Why do I need to publish a venue and how do I do it?

Overview

As a service provider with the role of administrator, you are responsible for publishing venues.

You will see analytics data for published venues only.

Prerequisites

You have ensured the following are in place:

• You have the role of administrator assigned to you so you can publish and unpublish venues
• The installation process has been successfully completed
• The installation job has been approved
• All the Spots are up and running in the venue 

Procedure

1. Once your first installation job is complete, you will be prompted to publish your venue.
   
   
2. To publish or unpublish a venue, go to Network in the Deploy app. 
   
   
3. Click on the relevant organization in the Organization List.
   
   
4. On the Organization details screen, you will see a Venue List and a status column which indicates whether each venue is Published or Unpublished.
   
   
   
5. Click on the venue whose status you want to change in the Venue List.
   
   
6. Click Edit Venue in the top right of the screen.
   
   
   
   
7. In the Venue details screen, go to the Published field and select one of the following two options:
   
   - Live (Published) if you want to start generating analytics data for the venue
   
   - Hidden (Unpublished) if you don't want to generate any data for the venue just yet
   
   
   
   
8. Choose the Update button at the bottom of the screen.

Result

Chargifi Cloud will begin reporting and creating statistics for the venue now.