Location Services

In this area you can configure Location Services for your apps. This service is available in all plans, except for Startup. It is also enabled by default, but you can still configure a couple of things in this page.

Location Services will allow your apps to collect user location and information about visits in all the geo-zones you create. You can also easily add support for Bluetooth Low Energy devices (a.k.a. iBeacons) to your app. All this functionality will allow you to automate how you categorize users based on their location or create highly engaging and contextual messages whenever they are in the vicinity of your stores or venues.

Under the Settings menu, you should start by clicking in Services:

You should then click in the Configure button from the following box:

To enable beacons you'll need to provide the Proximity UUID. This will make it possible to add beacons in any of the geo-zones you'll create. You will obtain this UUID from your beacon supplier, in most cases, all the beacons you'll acquire come with the same UUID, but if that's not the case, you'll need to configure that, so all the beacons you'll use in your app share the same UUID.

To add one, go ahead and paste the UUID in the following field:

If you don't have any beacons yet, but you would like to test this functionality (our native iOS and Android apps can advertise as beacon for testing purposes) you can simply generate one by clicking in the Generate button.

Another setting you can customize for this service, is the Location Lifetime. By default, this value is set to 7 days. This means that we will consider as valid, any location that was collected no longer than 7 days ago. For most apps this is OK, but you might want to decrease this value to make sure you only send geo-targeted messages to devices with location data more recent than that.

To change that, provide a different value in the following field:

Finally, hit the Save button to store your changes: