How to get a visitor’s location and redirect them to right store for Shopify

These days some business have online store in different country with the same name. They have different URL for different country but they are facing a problem that how they can redirect store url based on IP address for eg.

• www.domain.us – Customers in the United States
• www.domain.ca – Customers in the Canada
• www.domain.com – Customers in rest the world

This article guide you to do that.

We use service of Freegeoip.net (Freegeoip) to detected visitor’s location. Freegeoip provides a public HTTP API for software developers to search the geolocation of IP addresses. This is the code.

jQuery.getJSON('//freegeoip.net/json/', function(location) {

});

location is the result returned. It includes: IP, country_code, country_name, region_code, region_name, city, zip_code, time_zone, latitude, longitude, metro_code.

We need country code (country_code) information. You can compare with country codes table at here to know more.

Now we write code to redirect.

In site’s United States

jQuery.getJSON('//freegeoip.net/json/', function(location) {
if(location.country_code != 'US'){
        if(location.country_code == 'CA'){
location.href = "//www.domain.ca";
}else{
location.href = "//www.domain.com";
}         
    }
});

In site’s Canada

jQuery.getJSON('//freegeoip.net/json/', function(location) {
if(location.country_code != 'CA'){
        if (location.country_code == 'US'){
location.href = "//www.domain.us";
}else{
location.href = "//www.domain.com";
}        
    }
});

and site’s rest the world

jQuery.getJSON('//freegeoip.net/json/', function(location) {
if(location.country_code == 'US'){
location.href = "//www.domain.us";
} else if(location.country_code == 'CA'){
location.href = "//www.domain.ca";
}
});

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source : http://www.shopifytips.com

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