Store Locator Documentation

▪Enabled – If checked the Store Locator plugin will be enabled.

▪Header Menu Integration – Choose where to show the Store Locator in the main menu. This will provide a menu item with all available shops in it. Choose None if you do not want to show the Store Locator in the menu.

▪Home Page Integration – Choose where to show the Store Locator map on the Home page. It will include only the shops that have the Show On Home Page setting ticked. Choose None if you do not want to show the Store Locator on this page.

▪Contact Us Page Integration – Choose where to show the Store Locator map on the Contact Us page. Choose None if you do not want to show the Store Locator on this page.

▪Units System – Set the default measure units system (kilometres or miles). This setting allows the switch between metric and imperial units (1 mile ~ 1.609344 kilometres).

▪Default Distance Radius – Set the default distance radius that will be pre-filled in the search input.

▪Google API Key –  If your domain was not active prior to June 22nd, 2016, you need to obtain your own key from here: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/get-api-key (copy/paste into a broswer).

▪Default Shop Image – Set the default shop image to be shown when the shop does not have images.

▪All Shops Page Image Size – Set the shops image size for the All Shop page.

▪Shop Details Page Image Size – Set the shops image size for the Shop Details page.

▪Custom Map Styles [JSON Format] – Set custom styles for the Google Map in your store. This should be written in JSON format.

Note: To generate the custom map styles do the following: ▪Go to Google Maps Styling Wizard: https://mapstyle.withgoogle.com/ (copy and paste into a broswer). ▪Customise colours, roads, labels of the map. ▪Click on Finish and copy the JSON from the pop-up.

In the Manage Shops section, you can add new store locations. Click Add New to add a new store location. You can also edit or delete store locations by clicking the respective buttons.

From this tab you can show, sort and enter information about your store location.

▪Visible – If ticked, the store location will be visible in the public site. This setting allows you to have multiple store locations that are not visible for your customers, but could become visible at any time.

▪Show On Home/Contact Us Page – Tick the setting to show the store on the Home page/Contact Us map.

▪Shop Tags – Shop tags are keywords that this shop can also be identified by. Enter a comma separated list of the tags to be associated with this shop.

▪Display Order – This determines the order in which your store locations are shown at the All Shops page or All Shops drop down in the menu.

▪Name – This is the name of your shop in the menu and in the All Shops page.

▪Short Description – The short description is shown on the All Shops page and also in the marker on the map.

▪Full Description – The full description is shown on the shop page.

From this tab, you can enter store locations by coordinates (latitude, longitude), or you could find your store on the map, using Google maps.

To map your store using the map you can:

▪Search address – With this option. you can go to almost every address in the world just for a few seconds.

▪Street View – You have street view so you can easily find the exact location of your store.

▪Map store location – You can easily map your store location by dragging and dropping the red marker on the desired location. The Latitude and Longitude fields will be filled automatically with the coordinates of the red marker.

From this tab, you can add multiple pictures for your shop. To add pictures click Add New. A popup will appear from which you can:

▪Upload your photo by clicking Upload a file and selecting the desired picture.

▪Visible – You can choose if your newly uploaded image will be visible for your customers.

▪Display Order – Choose your shop pictures ordering on the shop page.

▪Alt – With this setting you can specify the alternate text of your picture.

You can also edit or delete already uploaded pictures by clicking the respective buttons.

Define the following SEO parameters:

▪In the Meta keywords field, enter the required category meta keywords. This is a brief and concise list of the most important themes of your page. The meta keywords tag takes the following form:

<meta name="keywords" content="keywords, keyword, keyword phrase, etc.">

▪In the Meta description field, enter a description of the category. The meta description tag is a brief and concise summary of your page's content. The meta description tag is in the following format:

<meta name="description" content="Brief description of the contents of your page.">

▪In the Meta title field, enter the required title. The title tag specifies the title of your web page. It is code which is inserted into the header of your web page and is in the following format:

<head>

<title> Creating Title Tags for Search Engine Optimization & Web Usability </title>

</head>

▪In the Search engine friendly page name field, enter the name of the page used by search engines. If you enter nothing, the category page URL is formed using the category name. If you enter custom-seo-page-name, then the following custom the URL will be used:

http://www.yourStore.com/custom-seo-page-name

The shops created using the Store Locator plugin can be used as pickup points in the checkout. In order to achieve this you will need to do the following things

▪Set your shop to be a pickup point.

In order for your shop to be a pickup point, you will need to go to Administration > Nop-Templates > Plugins > Store Locator > Manage Stores > Pickup Point tab and tick Use as pickup point. After that, you will need to enter the information of your shop.

▪Enable the Store Locator pickup provider.

You will need to enable the Store Locator pickup provider so your clients can use the shops set as pickup points in the checkout process. You will have to go to Administration > Configuration > Shipping > Pickup Points and edit the Store Locator pickup provider.

▪Tick Is Active and update.

By choosing Home Page or Contact Us page integration, you will have a map on the specific page. The map shows only the shops with Show On Home/Contact Us Page ticked.

This page displays all shops that are marked as visible from the administration. It shows Google Maps, with markers that correspond to each shop location. The plugin can both take the user location via the browser's GeoLocation feature or by the search box in the Google Maps. Once the user selects his location, a customer's marker is displayed on the map and the distance calculated to it from the user's location.

Note: In some browsers (eg. Chrome) the user GeoLocation feature works only on secure origins (such as HTTPS). In order for Use my location to work in Chrome you need to have SSL enabled on your website. If the user denies permission for the plugin to take his location, the Google map will take a location that is in the centre of the map. The search stores option will disappear if you have less than two stores in your All Shops page.

▪Customer marker – This marker is a specific icon, distinguishable from the shop markers. You can drag and drop it anywhere on the map. This will automatically update the distance to each shop.

▪Shop markers – Each marker is placed exactly on the shop location. When it is clicked, a popup will appear with the short description of the shop. Also the shop in the list will become active.

▪Shops – Each shop has Title, Short Description and Read More link. In addition to this it shows Distance to customer and Show Directions link. Clicking this link shows navigations both on the map and beside it – with detailed instructions.

▪Radius Filter – This filter narrows down the set of shops to those which are within the set radius of kilometres. The filter is applied only when the Search button is clicked.

▪Tags Filter – This filter narrows down the set of shops to theoe which are marked with the specific tag. The filter is applied only when the Search button is clicked.

▪Sorting – Customers are able to sort the shops by three different criteria: Distance, Name or Display Order. The shops order is dynamically updated.

This page contains detailed shop information – full description and gallery with images. A map is also available, again with the functionality to show navigations to the customer. The gallery uses the default nopCommerce JS gallery – Magnific popup.