Promotional Broadcasts

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:

1. In your Back Office, select Marketing  then click  Advertising Media.
2. 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.
3. 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:

1. In your Back Office click Marketing then click Advertising Campaigns.
2. 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. 
     
     
3. Go the Campaign Settings tab and do the following:
   
   1. In Name, specify the broadcast name (mandatory).
   2. In Description, enter any optional description of this broadcast.
   3. Under Devices, specify the devices on which you want to broadcast your video.
   4. Add the stores in which you want to broadcast the video to.
   5. Click Time Intervals, and then specify the broadcast schedule.
   6. 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

1. Run POS Terminal app.
2. Open Menu > Settings >Additional Screens.
3. Go to a tab of a screen where you want to enable a broadcast, such as Customer Screen, Orders Screen, or Promo Screen.
4. 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.