A map and location feature is a crucial part of a convenient experience on your marketplace website, at least if your customers and providers need to meet face to face. But it might bring along a couple of challenges.
The first is privacy. Individual providers may not want to share their specific location with everyone.
Second, you don't always want to reveal a listing location before a customer makes a payment. If users get all listing information upfront, they might be tempted to circumvent the platform and bypass your commission.
You can choose to display the specific listing location on a more general one.
How to enable general location
Log in to your Admin panel
Go to the "Search & Location / Location" page
Check the "Display a circle instead of the exact location" checkbox
Note that to enable the general location, location features must be enabled.
And voilà! The general location of a listing is now within a radius of around 500 meters / 550 yards around the specific location. The general location is now active:
On a listing page: instead of a pin in the specific location, a circle of the listing's general location is shown.
In the listing form: an announcement is shown to your providers that their listing's exact location won’t be displayed.
On your marketplace home page map view: the exact location of a listing is randomized within the radius.