Custom Directory Shopify Theme
Featured spots businesses can buy, city filters and claim forms
Every directory hits the same turning point: a business owner emails to ask what it costs to sit at the top of the plumbing category and the answer had better be a button. That's the case for running a directory on Shopify, where a featured spot, an annual listing or a sponsored category is a product with a price and Shopify checkout collects the money while you sleep. Foxco builds a custom directory Shopify theme with listing pages for hours, phone, photos and a map pin, filters by category and city and a submit-your-business form that waits for your approval. Featured listings show up first with a badge that makes the upgrade worth buying. It's $999 installed on your Shopify store and configured.
Listings that pay their own way.
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Built for Directories
- 01Listing pages with hours, photos, contact details and a map
- 02Category and city filters on every directory page
- 03Featured listing upgrades sold through Shopify checkout
- 04Submit-your-business form with approval before publishing
- 05Claim-this-listing requests for business owners
- 06Sponsor banner slots on category pages
Directory theme questions
Is the directory built from a stock Shopify theme?
No. We start from our Shopify framework for directories and build it out with your brand, your categories, your listing upgrades and the pages visitors use most.
When can the directory open?
Most directory builds are live in 7-10 days once we have your logo, photos and starting list of businesses. Rush jobs are possible depending on our bandwidth.
Can businesses pay a monthly fee for a featured spot?
One-time and annual upgrades sell through Shopify checkout from day one. Automatic monthly billing runs through a subscription app from the Shopify app store, which we can set up as a custom project; the app's fee is billed by its maker, separate from the $999.
Can you load our existing list of businesses?
Send us a spreadsheet and we'll import it during the build, with categories and cities mapped to your filters. A very large or messy list can be scoped as a custom project.
That email about the top of the plumbing category is the first sign the site has readers worth paying to reach, so the theme treats every listing upgrade as something a business can buy in under a minute without waiting on a reply from you.
Listings visitors can act on
Each listing gets its own page with hours, phone, website, photos and a map pin, plus the fields that matter for your niche, like license numbers or patio seating. Visitors narrow results by category and city, then tap to call or get directions straight from the listing. A clean listing page is also what convinces a business owner that a paid spot here will be seen.
Upgrades with a price tag
Featured placements, annual listings and category sponsorships live in Shopify as products, so a business owner picks one and pays through Shopify checkout. Foxco wires the theme so a paid listing rises to the top of its category with a badge you can switch off when the term runs out. That revenue shows up in the same Shopify dashboard as everything else.
Growing the list without the busywork
New businesses submit themselves through a form that lands in your queue for approval and owners who spot an outdated listing can request to claim it. You stay the editor of what goes live, which keeps quality high as the directory grows from a few dozen entries to a few thousand and the featured spots get more valuable along the way.
A directory businesses line up to join.
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