Plugin / Best Free Store Locator & Google Maps Marker by NearPlace

Description

Beautiful locator for stores & places for free

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NearPlace is the most user-friendly, and at the same time very advanced, locator of places and stores in the world. Apart from its basic function like a locator of stationary stores, it enables finding basic as well as detailed information about the place, finding places near the client and designating a route to them. NearPlace is extremely easy to manage globally for all places or for each store individually – thanks to this you always have actual news, opening hours, products, services and many, many more.
The NearPlace team regrets the quality of current locators that are ugly and non-functional – we want you to connect your offline places online completely for free! If you will see the benefits of using NearPlace you can switch to premium version to develop your business more.

NearPlace has created two types of locators that work on any device – they display well everywhere and look beautiful.

Widget Locator = Display on Every Page
NearPlace is not just an ordinary store locator displaying your places on the map. The widget is displayed on every subpage of the domain so that your clients have full access to information wherever they are on the site!
Thanks to our widget application integrated with your stores, the customer can easily find the nearest store, see when the place is open, view actual promotions, and even contact your service department. All these functionalities are closed in a very simple and intuitive to use the widget application placed on your website.

On-page Locator = Display on One Dedicated Page
NearPlace provides not only locator in the form of a widget, but also gives the possibility to combine all the functionality of the widget application with a large map embedded on the site. On-page is a standard store locator built into one of your subpages but includes all the functionality of the widget along with its responsiveness on mobile devices.

NearPlace = Launcher + Place Listing + Profile Page + Add-Ons

Launcher – two types of locators that adapt to each screen and device.
Places Listing – a clear and fully functional list of your places, thanks to which your customers will easily find the nearest stores. In the widget, you have the option of switching between the listing of places and the map on which your stores are marked, while on the on-page locator the listing is integrated with the map with your current position and displayed places.
Place Page – containing all the important information that you can need, in form of add-ons
that allow you to expand communication between your offline places and your customers online.
Add-On’s – the magic of Nearplace are Add-On’s that allows you to expand locator, places listing and places page functionalities depending on your needs.

Here are examples of several functionalities that distinguish NearPlace from the competition:

• Completely free in the basic version!
• No coding required, quick and easy installation
• Multidevice – NearPlace adapts to each display
• Two forms of the locator: Widget and On-Page
• The application is available on many webstore platforms and content management systems
• The possibility to display the address, opening hours and information about current promotions for each of your stores
• Simple search for the nearest store of your company
• Navigating directions to your places integrated with Google Maps
• Division of contacts into store departments and full contact information with service

Make your own locator, such as you want and need

Discover endless possibilities with add-on’s system:

• Contacts
  Create simple and complex contacts and assign them to single or multiple places along with
  all the informations you need, such as opening hours, phone number, e-mail and profile pic of contact person.

• Departments for Contacts
  Your places have complex contact informations? You need to divide contacts to specific places into sections consisting several employees? Piece of cake. With Departments for Contacts add-on it is one click regardless of the advancement level of contacts structures.

• Place Types
  You have places that differ in type i.e. affiliate stores and official stores?
  With Place Types add-on you can easily mark stores with their type and include information
  about differences between these types.

• News & Promotion
  We all know that a lot of companies opt out of placing news and promotions available in their offline stores on their websites. We spent a lot of time to prepare News and Promotion module in which adding and managing news will not be a problem, whether you have 100 or 1000 places to manage.

• Custom Hours
  Standard opening hours of one or group of your places have changed?
  With Custom Hours add-on you can quickly add information about non-standard opening hours for one or all of your places, so your customers will be able to check current opening hour online.

• Product Availability
  You have places that differs from each other with their offer? Activate Product Availability add-on and add the information if the product is available in particular place, so you customers can quickly find places with the products they are interested with.

• Service Availability
  In addition to the saes offer, your places also have service offer, such as repairs, delivery option and more? With the Service Availability add-on you can easily and quickly inform you customer about the availability of services in particular locations.

• Additional Information
  Additional options like wi-fi, parking, card payments and more are available in your places?
  Let your customers learn about it with the Additional Information add-on.

• Place Cover Photo
  Show your place and it’s neighbourhood to your customers so they can easily reach it.
  With Place Cover Photo add-on you can quickly add a photo to your place page, which be displayed after opening details of the place.

• Place Logo

Logo of your place is its hallmark. Add it to your place page so your customers can easily recognize your place everywhere. With Place Logo add-on you can easily add logo of your place to its page, and your customers can see it after opening details of the place in the locator app.

Requirements

The plugin requires a NearPlace account. Sign up for free at nearplace.com