Manage Locations in Store Locator Plus® (SLP) by clicking on Locations in the sidebar after you’ve logged into your account.
SaaS users can login via the SLP Dashboard.
Manage Locations
Reviewing Invoices and Payments
You can easily check your Store Locator Plus® payments for the SaaS subscriptions as well as WordPress plugins. The Premium Subscription for WordPress plugins is not the same as the SaaS Subscription.
The SaaS subscription provides access to our hosted location maps and directory platform. Our servers host the data and do all the computational work. Your website only needs a small snippet of JavaScript to render an interactive map for your visitors. This allows Store Locator Plus® to run on any web service that can serve JavaScript including Ghost, Joomla!, Shopify, Squarespace, Typo3, Weebly, Wix, and yes even WordPress.
The WordPress plugin premium subscription provides access to our primary WordPress plugins with extended features. This is for businesses running their own self-hosted WordPress sites that use plugins to add Store Locator Plus®. It requires your business to provide the WordPress hosting as well as the required map API keys where Google will bill you directly for map rendering and location lookup.
Keep in mind that these are completely separate systems and have different login locations for each service.
CSV File Import Header
All Store Locator Plus CSV files must start with a file import header that indicates what data is in each column.
The first row of the Store Locator Plus import file should look like this, you do not need the (sl in front of the header name for the basic import function to work):
sl_store,sl_address,sl_address2,sl_city,sl_state,sl_zip,sl_country,sl_latitude,sl_longitude,category,sl_tags,sl_description,sl_email,sl_url,sl_hours,sl_phone,sl_fax,sl_image,sl_private,sl_neat_title
Please see the Example CSV files post for a sample base file with a header.
To speed up imports you should NOT include columns that have no data.
For imports that did NOT start out as a CSV export from the SAME SITE you should NOT have an sl_id column.
For geocoding, assigning a latitude and longitude, to work during import you need to have at least one of the address fields in your file and preferably these main fields:
- sl_address
- sl_city
- sl_state
- sl_zip
All field names can drop the leading “sl_” for readability. For example sl_address can become address. The field names usually match the field label, for example if you have the Experience add on or the Professional level or higher SaaS plan , you can have “Featured” and “Rank” as import columns.
Getting Started with Store Locator Plus®
This article covers the first 3 steps (2 if you are using our SaaS product) for getting started with Store Locator Plus®.
Store Locator Plus® makes it easy to add interactive location maps and directories on your website. Our latest technology is included in the Store Locator Plus® Maps and Directories SaaS offering. Some of our customers still prefer the self-managed WordPress plugins available via our Store Locator Plus® for WordPress plugins.
Regardless of which method you prefer, both can be setup quickly and have a fully functional site map or directory listing online in minutes.
Updating WP Store locator Plus Base Plug-in 2504.xxx
Administrators who are updating the SLP base plugin for Word Press to the latest version should NOT just upload the new zip file WITHOUT deactivating/deleting the older SLP version first. While the WP message “do you want to replace version XXX with version 2504.xx” normally would not create an issue … if you do that NOW with any 2504* release it will crash (whitescreen) the WP site.
Instead , REMOVE the existing SLP plugin (this will not delete your location data) and upload the new plugin manually. Make sure your add-ons are also deactivated and current beforehand. See How to update
Once the Store Locator Plus plug-in is current, the latest version of your add-ons can be activated.
Getting Started With MySLP SaaS
Login to your SLP /SaaS Account shown on our Store Locator Plus Page under the SaaS tab
Add A Location
The initial login should bring you to the main menu for your SLP SaaS page.
If you are not importing or transferring data from another plug-in , go to the Store Locator Plus Locations or Locations Details to add your first entry.
( Note: you need Professional Plan or higher. to import locations)
Updates to the Store Locator Plus SaaS Menu Action Bars
Import Locations
Add/ Import Store Locator Plus SaaS Action bars
New Menu side bar
For our SAAS users the import button is now under LOCATION DETAILS
Load Locations from WordPress Locator to MYSLP®. SaaS platform
Load locations does not replace the csv file import functionality available to the MySLP Professional or Enterprise level plan subscribers but it can be used to load basic location data from your WordPress Store Locator Plugin (such as WP Store Locator Plus®,) into your SLP SaaS account. (The basic load will not load category tables. You would need to use import csv file for that.)
This functionality can be found from the MYSLP account, the SLP sidebar tab and under Locations details as shown in the screenshot below.
The loader supports loading locations from WordPress sites running the WordPress Store Locator Plus plugin. You can attempt to load from other WordPress Locator plug-ins but they might not be in the same format.
If you are using a locator or directory plugin other than Store Locator Plus, please contact us
Google Map Style
Store Locator Plus® Professional subscriptions support the Google map style rules. These rules let you control the “inner style” of the map itself. You can turn off built-in Google map icons, change the width or roads, change the font size of various labels. Some styles will even change the color of the land and water bodies if you are truly looking to customize the map style to better match your brand. You will find some basic examples of these JSON settings below or you can use the Google styling wizard to create your own custom look and feel.
Changing The Google Map Style Setting
Settings > Map > Map Style
Go to the Legacy Map style wizard to generate the JSON value to copy and paste into this field.
The value of this entry is a Google Maps JSON style string. Some of our Plugin Styles in the Style Gallery will set this for you.
Menu Changes For The February 2025 Update
The February 2025 update to Store Locator Plus® includes a lot of changes to the Store Locator Plus® Software as a Service (SaaS) platform. As we work towards modernizing the user experience , changes are primarily to the user interface to pare down the legacy WordPress framework that runs our service. As part of that effort, we have changed the main menu interface including renaming some items and moving some key features to top-level positions in the sidebar menu.
This guide is intended to show you new features as well as where to find key elements of the Store Locator Plus® interface.
Note: if you are using our legacy WordPress plugins, many of the changes noted here will not apply to you. Recent events in the WordPress community along with our personal experiences with the “WordPress Plugin Directory gatekeepers” has led us to focus on improving our SaaS offering. Many new features and interface updates are likely to remain SaaS-only options.
Store Locator Plus® Information
The Info page is now attached to the top-most main menu item labelled Store Locator Plus® that is on the top left of the sidebar menu.
The Info page shows key articles from the Getting Started Documentation as well as current news about Store Locator Plus®.
The previous menu location for the info page was at a second level menu under Store Locator Plus® | Info.
Locations
The legacy version of Store Locator Plus® included a simplified user interface for managing locations and was labelled “MySLP” (the original project name we had assigned to our SaaS offering).
The menu changes for the 2025 release keeps this in the sidebar menu where it has been renamed Locations.
The locations page provides a simplified interface built in the React JavaScript framework. It provides a simpler interface for viewing basic location data and includes both a table-style list format as well as a modern cards style interface.
The old location for the Locations page was at the top-most sidebar entry and was named MySLP.
Location Details
Location Details is where you will find the interface for performing more complex actions as well as viewing more of the location data fields in a table format. This page includes advanced location management features such as performing bulk actions — actions on multiple locations at once. You can also find tools for loading locations from another Store Locator Plus® install including legacy WordPress plugin sites or for importing a long list of locations with a CSV import. You can view up to 999 locations at a time on the table presentation as well as view and sort by various location attributes.
This interface is based on the legacy WordPress plugin with many of the features found here on the development schedule to be moved to the more modern React-based interface.
The legacy interface included this feature as a second-tier menu under Store Locator Plus® | Locations.
Style
The 2025 update includes a completely new interface for loading various pre-crafted locator styles for your map interfaces. This feature provides pre-defined CSS styling as well as Store Locator Plus® settings that change the entire user experience with the Store Locator Plus® maps and directories. This provides a quick way to try different interface designs on your locator installation without having to guess at various settings and CSS styles to see which works best.
Included in the 2025 update for this feature is a preview of the interface that updates whenever you load a new style. You no longer need to load a locator style then go to the Generate Embed tab to see what it looks like.
Many web designers use this features as a starting point to find a style that is close to what they are looking for, then modify the settings and CSS details to fine tune the look-and-feel for their website.
Previously, this feature was found in the Store Locator Plus® | Settings page on the View tab and was labelled “locator style”.
Settings
The previous second-tier menu under Store Locator Plus®/ Settings is now a top-level sidebar menu.
Various settings change the user experience for your maps and directories. Settings can be changed for search, map, and results elements to the interface.
The legacy location for Settings was previously under the Store Locator Plus® | Settings sidebar menu.
Generate Embed
When you are ready, generate and retrieve the HTML code that will be embedded on any website or app where you want to display the Store Locator Plus® map or directory.
This menu item was previously a second-tier entry at Store Locator Plus® | Generate Embed.
Options
The Options page includes various settings that impact how the Store Locator Plus® app behaves and/or displays information on background processes that may be running. This is primarily used for Enterprise level processing of locations. For enterprise users running ongoing location loading or data management processes you can see scheduled actions here. Future application management options will also appear on this page.
This page was under the Store Locator Plus® | General sidebar menu, and has been renamed “Options” in the newest release.
Note: Force Load JavaScript was a setting only used with WordPress plugins and was provided to support malformed themes. This option does not apply to the SaaS release and is no longer supported in the WordPress plugin.
My Profile
My Profile is where you can update your plan, change your billing details, or cancel your subscription. It shows the current limits and usage on your account, what features are available, and a history of your interaction with the SaaS platform.
This is unchanged from the legacy release.
Contact Us
Contact us to send a message to the Store Locator Plus® support team. When your message is sent , support will receive details about your account with your message.
This menu is unchanged from the legacy release, other than repositioning the location to be above the “Log Out” option.
Log Out
Logs you out of the Store Locator Plus® system.
This feature is unchanged.
