Way Review (2026)
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What Way does
Shopify store locator on Google Maps with no API key needed, priced by location count rather than by feature.
Pricing (2026)
✓ Pricing re-verified 22 Aug 2026
(read 2026-08-22 on apps.shopify.com/sticky-navigate-to-store) Four tiers, and above the first one the ladder is a location counter rather than a feature list. Free carries one store location, the floating Google Maps locator, appearance customisation and online support, with the app's own branding shown on your storefront. Basic is $9.99 a month or $95.90 a year and removes that branding, raising the limit to 50 locations and adding the map widget as an app block, a pop-up modal for multiple locations, full customisation with custom CSS, and bulk import and export.
Advanced at $19.99 or $191.90 a year and Pro at $39.99 or $383.90 list exactly the same eight features as Basic; what they add is headroom, 500 locations and 2,000. Annual billing saves a stated 20% on every paid tier and each carries a 7-day free trial. No Google Maps API key is required on any plan. Charges are in USD and recur every 30 days.
Developer Effective Apps; the app sits in Shopify's store locator category and had 125 reviews at a 4.6 rating at the time of writing. Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.
What the pricing page doesn’t say
The pricing page reads like a feature ladder and behaves like a counter. Basic, Advanced and Pro list the same eight capabilities, so the $10 and $20 steps above Basic buy nothing but a higher location limit, and the jump from 50 to 500 leaves no tier in between. A chain with 60 or 80 shops pays the 500-location price and uses a tenth of it.
The free plan is genuinely usable on a live store, which is worth saying plainly — the same developer's Blocky and TiXel listings advertise free plans that turn out to be development stores only, and this one is not that. What it does carry is the app's branding on your storefront and a hard limit of one location, so it is a real free tier for a single shop rather than a trial in disguise.
When the paid plan is worth it
The three paid tiers carry word-for-word identical feature lists, so the only thing you are ever buying above $9.99 is room. That makes the arithmetic unusually simple and unusually easy to get wrong. Per location, Basic works out at twenty cents a month, Advanced at four cents and Pro at two — but only if you fill the tier.
So count your locations before you read the plans. At 60 shops you are paying $19.99 for a ceiling of 500, which is $19.99 for the ten locations that spilled over Basic. The steps are wide enough that most retailers sit a long way below their own ceiling, and there is no tier between 50 and 500 to land on.
The first step is the one that is not about volume at all. Free is capped at one location, but what most single-shop merchants actually pay $9.99 for is the removal of the app's branding from their storefront. Judge that step on whether you want another company's name under your map, not on the location count.
How to actually use Way
Count your locations first, because that number is the only thing the paid tiers differ on. Fifty is the Basic ceiling and the next stop is 500, so a chain in the sixties should know it is buying a ceiling it will not approach rather than a feature it needs.
Then decide about branding separately. The free plan works on a live storefront with one location, which makes it a real place to start rather than a demo — but it puts the app's name under your map. If that is the thing you want gone, $9.99 is the price of removing it, and the location limit is incidental to your decision.
When you do load locations, use the bulk import rather than the form. It arrives at Basic along with custom CSS, and a spreadsheet of addresses is both faster and easier to correct later than fifty entries typed one at a time. Place the map as an app block rather than the floating widget if you want it on a specific page; both are on the same tier.
Distilled from apps.shopify.com/sticky-navigate-to-store, read 22 August 2026.
More on Way
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Frequently asked questions
Does Way work with my store platform?
Check your platform and version specifically. Shopify support is close to universal in this category, while WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento and headless setups vary a lot, and 'supported' sometimes means a generic API rather than a maintained app. A listing in your own platform's app store, with recent reviews there, is a better signal than the vendor's logo wall.
Who should not use Way?
Skip it if you have one shop and do not mind the app's branding under your map, because the free tier already covers you; or you need routing, appointment booking or stock-by-location, since this maps and directs and does not do any of that. Buying a tool to fix a problem you don't have yet just adds cost and another login to manage.
Is this a hands-on review of Way?
This is a researched assessment, not a hands-on test — where we've used a tool ourselves, we say so explicitly. We name what each tool is genuinely good and bad at, and we earn a commission only if you sign up, at no cost to you.
- Read 2026-08-22 on apps.shopify.com/sticky-navigate-to-store.
- A dated screenshot of that pricing page, kept on this site as the receipt.
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