Why use the internal location database?

Using stored locations can be extremely useful whereby you use those locations repetitively for regular clients. The benefits are as follows:

• Only enter the venue information once, including address, check-in location, check-in radius and venue notes.
• Ability to add and store multiple notes and images and determine who can see these notes.
  • If the notes and images are available for the staff to see they can be seen by everyone booked at that location. This ensures you are effortlessly carrying that location knowledge forward from one person to the next.
• Build up a contact list for your client locations.
• When adding the location to your schedule, via the interface or the schedule import file, you only need to reference the location name, rather than input all the information again and again.
• Increase the consistency of the locations in your schedules throughout your jobs as some larger locations such as exhibition centres can have more than 1 map point on Google maps.
• When it comes to staff checking in and out you can also customise each venue's check-in radius over the main default radius.

This article will show you how to add locations to your jobs using the internal location database as opposed to using google maps to locate your venue every time you need to add a new location to a job.