Shopify Geolocation Apps: Which is the best in 2024

By Roberto Senabre

If you want to expand your business globally with Shopify, you have two options:

Managing your international markets from a single store with Shopify Markets.
Creating completely different Shopify Expansion stores.

Both are great and a good way to grow. But imagine that after all the effort and money that requires making these localized experiences, you don’t have an efficient Geolocation App. The user will not be redirected to the right store and that potential sale will probably be lost, due to the bad experience of buying in a different language or currency, besides all the problems related to products, prizes, etc.

All of this will make your conversion rate decrease, and you will end up wasting a lot of money.

Yet there are a lot of specific geolocation apps that will prevent you from this situation. We will see here which ones are the best and what details you have to consider to pick them, so when you finish reading this article you will be completely certain of your choice.

Let’s get to it!

5 Best Shopify Geolocation Apps

You can compare the apps in this table. Below, we will explain the meaning of each feature and why you have to consider them to select your Geolocation app:

5 Best Shopify Geolocation Apps
	Winner Orbe Free Plan Get app	Geo IP From $7.5/month Get app	Geo:Pro $7.9/month Get app	Cozy From $6.9/month Get app	Geolizr $10/month Get app
Rating (Reviews)
Rating (Reviews)
Shopify Markets
Shopify Markets
Marketing Tracking
Marketing Tracking
Flexible
Flexible
Redirect in next visits
Redirect in next visits
Customizable Popup
Customizable Popup
Built for Shopify Insignia
Built for Shopify Insignia

Understand each feature comparison in detail:

Rating: Nothing is more important than the experience of other users. The stars and the number of reviews are the ones that appear in the Shopify App Store.
Shopify Markets: With some apps, you have to synchronize with Markets manually, if It does it automatically you’re going to save a lot of time and you will avoid a lot of problems in the setup.
Flexible: You can adapt the app to your needs. Not all the stores are identical and sometimes you need to change specific characteristics depending on the market. You will give a better experience to your users.
Redirects after consent: It can be upsetting to get the same pop-up and the same question every time you access a store. That’s why it’s important that the app you end up getting remembers (respecting the Data Protection Laws) the decision of your customer.
Customizable: This is an aesthetic feature, necessary to make your store more personal.
UTM Tracking: Essential for marketing. It means that after a redirection, the UTM parameter will remain in the link. So you will not lose the traffic attribution for all your media campaigns.
Pricing: You can check the minimum price to get each app.

The Best Geolocation Apps for Shopify

Geolocation - Orbe

5 of 185 reviews

Orbe is a must-have.

Besides the total configuration to fit the app to all of your needs, it provides some of the coolest and unique features to boost your global sales:

It saves your user's preferences respecting the Data Protection Laws so that in future visits, they will be automatically redirected to the right experience.
Welcome your users in their language. Orbe allows you to translate the popup to the customer browser language and have dynamic country variables to create custom messages based on the customer is located.
Automatically integrates with your Shopify Markets configuration and connects multiple expansion stores. For example: “store-us.myshopify.com”(Primary Store) with “store-europe.myshopify.com”(Expansion Store) and “store-international.myshopify.com”(Expansion Store).
SEO-friendly characteristics that allow redirection after user consent, without disrupting web crawlers. Compliant with Google Developers' standards for localizing web experiences for different countries.
UTM tracking that will help you analyze your marketing campaigns and become more effective.
The Popup is completely customizable even with CSS code, so it fits with your brand’s style. You can use CSS code, and their team will help you to make the most of your geolocation if you reach out to them through Live Chat. For example, they can support you by adding a custom button in your theme that allows your customers to change their shipping preferences.

Orbe is free to install and has two payment plans: Advanced ($29/month) and Plus ($49/month).

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GeoIP Country Redirect

4.6 of 109 reviews

Starting at $7.50/month (up to $49.99). GeoIP will automatically redirect your customers to the right store based on their IP, asking the users before redirection. You can choose between various templates for your popup but you can’t customize them.

It supports UTM tracking.

You can’t synchronize with Shopify Markets, you have to do it manually.

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Geo:Pro Geolocation Redirects

4.9 of 56 reviews

With a unique plan of $7.99/month (14-day free trial after paying) Geo:Pro will redirect your customers based on their location and choose your desired redirect layout: Top banner, pop-up, or instant redirect.

Besides, you can block users from certain countries or IPs.

On the contrary, it doesn’t allow UTM Tracking and you can’t barely change the popup.

The configuration is manual.

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Cozy Country Redirect

4.8 of 351 reviews

The most reviewed Geolocation app, Cozy Country Redirect is a very intuitive way to redirect your users to their proper experience.

Depending on the plan you choose (from $6.99/month up to $49/month) you can create Bar/Popup to show announcements to your visitors, block users based on their country, and choose your Pop-up from a selection of different Pre-designed Templates.

The setup is completely manual and it will not remember your user decision for future visits.

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Geolizr

4.4 of 155 reviews

It works with a system of widgets (Currency, Redirect, API, and Notification), all of which are customizable.

It supports Shopify Payments currencies.

You can get a 7-day free trial before acquiring their Basic Plan ($10/month).

The connection with Shopify Markets must be done manually and doesn’t have SEO features.

Besides, some users have reported issues uninstalling the app.

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Is it necessary to use a geolocation app on Shopify?

Yes.

Shopify Markets will allow you to create localized experiences for your users worldwide, the problem is that Markets will not redirect them automatically.

That’s why it is essential to have a Geolocation app, and the more complete, the better. Because creating a good and localized experience requires time and money and if in the end your user never gets to see it, all that effort will be in vain.

Can I connect multiple Expansion Stores through a geolocation app?

Have you ever wondered how to manage multiple Shopify stores, and in particular the geolocation multi-store? It depends on the Geolocation app, with most of them you’ll have to do it manually.

Orbe is the best one for this feature. It will do it automatically and it will show you if there is a duplicated store, not allowing you to have the same market in a determined country and saving you a lot of time, especially if you have to make (for example) the configuration of 200 countries manually.

This is crucial to make your localized experiences more efficient.

We hope our article has assisted you in deciding on your next Shopify Geolocation app. For a deeper understanding, we recommend exploring more about our first recommendation, Orbe, on their official website.

To delve deeper into the world of Shopify, we suggest exploring additional popular articles covering topics like the best Shopify Plus apps, optimizing your Shopify Tech stack, or discovering best Shopify apps for fashion stores.