The Storemapper Blog
Store locator tips, customer stories, and best practices.
How Does Geolocation Work?
If a business wants to know exactly where a user is visiting their website or app from, it uses geolocation. Why is this useful? Because businesses can use geolocation technology in a way that's going to result in more sales. If you’ve ever...
13-Step Small Business Website Checklist for Retail Stores
Setting up a small business or retail store can be extremely daunting. Among the many tasks that you’ve got to tackle, making a website is perhaps one of the most important, but it’s hard to know where to start. A website requirements...
18 Ways to Increase Foot Traffic & Attract More Customers
Do not underestimate the power of foot traffic. While we live in a world that's becoming increasingly online, brick and mortar stores still need to rely on some offline tactics to bring in customers. The first step is understanding your target...
10 Store Locator Best Practices to Help People Find Your Business
Do you want to drive more online shoppers through the doors of your store? Of course you do. Whilst there are various methods to increase this like word of mouth marketing, in-store events and click and collect schemes, there is one often...
How To Add A Store Locator To Your Website
Do you manage a business with a physical premises? Or maybe you are building a website for a business that does? Or maybe you don’t have physical premises, but you sell products through a network of distributors or stores. Either way, you need...
Adding Mapbox support to your store locator
We're happy to announce that we started supporting another mapping provider (Mapbox) in addition to Google Maps. Many of you might recently struggled with creating Google Maps API key and were quite concerned about additional costs from...
Job Posting: Technical Support Hero
We're looking for a technical support star to join our growing team. Please, check out job description below: About Us Storemapper is a store locator solution for e-commerce and Multi-Location businesses. We provide three basics features to...
New mobile theme with map fixed on top
We re-thought our mobile theme and based on your feedback decided to change its layout. Many of you were upset about our sliding map , which wasn't visible until you click on 'View on map' link in the store details. We thought it was a great...
New Feature: Bulk Upload Enhancement
We've been observing how hard sometimes it was for you to work with our bulk uploader. Converting the file using the template that Storemapper supports sometimes could be a daunting task, especially when you receive your locations data in...
Changes to search autocomplete feature
This week we're deploying a change to search autocomplete feature - a drop down with address suggestions that appears when you start typing in the search field. Following Google Maps Platform announcement after analyzing the impact, we found...