Geidea POS lets you broadcast promotional videos on your devices in your stores. Creating a broadcast contains the following steps:
- Add files to your Geidea POS Back Office.
- Create a broadcast that uses said files and configure the broadcast settings.
- Enable promotional broadcasts on your POS terminal in your store.
Add Video Files
To add a files do the following:
- In your Back Office, select Marketing then click Advertising Media.
- Click Add, and provide the following:
Page breakdown is as follows:- Name: The name that will be used to identify the file.
- Description: provide an optional description of this file.
- URL: the link (URL) to the file where it is stored. Currently, Dropbox and Google Drive are supported.
- Direct URL: Use this option if the file URL leads to any other services that provide a direct access to the video file without intermediate download pages.
- Click Save.
Note: Recommended video file formats: .WMA, .MP4, or .AVI.
Configure Broadcast Settings
After you added your files, you can create and configure a promotional video to broadcast in your stores. The video will use your added files.
To create and configure a broadcast, complete the following:
- In your Back Office click Marketing then click Advertising Campaigns.
- Click Add, and complete the Files and Broadcast Settings tabs of the tabbed page that opens. You should first complete the Files tab:
Complete this tab in the following way:- From the list of files in the upper pane, select files to add to the broadcast.
- Click Add, and then click Save.
- Go the Campaign Settings tab and do the following:
- In Name, specify the broadcast name (mandatory).
- In Description, enter any optional description of this broadcast.
- Under Devices, specify the devices on which you want to broadcast your video.
- Add the stores in which you want to broadcast the video to.
- Click Time Intervals, and then specify the broadcast schedule.
- Click Save.
Enable Broadcasts on POS Terminals
After creating and configuring a broadcast, enable the broadcast on the POS terminals where you want the customers to watch your promotional videos.
To enable promotional broadcasts
- Run POS Terminal app.
- Open Menu > Settings >Additional Screens.
- Go to a tab of a screen where you want to enable a broadcast, such as Customer Screen, Orders Screen, or Promo Screen.
- Select the Promotional Broadcast check box, and the screen where to broadcast the promotional video:
Note: The above screenshot illustrates how to enable broadcasts on the Сustomer screen. In a similar way, you can enable broadcasts on the Orders screens.
The Promo screen tab has no Promotional Broadcast checkbox. On the Promotional screen, the broadcast starts once you select a terminal.
Managing Registered Broadcasts
Back Office lets you manage the registered broadcasts available when you open Marketing > Promotional Broadcasts menu:
On this page, you can perform the following operations:
- Activate or deactivate a broadcast.
NOTE: For newly created broadcasts, the Active switch button is turned off by default. To activate the newly created broadcast, turn on its Active button manually. - Remove selected broadcast: from the broadcast list, select a broadcast to remove, and click Remove.
NOTE: This operation deletes selected broadcasts. Alternatively, you can temporarily disable a broadcast.