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Configure the Store Locator game mechanic
Updated over 2 months ago

Description

Store Locator lets you display a Google Maps map listing your points of sale, either as a micro-site or directly on your website. Set-up is very simple: you upload a CSV file with your addresses to the platform, and your map is displayed. You can also personalize the mechanics with a banner.


Settings

Campaign background

Import the global background of your campaign. This is the background that will be displayed behind the transparent background images (png) that you will import on the other pages of your campaign. To find out more, read this article.

Editorial content

Editorial content is a free space that allows you to include text, video and images. Customise this space as you wish or leave it empty.

Information

The information section allows you to :

  • Authorise members of your Team to participate in the configuration of your Socialshaker campaign

  • Change the time zone of your campaign

  • Integrate a Google Analytics ID for tracking

  • Activate the cookies banner

  • Activate tracking

  • Activate geo-blocking

Language

This section lets you add languages if you want to run a multilingual campaign.

Concept

Your marker

You can configure the theme of the mechanism and the rendering of the marker in ‘Mechanics’ > ‘Theme’ and ‘Marker’.

Your adresses

Then set the addresses as follows:

Step 1: click on "Concept" > "Your Addresses".

Step 2: Download the blank .CSV file provided, which you will use to set up your addresses. Warning: do not modify the structure of the file (columns, file name, names of items in the columns) and keep the file intact.

Step 3: Open your file in a program such as Excel or Google Sheets. Fill it in strictly in accordance with the structure. Make sure you don't make any mistakes in the writing, as this could cause the file not to be accepted when uploaded.

Step 4: Save your file in .CSV format with UTF8 encoding and semicolon separators, following these steps:

  • Open an Excel / Google Sheets file

  • Click on ‘Import

  • Select UTF-8 encoding and separators

Step 5: Upload the file to the Socialshaker platform.

Step 6: the addresses now appear in the list below:

Warning:

  • Does it take a while to load? No problem. You've probably set up a lot of addresses, so you need to give Google Maps time to recover them all.

  • Do you get the error message ‘Your file is not in UTF8 encoding’? Repeat step 3 from the beginning with your file already filled in with your addresses.

  • You've uploaded your file and nothing happens? There's probably an error in the file. Check that you haven't made any structural changes and that you've filled in the address information in the right columns.

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