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New Job Board LIVE Thusday!
New Job Board LIVE Thursday
Over the last few weeks we’ve been giving you previews of our new and improved Job Board and we are thrilled to announce that it will be LIVE this Thursday!
One of the most highly anticipated new features is SASSIE Maps (Google maps for shop locations), which will enable shoppers to identify shops near them quickly and easily:
In addition, we’ve added a customizable filter based on business classification (i.e. retail; casual dining; etc.), so now shoppers have the option to see only the types of shops they’re actually interested in.
What we need you to do:
As we’ve been reminding you over the course of the last few weeks, we need you to do two things before we go live: Verify Geocodes and Add business classifications. Here’s how:
Verify Geocodes
To ensure Google provides us with the most accurate map results, please verify the accuracy of the address information for your shop locations using a new Geocode tool we’ve developed before the Job Board goes live on Thursday.
Simply follow these steps:
Step 1: From the main Admin page, under the “Manage” dropdown, click Geocode Admin:
NOTE: Geocode Admin will only be visible to people who have Location Admin access for ALL clients
Step 2: This will take you to the Geocoder page which will include instructions and a filter for the locations you want to check:
Step 3: Using the filter, for “Client” select “All”. For “Accuracy” select “Street” and click the “and worse” checkbox and click Submit:
Step 4: This will generate a list of all locations for which Google was able to provide coordinates at the Street level or worse:
Step 5: Click the Edit button to edit that location’s address
Step 6: Edit the address info to reflect the accurate address
Before:
After:
Step 7: Return to the Geocode list and Re-Geocode the location by clicking the Geocode button:
Step 8: It will immediately show whether the Geocoder was able to pinpoint the location down to a better accuracy level:
Now the location will be accurately displayed on the map!
Add Business Classifications
If you want to take advantage of the new “shop type” filter on the new Job Board, we need you to add business classifications using a new “Edit Business Classifications” link in the Survey Settings page.
Why?
Before, there was no way to designate universal business categories. Instead, there was a free-form “business type” field in Client Settings that allowed you to enter a business description at your discretion, and thus, this description could change from shop to shop. For example, your client McBurger’s might have been labeled as “Fast Food”, whereas your client Burger Prince might have been described as “Casual Dining”.
Now, in order to make sure all fast food shops across all of your clients appear under the same search category in our new Job Board, we are eliminating the free-form Business Type field in Client Settings and adding a new Edit Business Classifications link to the Survey Settings page. This will enable you to create a standard set of business classifications and to edit/assign shops to them accordingly. This standard set of categories and the shops assigned to them will automatically appear in the search filter (as long there are shops available within that business type).
Step 1: Create a standard set of Business Classifications that will appear in search filter by clicking the Edit Business Classifications link in Survey Settings
Step 2: Click the Manage Business Classification link
Step 3: Click ‘Add New Business Classification"
Step 4: Enter the standard label you want for this business type. Then click “Add New”
Step 5: Assign shops to a business category by repeating steps 1 & 2 and clicking the checkbox next to the appropriate classification
That’s it! Your standard classifications will automatically appear in the filter (as long as there are available shops assigned to them)!
