Shopify store locator app with dealer submissions and a no-key map option
TA MAPPY is the best-reviewed product in this comparison, at 5.0 across 445 Shopify reviews with a Built for Shopify badge. It is also one of the very few that will run a locator with no map account at all: OpenStreetMap is included on the free plan with no API key required. This page covers what its plans include and where they stop.
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Mappy is the strongest all-round widget in this comparison for a brand that owns its store list: excellent reviews, a real dealer form, analytics you can export, and a map that needs no cloud account. We are the better buy when the store list belongs to retailers rather than to you, and when shoppers need to know which store has a product.
What each product is designed to do, in its own terms. A capability named on one side is not a claim that the other lacks it, and neither column ranks the two: the table below is where they are compared row by row.
If your list is heading past a thousand locations, confirm the larger plans with the vendor first. They are not on the app listing itself.
Not a close comparison on price. Mappy covers a thousand locations for $39.99 a month. Our equivalent tier is $195.
What separates them is what the money buys. Mappy prices a very good app for displaying locations you supply. Ours prices retailer availability data for locations you do not own, refreshed daily. On an owned store list, that is a lot of money for something not being used.
Prices published
Three tiers on our Shopify App Store listing, scaling by retail locations: Launch up to 2,000 locations, Grow from 2,000 to 10,000, and Scale above 10,000, at $195, $395 and $995 per month.
Free trial documented. A 14-day free trial on every tier.
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Prices published
Four plans on the Shopify listing: free at 2 locations, then $9.99, $19.99 and $39.99 a month for 50, 500 and 1,000 locations, each paid plan with a 7-day trial. The vendor pricing page the listing links to adds Platinum at $59.99 for 3,000 locations and Unlimited at $99.99, neither of which appears on the listing itself.
Free trial documented. A 7-day trial on paid plans, plus a permanent free plan at 2 locations.
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Fifteen rows on one review date. The map row is one Mappy shares with us for a different reason: it bundles a free map provider, we bundle a paid one.
| Feature |  | Mappy |
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| Pricing and proof | ||
| Contract terms | Month to month, cancel any timeStoreLocators: Contract termsNo long-term contract and no termination fee. Refunds within 30 days of the latest charge.Source16. StoreLocators: guarantee, refunds and cancellation | Published refund policy, narrow by designMappy: Contract termsTech Arms publishes one refund policy for all its Shopify apps. On a monthly plan a refund request must come within the first 5 days of the billing cycle and is only accepted after a major issue such as data loss or a serious service disruption. Billing runs through Shopify. The privacy policy commits to retaining data until you submit a cancellation request or uninstall.Sources4. Tech Arms: refund policy15. Mappy: privacy policy |
| Pricing | $195–$995 per monthStoreLocators: PricingThree tiers on our Shopify App Store listing, scaling by retail locations: Launch up to 2,000, Grow from 2,000 to 10,000, Scale above 10,000.Source17. StoreLocators on the Shopify App Store | Four plans on the listing, two more on the vendor siteMappy: PricingThe Shopify listing publishes four: free at 2 locations, then $9.99, $19.99 and $39.99 for 50, 500 and 1,000. The vendor pricing page the listing links to adds Platinum at $59.99 for 3,000 and Unlimited at $99.99, which you cannot see on the listing itself.Sources1. TA MAPPY: Store Locator & Maps on the Shopify App Store3. TA MAPPY: vendor pricing page (Tech Arms) |
| Merchant ratingSame storefront, so these compare. Read with the count. | 5.0StoreLocators: Merchant rating5.0 from 17 reviews on Shopify App Store.Source17. StoreLocators on the Shopify App Store | 5.0Mappy: Merchant rating5.0 from 445 reviews on Shopify App Store.The strongest record in this comparison set on score and volume together: 428 five-star, 11 four, 1 three, 1 two and 4 one-star, on a listing live since November 2020. Read the 5.0 as Shopify’s own rounding rather than a spotless record, since that published split averages 4.93. We could not confirm a G2 or Capterra rating, so none is shown.Source2. TA MAPPY reviews on the Shopify App Store |
| Evaluate without a sales call | YesFree trial, public app listingStoreLocators: Evaluate without a sales callSource17. StoreLocators on the Shopify App Store | Yes7-day trial, plus a permanent free planMappy: Evaluate without a sales callTwo locations free forever, which is enough to see the product properly, and seven days on each paid plan, which is on the short side for getting a real list loaded and reviewed.Source1. TA MAPPY: Store Locator & Maps on the Shopify App Store |
| Retailer coverage | ||
| 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 | You add it, or a dealer applies through the formMappy: Adding a retailer you sell throughThe dealer form has a real queue behind it: approve, reject, edit or delete, with approval and rejection email templates carrying merge fields. Nothing is discovered on its own.Source8. Mappy documentation: dealer form |
| Retailer coverageCoverage only counts where you actually sell. | 205 retailers, 110,516 locationsStoreLocators: Retailer coverageSource18. StoreLocators: free retailer store lists | Not published by the vendorMappy: Retailer coverageNo retailer network.Mappy supplies no store data and publishes no coverage figure. Every location on the map is one you add, import or approve.Source1. TA MAPPY: Store Locator & Maps on the Shopify App Store |
| Location capA cap you can grow past is a repricing event, not a feature. | Priced by retail locations, not cappedStoreLocators: Location capPlans scale by location count rather than cutting the map off at a number. | 2 free, then 50, 500, 1,000, 3,000 or unlimitedMappy: Location capHard caps by count with no overage rate published. The 3,000 and unlimited plans are not on the Shopify listing itself; they appear on the vendor pricing page the listing links to as "See all pricing options", and the documentation gates the public API to the unlimited plan.Sources1. TA MAPPY: Store Locator & Maps on the Shopify App Store3. TA MAPPY: vendor pricing page (Tech Arms)9. Mappy documentation: public API |
| Data and freshness | ||
| Where the store data comes fromThe whole difference. Everything else follows. | Automatic discovery across 205 integrated retailer feedsStoreLocators: Where the store data comes fromNo spreadsheet to maintain. Retailers that stock you are found in their own feeds and appear without you entering them. | Locations you supply, by hand, file, sheet, API or dealer formMappy: Where the store data comes fromThe widest set of entry paths in this class: manual entry, CSV import, a Google Sheets import, a dealer application form and a REST API on the top plan. All of them move data you already hold.Sources6. Mappy documentation: importing by Google Sheet8. Mappy documentation: dealer form9. Mappy documentation: public API |
| Refresh cadenceA locator that sends a shopper to a store that dropped the line costs more trust than it wins. | Retailer feeds, refreshed daily | Whenever you re-import or editMappy: Refresh cadenceThe Google Sheets connection is a re-import you trigger rather than a live sync, despite marketing wording about real-time updates in the same document. No scheduled or webhook sync is documented.Source6. Mappy documentation: importing by Google Sheet |
| Product-level availabilityWhether the map answers "who has this product" or only "where are the shops". | YesPer product, per variant, per store, filtered to in-stockStoreLocators: Product-level availabilityRetailer-reported rather than a live poll of a physical shelf, which is the honest description of what this category actually has. | NoA featured-products field, not stockMappy: Product-level availabilityEach location has a native Products field for highlighting items available there. It is a list you write and maintain, with no inventory connection and no freshness claim, so it cannot answer whether a store has something today.Source7. Mappy documentation: creating a location |
| Implementation | ||
| Install path | Shopify app section, or a script tag anywhere elseStoreLocators: Install pathSource17. StoreLocators on the Shopify App Store | Enable the app embed, then drop in the map blockMappy: Install pathA Shopify app embed toggled in theme settings, with a separate optional Store Locator Map block you drag onto a custom page. Shopify only; no embed for other platforms is documented.Source11. Mappy documentation: enabling the app embed |
| Developer requiredWhether this ships this week or waits for engineering time. | NoNot required | NoNot requiredMappy: Developer requiredThe app carries a Built for Shopify badge. The only technical step is a Google or Mapbox key, and only if you choose those over OpenStreetMap.Sources1. TA MAPPY: Store Locator & Maps on the Shopify App Store5. Mappy documentation: setting up the Google API |
| Time to launch | Under 5 minutes on ShopifyStoreLocators: Time to launchSource17. StoreLocators on the Shopify App Store | Not published by the vendorMappy: Time to launchNo setup time published.Neither the listing nor the onboarding documentation states a figure. With OpenStreetMap there is no account to create first, which removes the step that usually decides the answer.Sources11. Mappy documentation: enabling the app embed1. TA MAPPY: Store Locator & Maps on the Shopify App Store |
| Who pays for the mapA locator billed per map load has a second invoice attached to it, from Google or Mapbox rather than the vendor. | YesIncludedStoreLocators: Who pays for the mapThe map is part of the subscription. There is no separate Google or Mapbox bill, and shopper sessions are not metered. | Free with OpenStreetMap, your key for Google or MapboxMappy: Who pays for the mapOpenStreetMap is included from the free plan with no API key required, which is unusual and genuinely useful. Google Maps and Mapbox are both fully supported and both need a key you create; the vendor states that a Google key is generally free with usage charges depending on volume, and has documentation for managing that cost.Sources1. TA MAPPY: Store Locator & Maps on the Shopify App Store5. Mappy documentation: setting up the Google API |
| Features | ||
| Wholesale self-submissionIndependent stockists rarely appear in any feed. Letting them add themselves is the only way to catch them. | YesSubmit Your Location block | YesDealer form with an approval queueMappy: Wholesale self-submissionApplications arrive in a queue and can be approved, rejected, edited or deleted, with templated approval and rejection emails using merge fields. No CRM or email-platform integration is documented, so the leads stay in the app.Source8. Mappy documentation: dealer form |
| Support | ||
| Support model | Every message reaches  Our Customer Success & Onboarding Specialist | In-app live chat and email, same on every planMappy: Support modelThe vendor names live chat as the quickest route and commits to replying as soon as possible, with no hours and no numeric response target. Support is not gated by tier, which is in the customer’s favour.Source14. Mappy documentation: contact and support |
“OpenStreetMap - no API key required”
“An API key is essential for displaying the map on your store locator page and for key functionalities like search and directions.”
Read together, those two describe a real choice rather than a contradiction. OpenStreetMap works out of the box with nothing to set up. Google Maps and Mapbox are both supported and both need a key you create and pay for. Most vendors in this class offer only the second half.,
That choice answers a complaint in Mappy’s own review record. One merchant’s objection, from early 2023, is precisely that paying for the app then meant registering a Google API key and generating a second bill. On the free plan with OpenStreetMap, that does not happen.,
Mappy has five ways to get locations in and every one of them starts with you having the location. We discover retailers that stock you across integrated feeds, refreshed daily, so a store that started carrying your line appears without an import, an application or an approval.,
Mappy’s Products field highlights items available at a location, and it is a list you write and keep current with no inventory behind it. Ours is per product and per store from retailer feeds, refreshed daily, which answers whether that store has it rather than whether someone once listed it.
Mappy publishes one locator page whose URL and handle you can edit, and nothing per location. For a brand that wants to appear for a retailer and a city together, one page is one chance. Per-location pages are a different order of search surface.
Mappy’s refund policy only considers a request made in the first 5 days of a billing cycle, and only after a major issue, and its Shopify listing stops at 1,000 locations, with larger plans on a separate vendor page. Ours are three published prices, month to month with a 30-day refund window, and plans that scale by retail location count rather than stopping.,,
Taken from that table rather than written out again, so the two cannot disagree. A row shows up here when we publish an answer and they publish none, or when both answer and ours covers more of the feature. Rows where both sides publish a figure, a price or a rating, stay out: those differ by their content.
Across this whole comparison, the most common place a locator project stalls is not the app. It is the Google Cloud console: creating a project, enabling billing on a card that belongs to somebody in finance, restricting a key, and then discovering a month later that map loads have an invoice attached.
Mappy is one of very few products here that lets you skip all of it. OpenStreetMap is on the free plan with no API key required. If you would rather have Google or Mapbox, both are fully supported with their own setup and cost-management documentation, and the vendor states plainly that a Google key is generally free with usage charges depending on volume.,
This is not a theoretical advantage. One of the four one-star reviews on the listing is a merchant objecting that after paying for the app they had to register a Google API key that generated a second bill. That complaint dates from early 2023 and the OpenStreetMap path answers it directly.
The Shopify listing publishes four plans: free at two locations, then $9.99 for fifty, $19.99 for five hundred and $39.99 for a thousand, each paid plan with a seven-day trial. Those caps are hard, with no overage rate published anywhere.
Two more are on the vendor’s own pricing page, which the listing links to as "See all pricing options": Platinum at $59.99 for three thousand locations and Unlimited at $99.99. Neither appears on the Shopify listing itself. The documentation also treats the top plan as a real, billable tier, because it gates the public API to it.,
The practical consequence for a brand with a long stockist list: the ladder on the listing ends at a thousand locations, and going past it means a plan that is priced on a separate page. Worth confirming how to get onto it before importing anything.,
Mappy documents itself well, across a large documentation site, and most rows on this page are settled by a vendor page rather than an inference. Two things are worth reading closely.
The refund policy is narrow. Tech Arms publishes one refund policy for all its Shopify apps: on a monthly plan a request must come within the first 5 days of the current billing cycle and is only accepted after a major issue such as data loss or a serious service disruption, and it lists changing your mind and evaluation purchases among the cases it does not refund. The privacy policy says data is retained until you submit a cancellation request or uninstall, that servers are in the United States on Linode, and it carries both EEA and CCPA sections, with no SOC 2 or ISO claim.,
Who the vendor is takes some piecing together. The listing names the developer as Tech Arms MAPPY of Hanoi, and its pricing link, support address and refund policy all sit under Tech Arms. Its developer-website link, though, redirects to the homepage of BSS B2B Solutions, a BSS Commerce site that does not mention Mappy, and older developer replies on the listing are signed from BSS Commerce. The relationship is not explained anywhere, which is worth knowing if you care who holds your data.,,
Straightforward, and better supported than most moves in this set: Mappy documents an export path, and on the top plan there is an API that can read every location out.
The point of the move is that retailer locations stop being rows someone imports and approves. Your own locations stay managed; the rest arrive from feeds.
Four plans on the Shopify App Store: free for 2 locations, then $9.99 a month for 50, $19.99 for 500 and $39.99 for 1,000, with a 7-day trial on each paid plan. The vendor’s own pricing page, linked from the listing, adds two larger plans: Platinum at $59.99 for 3,000 locations and Unlimited at $99.99, which do not appear on the listing itself. Caps are hard with no published overage rate, and the public API is restricted to the top plan.,,
Only if you choose Google Maps. OpenStreetMap is included from the free plan with no API key required at all, which is unusual in this category and removes the step most locator projects stall on. Google Maps and Mapbox are both fully supported with your own key, and the vendor states that a Google key is generally free with usage charges depending on volume, with its own documentation for managing that cost.,
It has the strongest review record in this comparison: 5.0 across 445 Shopify reviews, with 428 at five stars, plus the Built for Shopify badge and a listing live since November 2020. The developer is based in Hanoi. Five negative reviews exist, and the themes they state are a bulk CSV import that failed to place pins with no support follow-through, the Google API key generating a second bill, search radius behaviour requiring a wide setting to surface the nearest store, and the app not working on a newer Shopify setup. The most recent of them is from November 2025.,
Yes, through a dealer form with a real approval queue behind it. Applications can be approved, rejected, edited or deleted, and approval and rejection emails use templates with merge fields for the recipient name and the locations. Translations follow whichever languages your Shopify store has enabled. What it does not do is push those contacts anywhere: no CRM or email-platform integration is documented, so the leads stay in the app.,
No. It publishes a single locator page whose URL and handle you can edit in the page settings, and nothing per location, with no vendor-hosted pages either. If the goal is to appear in search for a retailer and a city together, one page gives you one shot at it. That is the main structural gap between Mappy and the locators built around per-location pages.
Other Shopify locator apps do the same job, though few match the review record or the no-key map option. If the problem is that the store list belongs to retailers rather than to you, or that shoppers want to know which store has a product rather than which stores exist, that is what StoreLocators does instead: retailer feeds refreshed daily rather than imports you approve, per-product and per-store availability, and plans that keep scaling past a thousand locations. It costs many times more, which on a short owned store list is not worth paying.
Researched and written by Anthony La Corte.
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Every Mappy claim on this page was taken from its Shopify App Store listing and review pages, its documentation at docs.mappy-app.com, or the vendor marketing page its listing links to, and each was checked against the live page on 15 October 2026. The sources are listed below with the exact URL we read.,,
Every claim was checked twice against the vendor’s own pages before publishing.,,
Claims about StoreLocators come from our own public pages and are not separately cited.,
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