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dealer locator with live inventory

The moment they're ready to buy is

not the time to go hunting

Most brands send buyers to a map with pins and a prayer. Live dealer inventory on your product page - so every shopper who can't buy online knows exactly who has it, how close they are, and whether it's in stock. no redirect. No dead end. 

from sign up to live on your site

Inventory status by product & variant

0 Engineering resources required

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Built for specialty brands selling through dealer networks

THE PROBLEM

A shopper who can't buy online and doesn't know who has it nearby doesn't go hunting — they go to the next result. The traditional dealer locator hands them a map and wishes them luck. That's not a conversion path. That's an exit.

86%

of shoppers start their research online

Even when the purchase ends in a physical store. Your product page is the top of the funnel for nearly every buyer — including the ones who will never hit your checkout button.

Capital One Shopping, 2026

45%

of consumers prefer to buy in-store

Versus 28% who prefer to buy online. Physical retail still closes the majority of purchases including the high-ticket categories where specialty brands live.

Capital One Shopping, 2025

11pts

consumers buying new products in-store YoY

Daily online shopping dropped 12 points in the same period. The buyers your product pages are reaching are increasingly planning to close the purchase somewhere physical.

Salsify Consumer Research, 2026

where brands lose demand

Six situations where the demand was real.

The path to buy it wasn't.

Whether you sell exclusively through dealers or split DTC and retail, there are situations where every specialty brand hits the same wall. These are the ones where a clear, inventory-backed path to a dealer changes the outcome.
 

Dealer-Only Brands

You don't sell direct — every online visitor is dealer-bound demand

Your site drives real traffic. Content, paid search, social — all of it lands on your product pages. Then it hits a wall: no buy button, no next step, no clear path to a dealer who actually has it. The shopper leaves. The dealer never knew they were there.

Every product page visit with purchase intent has somewhere to go — a specific dealer, with confirmed stock, close by.

Dealer-Exclusive SKUs

Some products only exist through your dealer channel

Dealer-exclusive colorways, limited runs, regional configurations. Shoppers find them on your site, want them, and have no path to purchase. Without inventory visibility at the dealer level, that desire goes nowhere — or to a marketplace where you lose margin and any record of the sale.

Dealer-exclusive products stop being invisible to online shoppers. There's a clear path — and it stays in your ecosystem.

Out of Stock DTC

Your DTC is out of stock, but your dealers aren't

The product page says "Out of Stock." The shopper closes the tab. Meanwhile, three dealers within 20 miles have it on the shelf. That inventory exists. That demand exists. They just never found each other.

A stockout on your site stops being the end of the conversation. It becomes a handoff to a dealer who has it.

International / Territory Markets

You sell DTC in the US, but you have dealers everywhere else

International shoppers land on your product pages but can't check out. You have stocking dealers in their market — you just can't get them there. Those visitors bounce. The demand was real. The path wasn't.

International shoppers stop hitting a wall. The dealers in their market show up. The purchase has somewhere to go.

Regulated Products

Online purchase isn't legally possible — the journey has to end in-store

Firearms, certain knives, regulated consumables — the purchase must happen at a physical dealer, full stop. The brand's job isn't to close the sale online. It's to get someone who's ready to buy to the right dealer, with confidence that the product is actually there.

The purchase has to happen in-store. This makes sure the shopper gets there — to the right dealer, with the right stock.

Heavy / Oversized / Experience Goods

Some products just shouldn't ship — or can't be bought sight-unseen

Wakeboards, kayaks, high-end instruments, lift kits that need a shop to install — products nobody sensibly buys without seeing first, or that cost more to ship than they're worth to move that way. The product page is research. The purchase is in-store. The question is whether the shopper can bridge that gap without calling around.

Shoppers know who has it nearby before they leave the house. The dealer gets a visit from someone who already decided to buy.

This works alongside your existing DTC checkout — not instead of it. For every shopper your site can serve, nothing changes. This is specifically for the ones it can't: out-of-stock products, regulated items, dealer-exclusive SKUs, international markets, and buyers who prefer to shop in person. It adds a path. It doesn't reroute the ones you already have.

where brands lose demand

Your product page creates the want for every shopper.

It only completes the purchase for some of them.

A buy button is one answer. It doesn't work for the shopper who needs to experience it before buying, or hits an out-of-stock, or wants the variant only your dealers carry, or lives somewhere you don't ship. Traditional dealer locators were built as a navigation tool buried in the footer, not a fallback for the shopper who just decided they want the thing and can't complete that decision online. That's where demand disappears.

The "call around" death spiral

Shoppers who can't find it locally don't call twelve dealers. They open a new tab. That tab is usually a marketplace, a big box retailer, or a competitor. The sale is gone — and you'll never know it happened.

Stale locator data nobody maintains

Most dealer locators haven't been touched in years. Closed stores, outdated addresses, dealers who stopped carrying the brand two seasons ago. A shopper who drives somewhere that doesn't exist doesn't come back. They just stop trusting you.

No inventory signal = no confidence

Even when a shopper finds a dealer, they have no way to know if that dealer has their product, their specific variant, in stock. The drive is a gamble. Most won't take it. And the ones who do and come up empty don't give you a second chance.

Built demand with nowhere to go

You built a real product page. You drove real traffic to it. Someone landed there, read through it, and wanted to buy. Then there was nowhere to go. The content budget, the SEO work, the paid click — all of it terminating at a map that can't tell them anything useful. A dealer locator with no inventory signal is a dead end dressed as a solution.

where brands lose demand

Live inventory.
On every product page.

One button on your product page. One click opens a modal showing nearby dealers and their real-time stock for the exact product, and variant, the shopper is already looking at. No new page. No navigation away. No guessing.

01

Shopper lands on your product page

Specific product, specific variant. They've already decided they want it. What happens next determines whether that want goes anywhere.

02

They click "Find at a Dealer Near You"

A modal opens on the page. No redirect, no new tab. Zip code auto-detected or typed in. They stay in your world.

03

Live stock status, immediately

Dealers sorted by proximity, each showing real-time availability for this product and this variant: Available, Out of Stock, or Contact. No guessing.

04

Shopper walks in knowing it's there

They confirmed stock before they got in the car. The dealer gets a buyer, not a browser. You recover demand that would have disappeared.

We'd been sending buyers to a map for years. When we saw how many were using the dealer locator and actually showing up at shops with stock confirmed, we realized how much we'd been losing before. Our dealers noticed it within one quarter.

Jeff Hardin

Director of Marketing · Outdoor Brand

The out-of-stock use case was the surprise. We thought this was mainly for products we don't sell online. But the volume we're routing to dealers when our DTC inventory runs out, that was real revenue we were just walking away from.

Rachel Torres

VP Ecommerce · Specialty Brand

Our dealers kept asking why the website wasn't sending them customers. Now it is. We can actually show them exactly how many shoppers found them through our product pages. That changed the sell-in conversation completely.

David Kwan

National Sales Director Instrument Brand

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What actually changed

Not another "upgrade." A different category of tool entirely.

Traditional Dealer Locator

Quivers — Live Inventory

Where it lives on your site
Real-time inventory by product & variant
Availability status (in stock / out / contact)
Dealer proximity ranking
Works for regulated / non-DTC products
Stays on your site (no redirect)
Works alongside existing DTC checkout
Implementation time
Shopper search data by product & location
Nav / Footer page
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Map only
Partially
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Yes
Days - Weeks
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   On the product page, where they're deciding
 List, distance sorted
Built for it
  Inline modal
Additive, not a replacement
Under 20 minutes
Every search, product, location
Getting live

Twenty minutes.

Zero dev resources.

One line of embed code. No platform migration, no dev sprint, no waiting on an engineering queue. Your team can have this live on product pages faster than most companies can schedule the kickoff meeting to discuss it.

Dealer connections, inventory sync, modal configuration — handled. You place the code. It runs.

Minutes 1–5

Connect your dealer network

Your existing dealer list imports automatically. POS-connected dealers sync inventory in real time.

Minutes 5–10

Configure & brand the modal

Match your brand's colors, button style, and label text. No design hand-off required.

Minutes 10–20

Drop the embed on your product pages

One line of code. Works on Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, or any custom stack.

Minute 20+

You're live — every product page has a next step

Every visitor who can't or won't buy online now has a real next step. The shopper gets an answer. The dealer gets a visit. The demand doesn't disappear.

From zero to live on your product pages

No engineering sprint. No platform migration.

No waiting.

Before you ask your dev team.

Stop sending buyers to a map.
Send them to inventory.

The demand is already on your product pages. It just has nowhere to go. This fixes that — live dealer inventory on the product page, twenty minutes from now.

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