Excel Store Locator - Locate the Closest Store to a List of Clients in Excel

The Excel Driving Distance Calculator brings the Google Maps Driving Distances results directly into your Excel Spreadsheet. It will save you hours of looking individual trips one by one into Google Maps. With no coding necessary it allows YOU to calculate thousands of driving  distances and driving time with the click of a button!

Check out how the Excel Driving Distance Calculator  works in the video below:

Who uses and how the Excel Store Locator?

The Excel Store Locator is an excel based tool that allows users to match a list of client addresses with the closest location based on a list of store or any other type of service provider locations. As there are many uses for this tool, I am including a few examples of how the Store Locator is used by current clients.

Example 1 - Match Customers with the Closest Store in Excel-  You have a list of customers and want to direct them to the closest store based on all 100 locations. Instead of looking them up one by one, you use the Excel Store Locator which with the click of a button tells you exactly which store from the list of the 100 stores is the closest to each one of your 1500 clients.


Example 2 - Match Customer Orders with the Closest Contractor in Excel - You have a list of clients that need their appliance repaired. You need to match that list with the list of the contractors that can provide that service based on location (closest contractor to the client). The Excel Store Locator makes that matching activity a breeze. You maintain the client list in the "Clients" sheet and the Contractor List in the "Stores" list. The Excel Store Locator makes finding the closest locator easy to generate with the click of a button. 

What is the Purpose of the Tool?

It allows the user to calculate driving time and driving distances directly into excel. Some of the benefits are:

• NO installation necessary. All you need is Excel in your desktop. 
• NO programming know-how required. A spreadsheet with a "Calculate" button in it and you are on your way to automating the driving distance and driving time calculations!
• NO monthly charges. Just a one time fee!
• REAL In Person Help if you need it. If you have any questions, email, call or just talk to me on the chat on this site!

How Does It Work?

The Excel Store Locator follows the trend of all of our software - how to make the easiest possible 

Step 1  Paste the data in the excel tool.

Step 2  Click the “Calculate” button.

Step 3  That’s it! - Watch the tool generate the driving distance and time in real time.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

You will need a Google Maps API to use this tool!

All of our tools use the Google Maps API to generate results. This allows for accurate driving distance and time results and fast data. I have included some instructions on how to get a google maps API and what services to enable. Click here for more information on how to setup the Google Maps API Key.  

A few more things regarding the Google Maps API Key. 

You don't need to be a developer to setup a google maps api key. It takes about 5 minutes, and it is a simple as setting up an account with Google. 

• The Google Maps API Key is free to setup. It doesn't cost anything. 
• You will get up to 40,000 calculations free of charge. (Google allows for a 200 dollar credit for every calendar month). 
• If you need more than 40,000 calculations in a calendar month, google charges an a-la-carte fee of 5 USD/1000 calculations. 
• For most of my clients that use this tool, 40,000 calculations are more than enough. 
• You will need to setup a billing account with Google, although you will not be charged unless you go over the 40,000 calculations per month. 
• If you have a large number of calculations, (more than 40,000) contact me.  I might be able to help.