About this plugin
Beverage Finder is a beer finder, beverage finder, and store locator for breweries, wineries, distilleries, and beverage brands. Show customers where to buy your products with an interactive map and searchable list of retail locations.
Features
- Interactive Google Map with a sortable list of nearby locations
- CSV import (works with Encompass sales reports or the included template)
- Edit any location in the admin: name, address, products, and coordinates
- Delete and restore locations one at a time, in bulk, or all at once
- Setup checklist that shows exactly what’s left to do
- Optional one-click address-to-coordinates lookup with a beveragefinder.net account
- Download all of your locations as a CSV
- Search by ZIP code and distance (10 to 250 miles, or any distance) — no API key needed
- Brand/product filter
- Visitor location via the browser’s built-in geolocation (no API needed)
- Custom map pin, optionally shown above the map
- Drag a location’s pin to the exact spot on a map, and review addresses that were only placed approximately
- Hide text from location and product names, like your brand name or distributor codes such as (CHS)
- Location expiration based on last delivery date
- Unlimited locations
- Responsive and mobile friendly
- Works great as a beer finder or product locator
- Find your product at stores, bars, restaurants, or other retailer
How it works
Import a CSV that includes latitude and longitude for each location. Locations appear on the map immediately. Re-importing updates delivery dates and coordinates for existing retailer/brand combinations instead of creating duplicates.
Only have street addresses? net account and click Get Coordinates on the BevFinder → Get Lat / Long screen. The account is a paid service with a free starter plan.
net when you click one of its buttons.
External Services
net to convert addresses into coordinates.
Google Maps JavaScript API (Google LLC)
- What it’s used for: rendering the interactive map, location markers, and the “your location” marker icon, and the pin editor in the admin.
- When data is sent: every time a visitor views a page containing the [beverage_finder] shortcode, and when a site administrator opens the pin editor on BevFinder → Locations.
- What is sent: your Maps API key, the page’s referring URL, the visitor’s IP address and browser details (as part of any request to Google), and the map coordinates being displayed.
- Terms of Service: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms
- Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
The visitor’s own location (if they allow it) or the ZIP code they type is sent only to your WordPress site to sort results by distance. ZIP codes are looked up in a file bundled with the plugin (US Census ZCTA Gazetteer, a public-domain US Government work), not sent to any outside service.
net address lookup (Taps + Tables)
- What it’s used for: converting the street addresses of your locations into latitude/longitude, and showing your plan’s usage. beveragefinder.net uses the US Census Geocoder, with the Google Geocoding API as a fallback.
- When data is sent: only when a site administrator saves a beveragefinder.net WordPress API Key on BevFinder → Get Lat / Long and then clicks Get Coordinates or Check account. Nothing is sent automatically, on a schedule, or from the front end.
- What is sent: the WordPress API Key, your site URL, the plugin version, and the street address, city, state, and ZIP of locations that have no coordinates (or whose Google-provided coordinates are more than 30 days old, which Google’s terms require be refreshed). Retailer names, products, and sales data are not sent.
- Terms of Service: https://beveragefinder.net/terms
- Privacy Policy: https://beveragefinder.net/privacy