AGRICULTURE
Google Maps for eCommerce & Retail
Make Shopping Simple
With Google Maps Platform from Hexagon, you can increase sales by helping customers find your business, complete purchases, and receive deliveries on time.
Harness the Power of the Spartan Autocomplete Widget
Learn more about how to leverage Google’s powerful autocomplete functionality and optimize your costs.
Benefits
Better Customer Experiences
Enable customers to find what they need and complete transactions easier than ever.
More Reliable Services
Improve customer satisfaction and trust with streamlined shipping, delivery, and fleet management.
Easier Implementation
As a Google partner, we can help you optimize your Google Maps with unlimited support, flexible billing, and access to high-volume discounts.
Capabilities
Google Maps Platform can help customers find locations, directions, and information about your stores and products. With it, you can:
- Embed maps on your website with detailed location information
- Help customers find their preferred location and provide directions
- Allow customers to view available inventory by location
APIs that support maps, directions, and other information include:
- Maps APIs display static and dynamic maps and imagery with customizable styling to deliver the map experience you need for your customers and specific locations
- Places API can geocode your store information against a highly accurate national database of addresses
- Routes API provides time estimates and routes for driving, walking, cycling, and public transportation
Google Maps Platform improves the online shopping experience for your customers. With it, you can:
- Make it easier for shoppers to enter their information
- Simplify transactions for mobile users
- Reduce data entry errors and the time and steps to complete transactions
APIs that support online transactions include:
- Geocoding API converts addresses to geographic coordinates, or the reverse
- Places API provides store information, including location, contact information, ratings, and reviews
- Places API autocomplete feature enables users to populate known fields easily
Related Resources
Case study: Second Street Optimizes Google Places API Autocomplete
Google Maps Platform supports your shipping and delivery needs, including tracking inventory and vehicles, from global shipping to last-mile delivery. With it, you can:
- Enable customers and carriers to conduct shipping transactions
- Plan routes and provide directions based on rich location and real-time traffic data
- Combine with telematics and track the real-time location of cargo and vehicles, including where they’ve traveled and how often they’ve moved
- Obtain the information needed to optimize performance, routes, fuel usage, and maintenance
APIs that support shipping and delivery include:
- Maps APIs display static and dynamic maps
- Geocoding API converts addresses to geographic coordinates, or the reverse
- Places API sends drivers to precise addresses based on users’ reported locations
- Directions API provides directions and calculates current and future travel times based on real-time traffic
- Distance Matrix API delivers travel times and distances for one or more locations
- Roads API creates precise itineraries by determining the route traveled and nearest roads along the way
More Information
CARFAX uses Google Maps to Enhance Business Strategies
Learn how we worked with CARFAX to benefit automobile buyers and deliver optimal results and return-on-investment for the company.
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