Frequently Asked Questions

A GPS Pillow is a custom-printed pillow featuring the geographic coordinates of a place that matters to you — your first home, where you got married, where you met your best friend, a family cabin, or any spot your heart holds. You type in an address or place name, we convert it to latitude and longitude, and those coordinates become the centerpiece of a beautiful coordinate-style print on a high-quality pillow.

We offer two shapes:

Square — 18″ × 18″ (our most popular size, great for sofas and accent chairs)
Lumbar — 20″ × 14″ (perfect for accent placement on sofas, beds, benches, and chairs)

Each shape is available in both indoor and outdoor fabric.

Our indoor pillows use a natural canvas-feel polyester cover with a soft polyfill insert — beautiful for sofas, beds, reading chairs, and shelves.

Our outdoor pillows use a weather-resistant, UV-fade-resistant fabric designed to hold up on patios, porches, boats, lake houses, and outdoor furniture. Both have the same beautiful print quality.

Yes — and it is a key difference from shops that sell only a cover. Every GPS Pillow is a complete pillow with the insert included, indoor and outdoor alike. It arrives ready to display right out of the box, with no separate insert to buy.

We offer fourteen colorways: Natural Canvas, Classic Navy, Garden Evergreen, Lake Blue, Pool Blue, Coral Rose, Marigold, Berry Rose, Soft Sage, Soft Charcoal, Butter Yellow, Dove Gray, Lavender, and Sage Mist. Each colorway pairs a carefully chosen background with coordinating ink — designed to complement the coordinate-style typography and look beautiful in your home.

To keep the print and fabric looking their best, we recommend spot cleaning with a soft cloth and a little mild detergent, or dry cleaning. Please avoid machine washing indoor pillows. Outdoor pillows use a Sunbrella-style fabric that can also be gently machine washed and air-dried.

When you type an address or place name into our designer, we look it up using OpenStreetMap — a free, open-source mapping service used by millions of apps worldwide. The latitude and longitude are converted into degree-minute format (like 38° 33′ N · 121° 28′ W) and placed into your design automatically. No Google account, no API key, no charge.

OpenStreetMap has excellent coverage of addresses, cities, landmarks, parks, and neighborhoods across the United States and worldwide. It is the same map data behind Wikipedia, Apple Maps (in part), and many other well-known services.

No. The coordinates field in our designer converts what you type into latitude and longitude — those coordinates are what appears on the pillow, not the address itself.

That coordinates field works best with real, locatable addresses or well-known landmarks (like "Empire State Building" or "Madison Square Garden"). It cannot look up private nicknames like "Grandma's Farm" — those don't exist on a map.

But don't worry: once your coordinates are set, you can type "Grandma's Farm" or any personal name you like into the Location Line or Memory Line text fields — those are free-form fields where you write exactly what you want printed on the pillow.

No street address needed. You can type any recognizable location into the coordinates field — a city name, a park, a beach, a neighborhood, a well-known landmark. As long as it appears on a public map, we can find its coordinates.

For a truly private location (like a family farm with no public listing), the best approach is to find the nearest named road, town, or intersection on Google Maps first, then copy that address into our designer. The coordinates will be very close — usually within a few feet.

Each pillow has a main text line (for names, a place name, or a date), a location line (like a city and state), and a memory line (a short personal note or sentiment). All fields are optional — use as many or as few as you like.

Shipping is free on every order — to all 50 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. No minimum order, no code needed.

Your pillow is made fresh for your order. Production takes 3–5 business days, and shipping transit takes an additional 3–7 business days for most contiguous U.S. addresses. Total estimated time from order to doorstep: 7–12 business days.

Yes! We ship to all 50 U.S. states and Puerto Rico, and shipping is always free. Orders to Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico ship free too — they simply take a little longer to arrive. We do not currently ship to other U.S. territories, APO/FPO military addresses, or internationally.

Because every pillow is made to order with your unique design, we cannot accept returns for buyer's remorse. However, if your pillow arrives damaged, defective, or with a printing error on our part, we will reprint or refund it — no questions asked. See our full returns policy for details.