One shoot, three results: the walkable tour of your business on Google Maps, the same tour on your own website — and a floor plan of your floor area that you keep using for refits, shopfitting and tradesmen's quotes.
Run the test before you read on. Open Google Maps and search for your business. What do you see?
Usually: your facade from the street, captured by a Street View vehicle. Your opening hours. Your reviews. And a handful of photos — some yours, some from visitors, in varying quality and from different years.
What a customer does not see is what it looks like inside. How big the space is. How it is laid out. Whether it feels cramped or generous. Whether they are in the right place.
That is the gap a 360° store tour closes. It is not another photo but a walkable interior: your customer moves through your business before deciding whether to come in.
A schematic comparison of the two states — not a depiction of any specific business profile.
All three results come out of a single shoot. The tour goes onto your Google Business Profile, the same tour can be placed on your website as an embed code — and the floor plan of your space stays with you as a planning document: for the next refit, the shopfitter, or a tradesman's quote.
Technically it is the same capture we use for our virtual 3D tours for real estate: the 360° capture is turned into a spatial 3D model of your space, not just a series of stitched panoramas. That is why the floor plan and the measurement tool are possible at all — and the difference from a photo-only tour.
Click, drag, walk through the space — and switch to the dollhouse view.
Example tour: demo model used by kind permission of Matterport. Not a RoomView360 capture — and not a retail space. It shows how the controls work, not our own result. A RoomView360 store tour will stand here as soon as our first reference space has been captured.
A tour works hardest where the space itself is part of the decision. The specific question differs by sector:
| Sector | What your customer wants to know first | What the tour shows |
|---|---|---|
| Gym and yoga studio | How much space, which machines, are there showers and lockers? | Training floor, equipment and side rooms — before the membership |
| Medical, dental and physio practice | How does it feel there, can I get in with a walker or a pram? | Reception, waiting area, door widths and thresholds |
| Kitchen, bathroom and furniture showroom | Which displays are actually there, is the trip worth it? | Every display walkable, dimensions readable on the spot |
| Restaurant with function room | Will 40 people fit, how is the room laid out? | Room, seating and layout — with a floor plan for planning |
| Hair, beauty and tattoo studio | How clean and how private is it? | Workstations, partitions, condition of the fit-out |
| Gallery and cultural space | How large is the exhibition area, how is it hung? | Rooms, wall surfaces and hanging, walkable at any time |
| Hotel and B&B | What do the rooms and common areas really look like? | The same technique as our Airbnb 3D tours |
You do not have to deal with Google — we handle the publication.
We capture before you open, after closing or on your day off, with the space empty. There is a legal reason for that: for user-generated 360° imagery Google does not blur faces automatically — unlike imagery from its Street View vehicles. An empty shop is the clean route, rather than retouching afterwards. Your business is not interrupted for a minute.
The space is captured as a spatial 3D model. That produces the walkable tour, the dollhouse view and the floor plan. Delivery within 48 hours of the shoot, together with the embed code for your website.
We link the tour to your business's Place ID — precisely the step that otherwise goes wrong and leaves the tour sitting anywhere except on your profile. We then submit it and check after approval that it appears in the right place. The review itself is Google's; it usually takes a few days.
What we need from you: a verified Google Business Profile and the “Owner” or “Manager” role on it for us, limited to the duration of the publication. We remove our access afterwards. If there is no verified profile yet, we set it up together with you — the verification itself is carried out by Google and can take a few days.
Fixed prices by floor area — publication to Google Maps is included in every package. 15 % first-client discount on the first project. No VAT is added to the package prices; RoomView360 is not subject to Swiss VAT liability. Optional extras and travel outside the cantons of Zurich and Schaffhausen follow the price list.
Already have a RoomView360 tour of your business? Publishing it to Google Maps afterwards costs CHF 150 — no new shoot required. This route is not available for residential properties: Matterport only clears non-residential spaces for Street View publication. Floor areas above 250 m², multiple locations or chains: request an individual quote. All packages at a glance on the pricing page. How these prices compare with the rest of the market is set out in what a virtual tour costs.
Figures circulate in this industry that cannot be traced to any findable original source — “42 % more enquiries”, “35 % more clicks”. We went looking for the sources and found none. So they are not on this page.
Yes — provided your business has a verified Business Profile. The tour is linked to your location's Place ID, the unique identifier Google files your business under. Without that link the imagery does appear somewhere in Google Maps, but not on your profile — the most common mistake in this kind of publication. Google reviews every submission itself and can reject it; there is no guarantee of acceptance.
No. We shoot outside opening hours — before you open, after closing, or on your day off. Your business keeps running. An empty shop is the better capture anyway: nobody in frame, no retouching afterwards, and the space itself gets the attention.
For user-generated 360° imagery Google does not blur faces and licence plates automatically — that automatic blurring applies to imagery captured by Street View vehicles. The responsibility therefore sits with whoever submits the imagery. We solve it at the root by shooting empty spaces outside opening hours. If someone does end up in frame, that spot is blurred before publication.
RoomView360 works with three fixed prices by floor area: Store S CHF 350 (up to 60 m²), Store M CHF 690 (up to 120 m²) and Store L CHF 1,190 (up to 250 m²). Each includes the walkable 3D tour, the floor plan, publication to Google Maps including the Place ID link, and the embed code for your website. First-time clients receive a 15 % discount on their first project.
We deliver the tour and floor plan within 48 hours of the shoot — from then on you can embed it on your website. Publication to Google Maps adds Google's own review time, usually a few days. That part is controlled by Google, not by us.
Tell us about your business. We reply the same working day with a fixed-price quote and a proposed slot outside your opening hours. No call centres, no sales pressure.
