Follow a few simple steps to have Maps by Develic up and running on your Shopify store.
You can add our app to your store from Shopify App Store. After installation, you will have to accept recurring payment for $4.99 per month (the first 7 days are free to use). If you uninstall the app within this trial period, you will not be charged.
Upon installation, you will have to decide if you want to use out storefront component for map rendering. We suggest using our component because it's simple, light, and easy to use. You can turn it on from the application dashboard:
If you have skilled developers on your team, you may prefer to use your own map rendering mechanism. In this case, you should disable our storefront component and handle map rendering by yourself.
Also, you can disable this component if you want to briefly hide the map from visitors (for example, when you want to update the map). Just don't forget to enable it back!
Be sure, you added the following code to the liquid templates of the pages with maps:
<div develic-map="{{page.metafields.maps-by-develic.data | escape}}"></div>
You can edit your liquid template file by clicking on "Edit HTML/CSS" menu item of your current theme ("Online store" section of the admin in "Themes" sub-section):
Let's create a separate template for the map page. To do that, click on "Add a new template". In the dialog select "page" in the dropdown, set "map" as the name, and click on the "Create template" button. This will create a page.map.liquid template.
Now open newly created page.map.liquid template under Templates category and add the necessary code there:
Make sure you specified this template as the primary for the page. Please, note that the map should be published (Visibility set to 'Visible') for your customers to see it.
Our application requires you to generate Google Maps / Geocoding API key and provide it in the maps settings so our widgets can properly render Google Maps. The only pre-requisite for this is having a Google account.
WARNING!
There are 2 major requirements related to generating the API key:
If any of the requirements are not met, you may see the message "For development purposes only" on your maps.
Google Maps Platform Pricing:
You can find more information about Google Maps platform pricing at https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing
To calculate the projected expenses, please consider the following points:
So in general, your $200 free monthly credit will get you more than 28000 map renders (if you're not using Geocoding search). Basically, this $200 free credit will be more than enough for the majority of the stores.
To begin the generation, open Google cloud console page here: https://console.cloud.google.com/
Then create the project there with any name you want:
Next step, open "APIs & Services" and on Dashboard click on the button "Enable APIs and Services".
Then find and enable 2 APIs: "Maps JavaScript API" and "Geocoding API".
Now navigate to "Credentials" section under "APIs & Services" and click on "Create credentials" button. Pick "API key" as a type of credential (not "Oauth client ID" and not "Service account key"). Eventually, you will get the API key that you can use in our app:
Now you can use this generated API key in our application in the "Google Maps API key" field to render maps and import CSV data:
The final check is to make sure that billing is enabled!
Please, open "Billing" section and add your credit card data. Google will provide free $200 credit each month, so until you exceed this free credit, you will not be charged by Google. If you don't add your billing information, Google will render "For development purposes only" over your maps.
WARNING!
If you have more than one map on your store, you can use one generated Google Maps API key for all of them. But you will have to put this same API key into each of those maps settings.
Get back to the application dashboard, pick your page, and hit "Add or modify the map" button. Add your locations there via the map editor component.
Here, you can use the API key you created on the previous step...
Hint! Don't forget to save your map before continue (just click on "Save" button on the map editor page).
Now, open your page on the storefront (as you open all other pages). If everything is done correctly, you should see the map there.
If you're struggling with product spinners placement or facing any other issues, please contact our support team.