Amax Connect puts your live Stora units, prices, availability and online booking straight onto your own WordPress website. Customers browse and book on your domain, under your brand, while everything stays in sync with your Stora account automatically. Amax Connect is set up and fully managed for you by Amax Marketing. It is not a plugin you buy or install yourself, it is available by booking a demo.
Amax Connect v1.2.0 introduces two significant improvements for operators:
Unit availability on your website now updates the instant something changes in Stora, rather than waiting for the cache to expire. This is handled automatically via a webhook connection and requires no changes to your setup. Existing connections pick up the new behaviour automatically.
When a visitor starts the booking journey but drops off before completing payment, they are automatically saved as a contact in your Stora CRM. This is an opt-in setting (off by default) and can be enabled from the Booking tab in the Amax Connect admin. It uses a find-or-create approach so existing contacts are never duplicated.
Amax Connect is a WordPress plugin that links your website to Stora, the self storage management platform. Once connected, it pulls your unit types, sizes, prices and live availability from Stora and shows them on your own pages through a simple shortcode or block. When a customer chooses a unit, they are taken through to secure online booking and the reservation is recorded in Stora. You continue to manage your facility in Stora exactly as you do today. Amax Connect simply gives that information a home on your own site.
Customers reserve and pay without being sent off to a third party directory, so you keep the relationship and the data.
Prices, sizes and availability mirror Stora automatically, so your website is never out of date, even overnight.
The display uses your colours, fonts and styling, so it looks like a natural part of your website.
Your units live on pages you own, which can rank in Google, rather than sending traffic to a directory that competes with you.
No spreadsheets and no double entry. Update once in Stora and your website follows.
Clear unit cards with live availability cues help customers move from browsing to booking.
The connection to Stora runs through a secure proxy managed by Amax Marketing. No Stora credentials are stored on your website, and nothing sensitive is exposed on the public side of your site.
Your live units are placed on your pages for you, using a simple shortcode that we configure. It can be set up in many ways, for example a filterable grid of unit types like this:
[amax_connect_units columns="3" filter_bar="true"]Three shortcodes are available:
[amax_connect_units] shows your units as cards or a list[amax_connect_count] shows a live count of available units[amax_connect_price_from] shows your lowest starting priceThe main shortcode is [amax_connect_units]. The most useful attributes are below. All are optional, so you only add the ones you need.
| Attribute | What it does | Example |
|---|---|---|
columns | Number of columns in the grid | columns="3" |
layout | Display as a grid or a list | layout="grid" |
filter_bar | Show the size and availability filter bar | filter_bar="true" |
show_price | Show prices on each unit | show_price="true" |
show_image | Show or hide unit images | show_image="false" |
show_availability | Show live availability status | show_availability="true" |
size_guide | Show a size guide | size_guide="true" |
pricetype | Which price to show, for example weekly or monthly | pricetype="weekly" |
orderby and order | Sort order of the units | orderby="size" order="asc" |
limit | Maximum number of units to show | limit="12" |
type or id | Show a specific unit type or single unit | type="..." |
booking_url | Override the destination of the booking button | booking_url="..." |
Not sure which attributes to use? The Shortcode Builder sets all of these for you with a visual preview, so you rarely need to type them by hand.
We match the units to your brand using the Design controls, which include:
Your design choices apply everywhere your units appear, so the display always stays consistent with your website.
Amax Connect is designed to handle as little data as possible.
In short, facility data flows from Stora to your website for display, and customer and payment data is handled by Stora at the point of booking. The plugin itself stores no personal data.
Amax Connect is set up, managed and supported by Amax Marketing. To get started or to ask a question, email [email protected] or book a demo, and we will take it from there.