. For several filters, tick their rows in the list, then **More actions** > **Activate** or **Deactivate**.

## Delete a filter {#supprimer-un-filtre}

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1. Click the filter.
2. Open the **More actions** menu (the three dots at the top of the window), then choose **Delete**.
3. Confirm the deletion.

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To delete several filters, tick their rows in the list, then **More actions** > **Delete**, and confirm.

::: warning Permanent deletion
A deleted filter also disappears from the dashboard and the online store. To remove it from the online store only, [disable it](#desactiver-un-filtre).
:::

## Good to know

- **No filters in the sale grid**: at the register, the **Sale** screen is browsed with search and scanning. Filters sort the list in the **Products** section.
- **Importing products**: catalog import happens in the [dashboard](https://docs.vivlab.com/en/sections/products.md#import-products-with-the-assistant) and ignores filter values that don't exist yet. Create your filters before importing.
- **CSV export**: exporting your filters to a CSV file happens on the [dashboard Filters page](https://docs.vivlab.com/en/sections/facets.md#selection-and-csv-export).
- Where filters sit on the online category page is set on the [dashboard Themes page](https://docs.vivlab.com/en/sections/branding.md).