StoreFront Locations

Overview

StoreFront Locations is the built-in Store Locator feature that shows shoppers where to find you in person. If your theme supports store locations, you can list every physical address you sell or serve from, and shoppers can search that list to find the one closest to them. For any merchant who sells both online and in person, it closes the gap between the two: a shopper who lands on your StoreFront can still find a real place to visit.

The Store Locator lives on its own tab in the StoreFronts admin, separate from your product catalog and pages. You manage locations there, and the Store Locator element on your StoreFront renders them for visitors.

Who uses StoreFront Locations

• Retail chains. List every store in the chain so a shopper searching from any city finds the nearest one, with its address and hours.
• Franchise and dealer networks. Independently owned locations sell under your brand, and the locator is how a shopper finds the nearest authorized franchisee or dealer.
• Distributors and service businesses. Showrooms, pickup counters, and service centers benefit from the same searchable list, even without a traditional retail storefront.
• Seasonal and pop-up sellers. Add a location when a pop-up opens and delete it when it closes, without touching the rest of your StoreFront.

What's included

• A New Location wizard that looks up latitude and longitude automatically as you enter an address, so you never calculate coordinates by hand.
• Editing and deleting existing locations from the same Store Locator list.
• Google Maps integration, so locations render as pins on an interactive map instead of a plain list. This step is optional, but it's the difference between a list of addresses and a map shoppers can actually navigate from.
• Mass import for merchants with a large set of locations already in a spreadsheet, handled by UltraCart support rather than one-by-one entry.

tip

Set up Google Maps before you add your first location. The New Location wizard still works without it, but locations don't render on a map until a Google Maps API key is configured.

Get started

Start with the setup guide, then add your locations, then connect Google Maps for the map view:

• Providing store locations on your web site covers the Store Locator tab itself: where it lives, what the New Location and Settings buttons do, and how to request a mass import.
• Adding a new store location to your site walks through the New Location wizard field by field.
• Using Google Maps in your store locator generates a Google Maps API key and configures it so your locations render on a map.