Stockists
You can use the stockists feature to display, on your website, a list of searchable physical locations that stock your products. It can be used either to show:
- Your own physical store locations
- The locations of third-party resellers
- For any other reason you might need to display a searchable directory of physical locations
The stockists page of your website is located at https://www.yourdomain.com/stockists and the display of the page is determined by your website's theme. Visitors to the page can search by either a UK postcode or town/city name to see results, in distance order.
To use the stockists feature, you will need to install the app:
Creating a stockist
To create a stockist:
- Navigate to Website > Stockists
- Select
create stockist - Enter the details of the stockist into the settings provided
- The Company name field will be displayed as the title for the stockist on your website
- The company name can be your branch name, the name of the reseller, or any other type of name for the location
- When entering a value in the Website address setting, enter the full website address including
https:// - When entering a stockist in the UK, ensure you enter a full UK postcode (which is used by the location search)
Stockist settings
Stockist settings
From the stockists page, select settings to adjust the stockist settings.
Search radius (in miles)
Use this setting to configure a radius (in miles) that the location search on the stockists page of your website should search for stockists within. Only results within this radius will be returned in search results. To configure no minimum radius, enter a value of 0.
No stockists found message
Use this setting to enter a message that will be displayed if a visitor's search displays no results.
Managing stockists
Managing stockists
Existing stockists you have configured are displayed on the stockists page:
- Use the search at the top of the page to search by company name, postcode or town/city
- Select
editto edit the details of an existing stockist - Select
deleteto delete a stockist - The deletion of stockists is irreversible, and deleted stockists cannot be recovered
Displaying stockists on your website
Displaying stockists on your website
Your website’s stockists page is located at https://www.yourdomain.com/stockists.
ShopWired doesn’t automatically include a link to your website’s stockist page in its menus. To add a link to the page, use the link list menus feature.
The display of stockists on your website is determined by your website's theme. Different ShopWired themes display stockists differently depending on the theme design - you can customise the design of the stockists page by editing your theme files. Contact theme support for assistance.
Most ShopWired themes require a visitor to your website to enter a town/city or postcode to search available stockists (with stockists being returned in distance order, closest first).
To change the stockists page to display all stockists without requiring a search by the visitor, adjust your link to the stockists page in your website’s menu(s) to prefill a search location, e.g. change the link to /stockists?location_query=london or /stockists?location_query=manchester.
