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Beacons

How to set up, customize, manage and analyze beacon campaigns

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36 articles in this collection
Written by Monika Adarsh, Ravi Pratap, Sharat Potharaju and 3 others

Getting Started

How to get started with your new Beaconstac account

Steps to unbox your beacons and log into the dashboard

Written by Ravi Pratap
Updated over a week ago

Guidelines and best practices for deploying beacons

Stationary and Portable beacons

Written by Sneh Choudhary
Updated over a week ago

How to create an effective notification

Best practices to create a notification

Written by Sneh Choudhary
Updated over a week ago

Markdown Cards

Creating a Markdown Card

How to create Markdown cards to craft campaign messages

Written by Sharat Potharaju
Updated over a week ago

Customising markdown cards

Written by Shashank Raj
Updated over a week ago

How to add images in a Markdown Card

Setting background and adding images in markdown cards

Written by Sneh Choudhary
Updated over a week ago

Can I change the font type, size and color on markdown cards?

Designing and customizing markdown cards - Font type, color and size

Written by Sneh Choudhary
Updated over a week ago

Forms

Using Forms to collect responses

How to use forms in Beaconstac

Written by Claire Mossberg
Updated over a week ago

What are the various types of questions under Forms?

The use cases for each type of questions offered under Forms

Written by Claire Mossberg
Updated over a week ago

How to use all of the form features

Start online retargeting using forms, social sharing and get notified of responses in real-time

Written by Sneh Choudhary
Updated over a week ago

Schedules

Using Schedules to create timed campaigns

Use the Beaconstac scheduler to run automated, timed campaigns

Written by Ravi Pratap
Updated over a week ago

Campaigns

Apple Wallet integration to Beaconstac

Save offers as passes in the wallet for future use.

Written by Monika Adarsh
Updated over a week ago

Markdown cards vs Custom URL

When to use markdown cards and advantages of custom URL

Written by Claire Mossberg
Updated over a week ago

How to improve CTR

Ways and methods to improve the CTR of your proximity marketing campaigns

Written by Sneh Choudhary
Updated over a week ago

Bulk beacon operations

How to update multiple beacon campaigns at once and copy campaigns from existing beacons

Written by Claire Mossberg
Updated over a week ago

Creating a campaign using Custom URL

How to use the Custom URL campaign type in Beaconstac

Written by Claire Mossberg
Updated over a week ago

Advanced Features

Send beacon notifications in multiple languages

How to target beacon notifications based on the language preference of a smartphone

Written by Sharat Potharaju
Updated over a week ago

Facebook retargeting using beacons (Beaconstac)

How to set up Facebook retargeting on Beaconstac

Written by Monika Adarsh
Updated over a week ago

How to retarget in-store customers on Google

Use the Google Conversion ID to retarget customers of your proximity marketing campaigns

Written by Sneh Choudhary
Updated over a week ago

Beacon Hardware

Replacing batteries in your beacon

How to open up your beacon to replace its batteries

Written by Claire Mossberg
Updated over a week ago

Determining beacon health status and battery level

Checking in the dashboard and in the Beaconstac app

Written by Claire Mossberg
Updated over a week ago

Dormant or Inactive beacons

What does it mean when a beacon appears as Dormant or Inactive on the dashboard

Written by Claire Mossberg
Updated over a week ago

Battery life of different beacon models

Our beacon models have varying battery life based on the hardware

Written by Sharat Potharaju
Updated over a week ago

How to check if your beacons are working

Steps to check if the beacons are transmitting

Written by Claire Mossberg
Updated over a week ago

Beacon transmission range

Transmission distance for different Beacon devices

Written by Claire Mossberg
Updated over a week ago

Modifying beacon range and advertising frequency

How to change beacon hardware configuration like range and advertising interval

Written by Shashank Raj
Updated over a week ago

Analytics

What do 'Notifications', 'Clicks' and 'Unique Visitors' mean?

Understanding the Beaconstac's dashboard analytics

Written by Sneh Choudhary
Updated over a week ago

Frequently Asked Questions

Troubleshooting beacons not being detected in the Beaconstac app

How to figure out why your beacons won't appear in the app

Written by Claire Mossberg
Updated over a week ago

What is the maximum length that I can set for the title and description?

Why are the title and description getting cut off on the smartphone?

Written by Sneh Choudhary
Updated over a week ago

What happens to the notification once a user is no longer in range of the beacon?

Notifications do not show up once a user moves out of the range of a beacon.

Written by Sneh Choudhary
Updated over a week ago

Can I modify the Eddystone URL on the beacon?

Written by Claire Mossberg
Updated over a week ago

How to engage customers with proximity marketing without an app

How can I run proximity marketing campaigns without an app?

Written by Sneh Choudhary
Updated over a week ago

If I set one location for the pocket/keychain beacon, will it work if I move away?

Written by Sneh Choudhary
Updated over a week ago

Can I use my own beacons?

Beaconstac does not support other beacon hardware

Written by Ravi Pratap
Updated over a week ago

What is Physical Web?

Understand what it means and what can you do with it

Written by Claire Mossberg
Updated over a week ago

Reseller

Getting Started as a Beaconstac Reseller

Creating client organizations, adding and managing users

Written by Monika Adarsh
Updated over a week ago