How to Create Locations

Locations are physical and virtual locations in your agency. Each loca

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Locations are physical and virtual locations in your agency. Each location can have its own unique settings, including business hours, default judge, and more.

Overview

What is a Location?

Locations are physical and virtual locations in your agency. Each location can have its own unique settings, including business hours, default judge, and more.

How to use Locations?

When creating events, payments, cases, and messages, you can select the location for each record.

How many locations can I have?

Each agency can have unlimited locations.

Can I have sub-locations?

Each location can have sub-rooms. If virtual, the sub-rooms are separate virtual links.

How to Create a Location

Before creating a location, ensure that the location does not already exist. If it does, you can edit the existing location instead of creating a new one.

  • Click Admin > Locations from the main navigation. How to create location at location Page
  • Fill in the Create Location form.Fill Location form to add location
  • If the location is physical, fill in the Address field.Write Address to add physical location
  • If the location is virtual, choose the Virtual option.Add Virtual address in case Virtual Location
  • Click the Create button to save the location.Click Create button once you added address
  • Once created, you will be redirected to the Location page.Location page after adding location

Physical Locations:

  • Ensure that you see a map of the location.Make sure you can see the location at Map
  • If you do not see a map, update the Address field.
  • Click the Save button to save the location.Click Save button to add location

Virtual Locations:

  • Set the Virtual Link field to the URL of the virtual location.Add Virtual Location URL
  • Click the Save button to save the location.Click save button to add virtual location
  • Once saved, you should see a button to enter the virtual location.After saving you can see a button to enter virtual location

How to Create Rooms

Each location can have multiple rooms. Each room can have its own unique settings, including business hours, default judge, and more.

To create a room:

  • When editing a location, fill in the Create Room form. You can enter multiple rooms in each location
  • Click the Create button to save the room.Click Create button to save room
  • Once created, the room will be added to the list of rooms.Once created room will be added to location
  • Click the Edit button to edit the room.You can edit details by clicking at edit button

How to Choose a Default Location

When records are created, they can be auto-assigned to a location. This is considered the default location for the agency.

You can only have one default location per agency.

Ensure that no other location is already set as the default location. You will need to remove the other location as the default location before you can set a new default location.

To choose a default location:

  • Click Admin > Locations from the main navigation.Go to Locations from main navigation
  • Click Edit on the location you want to set as default.Click edit button of the location you want to add as default
  • Click the Default Location checkbox.Click check mark at default location
  • Click the Save button to save the location.Click save button to select as default location

How to Disable Messages for a Location

You can disable messages for a location. This will prevent messages from being sent to the location.

To disable messages for a location:

  • Click Admin > Locations from the main navigation.Go back to locations
  • Click Edit on the location you want to disable messages for.Select location you want to disable for messages
  • Click the Disable Messages checkbox.Check mark at auto Disable messages
  • Click the Save button to save the location.Click at save button to save setting

Note: this will not prevent previously scheduled messages from being sent. It will only prevent new messages from being sent to the location.

How to Bulk Upload Locations

You can bulk upload locations from a CSV file. On the Locations page, click the Sample File button to download a sample file.You can bulk upload locations from CSV file

Populate the CSV file with the locations you want to create. Then, upload the CSV file to the Locations page.CSV Bulk upload file

Upload CSV FileNote: when bulk uploading locations, ensure that at least the Location Name field is populated. Existing locations will be updated with the new data. New locations will be created.New Location added via bulk upload

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