How do you get a Shopify store to show on Google Maps?

How do you get a Google Business Profile?

1. Check eligibility: your business needs a location customers can visit, or travels to them, with in-person contact during your stated hours; a service-area business hides its address. Online-only stores aren't eligible; see what they can use instead.
2. Add or claim the business at no charge; claim an existing unverified profile rather than creating one.
3. Verify it. Google picks the method; once you finish its steps, verification reviews take up to 5 business days.

Santrel Media's 2026 tutorial shows adding and verifying a profile; your verification method may differ.

What does Shopify add to your Maps listing?

Shopify has no documented way to publish your address on Maps: its Help Center pages on local inventory, the Google & YouTube channel, business settings and locations, read November 10, 2026, describe none. They document local inventory: in-store products as local inventory ads and free local listings. Products approved in the Google & YouTube channel might also be eligible to show free on Google Maps.

Local inventory needs, per Shopify and Google:

• Shopify POS, a physical retail location you sell from, and POS inventory
• Approved products: Shopify says at least 10, Google more than 10, so aim for Google's count
• The Google & YouTube channel linked to Merchant Center
• A verified profile, linked to Merchant Center
• The same address in your profile and in Shopify

In Shopify adminOpen in your store

1. Settings
2. Locations

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What decides where your store appears in Maps?

Google ranks local results mainly on:

• Relevance: how well your profile matches the search; complete, accurate info helps
• Distance: how far you are from the searcher
• Prominence: how well-known you are, based on info like links and reviews; more reviews and positive ratings can help

Google says you can't request or pay for a better local ranking.