Features And Benefits Of Magento Store Locator And Pickup Extension

By Author: Maulik Shah
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To enhance their business, offline store owners are coming online. And most of the businesses prefer Magento as their platform due to its scalability and flexibility. One more functionality you can add to your online store that will benefit your offline store as well is Magento store locator and pickup extension. With this extension, you will be able to give your customers the experience of online shopping as well as the enjoyment of offline shopping. There are some features and benefits of this extension that you must read.

Features

This extension will add the functionality of store location and pickup to your store. Here are some amazing features of the Magento 2 store locator.

Full Backend Control

This extension gives you full backend control. If you have multiple offline stores, you can add them so that your customer can see all of them. It will help them find the nearest store to visit. 

The next thing is that it allows you to add products to the respective stores. You will have full control of adding, editing, deleting products individually and in bulk. This feature will help your users ...
... check whether a particular product is available in the store or not. Thus, the users will not have to go back without purchasing because the product they wanted was out of stock.

Curbside Pickup

It is an amazing feature that will save your customers’ time and the hassle of parking. Yes, you heard it right. With this extension, you can give your customers the option of curbside pickup at checkout. If they enable the option, it will ask for their car or truck number and the date and time of the pickup. 

Thus, when the customer reaches the location, the parcel will reach directly to them and they do not have to struggle to find parking slots. Thus, it will save time and struggle of finding the parking slot (sometimes even from paid parking).

Manage Business Hours

This feature will save your customers from arriving at your store's close hours. What if you are not available for a day or you want to have a festive holiday. You can simply add it, and it will show your customers whether the store is open or not. This way, you would not have to deal with angry customers who traveled miles to pick up the product only to find the shop was closed.

Benefits

Now that we have discussed features, let us study the benefits of this extension.

No Shipping Fee for Customers

As customers are going to pick up the product by themselves, they do not have to pay the shipping fees. This will attract more customers as they can collect the product on their way home or office, thus saving their shipping fees.

Faster Service

After the customer places an order, they have to wait for a couple of days for the package to arrive even if it is to be delivered in the same city because it comes via courier services.

But if you enable this extension to your store, it will allow your customers to pick up the product the same day or the next hour.

Thus, customers will love this fast service, and as a business owner, you will save time from dealing with the courier services and verifying whether it is delivered on time and in good condition.

Boost Business

When you allow your customers to store and pick their product they will surely explore other things there. They might like other things and buy them too. This way, you will increase your sales without any extra effort. Thus in a way, Magento 2 store pickup extension will help you boost your business.

Conclusion

Adding extensions like store pick up and locator can benefit your business and customers. It will give your customers the clarity of the available products and the store timings. At the same time, store owners do not have to deal with courier agents. Thus this extension will give your store the extra edge you never knew was missing. 

Maulik Shah is the Founder and CEO of AppJetty, a fast growing software add-on store selling extensions and plugins for various technologies, including Odoo themes and odoo apps Magento 1 extensions and Magento 2 extensions. Maulik is a tech enthusiast and writes about the various aspects of ecommerce technology.