Effective, Optimized, and Targeted – Agile Store Locator

  • Updated on: August 19, 2024

Whether it is a store, a clinic, or a pharmacy – your customers need to find you while browsing your website.  Not everyone resorts to calls or connects through social media – they need to visit your brick-and-mortar presence right away! 

Therefore, your website requires a turn-key store locator that removes the challenge of your online customers finding you physically. Agile Locator helps you achieve just that! Our product locator comprises a visionary team of expert developers. Furthermore, we constantly tweak Agile Store Locator with industry-leading features. Thereby, enabling you to focus on lead generation, steer business growth, and improve the bottom line. 

In this article, we will explain how our product ensures your customers have a smooth experience in finding your physical space. Whether you have a chain of stores or a single flagship, regardless of the product categories.

Extremely Customizable Plugin

Agile Locator’s Plugin content can be tailor-made to your store to the T. Whether it is social media listing that allows you to increase brand exposure, brand reach, influence your website SEO positively; or add a website button with custom text, remove text that does not align with your store strategy (such as store’s opening hours or days), insert category image instead of its names, or change store’s background color. 

Just add the code fields into the custom fields section and customize your template to what you feel is right for your store!

Custom Fields

Our custom fields extend their customization farther than the default fields – custom markers, logos, stores, categories, brands, products, import and export stores, social media buttons, and beyond. Thus ensuring not only the best experience for your customers but also enabling you to streamline your website strategy with your business strategy. We are with you in the long run.  

Faster Interface Loading 

Our caching strategy enables a faster cache JSON loading option, which translates to Agile’s plugin load data with 10x more speed. Sample data includes basic geographical features such as points, lines, and map polygons, and other arbitrary data such as your store title, opening hours, contact details, etc. 

However, our locator does not cache resources past the necessary time which would adversely affect the end-user experience; rather, the faster content loading time in the Infobox and user interface improves user experience. Thereby, improving online or offline revenue in the long run.

As illustrated in the below images Agile’s load time without the cache is 72 milliseconds. However, the load time is significantly reduced to 9 milliseconds when the cache is activated.

Without the Cache
Without the Cache
With the Cache
With the Cache

Automate Bulk Import

Moreover, Agile Locator supports the cronjob feature where you can automate the bulk import of your store’s information such as store information, tags, categories, etc. All you need is to put your CSV files into a specific directory and the import process will automatically import the files. 

At the end of the process, you will receive a notification on the given email address provided in the ASL Settings. 

Provide Your Notification Email
Provide Your Notification Email 

With Agile Store Locator, save your time to focus on strategies rather than processes. 

List and Accordion Layouts

Worried about layout formats for your store? Agile Locator provides two layout categories that are in line with your store’s responsive design and purpose – list and accordion. The list layout provides direct access to the available options and a linear progression of a customer’s journey through the store website. However, as the sub-categories increase, design gurus recommend a progressive disclosure that reveals more details upon a click. This is where accordion steps in. 

How does it help your store? If there are numerous navigation options, content, and detailed views – accordion is the go-to navigation method and Agile provides your website just that. A smooth accordion layout transition enables the visitors to have an overview of the categories and access details with a few clicks.  

Accordion Layout
Accordion Layout

Unique Template Designs

If setting up a store locator seems overwhelming – Agile offers 4 unique templates with a variety of store designs; regardless of whether your stores are categorized into various genres.

The First and Second Template – When Text Matters

The first two templates focus on shop details in text format – the categories dropdown, shop details, and status are placed on a top navigation ribbon and either-hand side panels.

The Third Template – Icons Speak a Thousand Words  

If your store categorizations are one too many, then consider our third templates that represent the categories through icons. 

Third Template Design
Third Template Design

Multiple Search Options 

When there are virtually unlimited store options to cater to a multitude of customers – an exhaustive search option becomes imperative for an effective store locator like Agile. Therefore, we provide customizable search options to search by address (via Google), store name, store cities and States (through the database), and Geocoding on entering key (via Google Geocoding API). 

Select Address Search Type
Select Address Search Type

More importantly, Agile’s automatic geolocation detects the user’s location automatically and displays the locations nearest to them – however, users can adjust their search results through our extensive search filter options. 

Easy Store Registration

If you are wondering how to register your store with Agile Store Locator – we have got you covered. Fill in the form with the relevant store information and address details, store description, and register. Once an admin approves your listing, it will appear in the store locator.  

Our straightforward registration process saves your time and enables easier import and export – this add-on functionality enables CSV uploads. Don’t forget to experience our demo data and how it’s professionally categorized due to our structured registration process.  

Store Registration Page
Store Registration Page

Search Widget your way to the Locator

When searching for a product or a store, your customers do not need to go to the locator landing page every time. Improve user experience by adding Agile Store Locator’s search widget anywhere on your website. This way users searching for a specific store or product data will be automatically redirected to the search result. 

Search Widget
Search Widget

Uncover innumerable benefits of adding our widget. The first is, no maintenance; Agile does that for you. In addition, add immense value to your website! 

How?  

  1. Improved conversion rate 
  2. More efficient than category searching – especially if your user is browsing through mobile
  3. Increase in revenue (in the longer term)
  4. Increase in customer revisitation through customer loyalty
  5. Stronger SEO – adding a search widget is one of the most reliable SEO best practices

Let Agile Locator Move You to the Top 

It is not just a single feature that benefits you, Agile Locator’s state-of-the-art, versatile features boost your search engine rankings and increase store efficiency, store visibility, customer loyalty, footfall, and engagement. Moreover, we help you broaden your market research insights so that you can focus on improving your campaigns and store operations. 

Choose the best with Agile Store Locator.