# Which location marketing platforms provide real-time dwell time analytics across multiple store locations?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Question for the retail analytics reviewers and researchers here. Which location marketing platforms actually provide real-time dwell time analytics across multiple store locations, not one venue at a time?</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Two things pull against each other in this question. Real-time dwell needs a sensor in the store, which is a per-site install. Multi-location needs a roll-up that treats a hundred stores as one dataset. Most tools are strong at one and adequate at the other, so the honest first question is where the signal comes from: guest Wi-Fi, the network hardware, or the shopper's phone with your app on it.</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">From the<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/location-based-marketing"> </a><a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/location-based-marketing">Location-Based Marketing Software</a> category on G2, one platform for each source, plus the analytics-first option:</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/purple/reviews"><strong>Purple</strong></a> (4.2/5 G2 rating): Guest Wi-Fi as the sensor. Footfall analytics on how visitors move, dwell and return, rolled up across 80,000+ venues worldwide. Trade-off: it measures people who log in to the Wi-Fi, so dwell covers the opted-in share, not everyone in the store.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/cisco-spaces/reviews"><strong>Cisco Spaces</strong></a> (4.5/5 G2 rating): The network as the sensor. Catalyst, Meraki and Webex devices feed real-time location analytics into one cloud platform, with the top Wi-Fi Marketing score in the category at 0.97. Trade-off: you need Cisco hardware in every store you want counted.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/plotprojects-plotprojects/reviews"><strong>PlotProjects</strong></a> (4.7/5 G2 rating): The phone as the sensor. A geofencing SDK with dwell-time and cooling-off triggers, built for low battery use, measuring visits across every store you geofence. Trade-off: only works for shoppers who have your app installed with location permission granted.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/flame-analytics/reviews"><strong>Flame Analytics</strong></a> (4.6/5 G2 rating): The analytics layer. Location analytics and engagement for physical spaces, with the category's highest Analytics score at 0.96 and Geofencing at 0.92. Trade-off: it's priced and built for chains, not a single shop.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">For anyone who's compared one of these against a door counter or POS data for a month: how far off was the dwell number, and did the gap change by store?</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"></p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"></p>

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## Comments
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&lt;p&gt;Comparability across stores seems just as important as real-time reporting. Different layouts, hardware coverage, and opt-in rates can make two dwell-time numbers look comparable when they aren’t. How do teams normalize those differences before benchmarking locations against each other?&lt;/p&gt;

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