USER GUIDE MAGENTO 2 GEOIP EXTENSION

 Magento 2 GeoIP(Adobe Commerce) is a useful extension that detects the customers’ location based on their IP addresses. It automatically redirects the customer to the relevant store view as per their country.

Magento 2 GeoIP extension basically helps out the customer by making a personalized user experience for them. This happens by switching to the relevant store view and currency as soon as they visit the website from a different location.

After detecting their IP address as configured by the admin of the respective website.

This is a must to have feature to assist store owners to bring a better experience for customers during their shopping journey.

Note – 

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• Geocode and Reverse Geolocation services are used in our module.
• To have these services you must have the Google API Key to make use of this extension. You can generate one by clicking  here
• You need to enable billing for your google account project under which the API Key is created. For more information please visit  here
• This module uses http://ipinfo.io/ third-party services to trace user location from IP Address.
• If the API hit request on the website exceeds the allowed limit then the customer will be required to purchase the API key

Watch the below video tutorial to understand the extension workflow:

 

Features

• Enhance user experience on shopping sites by allowing customers to purchase from their relevant store views.
• Auto-detect visitor’s location via IP address.
• Automatically redirect users to the relevant store view.
• Allow/Restrict customers to switch store views.
• Allow blocking customers by their country’s IPs
• Redirect customers to a specific URL on viewing some restricted Product, Category or URL.
• The admin can add a global restriction URL at which the customers will redirect if the store view is not mapped with any of the countries.
• Switch the store view & currency based on the visitor’s location.
• The extension is compatible with the Hyva theme.
• GraphQl has been implemented for the extension.

Installation

The installation is quite simple just like the standard Magento 2 extensions.

From Webkul Store

#1 Download Module

Firstly, you need to log in to Webkul Store, go to My Account>My Purchased Products section.

Then verify and then download and extract the contents of this zip folder on the system.

#2 Upload Folder

Once the module zip is extracted, follow path src>app and then copy the app folder into the Magento 2 root directory on the server as shown below:

#3 Run Commands

After uploading the module folder, you need to run the following commands in the Magento 2 root directory:

php bin/magento setup:upgrade

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php bin/magento setup:di:compile

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php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

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php bin/magento indexer:reindex

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php bin/magento cache:flush

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Configuration For Multi-lingual Support

For multilingual support, the admin will navigate through Store > Configuration > General > Locale Options. Select the locale as English (the language into which the admin wants to translate his store content).

Magento 2 (Adobe Commerce) GeoIP Extension – Translation

 

If a user wants to translate their module from English to German, they need to follow the path app/code/Webkul/Geoip/i18n in their unzipped folder. The user will get a CSV file with the name “en_US.csv”.

Now they will rename that CSV as “de_DE.csv” and translate all right side content after the comma in the German language.

After editing the CSV, save it and then upload it to the path app/code/Webkul/Geoip/i18n where they have installed Magento2 on the server.

The module will get translated into the German Language. It supports both RTL and LTR languages.

The user can edit the CSV like the image below.

Admin Configuration

After the successful extension installation, The admin navigates through Stores > Configuration > GeoIP > GeoIp Settings to configure the extension.

The admin needs to make some changes in the general settings of the extension to set it up.

• Enable:- The admin can Enable or Disable the extension.
• Google API Key:- Enter Google API Key here as the Google API is used in the module for the geolocation.
• IP Info Access Token: To get an access token, please visit here: http://ipinfo.io/

Note: For Google API Key, Please visit

• Store View Change:- Allow or Restrict customers to change their store view from the store view change.
• Currency change:- Allow or Restrict customers to change their currency from the Currency Change option.

Global IP Redirection –

If the Admin didn’t set any GeoIP redirection based on category, product or URL then the global URL will work for redirection.

Redirect Popup Setting –

The admin can set the popup message for the customers while redirection is being processed. Thus, the same message will be displayed on the front end.

Redirect Users to Relevant Store View based on their IP address.

After the configuration, if the admin has allowed the customers to change their store views and currency as per the Location Change & Currency Change option.

Originally Published: https://webkul.com/blog/magento2-geoip-plugin/