How to Use Magento GEOIP?

How To Use Magento GeoIP Store Switcher Based on Customer Location

Determining Customers Location can be Quite Useful.

How it Can be Useful • You can Block them to prevent access to your Website.

• You can show them specific products depending on their Location.

Magento doesn’t have such functionality so far by Default

Don’t Worry We are here to Show how you can do This

How You can Do this • In this Presentation we decided to help you in understanding of GeoIP integration into Magento. Moreover, we will show you how to find customer location for redirection to a proper store.

How to Start •

As we told earlier that This Function is not available in Magento by Default. You have to need third party Extension for it. We have found one of that extension which works fine. They have already integrated GEOIP. Install FME Magento Store Module it and then do following steps

IP database under System Configuration->General->Countries Options:

Let’s imagine that we have three different stores: English, French, German

Our Goal is to redirect a customer automatically to a specific store, basing on his location.

we will redirect a customer only on the first visit

Set cookie to Prevent further checks • in controllerActionPostdispatch method first of all we check if a customer hasn’t been already redirected, then determine country by IP, check country to store relation and redirect to a store if it is not the current store. Finally, we set cookie to prevent further checks

Set cookie to Prevent further checks