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Retail

The best store visits start with a boundary you drew.

GeoNest turns a shopper entering, dwelling in, or leaving your store into an email, SMS, or push moment — without asking them to open an app.

Illustrative mockup of a Retail push notification firing as a device enters the store's geofence, showing the map, the fence radius, and the resulting alert

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Use cases

Everything a retail fence can trigger.

Enter, dwell, and exit mean something specific here — this is what that looks like in practice.

Isometric illustration of a shopper's phone entering the Madhapur Store geofence, with the store, fence boundary, and a 'Welcome to Madhapur Store' notification on the lock screen

Enter

Welcome offer on entry

The moment a shopper's device crosses into the store fence, fire a first-visit or loyalty offer — no scanning, no app open required.

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iPhone lock screen showing a 'Still browsing?' push notification offering 10% off, triggered by dwelling inside the store for 6 minutes

Dwell

Dwell-based upsell

A longer-than-usual dwell near a specific department is a signal — follow up with a relevant offer while they're still deciding.

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iPhone lock screen showing a 'Forget something?' SMS notification offering free shipping within 48 hours, triggered by exiting the store

Exit

Exit win-back

Catch someone who browsed but didn't buy, and send a nudge before they're back in the car — cooldown keeps it to one message per visit.

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REST endpoints — that's the whole integration
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SDKs to bundle — native OS geofencing only
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channels dispatched from one trigger
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fence shapes — circle and polygon, both wake-ready

Why teams choose GeoNest

The hard parts are already solved.

Native OS geofencing

Circles and polygons handed to the phone's own geofencing APIs — no continuous background polling.

Three REST endpoints

Register, fetch geofences, report an event — that's the entire integration surface.

Per-app scoping

Every fence, device, and campaign is scoped to a single app — nothing crosses over.

Reuses your channels

Dispatches through your existing email and SMS infrastructure, plus Firebase Cloud Messaging for push — nothing new to wire up.

More industries

The same fence, built for your business.

Not quite your world? See how the same enter/dwell/exit fence plays out for other industries.

Questions

Before you draw the first fence.

Does this work for a store inside a mall? +

Yes — draw the store footprint as a polygon and GeoNest computes the bounding wake-up circle automatically, so the mall's shared space doesn't trigger your fence by mistake.

Do we need a native app for this to work? +

Native OS geofencing (the enter/dwell/exit detection) needs a native app. A browser-only fallback for web visitors is on our roadmap but not shipped yet.

Can we limit how often the same shopper gets a message? +

Yes — cooldown is a separate setting from dwell time, so you control the minimum gap between repeat triggers for the same device.

Can I send more than one message after a trigger? +

Yes — chain an immediate message with one or more delayed follow-ups on the same trigger, each logged separately against the event that caused it.

Retail

Set your first store fence.

Tell us which store and which moment you want to catch — entry, dwell, or exit — and we'll help you map it.