Store locator on your website.

The Poper store locator gives you two ways to add branches. Manual entry is best when you want full control: you type the name, address, phone, photo, opening and closing times, operating days, status, and any extra notes for each store. The Add from Google flow is best for speed and accuracy: you search Google Maps for a real business and the widget pulls in its name, address, phone, photo, and weekly opening hours automatically. Updates follow the normal widget publish and refresh flow, while the status and schedule remain adjustable. Most brands mix both, seeding well-known branches from Google and entering newer or unlisted ones by hand. There is no upload-a-CSV or sync-a-spreadsheet step; you build the list directly in the builder and reorder it by dragging.

An open or closed badge is only useful if visitors can trust it. The Poper locator handles this differently depending on how a location was added. For a branch pulled in from Google Maps, the widget reads the real weekly opening-hours periods and computes the badge live, so it flips between open and closed as the day passes without you touching anything. For a manually entered branch, you set the status and the opening, closing, and operating-day fields yourself, which means you own keeping them current. The practical advice: lean on the Google source for branches with a verified Google Business Profile, and review manual entries whenever holiday hours or seasonal changes come up. A stale ‘Open now’ badge erodes trust faster than no badge at all.

Placement and layout shape how a locator performs. The Poper store locator ships eight templates so the same location data fits different page contexts. Classic Map and Split Card pair a prominent map with a side list and suit a dedicated locations page. Fullscreen turns the finder into an immersive, edge-to-edge experience for a hero section. Compact Sidebar and List First put the list front and center when screen space is tight or when most of your visitors browse the list before the map. Glass Dock and Journey Feed are styled, modern treatments for brand-led sites, and Minimal Footer tucks a slim finder into the bottom of any page. Every layout keeps the core pairing, an interactive map plus a searchable store list, and collapses cleanly on mobile, so the choice is about visual fit rather than feature trade-offs.

Once your locations are in, the experience that matters most is how quickly a visitor narrows down to the branch they want. The Poper locator gives every layout a search box that filters the store list in real time by name or address, so a visitor in a specific neighborhood types a few characters and immediately sees the matching stores. Selecting a result smoothly pans the map to that pin, keeping the active branch in view. Each location card surfaces the address, phone, photo, hours, and status, which is everything a visitor needs to decide whether to call ahead or head over. Keep your store names descriptive (include the neighborhood or city) so search stays effective as your list grows.

A store locator widget works best alongside a well-maintained Google Business Profile (GBP) for each physical branch. The two are complementary: GBP is how a branch shows up in Google Maps and the local results, while the locator on your own site helps visitors who are already on your domain find and choose a branch. Keep the name, address, and phone number consistent between your GBP listing and the locator so visitors are never confused by mismatched details. When you add a branch to the Poper locator through the Add from Google flow, it pulls from the same Google Maps data as the corresponding GBP listing, which makes that consistency easier to maintain. Treat the locator as the on-site companion to your Google presence rather than a replacement for it.