Installation Guide

1) Add Maps by Develic to your 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.

2) Enable our storefront component for map rendering

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!

3) Fix templates of necessary pages

To make maps working, please add the following code to the "layout/theme.liquid" template of your theme right before the </body> tag.

{% if page and page.metafields.maps-by-develic.data != blank %}
<div style="display: none">
<div develic-map="{{page.metafields.maps-by-develic.data | escape}}"></div>
</div>
{% endif %}

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):

Then open the theme.liquid template under the layout folder and add the code snippet there (before the </body> tag).

Here is the example of how this code may look when added to the liquid template:

Then add the following code in HTML mode to the target page where you want to see the map (either put it in the page description or HTML block in any page builder you may use).

<div develic-map-container=""></div>

This code defines where the map widget will be rendered on the page.

The screenshot below is the example of how to add this snippet to the page description in HTML mode:

Warning!
You will not see the map immediately in the description in the non-HTML mode. So please, be careful not to remove this added code later.

The screenshot below illustrates that the map is not visible in non-HTML mode:

If you're using any page builder (Gempages, Shogun, etc), instead of adding this code to the page description code, please create an HTML block inside the page builder, and add the code there.

4) Generate Google Maps / Geocoding API key

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.

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:

5) Add locations to the map

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).

6) Check your map on the storefront

Now, open your page on the storefront (as you open all other pages). If everything is done correctly, you should see the map there.