Magento MaxMind GeoIP2 Precision Services

Overview

GeoIP2 Precision Services by MaxMind are one of the most accurate engines for mapping IP to physical address in terms of Country, City and more. It allows you to easily find visiting customer's country and/or city. Magento MaxMind GeoIP2 Precision Services extension allows you to use your existing MaxMind Precision Services account to disable and/or enable specific features in Magento depending on customer location.

If you're selling goods on the UK market only it could be good idea to let customers from other countries know that you don't offer products in their countries. See bellow a list of all features supported by the extension

The extension also allows for hiding particular products for visitors from specified country. This is particulary useful when not all of your products are sellable in all countries.

Key features

• Hide "Add to cart" button in Magento based on customer location
• Hide product price in Magento based on customer location
• Stop customers from adding products to cart based on customer location
• Apply additional order fee for list of countries ^NEW
• Hide specific products in Magento based on visiting customer country ^NEW
• Ability to invert logic / Act as whitelist or blacklist and vise-versa ^{BRAND NEW}
• Ability to redirect countries to specific store-views ^{BRAND NEW}
• Ability to redirect ALL (unspecified) countries to specific store view ^{BRAND NEW}
• Disable entire site access based on customer location
• No monthly fees

Requirements

Existing MaxMind GeoIP2 Precision Services account. Find more at https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-precision-services

How it works

Watch a short video on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omSg7Bryhso

GeoIP2 Precision Services vs. GeoIP2 Databases

This extension is using precision services opposed to local databases due to the following reasons:

1. 1. A remote API call to precision services ensures the most up-to-date information regarding particular IP
2. 2. Precision services are updated regularly by MaxMind
3. 3. No additional load on local server
4. 4. No requirement for manual weekly updates on local databases
5. 5. Low cost - 200,000 queries for approx. $20 (updated on 12/10/2015). Sufficient for small to medium businesses.