Customer story
How Rare Brew mapped 150+ stockists on autopilot.
The sparkling-tea brand behind rarebrew.com built SyncaMap for themselves before releasing it on the Shopify App Store. Here is what changed.
- 150+
- Wholesale locations auto-mapped
- 0
- Spreadsheets maintained
- < 60s
- From order to pin
- Shopify
- Fully native block
At a glance
Industry
Sparkling tea, DTC + wholesale
Channels
Shopify, Faire, Direct wholesale
Storefront
rarebrew.com/pages/find-us
The problem
Rare Brew grew from a home kitchen experiment into a wholesale brand carried by hundreds of independent cafes, grocers, and lifestyle shops. Every new stockist meant another manual entry: someone on the team had to copy an address out of a Faire order or a Shopify wholesale order, geocode it, and paste it onto the Find Us page.
The map was always months behind. Customers would DM asking where to buy locally and the answer was never quite current. Retailers who loved the tea would call weeks later wondering why they still were not on the map.
Before and after
Before
- Shared Google Sheet updated by hand.
- Retailers waited weeks to appear on the map.
- Duplicate entries and stale addresses piled up.
After
- New wholesale orders pin themselves in under a minute.
- Retailers confirm their listing before it goes public.
- One source of truth: Shopify orders.
Building SyncaMap
Instead of hiring another VA to keep a spreadsheet in sync, the team built a Shopify app that watches orders directly. Every qualifying wholesale order, matched by tag, channel, or product, becomes a pin on the map the same day it ships.
What was a Rare Brew internal tool is now the same SyncaMap app any Shopify merchant can install. The Find Us page at rarebrew.com is powered by it in production.
The result
150+ wholesale locations live on the map, growing every week. The team has not touched the spreadsheet in months. New retailers see themselves added right as their first shipment lands, which turns onboarding into a marketing moment.
“Other vendors take months. Rare Brew had us on their map right as it was delivered.”
Clean Eatz, wholesale stockist of Rare Brew
See it live
The Rare Brew Find Us page is the reference implementation for SyncaMap. Pins, clustering, retailer names, links, all driven directly by Shopify order data.