NearSt

NearSt turns online shoppers into in-store customers. As the world’s leading local inventory feed solution they help retailers to show their in-store products to nearby customers on the web’s biggest platforms. Founded in 2015 by Max Kreijn and Nick Brackenbury in London, today NearSt is a global Google Partner and part of Meta’s Commerce Acceleration programme and works with retailers across the world.

NearSt provides the infrastructure helping thousands of retailers display their live in-store stock online. Their technology can link into any inventory management or point of sales system with just a few lines of code and automatically sends the store’s inventory information to places like Google, Facebook, and Instagram for local shoppers to discover. Their technology is now integrated into over 130 stock management systems covering over 800,000 retail locations globally, and processes over 1B lines of stock daily.

Retailers using the technology improve their local visibility online, increase local shopper engagement, and drive more in-store footfall and sales. They do this by using NearSt to show their local customers exactly what they have in stock directly on places like their Google Business Profile, on Google Maps, or by tagging their products in Instagram posts, which all show availability information from their local store.