How to find your Google Maps usage level

Stockist uses services provided by Google Maps to power the map on your store locator. These services are provided directly to your website, not through Stockist - for more details, please see our  page explaining Google Maps licensing.

Google provides a generous amount of free map services to all websites - this is an ongoing credit that applies every month. It's generally enough for ~10,000 views of your map every month at no cost. The steps below will check your website's recent usage level of Google Maps services.

Checking your recent usage

Please follow these steps to identify your recent Google Maps key usage:

  1. Ensure you're logged into the Google account you used to set up your Google Maps Key. You can check the Google Account page to see what account you're currently logged into.
  2. Once you're logged in, click here to open the Google Maps Overview page.

  3. Ensure that the project selection dropdown at the top of the page is displaying the name of the project that contains the Google Maps key you initially created when setting up Stockist on your website:

    If you see zero usage in the sections below, but your store locator map is live, you may need to open a different project or sign in with a different Google account.

  4. The Enabled APIs panel shows the usage of each service in the last 30 days:

  5. The Requests by API chart shows an interactive graph of usage by day:

  6. And the Billing panel shows your usage of the free tier and any overage cost:

    The red line at $200 represents the amount of Google's monthly free usage tier. Google offers a $200 credit towards map services each month, so any usage under that amount is free.

Services

The specific services used by Stockist are:

    1. Maps JavaScript API (used to display the map on your site)
    2. Geocoding API (use to turn addresses into map coordinates when searching)

    3. Places API (used to show address suggestions while searching)

      For more details about what each service is used for and the associated costs, please seeour page explaining Google Maps licensing.

If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with us.

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