Store Locator

Set up Store Locator

Store Locator is a content element which can be added to the web pages (flexi-pages, product and product list pages) and system pages of the Sana web store. For example, you can create a separate flexi-page with the "Store Locator" content element and add it to your web store navigation.

You can add only one Store Locator content element to the page.

The tables below provide description of the "Store Locator" content element settings.

Map settings

Location settings 

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Store settings

CSV file settings

Select delimiters which are used in your CSV file to separate list values and as a decimal symbol. They might differ depending on the regional settings of the Web server.

Default format: List separator is "," and decimal symbol is "."
Alternative format: List separator is ";" and decimal symbol is "," 

Import store locations

Store locations can be imported from a CSV file. To import store locations, export the CSV template and fill it in with the necessary information. You can export the CSV template only when the page with the store locator content element has been already created.

Check the example of the CSV file for store locations.

In the "Import Store Locations" section of the "Store Locator" content element you can see the description of the fields which should be filled in. The CSV template helps users to fill it in with the necessary information and to avoid issues with store locations import because of the wrong data.

 NOTE

Don't remove any headers (field names) from the CSV template. Otherwise, you will not be able to import the CSV file to Sana. If you don't want to fill in some fields, you can leave them empty.

The following fields are required:

• Id
• Store Name
• Latitude and Longitude or Google Address

On the map, you can only see the store name, its Google Address, website URL, phone number and opening hours. All other information from the CSV file is not shown. To show this information on the map requires add-on customization.

Store locations are determined on the map first by latitude and longitude, and if the coordinates are not found, then by Google address.

See examples of the Google address:

• 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA, 94043
• Van Nelleweg 1, 3044BC, Rotterdam, Netherlands

You can use the following address information to add the Google address:
<Street name> <house number>,<zip code>, <city>,<country>

 NOTE

If you enter only Google addresses of your stores in the CSV file, it can take more time for your customers to find a store rather than using Latitude and Longitude. Therefore, we recommend to use Latitude and Longitude.

You can also add an extra information about your stores to the CSV file, for example the brands which you are selling. You can add the necessary fields and data to the CSV file and import it to Sana. Additional fields must be added to the end of the CSV file on the right. Otherwise, you will not be able to import the CSV file to Sana. These fields can be used only to filter the stores and it is not shown on the map. The filters with the list of all additional fields are available to the left of the map. The filters are shown only when the option "Show additional properties" is enabled.

 NOTE

If you use Microsoft Excel to fill in the CSV file with your store locations, please remember that Excel does not handle correctly special characters (after it is saved) that are specific for some languages, for example é, ç, ü. In some cases, it leads to the encoding issues. This is because Microsoft Excel uses your locale's operating system codepage. Therefore, if you have special characters in the store locations, you can use some other editor, for example Notepad, which can handle the special characters correctly, or you can also import your CSV file to Microsoft Excel using the correct encoding. For more information, see "Import or export text (.txt or .csv) files".

Once the CSV file with all the necessary information is ready, you can import it to Sana. While importing store locations, the data in the CSV file is validated. If there is some wrong data in the CSV file, you will see the import summary - the number of successfully imported stores and failed. If some stores are not imported, you will see the reason of failure per line.

Once the CSV file with store locations is imported to Sana, clicking on the Export button will export the CSV file with all imported store locations, but not the CSV template.

Translations

When translating the page that contains the Store Locator content element to another language, the default settings of the Store Locator content element will be used for other languages.