Locator
Direct your clients to your nearest store, branch or outlet
Locator is a web-based application for any organization with multiple locations. It enables your organization to direct customers to your nearest store, branch or outlet. Locator uses Microsoft's Bing Maps Platform to display maps and driving directions.
With the locator application:
- Direct customers to the most convenient location to purchase your products and services.
- Turn browsers into in-store buyers.
- Reduce lost sales to competitors by making your business the easiest one to find and visit.
- Get reports showing where customers are looking for you, allowing you add new stores in optimal geographic locations.
The Locator Advantage
With Locator, you can add a professional store locator tool to your website just like the big retailers Starbucks©, Expedia©, and Costco©.
Unlike other solutions, Locator finds store locations using their address and not just the zip code. This allows Locator to find and display your locations accurately on the map.
What is included with Locator?
- The Locator .NET web application including source code.
- As part of the one-time setup, your website graphics (provided by you) will be incorporated into the Locator application.
- Setup a file of your store locations (provided by you) for use in the Locator application.
Where is Locator Installed?
There are two components to the Locator application:
- The Locator application sits on your web server. Installation is straight-forward (there are no DLLs to register and the server does not need to be rebooted).
- Your location file is uploaded to the Microsoft Bing Maps Platform. The maps and driving directions come from the Bing Maps servers. All the "heavy lifting" is done by the Bing Maps Servers. Microsoft guarantees 99.9% uptime (to date, there has never been an unscheduled interruption).
Pricing
There are two components to the Locator application pricing:
- A one-time cost for the Locator web application. There are no ongoing costs for the web application.
- Simple transaction based pricing. Transactions are requests to and responses from the Bing Maps Platform. For example, displaying a map, finding the nearest stores, and displaying driving directions are one transaction each.
About the Bing Maps Platform
Locator is built using the Microsoft Bing Maps Platform. Bing Maps for Enterprise is a hosted, programmable XML Web Service that allows you to integrate high-quality maps, driving directions, distance calculations, proximity searches and other location intelligence into your applications, business processes and Web sites. more...
TETRAD is a Microsoft Bing Maps Solution Provider
TETRAD Computer Applications has extensive experience developing GIS mapping solutions using Microsoft’s MapPoint 2010 in the PCensus for MapPoint product. With Bing Maps for Enterprise, TETRAD can embed location and mapping features in applications, websites and services.
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