Have you ever ordered something online and waited for it to arrive eagerly? I guess it happens to all of us. How about removing the waiting factor from the shopping cycle? Wouldn’t it be great to buy products at discount offers and collect the same from the offline point of sale?
Well, it is now possible with Store Locator and Pickup functionality offered by Magento 2 Solutions developers. All that is required by the store owner is to purchase a Store Locator & Pickup Magento 2 Extension.
This extension helps your customers make an order online and pick up the same from the offline point of sale at the scheduled date & time. It comes with a combined functionality of Magento 2 Store Locator Google Map & Store Pickup Extension. Let us follow the steps to install and configure this extension:
Installation
For installation, follow the below steps:
- Unzip the extension package file into the root folder of your Magento 2 installation.
- Connect to SSH console of your server:
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- Navigate to the root folder of your Magento 2 setup
- Run command as per below sequence,
php bin/magento setup:upgrade php bin/magento setup:di:compile php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy php bin/magento cache:clean
- log out from the backend and log in again
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Configuration
- Enable Store pickup: Enable/Disable store pickup extension.
- Menu Link Title: Store pickup page link title.
- Display Menu Link: Where to show store locator link? Options can be Top Link or Top Navigation menu.
- Access to Guest Customer: Set access limit to allow store locator to guest customer or not.
- Default Store Image: You can upload the default image to be shown, if a particular store doesn’t have an uploaded store image.
- Google Map API Key: Define the Google map API key.
- Map Marker Image: Upload Google map marker image if it needs to show a specific image. Else default google map marker image would be used.
- Facebook Comment API: Admin can enable/disable Facebook comments for users to write comment about their own store to know their reviews.
- Facebook API key: admin needs to enter Facebook API key
- Locale: Locale would allow admin to change language of Facebook comment section only
- Default Radius for Search: Define default radius of distance to be covered while searching the store on Google map.
- Maximum Radius for Search: Set maximum radius limit user can search store from his current location.
- Distance Unit: Distance unit while searching on Google map. Options available are Kilometers or Miles.
- Page Title: Mention the page title for extension
- Page URL: Mention the URL for extension
- Page URL suffix: Mention the page URL suffix for the extension
- Meta data: Define meta data for page.
- Meta Keywords: Define meta keywords for page.
- Enable Time Slot: Enable the time slot
- Time Interval: Define the time interval.
- Import and Export: This facilitates import and export for bulk data for an extension.
Also, you can refer this Magento 2 Store Pickup and Locator Extension’s FAQ Page for most common questions and it’s answers.
And its done. We hope the configuration process has been clear. If we missed out on anything or if you are stuck somewhere in the middle, feel free to reach us out.