Picking the best store locator for Shopify in 2026 comes down to four things: where the availability data comes from, how quickly a newly distributed product appears in it, how much of the work lands on your team, and how much each vendor will tell you before a sales call. This page compares the StoreLocators app with Destini, Wayvia, MikMak, Pear Commerce and Stockist on all four, with a source behind every claim about another vendor, and names the kind of brand each one is built for. Two of the six are store locator apps you can install from the Shopify App Store today; the rest are enterprise platforms sold through a demo, and the table below says which is which.
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| Contract termsThe one commercial fact most of these vendors can be checked on today. | Month to month, cancel any timeStoreLocators: Contract termsNo termination fee, and a 30-day refund window.Source19. StoreLocators: guarantee, refunds and cancellation | Annual, implied by their UK pageDestini: Contract termsThat page advertises flat-rate pricing for unlimited UPCs and refers to an annual cost. Minimum term, renewal and termination terms are not published.Source7. Destini: UK Where-to-Buy | Not verified by usWayvia: Contract termsMinimum term, auto-renewal, notice period, termination fees and implementation fees are not published, and the pricing model is not disclosed.Source28. Wayvia: sitemap.xml | Not verified by usMikMak: Contract termsNo minimum term, notice period, auto-renewal or termination terms are published by MikMak or shown on any of the three directory listings.Sources51. MikMak on Capterra52. MikMak on Software Advice53. MikMak pricing on GetApp | Not published by the vendorPear Commerce: Contract termsContract terms not published.Paying yearly is priced about 11 per cent below paying monthly, which shows an annual rate exists. Minimum term and cancellation terms are not stated.Source58. Pear Commerce: pricing | Month to month or annual, cancel any timeStockist: Contract termsAnnual is billed at a discount. Refunds within 30 days of a payment. Their terms also reserve the right to terminate or deny service at any time, for any reason.Source67. Stockist: terms of service |
| PricingWhat you can work out before a sales call, and what you cannot. | $195–$995 per monthStoreLocators: PricingThree tiers on our Shopify App Store listing, scaling by retail locations: Launch covers up to 2,000, Grow covers 2,000 to 10,000, and Scale covers 10,000 and above. Every tier carries a 14-day free trial.Source20. StoreLocators on the Shopify App Store | $1,100–$2,100 reportedFrom brands that have used Destini, not a published priceDestini: PricingNot a published price, and not the same number as the one on Destini’s directory listing. Destini publishes no figure anywhere. Capterra, a third-party directory, shows a starting price of $4,950, but it labels the unit inconsistently and rests on zero reviews, so it is directory metadata rather than Destini pricing. The range in this cell is something different again: what brands that have used Destini paid, normalised to a monthly figure. Those five figures are $1,083, $1,583, $1,800, $2,000 and $2,060 a month, so the sample is five and the spread is nearly twofold. One of those brands noted their figure excluded two add-ons billed separately. A sixth brand paid $7,000 a month on a combined bill, which is not comparable per brand and is not in the range. The sources below are for the two published statements in this note; nothing public supports the range itself, which is why the cell says "reported".Sources8. Destini: Omnicommerce Starter Bundle16. Capterra directory listing for Destini | Not published by the vendorWayvia: PricingPricing not published.No pricing page appears anywhere in Wayvia’s sitemap.Sources28. Wayvia: sitemap.xml27. Wayvia: contact us | Not published by the vendorMikMak: PricingPricing not published.Capterra lists MikMak as “Contact vendor for pricing”, Software Advice as “Pricing available upon request”, and GetApp shows no starting price against a subscription model.Sources51. MikMak on Capterra52. MikMak on Software Advice53. MikMak pricing on GetApp | $2,000–$4,800 per monthPear Commerce: PricingThree priced tiers on their own pricing page, metered by how many UPCs you track: Emerging at $2,000 a month for 15, Established at $3,600 for 30, and Full Platform at $4,800 for 100. Those are the annual-billing rates; month-to-month is $2,250, $4,050 and $5,400. A fourth Enterprise tier is quote-only, and Pear Connect pricing is not published.Source58. Pear Commerce: pricing | $10–$40 per monthStockist: PricingAnnual equivalents $8, $16 and $32 a month, billed as $96, $192 and $384 a year. A quote-only tier sits above them.Source65. Stockist: homepage and pricing |
| Customer ratingPer marketplace, with its sample size. | 5.0StoreLocators: Customer rating5.0 from 17 reviews on Shopify App Store.Source20. StoreLocators on the Shopify App Store | Not verified by usDestini: Customer ratingNo published customer score we can read. Destini sells no Shopify app, and its Capterra profile carried no user reviews on the review date. No G2 rating could be confirmed, so nothing is claimed either way.Sources1. Shopify App Store search for Destini16. Capterra directory listing for Destini | Not verified by usWayvia: Customer ratingNo published customer score we can read. The Shopify App Store was searched under both Wayvia and the legacy PriceSpider name and returned no listing; We could not confirm a rating on the software directories, so none is shown.Source22. Shopify App Store search for Wayvia and PriceSpider | 4.7Capterra, 18 reviewsMikMak: Customer rating4.7 from 18 reviews on Capterra.4.7 from 18 reviews on Software Advice.Software buyers on Capterra and Software Advice rather than Shopify merchants, and 18 is a small sample. MikMak sells no Shopify app, so there is no App Store score to set beside it.Sources51. MikMak on Capterra52. MikMak on Software Advice39. Shopify App Store search for MikMak | Not verified by usPear Commerce: Customer ratingNo published customer score we can read. Pear Commerce sells no Shopify app, its Capterra profile carried no user reviews on the review date, and its G2 profile is gated.Sources54. Shopify App Store search for Pear Commerce63. Pear Commerce on Capterra | 5.0Stockist: Customer rating5.0 from 351 reviews on Shopify App Store.One of the strongest public records in this comparison set, and a large enough sample to mean something: 349 five-star, one four-star, one one-star. Shopify is the only rating shown here. We could not confirm a G2 rating, so none is shown.Sources68. Stockist on the Shopify App Store69. Stockist reviews on the Shopify App Store |
| Evaluate without a sales call | YesFree trial, public app listingStoreLocators: Evaluate without a sales callSource20. StoreLocators on the Shopify App Store | Not verified by usDestini: Evaluate without a sales callDestini makes no public statement either way. Capterra records no free trial and no free version, but that is directory metadata.Source16. Capterra directory listing for Destini | Not verified by usWayvia: Evaluate without a sales callNo free trial is advertised. The only published path is Request a Demo, which is not proof that no trial exists.Source27. Wayvia: contact us | Not verified by usMikMak: Evaluate without a sales callMikMak makes no public statement either way. Capterra and GetApp both record no free trial, but that is directory metadata rather than a vendor commitment.Sources51. MikMak on Capterra53. MikMak pricing on GetApp | 14-day free Store Locator test drivePear Commerce: Evaluate without a sales callPear offers its custom Store Locator free for 14 days with no obligation. Whether the rest of the paid platform can be trialled is not published, and Capterra lists Free Trial as not available.Sources57. Pear Commerce: custom Store Locator test drive63. Pear Commerce on Capterra | Yes14-day free trial, public app listingStockist: Evaluate without a sales callNo free plan. The trial is time-limited rather than a permanent free tier.Sources66. Stockist: sign-up and trial68. Stockist on the Shopify App Store |
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| Adding a retailer you sell throughThe gap between the retailer list you are sold and the one you actually sell through. | On request, typically within days, at no additional cost | Not verified by usDestini: Adding a retailer you sell throughDestini publishes no process or timeline for adding a retailer its feeds do not already cover.Source11. Destini support: not getting any results | Not verified by usWayvia: Adding a retailer you sell throughNo process or turnaround for adding a retailer to the network is published on Wayvia’s site as of this review.Source30. Wayvia: retail partners | Not verified by usMikMak: Adding a retailer you sell throughNo process, cost or turnaround for adding a retailer to the network is published on mikmak.com or in the Retailer Guide as of this review.Source46. MikMak developer documentation: index | Not verified by usPear Commerce: Adding a retailer you sell throughNo process, turnaround or cost for adding a retailer to the scanned network is published on Pear’s site as of this review.Sources55. Pear Commerce: homepage59. Pear Commerce: Store Locators | You add it yourselfStockist: Adding a retailer you sell throughThere is no discovery or crawl feature anywhere on the site, the Shopify listing, or the five help-centre categories. Finding out that a new retailer stocks you is your job; entering it is a row in a sheet.Source70. Stockist help centre |
| Retailer coverageCoverage only counts where you actually sell. | 205 retailers, 110,516 locationsStoreLocators: Retailer coverageSource21. StoreLocators: free retailer store lists | 140,000+ locations, 130+ retailersDestini: Retailer coverageTheir homepage says 120,000+ and SPINS says 150,000+. Three figures are live at once. Per their product page.Sources3. Destini: product locators2. Destini: homepage4. SPINS: Destini Where-to-Buy | 32,000+ retailers validatedas stated by WayviaWayvia: Retailer coverageSource23. Wayvia: homepage | 8,000+ retailers, 3.6M locationsMikMak: Retailer coverageAs stated by MikMak.Source43. MikMak: CPG solutions | 3,000+ retailers, 165,000+ storesas stated by PearPear Commerce: Retailer coveragePear publishes no retailer list, so the split between verified inventory and link-out only is not knowable.Sources56. Pear Commerce: food industry page61. Pear Commerce: visibility in AI search | Not published by the vendorStockist: Retailer coverageNo retailer network.Stockist publishes "store locators for thousands of brands, large and small", which counts its own customers rather than retailers or locations. It supplies no store data, so there is no coverage figure to publish.Source65. Stockist: homepage and pricing |
| Countries served | USA, CAN, UK, AUS | USA, CAN, UKDestini: Countries servedCanadian data is an add-on, priced on request.Sources3. Destini: product locators6. Destini: Canada | 92 countriesWayvia: Countries servedStated on Wayvia’s Hatch page, which still carries PriceSpider-era wording. No current figure appears on the main site.Sources29. Wayvia: Hatch37. PriceSpider announces the acquisition of Hatch (25 January 2022) | 100+ countries: N America, EMEA, APACMikMak: Countries servedVendor-stated on MikMak’s own site.Sources43. MikMak: CPG solutions44. MikMak: why MikMak50. Rithum sells ChannelAdvisor’s Shoppable Media and Brand Analytics lines to MikMak (15 August 2023) | USA, CAN, FRA, UK, AUS and beyondper PearPear Commerce: Countries servedFrom the FAQ on Pear’s homepage. Pear publishes no per-country retailer list.Source55. Pear Commerce: homepage | Wherever you put pinsStockist: Countries servedStockist supplies no store data, so it has no coverage of its own: the map covers whatever you upload, anywhere. Addresses are geocoded automatically.Source75. Stockist docs: formatting store addresses |
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| Where the availability data comes fromDecides what you have to buy, and from whom, first. | Automatic discovery across 205 integrated retailer feeds | Syndicated retail sales dataDestini: Where the availability data comes fromSourced from NielsenIQ, IRI and SPINS, plus web-scraped online product data.Sources2. Destini: homepage14. NielsenIQ Partner Network: Destini4. SPINS: Destini Where-to-Buy11. Destini support: not getting any results | Crawling retail-partner pagesWayvia: Where the availability data comes fromPlus direct retailer partnerships.Sources36. PriceSpider: store locator software (legacy blog)30. Wayvia: retail partners | Retailer and brand data feedsMikMak: Where the availability data comes fromRetailers supply product, store and price-and-availability feeds to a published spec, and brands can load store files.Sources46. MikMak developer documentation: index47. MikMak developer documentation: Price & Availability feed43. MikMak: CPG solutions | Daily inventory checks across 3,000+ retail partnersPear Commerce: Where the availability data comes fromPear does not document whether that is retailer API, crawl, or a mix. It says it can add manual pins for retailers without an ecommerce presence.Sources55. Pear Commerce: homepage56. Pear Commerce: food industry page | Locations you enter, import or sync from a sheetStockist: Where the availability data comes fromThree routes, all starting from data you already hold: a form, a CSV or XLSX import, or a standing Google Sheets sync. The sheet sync is a live link rather than a one-off upload, so the refresh is automated even though the source is manual.Sources68. Stockist on the Shopify App Store74. Stockist docs: linking to a Google Sheet |
| Refresh cadenceA locator that sends a shopper to an empty shelf costs more trust than it wins. | Retailer reported, refreshed dailyStoreLocators: Refresh cadenceRe-checked again while the shopper browses. | Monthly in CanadaDestini: Refresh cadenceTheir Canada page states availability there is refreshed monthly. No interval is published for United States in-store availability, so we do not state one.Source6. Destini: Canada | Not verified by usWayvia: Refresh cadenceWayvia describes its validation as continuous and real time, but publishes no interval, latency figure or freshness guarantee.Sources23. Wayvia: homepage31. Wayvia: Retail Intelligence | Not verified by usMikMak: Refresh cadenceMikMak’s documentation describes per-store availability arriving through retailer and brand feeds, but we found no refresh interval or freshness commitment on mikmak.com or in that documentation.Sources42. MikMak: MikMak Commerce46. MikMak developer documentation: index47. MikMak developer documentation: Price & Availability feed | Daily, verified at store levelPear Commerce: Refresh cadencePear states this is store level rather than retailer level.Sources55. Pear Commerce: homepage59. Pear Commerce: Store Locators | Daily check of a linked Google Sheet, or on demandStockist: Refresh cadenceThere is no vendor-side data pipeline. A linked Google Sheet is checked once a day, with a Sync Now button for an immediate update, so the map is as current as the spreadsheet behind it. Stockist’s help centre lists the sheet link as a Premium feature.Source74. Stockist docs: linking to a Google Sheet |
| Product-level availabilityStore-level availability is what separates a map of shops from an answer about a specific product. | YesPer product, per variant, per store, filtered to in-stock | YesProduct-level results from syndicated retail dataDestini: Product-level availabilitySources2. Destini: homepage3. Destini: product locators | YesWhere to Buy and Local ShoppingWayvia: Product-level availabilitySources23. Wayvia: homepage34. Wayvia: the Local Shopping experience | Locator published; own in-store data reported as a gapMikMak: Product-level availabilityMikMak Commerce publishes a store locator with geolocation routing, store addresses and directions. Trade press covering the SPINS acquisition reported that MikMak had not had its own data on which products are available at nearby stores, and framed the deal as filling that gap.Sources42. MikMak: MikMak Commerce49. CPG data seller SPINS moves into media with MikMak acquisition | YesPer product, per store, filtered to in-stockPear Commerce: Product-level availabilityPear states the locator shows only locations holding the product right now.Source59. Pear Commerce: Store Locators | NoNot offeredStockist: Product-level availabilityStockist has no inventory concept. Its custom fields accept single-line text, multi-line text or a link and nothing else, so there is nowhere for stock to live. Filters exist but are generic ones the merchant defines.Source73. Stockist docs: using custom fields |
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| Install pathWhether this needs a developer decides if it happens this week or next quarter. | Shopify app section, or a script tag anywhere elseStoreLocators: Install pathSource20. StoreLocators on the Shopify App Store | JavaScript embed that loads an iframeDestini: Install pathOn the PRO locator a Destini implementation manager supplies the script. Their docs say Squarespace needs its Code Injection section, and that Shopify and Wix may need similar workarounds.Sources10. Destini support: embedding your product locator12. Destini support: Squarespace FAQs17. Shopify Community: integrating a Destini store locator on your website | Vendor-provisioned, brand domain whitelistedWayvia: Install pathDocumented by the community Drupal integration for PriceSpider.Source38. PriceSpider integration module for Drupal | JavaScript tag on every pageMikMak: Install pathAlso requires Content Security Policy changes and data attributes on page elements.Source45. MikMak developer documentation: developer guide | Code snippet, Pear installs itPear Commerce: Install pathA separate free self-serve locator builder is offered outside the paid platform.Sources59. Pear Commerce: Store Locators55. Pear Commerce: homepage | Shopify app page, or a JavaScript snippet elsewhereStockist: Install pathOn Shopify the app adds a Store Locator page automatically, with an Online Store 2.0 theme template as the alternative. Off Shopify it is a copy-paste snippet, with guides for WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, Drupal and BigCommerce.Sources72. Stockist docs: installing on Shopify71. Stockist docs: installing the store locator |
| Developer required | NoNot required for the standard installStoreLocators: Developer requiredSource20. StoreLocators on the Shopify App Store | Copy-paste embed, with documented workaroundsDestini: Developer requiredTheir support documentation describes an embed script, supplied by a Destini implementation manager for the PRO locator, and flags Squarespace, Shopify and Wix as needing code-injection workarounds.Sources10. Destini support: embedding your product locator12. Destini support: Squarespace FAQs17. Shopify Community: integrating a Destini store locator on your website | Not verified by usWayvia: Developer requiredWayvia publishes both a no-engineering campaign flow and a developer-led Custom Commerce API. Which path a given deployment needs is not documented.Sources25. Wayvia: Shoppable Next Generation33. Wayvia: the API Accelerate suite | Not for configuration, yes for the site installMikMak: Developer requiredCampaign configuration is marketed as self-service. The documented brand-website implementation is a JavaScript tag deployed to all pages, Content Security Policy updates and data attributes on page elements, which in practice is a developer or tag-manager task.Sources42. MikMak: MikMak Commerce45. MikMak developer documentation: developer guide | NoNot required, per PearPear Commerce: Developer requiredPear states colours, fonts and CTA buttons are customisable with no designer or developer needed.Source59. Pear Commerce: Store Locators | NoNot requiredStockist: Developer requiredThe recommended Shopify path is theme-independent and needs no code edit.Source72. Stockist docs: installing on Shopify |
| Time to launch | Under 5 minutes on Shopifyour own published figureStoreLocators: Time to launchSource20. StoreLocators on the Shopify App Store | Not published by the vendorDestini: Time to launchSetup time not published.Their five-minutes claim describes Shoppable Landing Pages, not the locator.Source9. Destini: homepage, Shoppable Landing Pages section | Under 10 minutes for a campaign pageWayvia: Time to launchWayvia publishes that figure for building a Shoppable Next Generation page. It publishes nothing about how long retailer and SKU onboarding, account provisioning or domain whitelisting take.Sources25. Wayvia: Shoppable Next Generation26. Wayvia launches Shoppable Next Generation (16 April 2026) | Minutes for self-service configurationMikMak: Time to launchMikMak states its self-service solution creates commerce experiences in minutes with no technical IT skills required. It publishes no onboarding timeline for the sitewide tag, the data feeds or retailer setup, and some public reviewers describe a harder start than that.Sources42. MikMak: MikMak Commerce51. MikMak on Capterra | Minutes for the free test drivePear Commerce: Time to launchPear states its free Store Locator test drive discovers your products, scans for retailers and inventory, and is fully branded and ready to share in just minutes. That is the test drive, not the paid platform. Pear publishes no onboarding duration for a paid plan.Source57. Pear Commerce: custom Store Locator test drive | Minutes, per StockistStockist: Time to launchTheir own claim, and consistent with the documented install path.Source66. Stockist: sign-up and trial |
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| Wholesale self-submission for independentsIndependent stockists rarely appear in any syndicated feed. | YesStockists add their own locations | Not verified by usDestini: Wholesale self-submission for independentsNo self-submission path for independent stockists is documented on Destini's public site. | Not verified by usWayvia: Wholesale self-submission for independentsNo self-service store submission portal for retail accounts is documented on Wayvia’s public site as of this review.Sources23. Wayvia: homepage30. Wayvia: retail partners | Not verified by usMikMak: Wholesale self-submission for independentsNo self-submission path for independent stockists is documented on mikmak.com or in its developer documentation as of this review.Source46. MikMak developer documentation: index | Manual pins, no self-submissionPear Commerce: Wholesale self-submission for independentsPear says it can add manual pins for retailers without an ecommerce presence. No self-submission portal for independent stockists is documented on its public site.Sources55. Pear Commerce: homepage59. Pear Commerce: Store Locators | NoNot offeredStockist: Wholesale self-submission for independentsNo dealer or stockist self-submission form appears in the product or its documentation. New locations arrive only through you.Source70. Stockist help centre |
| Analytics beyond the locatorSome teams are buying distribution or media reporting, not a map. | Locator engagement and retail availability analytics | YesSignals, store-level retail reportingDestini: Analytics beyond the locatorSource13. Destini support: common Signals FAQs | YesRetailer-confirmed sales, verified to the receiptWayvia: Analytics beyond the locatorSources23. Wayvia: homepage32. Wayvia: Char-Broil case study | YesInsights and Aura, full-funnel media measurementMikMak: Analytics beyond the locatorSources41. MikMak: the MikMak platform46. MikMak developer documentation: index | Click-level campaign attributionPear Commerce: Analytics beyond the locatorDaily digital-shelf data comes through Pear Pulse.Sources60. Pear Commerce: Pear Pulse55. Pear Commerce: homepage | Search analytics, more on higher tiersStockist: Analytics beyond the locatorRecords the searches visitors make. Visitor heatmaps and search export sit on the Plus and Premium tiers per the Shopify listing.Source68. Stockist on the Shopify App Store |
| Availability badges on product pagesReaches shoppers who never open the locator. | YesRetail Trust Badges | Not verified by usDestini: Availability badges on product pagesNo standalone product-page availability badge is documented on Destini’s public site or listed in its sitemap as of this review.Sources3. Destini: product locators18. Destini: page sitemap | Shoppable product pages and Where to BuyWayvia: Availability badges on product pagesWe found no standalone availability badge documented separately. Scope unverified.Source23. Wayvia: homepage | Not verified by usMikMak: Availability badges on product pagesMikMak documents a where-to-buy widget placed on brand product pages. We found no published equivalent of retailer trust badges, and do not treat missing documentation as a missing feature.Sources42. MikMak: MikMak Commerce45. MikMak developer documentation: developer guide | YesShoppable PDPsPear Commerce: Availability badges on product pagesSold as an onsite module alongside the Store Locator and Shoppable Recipes.Source58. Pear Commerce: pricing | NoNot offeredStockist: Availability badges on product pagesNo product-page availability badge exists, which follows from Stockist having no inventory concept at all: its custom fields accept only text, multi-line text or a link.Source73. Stockist docs: using custom fields |
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| Support model | Every message reaches  Our Customer Success & Onboarding SpecialistStoreLocators: Support modelMost replies come the same business day. | Not verified by usDestini: Support modelDestini publishes no support hours, service level or account-management commitment on its own site. | Enterprise account teamsWayvia: Support modelPlus a professional services division.Sources35. Wayvia: news32. Wayvia: Char-Broil case study | Named account teams; 4.65/5 on Software AdviceMikMak: Support modelFrom 18 reviews. A small sample, and a genuine strength in it.Sources52. MikMak on Software Advice51. MikMak on Capterra | Email support on the entry tierPear Commerce: Support modelA dedicated account manager starts from $3,600 per month.Source58. Pear Commerce: pricing | Email, target of two business daysStockist: Support modelTheir terms commit to commercially reasonable efforts to respond within two business days. No chat or phone channel is published. Support is explicitly not gated by tier: it sits under "All plans include".Sources67. Stockist: terms of service65. Stockist: homepage and pricing |
Seventeen rows, five competitors, one review date. Competitor cells are the same cells that appear on each head-to-head page, so nothing here can say one thing on this page and another one page deeper.
The table above ranks six platforms on seventeen rows at once, which is not how anyone actually buys. You arrive as a particular kind of brand. These are the answers for each, and on three of them the answer is not us.
StoreLocators
This is the case we are built for: your products sit on shelves you do not own, and a shopper on your product page wants to know which nearby shop has the one they are looking at. Availability comes from 205 integrated retailer feeds covering 110,516 locations, discovered rather than uploaded, and the app installs from the Shopify App Store as a theme section. The price is on the listing rather than behind a demo.,
Wayvia
If the locator is one input to a media programme and what you need is closed-loop attribution wired into the rest of your stack, this is a different purchase from a locator. Wayvia sells retailer-confirmed sales verified to the receipt. MikMak is the other answer here, with full-funnel measurement alongside its where-to-buy widget.,
Stockist
If you have your own shops or a fixed dealer list, you want it on a map that loads, and you would rather set it up yourself in an afternoon than talk to anyone, you do not need product-level availability and should not pay for it. Stockist does that well at $10 a month for up to 100 locations, and holds 5.0 across 351 Shopify reviews. We are the wrong tool for this and cost roughly twenty times as much.
StoreLocators
Independent stockists and regional accounts rarely appear in any syndicated feed, which is the gap that catches brands who buy on retailer count alone. Logged-in wholesale customers add their own store through a submission block, and spreadsheet uploads cover chains with no integration, so a new door is live without waiting for anyone else to report it.
Woosmap
If you have engineering capacity and want APIs to build against rather than a packaged app, a locator product is the wrong shape. Woosmap sells the stack (store search, autocomplete, geocoding, routing) and your team assembles it. That is a real advantage when the locator has to live inside something you already run.
Five platforms are on this page because these are the ones brands actually shortlist against us: two enterprise where-to-buy suites, two commerce and media platforms, and one locator widget. Each is compared on the same seventeen rows, in the same order, whether or not the answer flatters us.
Every fact about another vendor comes from that vendor’s own site or documentation, a public app-store or directory listing, a press release, or trade press. Each one is cited in the sources list at the foot of the page, with the publisher and the date we checked it. We do not link out to the vendors we compare ourselves against, so sources are named rather than linked; search for the title to find the page. Where a vendor states something in their own words, we quote it rather than paraphrase, because paraphrasing a competitor’s claim is where errors creep in.
StoreLocators is a store locator and product locator app for Shopify, installed from the Shopify App Store as a theme section or dropped onto any other stack with a script tag and one div. It answers which nearby shop has a specific product, not just which shops exist: availability comes from 205 integrated retailer feeds covering 110,516 locations, discovered automatically rather than uploaded by your team. Our own published setup figure is under five minutes on Shopify.,
Pricing is on the app listing rather than behind a demo: $195, $395 and $995 a month by retail location count, every tier with a 14-day free trial, month to month with no termination fee and a 30-day refund window. That is the row most of the platforms below do not publish at all, which is the honest reason we lead with it. Where we are the weaker choice we say so in each head-to-head page rather than only here.,
Best fit: a brand selling through retailers that wants live product-level availability on a Shopify storefront this week, at a price it can read before booking a call.
Destini is the incumbent where-to-buy platform in grocery CPG. Its homepage states it has been the number one where-to-buy platform for the food and beverage industry since its founding in 2010, and that more than 1,500 brands use it. SPINS lists Destini Where-to-Buy under commerce enablement, and Destini acquired the competing Where to Buy business in June 2025.,,
It runs on syndicated retail data from IRI, Nielsen and SPINS rather than on store lists a brand uploads, and SPINS states Destini is the only where-to-buy solution able to integrate SPINS data for exclusive retailers in the Natural Channel. If your distribution runs through natural and specialty grocery, that is genuinely unmatched. The trade-off is documented in their own support material: a newly distributed product can take six to eight weeks to start appearing in the locator. The Canada page puts availability at over 6,200 stores refreshed monthly; no comparable refresh interval is published for the United States.,,,
Best fit: a grocery, natural or specialty brand that already buys syndicated retail data and wants search results ranked by actual sales data, with shoppable pages and coupons from the same vendor.
Full Destini comparisonData freshness, coverage, setup, pricing and switching, side by side.
Wayvia is the enterprise commerce enablement platform that traded as PriceSpider until its rebrand on 24 July 2025. Where to Buy is one part of a suite that also covers retail intelligence, MAP and price monitoring through PROWL, and shoppable media. It states a network of more than 32,000 validated retailers, and its Hatch product page claims 92 countries, weighted heavily to EMEA.,,,
Two things are worth correcting about the old assumption that enterprise where-to-buy is automatically slow. Wayvia publishes a campaign-to-live-page figure of under ten minutes for its Shoppable Next Generation flow, and its headline measurement claim is sales confirmed by the retailer rather than inferred from clicks. It publishes no price: no pricing page appears anywhere in its sitemap.,,
Best fit: a brand selling across Europe or APAC that needs price monitoring and retailer-confirmed sales alongside where-to-buy, and has procurement requirements a published security posture can answer.
StoreLocators vs Wayvia in detailWhat changed in the PriceSpider rebrand, and where each platform fits.
MikMak is a commerce intelligence and orchestration platform, branded since January 2026 as MikMak, a SPINS company. Its where-to-buy widget and store locator sit inside one of three modules, next to omnichannel analytics and media measurement. It states 8,000+ retailer partners, 3.6 million store locations and more than 100 countries, and names Diageo, Colgate-Palmolive, Reckitt, Mars, Mondelez and Kraft Heinz among its customers.,,,
The thing it does that a website locator structurally cannot is convert into a retailer cart with the product already in it, from outside your website: social, search, CTV, display and QR. It publishes no price; Capterra records contact vendor for pricing, Software Advice pricing available upon request, and GetApp no starting price at all.,,,
Best fit: a large CPG brand whose real question is what its media spend did to retail sales, with the locator as one output of that system rather than the purchase itself.
StoreLocators vs MikMak in detailWhere a measurement platform and a product locator genuinely differ.
Pear Commerce sells itself as a retail ecommerce platform for omnichannel CPG brands, with the store locator as one module beside shoppable media, alcohol tied-house compliance and digital-shelf reporting. It states 3,000+ retail partners and 165,000+ stores, with inventory checked in the US, Canada, France, the UK, Australia and beyond, and it raised a $10M Series A led by Stage 2 Capital in June 2024.,
Pear is the only enterprise where-to-buy platform here that publishes a price list. Four tiers with dollar figures, from $2,000 a month billed yearly, with what each tier includes. The catch a buyer should read carefully is that the tiers are metered by product count: 15, 30 and 100 UPCs before Enterprise. A broad catalogue can move you up the list on SKU count alone.
Best fit: a brand with a focused catalogue whose priority is paid-media efficiency and click-level attribution, or an alcohol brand that needs tied-house compliance built into the product.
StoreLocators vs Pear Commerce in detailPublished tiers, UPC metering, and where each platform earns its price.
Stockist is a store locator widget for Shopify and any other site, and unusually for this table it publishes its prices: $10, $20 and $40 a month for 100, 500 and 2,000 locations. Its Shopify listing holds a 5.0 rating across 351 reviews. Locations come from you: entered, imported as a spreadsheet or synced from a Google Sheet, then geocoded automatically.,,,,
It has no concept of product availability. Its custom fields accept single-line text, multi-line text or a link and nothing else, so there is nowhere for stock to live, and nothing discovers retailers that carry you. The map runs on your own Google Maps or Mapbox key: their docs say a high-traffic locator may reach Google’s free usage limits, and charges past that are yours.,,
Best fit: a brand or retailer whose locations are its own shops, or a stockist list it already keeps accurate, that wants a fast, well-supported map on any platform and is not being asked which store has a particular product.
StoreLocators vs Stockist in detailPublished tiers, the map key you supply, and where a locator widget stops.
Every platform above has a page of its own, and so do several that are not in the table. Each goes a level deeper: the vendor in their own words, a seventeen-row table against us, a switching guide, and what neither of us publishes.
The five platforms on this page are not five versions of one product. They cluster into three categories, and picking the wrong category is a more expensive mistake than picking the wrong vendor inside the right one.
One click from the Shopify App Store, or a script and one div on any other site including headless. Our published figure is under five minutes, and the app listing is public, so it is a claim you can check by installing it rather than by booking a call.
We discover which of 205 integrated retailers carry your products across 110,516 locations, with no syndicated data subscription in the way. A retailer you sell through but we do not yet integrate is added on request, typically within days, at no additional cost.
Availability comes from retailer feeds, refreshes daily and is re-checked while the shopper browses. It is retailer-reported rather than a live poll of a physical shelf, which is the honest description of what every platform in this category actually has.
Independent stockists submit their own locations through the wholesale block and appear without waiting to be reported by anyone’s feed. For a brand whose growth is in independents and regional accounts, that is usually the gap that matters.
Our prices are public: $195, $395 and $995 per month, on our Shopify App Store listing, tiered by how many retail locations you need. So is the contract structure behind them: month to month, no long-term contract, no termination fee, cancel from Account Settings, and a refund window of 30 days from the latest charge. Of the five platforms compared here, only Pear and Stockist also publish a price list.,,
There is no single best store locator in 2026, because the platforms differ most in where their availability data comes from, and that is decided by how you sell. If your distribution runs through syndicated grocery data, Destini is built on exactly that. If you need shoppable media and campaign attribution alongside the locator, MikMak and Pear Commerce sell that as one platform. If your dealers run point-of-sale inventory you can read, Locally goes deeper than anyone. If your engineering team wants location APIs to assemble themselves, Woosmap is the cleanest. StoreLocators is the best fit when you want retailer-reported availability refreshed daily, published pricing you can read before a sales call, and a locator live in minutes rather than a quarter. The comparison table above sets all of that out, with a source behind every claim about another vendor.,
The best store locator app for Shopify depends on whether you only need to map your own shops or also need to show which nearby retailers stock a product. A widget-style app covers the first. If shoppers need to find your products at Walmart, Target or a local grocer, you need store locator software with retailer availability behind it. StoreLocators installs as a Shopify app in minutes, publishes its pricing, and refreshes retailer-reported availability daily. The comparison table above sets it beside Destini, Wayvia, MikMak, Pear Commerce and Stockist on those points.
A store locator answers "where are your shops", and is usually built from a location list the business already owns. A where-to-buy or product locator answers "which nearby shops have this specific product", which requires availability data from third-party retailers that the brand does not control. Every platform on this page does the second thing, but they source that availability very differently, which is why the comparison table gives data and freshness a section of its own: where the availability comes from, and how often it refreshes, is the question that decides which of the two you are actually buying, and no feature list settles it.
Yes. Store finder and store locator are two names for the same tool, and which one a team uses is mostly regional habit: UK and multi-site retail teams tend to say store finder, while North American and CPG teams tend to say store locator. Vendors split the same way, so a search for store finder software and a search for store locator software return much the same set of products. The distinction that actually changes what you buy is the one above, between mapping locations you already own and reporting which nearby retailers currently stock a given product. Most of what is listed as a store finder app on the Shopify App Store does the first. Every platform compared on this page does the second.
Three of the six, including us. Ours are on our Shopify App Store listing: $195, $395 and $995 a month, tiered by how many retail locations you need. Pear Commerce lists four tiers with dollar figures, starting at $2,000 a month billed yearly. Stockist publishes $10, $20 and $40 a month against location caps. Destini, Wayvia and MikMak all quote on request. Where a third-party directory lists a figure for a vendor who does not publish one, we say so and name the directory rather than treating it as a vendor statement.,,,,
It varies more than the marketing does, and most vendors do not publish an interval at all. StoreLocators is retailer-reported, refreshed daily and re-checked while the shopper browses. Destini publishes a monthly refresh for Canada and no interval for United States in-store availability. Wayvia describes its validation as continuous without publishing a figure. No platform in this category polls a physical shelf in real time, and a vendor implying otherwise is describing a marketing claim rather than a mechanism.,
StoreLocators publishes under five minutes for the Shopify install, and the app listing is public so the claim is checkable. Wayvia publishes under ten minutes for its Shoppable Next Generation campaign flow. Pear says its free test drive is ready to share in minutes. Most of the others publish no setup-time figure for the locator at all, which is why the comparison table marks those cells "not published" rather than guessing at weeks or months.,
Usually, yes, but what transfers depends on what you own. Store lists, retailer lists and product catalogues are yours and export cleanly. Syndicated availability data is licensed from the data provider, not from the locator vendor, so it does not move with you. Anything embedded in a vendor-hosted landing page, short link or coupon stays behind. Each comparison page on this site has a switching section that covers what is genuinely harder about moving off that specific platform.
Researched and written by Anthony La Corte.
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This page was researched by reading each vendor’s own public materials: their site and product pages, their support and developer documentation, their app-store and directory listings, their press releases and the trade press covering them. Nothing here comes from a competitor teardown or a third-party "top ten" listicle. One cell is the exception, and it is labelled in the table rather than only here: Destini publishes no pricing at all, so that cell shows a range reported to us by brands that have used Destini, not a published price. It is not the $4,950 that appears on Destini’s Capterra listing, which is directory metadata rather than a vendor statement.
Where a vendor publishes a figure, we quote it in their units and name the page it came from. Where they do not, the cell says so. Apart from that one reported pricing figure, we have not estimated a competitor’s price, customer count, refresh interval or feature availability anywhere on this page, and we would rather leave a row marked not verified than fill it with a plausible guess.
Claims about other vendors carry a source; claims about our own product mostly do not, and that asymmetry is deliberate. You should not have to take our word for what a competitor does, so every one of those cites the vendor’s own page by name in the sources list. What we say about StoreLocators is a first-party statement we stand behind, so it is not separately cited. The exceptions are the two places a reader can check something binding: our Shopify App Store listing, which we do not control, and our guarantee page, which carries the actual contract terms.
Facts in this category go stale quickly. One vendor rebranded, two were acquired and one acquired a competitor in the eighteen months before this review. That is why every page in this comparison carries the date its facts were last checked, and every claim about another vendor carries the source it came from, rather than an implied permanence.
Every claim on this page cites the source it came from, with the date we checked it. Sources are named but not linked; search for the title to find the page.
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