Accessing your Places Manager
Your Places Manager is the central hub for managing all Places across your mobile passes. These “Places” are the heart and soul of your destination! In our world these can be businesses or points of interests, such as parks, hikes, murals, food trucks, or anything in between. From here, you can create new Places, update existing ones, manage contacts, and remove Places from your global network.
You can access the Places Manager by navigating to “Places” within the Experience Builder.
Bandwango Pro Tip💡
Create your locations in "Places" within your Global Menu before beginning your pass build. This adds them as a part of your network and you can easily add them to your pass once ready!
You can also create Places directly within the Pass Builder while building a mobile pass. Any Place created in the Pass Builder is automatically added to your global network.
Adding A New Place
🎯 Pro Tip: We recommend searching for a Google listing before creating a manual Place.
Click “+ Add a Place” and enter the Place name in the “Search Google Maps…” field.
If the Place has a Google Business listing, it will appear in the search results.
Select the desired Place to view it on the map.A map will display with a pin marking the location.
If needed, drag the pin to adjust the location.
If the Place does not appear, continue to Creating a Manual Place below.
Once you’ve confirmed the correct Place and location, click “Create Place.”
Your Place has now been added to your global network.
Creating a Manual Place
📚 Not seeing your Place in Google search results?
Some Places (e.g., historical sites, trails, murals, statues, parks) do not have Google Business listings. These are referred to as Manual Places.
To create a Manual Place:
Click “+ Add a Place” and enter the Place name in the “Search Google Maps…” field.
Select “Not Listed.”
Click “Add Manually.”
Search using an address or latitude/longitude coordinates.
A map will appear with a pin marking the location.
Drag the pin as needed—the address and coordinates will update automatically.
Once the location is correct, click "Create Place.”
Your Manual Place has now been added to your global network.
Adding and Updating Place Information
After creating a Place, you can update its global details at any time.
To update a Place:
Navigate back to global Places
Search for and select the Place to open Place Details.
Click “Edit” to update the following Place "Details":
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Map pin location
Note: If the Place is linked to the Google Places API, certain details (e.g., image, business hours, website, phone number) will populate automatically. To update this information, the business must make changes directly in Google.
Click “Save Changes” to apply updates.
🌲Interested in making your Places information more pass specific?🌲
When building out your pass, you'll have the option to override the location's name, image and description to fit the theme of the pass!
Many client adjust the generic information for Holiday-themed passes or a scavenger hunts.
Read more about how to update to pass-specific names, images, and descriptions in Creating Your First Gamified Pass and review Part Four: Customization- Pass Overrides.
3. Click “+ Add Contact” to invite a business to manage Place information and associated pass content.
Your Places' Contacts will receive invitations to join passes when you are asking for inventory for your various passes.