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Magento Store Pickup extension – the most professional Magento shipping extension

Magento Store Pickup acts as a magento shipping extension that lets customers choose a specific store from your chain of stores to pick up products during checkout
  • Create many stores, set addresses and opening time for each
  • Customers can select closet stores at appropriate time
  • Use Google map to locate store’s address

    Store Pickup

BENEFITS

According to ComScore, 61% of shoppers would rather use free in-store pickup than pay for shipping. Thus, 72% of retailers start allowing Customers to purchase online before coming to a store and receive purchased products. If there is a chain of stores available, undoubtedly Customers will choose the nearest one as well as an appropriate time to arrive. How can the store-owner make that happen? The answer is Magento Store Pickup extension – the most professional Magento shipping extension, which allows setting up multiple Magento stores, showing addresses and opening time of each store for the Customers’ convenience.
Magento store pickup extension benefits

HOW IT WORKS

Magento store pickup extension how it works

FEATURES DETAILED

1. Select Store and Time to pick up items at Checkout
In the Shipping Method section at checkout, Customers can conveniently and visually select the store where they want to get products. Stores’ location on Google map or the real distance from Customers’ billing address to each store will help them in making decision.
Customers can select a suitable pick-up date/ time and will be notified of changing to another date if one of the store’s holidays, which are set by Admin, is chosen.
Magento store pickup extension Select Store and Time to pick up items at Checkout
2. View/ Search Stores on the Store Listing Page
The stores listing page displays all store locations on Google map. Customers can easily narrow down possible choices within a specific area by using the search function.
Magento store pickup extension View / Search Stores
Detailed information of each store is shown on the table as below:
Magento store pickup extension View / Search magento Stores 2
3. View details of a selected store
If Customers select a store, they can see its location on Google map along with other details. Besides store name, address and opening time, Customers can see store images and contact with the store manager if they have any question.
Magento store pickup extension View details of a selected store
Magento store pickup extension Magento Store Pickup extension - View details of a selected store 2
4. Payment Method Association
The in-store pickup shipping method can be integrated with one or more payment methods. When a store is set with specific applicable payment methods, only these payment methods are available to Customers at checkout.
Magento store pickup extension Payment Method Association
5. Email Notification
For better preparation, emails will be sent to store owners as notifications that customers want to pick up products from their stores. The emails let the store owners know the information of the orders, the products and the time of pick-up.
Magento store pickup extension Email Notification

Tips for Magento store-owners: Order Online, Pick Up In-Store Services intergrate Online and Offline World

Today, buy online, pick up in-store services are very popular with online consumers because they combine the convenience of online shopping with the belief of shopping in brick-and-mortar stores. However, many online stores have not offered this service because they do not have enough number of stores to implement.

Magento Store Pickup extension
“Traditional retailers who lose customers to Amazone are coming to see Buy online pickup in store programs as a powerful method to win back customers,” eMarketer notes in its new report, “Innovation in Buy Online, Pick Up In-Store Services.” “People who pick up orders at a store often make additional purchases. And converting a single-channel shopper into a multichannel shopper results in a significantly more profitable customer.”
This report explores some of the increasingly innovative ways brick-and-mortar retailers enhance the online shopping experience with in-store pickup options, such as Wal-Mart’s Pay with Cash service launched earlier this year, or the UK’s House of Fraser department store, which has opened click-and-collect locations that are designed as a space for placing and picking up online orders.
Key Takeaways from the full report, “Innovation in Buy Online, Pick Up In-Store Services,” available exclusively to eMarketer corporate subscribers:
  • Online consumers have embraced retailers’ buy online, pick up in-store services, because they merge the best of digital commerce and in-store shopping
  • Retailers benefit significantly, both in terms of profit and customer service, from multichannel shoppers who pick up in-store
  • Despite popularity with consumers, retailers have been slow to embrace in-store pickup, but that is changing
  • A push to offer in-store pickup is driving some web-only retailers to establish physical pickup points
As the popularity of order online, pick up in-store increases among consumers, retailers are going to have to follow suit. While some big chains are creating in-house pickup solutions, other retailers are looking to a growing number of third-party pickup services that can provide a nationwide network of pickup points overnight.
eMarketer evaluated executive interviews and hundreds of third-party research findings for the report, eventually selecting data from several vetted sources, including Retail Systems Research, Boston Retail Partners, Argos, the e-tailing group, Home Retail Group, The Property Network, Mondial Relay, Shopping Centers Today, Javelin, eNova Partnership, Ace Hardware, Best Buy, ShopRunner, Simpson Carpenter, Wal-Mart, Walgreens, McMillan|Doolittle, Shopatron, BNP Paribas Real Estate, Shopatron, and Newegg.

Boost sales with new trend "Buy online and Pickup in store"

Nowadays, more and more store owners extend their business into the wonderful realm of eCommerce to offer their goods online. Buying online has been on the rise for a few years now. However, in recent years, a new trend shopping is “Buy Online and Pick up in store” ( clicks and motars, click and bricks ), so a lot of customers that want to explore online, and buy offline.


Magento store pickup extension benefits
Magento, by default, does not provides us with the means to allow the customer to shop for a product online, but specifying he or she want to buy the product offline. This free Magento extension will allow the customer to “pick up the product” at your store or offline service location. It will also allow the customer to pay for the product offline.
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The solution, “ship” to store, pay offline
This free extension provides you with a simple “shipping” method using a flat-rate (or all free) charging method similar to Magentos’ flat-rate method. On top of that, it will provide a simple payment method that is only available when the customer indicates he or she wants to pick up the order at your store. The payment method can also be used in combination with other shipping methods. After the checkout process orders and invoices created with these methods will specify that the customer wants to pick up the product and that he or she will pay offline.
Magento Store Pickup - How it works
Magento Store pickup in checkout process
It’s so easy to install and configure Magento Store Pickup. You can download our user guide atHERE.
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