Skip to main content

Hyper Local Marketplace

Shipturtle’s Hyperlocal feature helps businesses optimize local deliveries by defining delivery zones, filtering products by location, and streamlining multi-vendor fulfillment for a seamless shopping experience.

Team avatar
Written by Team
Updated over a month ago

Shipturtle’s Hyperlocal feature is designed to help businesses optimize local deliveries by defining precise delivery zones, filtering products based on customer location, and seamlessly managing multi-vendor fulfillment. Whether you're running a marketplace or a standalone store, this feature ensures that customers only see products that can be delivered to their location, improving logistics efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Key Features

Create Custom Hyperlocal Delivery Zones

  • Detect customer locations directly on the storefront to enhance local deliveries and offer faster, more accurate service.

  • Improve customer experience by only displaying relevant products based on geographic availability.

Assign Serviceable Radius

  • Define specific delivery areas for warehouses and products, ensuring efficient order fulfillment by setting custom serviceable zones.

  • Prevent delivery delays by ensuring that only customers within a defined radius can purchase certain products.

Multi-Vendor Management

  • Seamlessly coordinate multiple vendors within a designated delivery zone, enabling streamlined operations for hyperlocal commerce.

  • Vendors can define their own service areas, ensuring they only receive orders they can fulfill efficiently.

Zip/Pin Code Filtering

  • Display products available in specific areas on your Shopify storefront, ensuring customers only see items that can be delivered to their location.

  • Automatically fetch all zip codes/postcodes within the serviceable area, making it easy to configure hyperlocal delivery settings.

How to Use the Hyperlocal Feature

  1. Activate the Hyperlocal Add-on

    • Go to Settings > Subscription and Billing

    • Activate the Hyperlocal module

  2. Set Up Serviceable Radius for Warehouses

    • Go to Settings > Warehouses

    • Select the warehouse where you want the feature to work

    • Click on Edit

    • Enter the Serviceable Radius

    • Click on Fetch Rate

    • Shipturtle will automatically fetch all the zip codes/postcodes within the specified area

    • The products in this warehouse will only be visible to customers within these zip codes/postcodes

  3. Set Zip Codes for Individual Products

    • Go to Products > Manage Products

    • Select any product

    • In the Zip Code section, add or edit the zip codes

Customer Experience

  • When a customer visits your website, Shipturtle will automatically detect their zip code.

  • Only the products available within their serviceable zip code will be displayed to them.

  • Customers enjoy a seamless and personalized shopping experience with relevant product visibility.

Why Use Shipturtle's Hyperlocal Feature?

  • Improved Delivery Efficiency: Reduce shipping times and costs by ensuring customers only purchase products available in their area.

  • Better Vendor Management: Each vendor can set their own delivery zones, making multi-vendor logistics easier.

  • Enhanced Customer Satisfaction: Customers won't face unexpected delivery restrictions, leading to higher trust and conversion rates.

  • Automated Zip Code Detection: No need for manual input—Shipturtle fetches and updates zip codes automatically based on radius settings.

By implementing Shipturtle’s Hyperlocal features, businesses can enhance operational efficiency, optimize deliveries, and create a seamless shopping experience tailored to customer locations.

Did this answer your question?