Brandon Kruse I'd recommend looking at the option to integrate with a provider so that you don't have to field requests for better search, boost and bury capabilities, visual search, etc. in the future. Additionally if you were to integrate with a partner your work changes to a product feed to that provider and integrating their java tags into the webstore which then allows them to manage the PLP/category page and search results including the visual display (front end code changes like filter criteria, sort, the product cards) which allows your clients to have more UI control to help separate their store without you having to build multiple templates. We've used Nextopia and Searchspring and while Searchspring is much better it's also more money and Nextopia does do everything you would need. (there are obviously many other options too.)

I thought this was resolved, but I'm still getting hit-or-miss results with searching tags. I just tried to search Clemson and got nothing, even though we've got numerous Clemson items, all tagged "Clemson." Right now we've got items uploaded for 53 universities; we carry over 100 universities. I definitely want people to be able to search straight to their college

That will be great. But my problem was that the tags were not searchable. The ONLY thing that was returning ANYTHING from a search result was the first word of the product name. If, for example, someone searched "children's t-shirt" NOTHING would come up. But if they searched "children", the only thing that came up was Children's Activity Set. This was despite the fact that "children" was a tag on numerous items. That seems to be resolved now. THANKS