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Stockist is one of the best-reviewed store locator apps on Shopify, at $10 a month for up to 100 locations. It maps the stores you give it, and it does that well. It has no concept of product availability, no way to discover which retailers stock you, and no structured field for store hours.
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Stockist is the better buy if you own your store list and the list is the answer. We are the better buy if the list is the problem: if you sell through retailers you do not control, do not know every store carrying you, and need the map to answer which of them has a given 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.
On any of these we would rather you bought Stockist than bought from us and did not use most of it.
Both store locators as a shopper sees them, captured the same way: a 1280 by 800 browser window placed in Chicago, searching for Chicago. A demo holds whatever sample data its vendor chose, so where that changes what the picture shows, the caption says so. Each shot is trimmed to a common shape here; select one to see all of it.
StoreLocators · Captured October 15, 2026 from a live customer site, searching “Chicago, IL”.
Stockist · Captured October 15, 2026 from the vendor’s own demo, searching “Chicago, IL”.
Both products publish their prices, which is unusual enough in this category to be worth saying. The comparison is straightforward and Stockist wins it on price by a wide margin.
The figure that does not appear on either price list is the map key. Stockist’s tiers exclude the Google or Mapbox cost; ours include it. On a low-traffic locator that is nothing, and on a busy one it is the difference between a fixed bill and a variable one.
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
Three published tiers by location cap: Basic at $10 a month for 100 locations, Plus at $20 for 500, and Premium at $40 for 2,000. Paid annually those become $8, $16 and $32 a month, billed as $96, $192 and $384 a year. Above 2,000 locations pricing is quote-only, and the page says they can support up to 100,000 stores per map.
Free trial documented. 14 days, described on the sign-up page as "free for 14 days".
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Sixteen rows on one review date. Where Stockist publishes nothing, the cell says so rather than guessing.
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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.Source15. StoreLocators: guarantee, refunds and cancellation | 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.Source3. Stockist: terms of service |
| 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.Source16. StoreLocators on the Shopify App Store | $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.Source1. Stockist: homepage and pricing |
| Merchant ratingSame storefront, so these compare. Read with the count. | 5.0StoreLocators: Merchant rating5.0 from 17 reviews on Shopify App Store.Source16. StoreLocators on the Shopify App Store | 5.0Stockist: Merchant 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.Sources5. Stockist on the Shopify App Store6. Stockist reviews on the Shopify App Store |
| Evaluate without a sales call | YesFree trial, public app listingStoreLocators: Evaluate without a sales callSource16. StoreLocators on the Shopify App Store | 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.Sources2. Stockist: sign-up and trial5. Stockist 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 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.Source7. Stockist help centre |
| Retailer coverageCoverage only counts where you actually sell. | 205 retailers, 110,516 locationsStoreLocators: Retailer coverageSource17. StoreLocators: free retailer store lists | 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.Source1. Stockist: homepage and pricing |
| 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. | 100, 500 or 2,000 by planStockist: Location capHard caps by tier. Above 2,000 the pricing page directs you to contact them, saying they can support up to 100,000 stores per map.Source1. Stockist: homepage and pricing |
| 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 enter, import or sync from a sheetStockist: Where the store 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.Sources5. Stockist on the Shopify App Store11. Stockist docs: linking to a Google Sheet |
| Refresh cadenceA locator that sends a shopper to a store that dropped the line costs more trust than it wins. | Retailer feeds, refreshed daily | 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.Source11. Stockist docs: linking to a 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. | 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.Source10. Stockist docs: using custom fields |
| Implementation | ||
| Install path | Shopify app section, or a script tag anywhere elseStoreLocators: Install pathSource16. StoreLocators on the Shopify App Store | 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.Sources9. Stockist docs: installing on Shopify8. Stockist docs: installing the store locator |
| Developer requiredWhether this ships this week or waits for engineering time. | NoNot required | NoNot requiredStockist: Developer requiredThe recommended Shopify path is theme-independent and needs no code edit.Source9. Stockist docs: installing on Shopify |
| Time to launch | Under 5 minutes on ShopifyStoreLocators: Time to launchSource16. StoreLocators on the Shopify App Store | Minutes, per StockistStockist: Time to launchTheir own claim, and consistent with the documented install path.Source2. Stockist: sign-up and trial |
| 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. | NoYou supply and pay for itStockist: Who pays for the mapStockist requires your own Mapbox or Google Maps key. Its "unlimited traffic" means Stockist does not meter map loads, not that they are free: its own docs warn that high-traffic sites reach Google’s free usage limits, and that charges past that point are the customer’s responsibility.Sources1. Stockist: homepage and pricing13. Stockist docs: options for high-usage clients |
| 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 | NoNot offeredStockist: Wholesale self-submissionNo dealer or stockist self-submission form appears in the product or its documentation. New locations arrive only through you.Source7. Stockist help centre |
| Support | ||
| Support model | Every message reaches  Our Customer Success & Onboarding Specialist | 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".Sources3. Stockist: terms of service1. Stockist: homepage and pricing |
“Add a store locator to your website in minutes.”
“store locators for thousands of brands, large and small”
“the process of looking up geographical coordinates for each store so that we can show a pin in the right spot on the map”
Note what the "thousands of brands" figure counts. It is a customer count, not a store count: thousands of brands run a Stockist locator, each with their own locations in it. It is not a claim about retailer coverage, and Stockist does not make one, because Stockist does not supply store data. Every location in a Stockist map was put there by the brand that owns the map.
The setup claim is fair and matches what the docs describe. On Shopify the app adds a Store Locator page for you, with an Online Store 2.0 theme template as the alternative when you want control over the layout. Everywhere else it is a copy-paste JavaScript snippet.,,
Stockist maps what you give it. We find it. Retailers that stock you are discovered across 205 integrated retailer feeds and appear without anyone typing them, which matters most for exactly the retailers a brand tends to miss: the ones a distributor placed you into.
Our map answers which nearby store has a specific product, refreshed daily from retailer feeds. Stockist has no inventory concept at all, and its own field types prove it: text, multi-line text, and link. This is the single largest difference between the two products and it is not a matter of degree.
The map is inside our subscription and shopper sessions are not metered. With Stockist the map is your own Google or Mapbox key, and their documentation is candid that a high-traffic locator will reach Google’s free quota and start costing you money that Stockist never sees.
Small stockists rarely appear in any retailer feed, ours included. Our Submit Your Location block lets a shop add itself for approval, which is the only reliable way to catch the long tail. With Stockist every location arrives through you.
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.
Every difference between these two products reduces to one question, and it is worth answering honestly before looking at price. Do you own your store list, or does it belong to retailers you sell through?
If you own it, Stockist is excellent and we are overkill. A retailer with 60 of its own shops has an accurate list already, and the job is to put it on a map. Stockist does that for $10 a month, in minutes, with a support record most vendors would envy.,
If retailers own it, the spreadsheet is the problem rather than the solution. A brand in 3,000 grocery doors does not know which 3,000, the set changes every month, and nobody tells the brand when a chain drops the line or a new region picks it up. Maintaining that by hand is a standing job, and the map is wrong between the times someone does it.
Stockist advertises unlimited traffic, and the phrase is true in the narrow sense that Stockist does not meter map loads. The map itself runs on your own Google Maps or Mapbox key, which you obtain and pay for.
To their credit their own documentation says this plainly rather than burying it: high-traffic sites may find their locator receives enough visits to reach Google’s free usage limits, and charges past that point are the customer’s responsibility. That is a second, variable invoice attached to a fixed-price product, and it arrives from Google rather than from Stockist.
Our map is part of the subscription and shopper sessions are not metered, so the price you see is the price. Below Google’s free tier the difference is nothing, which is most sites. It matters at the point where a locator starts working.
Stockist’s own pricing page and its Shopify App Store listing disagree about what the cheaper plans include, and the disagreement was confirmed on both pages on the same day.
On stockist.co every plan card repeats an identical feature list, including Google Sheets sync and removal of the powered-by link, and closes with "All other features included". The Shopify listing gates Google Sheets sync and the powered-by removal to Premium at $40, and gates map theme colours, heatmaps and search export to Plus.,
Stockist’s own help centre article on Google Sheets sync says the feature is available on the Premium plan and higher, which matches the Shopify listing. If Google Sheets sync or white-labelling is the reason you are buying, confirm which tier carries it with Stockist before you subscribe rather than relying on the plan cards alone.
Stockist has no structured field for opening hours. Hours are entered as free text in a generic custom field, which the docs give as an example use alongside a fax number and a Facebook page.
That is fine on a page a human reads. It is not fine for anything that has to reason about the hours: an "open now" filter, sorting by what is open, or structured data a search engine can use. Free text cannot be queried, and the three available field types are single-line text, multi-line text and link.
Both of these are easy to get wrong from the marketing pages alone. Stockist does handle hours and does geocode addresses automatically. The limitation is the shape of the hours field, not their absence.
The move is unusually simple in this direction, because your Stockist data is already in a format built for export: a spreadsheet, or a Google Sheet you control.
The point of the move is that the spreadsheet stops being the source. Your own locations stay yours to manage; retailer locations come from the feeds instead, so the rows that used to go stale are no longer rows you maintain.
Stockist publishes three tiers by location cap: Basic at $10 a month for up to 100 locations, Plus at $20 for 500, and Premium at $40 for 2,000. Paid annually those drop to the equivalent of $8, $16 and $32 a month, billed as $96, $192 and $384 a year. There is no free plan, but there is a 14-day trial. Above 2,000 locations pricing is quote-only, and the pricing page says they can support up to 100,000 stores per map. One cost is not in those figures: you supply and pay for your own Google Maps or Mapbox key.,,
No. Stockist has no inventory concept. Its custom fields accept only single-line text, multi-line text or a link, so there is nowhere for stock data to live, and no feature anywhere in the product or its documentation reports store-level availability. It has search filters, but they are generic ones the merchant defines rather than a stock signal. If a shopper needs to know which nearby store has a particular product, that is the capability line between Stockist and a where-to-buy platform.
No, and it does not claim to. There is no discovery or crawl feature on the homepage, the Shopify listing, or any of the five help-centre categories. Every location in a Stockist map is one you entered, imported or synced from a sheet you maintain. Its "thousands of brands" figure counts Stockist customers, not retailers or store locations.,
On the Shopify App Store it holds 5.0 stars across 351 reviews, distributed as 349 five-star, one four-star and one one-star. Reviewers name ease of setup, reliability and support responsiveness. The one-star review objects to the price for what it calls a simple Google Map integration. We could not confirm a G2 rating, so none is shown. No Capterra or Trustpilot rating is shown either.,
Email, and the same on every plan rather than gated by tier. The terms commit to commercially reasonable efforts to respond within two business days. No phone line or live chat is offered, and the terms are explicit that access is not warranted to be uninterrupted.
It depends on why you are leaving. If Stockist is too expensive or you want a free tier, this is not the page for that and the answer is another widget in the same class. If you are leaving because maintaining the store list has become a job, or because shoppers want product-level availability, that is the gap StoreLocators fills: retailer feeds instead of a spreadsheet, per-product and per-store availability refreshed daily, and the map cost inside the subscription. It costs about twenty times more, which is the honest headline.
Researched and written by Anthony La Corte.
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Every Stockist claim on this page was taken from stockist.co, its help centre at help.stockist.co, its terms and privacy pages, or its Shopify App Store listing and review pages, and each was checked 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.,
Some things are deliberately absent rather than estimated. We could not confirm a G2 rating, so none is shown. No Capterra or Trustpilot rating is shown either. Founding date, headcount and ownership are not published by Stockist and are not guessed at. Claims about StoreLocators come from our own public pages and are not separately cited.
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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