Global search

Global search is the search bar at the top of every SolaBooks page. Type any document number, customer or supplier name, account name, or amount, and get a single ranked list of matching records from across the whole app — invoices, bills, payments, customers, suppliers, accounts, products, journal entries, and more.

Use it when you know what you're looking for but not which list it lives on.

Step by step

Search from any page

Press Ctrl + K (Windows / Linux) or ⌘ + K (Mac) to focus the global search box. You can also click the magnifying glass in the top bar.
Type at least two characters. Results stream in live, grouped by type (Invoices, Bills, Customers, and so on).
Use the up / down arrows to move through results, Enter to open the highlighted one, or Esc to close.

What you can search by

Document number — INV-000123, BL-2025-77, partial numbers work too.
Customer or supplier name — full or partial, case-insensitive.
Account name or code — 4000, revenue, cash.
Product / service name or SKU.
Reference / memo text — anything you typed into a document's reference or notes field.
Amount — typing 117.00 finds documents totalling exactly 117.00.

What you cannot search by

Free-text line descriptions inside invoices and bills (search from the document's own list page instead).
The contents of attached files.

Behaviour and rules

Results respect your access. If you can't view bills, no bills appear in your results — even if they match.
Top results per group. To keep the popover compact, only the top few hits per type are shown. If you need the full list, press Enter without highlighting any result to open the full search page, where every match is grouped and paginated.
Recent items. With the search bar open and empty, the popover shows recent documents you opened — handy for jumping back to whatever you were just on.
Search is per organization. Switching organizations switches the results too — global search never crosses into another organization's books.