If you own a Ecommerce business along with multiple physical stores then you might have faced below mentioned problems:

• Customers have difficulties finding your store
• Your stores have different open hours
• Your stores have different available items
• Your stores have different sales campaign

But, how to overcome these problems?

Well you need a store locator. It can help your customers reach to you within no time.

What is a store locator?

To explain you in simple words, a store locator is a map-based service that provides comprehensive geographic details of your store location. Though, with recent researches and discovery in UX, a store locator can give you much more than just addresses and locations.

Below is the example of store Locator for Magento 2.

The store locator is integrated into your site and then it will let you enter or upload the details of many offices or shops and it makes it easier for website visitors to locate stores that are close to them by using an embedded Google Maps form.

The locations and landmarks you add are not limited to stores nor does it require any official verification. Basically you can add any location you want. So, whether you have a website for stores, or want to itemize the location of any remarkable place on your website, they make them easy to locate by the audience.

So what are the advantages of using Store Locator?

• It saves your employees’ time
• With a comprehensive store finder, you can provide customers with that exact information.
• Now with smartphones and Google Maps your employee does not have to spend time providing direction guides to customer
• Having a store finder on your site can significantly reduce the time customers need to find and get directions to your store.
• It provides your customers a better experience.
• It provides detailed directions as sometimes your customers may not be the best at navigation, or that your store is situated in some alley that could easily be overlooked.
• With native Google APIs, customers can use GPS right on your website to locate themselves and get direction from there. (if he don’t know his current location)
• Have you ever experienced to find a particular new shirt and then it turned out to be only available some-store-else? Well, don’t let your customers go through the same thing. Store Locator provides you to add the list of stores to a product page and this way your customers can know where they can find that product.
• Store Locator allows you to set special dates for individual store locations.

And then there are those days that customers have to call the store to ask for directions because they just can’t find it with the given address. Now with smart phones and Google Maps, it’s much easier for customers to find the direction to a store.

Above are the reasons why you should use a store finder on your website. With the help from it, you can quickly improve your sales and service. Good luck with your business!