Google Business Account

In order to make you business visibility and increase your conversion rate!!! You MUST update your google Business Profile.

Login to your business account

It's free. Just go to here: https://www.google.com/business/​

Make sure Business Type is Restuarant

Updated Your Website, Menu and Ordering

With Appfront online ordering link

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Google Analytics

Overview

The ability to follow and track your customers behaviour using Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Facebook Ads is very important in order to follow and calculate conversion.

Set Up

In our portal you can add the identifiers (pixels) from all of the 3rd parties and they will be integrated within the online ordering.

Go into Configure -> Applications and choose the Tracking tab

Facebook & Instagram Pixel

Overview

FB (Facebook) and IG (Instagram) are part of FB ads manager, i.e., same pixel to track both. You can connect multiple pixels if you'd like (great if you have different stores with multiple FB pages).

FB Pixel Helper

Before we start, and in order to track all events, we recommend to download the FB Pixel Helper extension for Chrome

​https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/facebook-pixel-helper/fdgfkebogiimcoedlicjlajpkdmockpc​

Events tracking

Appfront platform track different types of events that will allow you to understand your ROI and track end to end from advertisement-> clicks -> view item -> add to bag -> purchase. Appfront report the the menu item information, pricing, and more. Use the FB helper to better understand all information.

Home Page Event

Report how many people hit home page:

Menu Item Event

Report when someone view a specific menu item.

Checkout Page Event

When a customer arrives to checkout page:

Completed Checkout page

Transaction completed!

Get Pixel

FB ads manager is something that they change very often. Please follow up the link below to learn more how to pull FB pixel.

Go into https://www.facebook.com/ads/manager/pixel/facebook_pixel and get started creating a Facebook pixel

Select "Manually Install the Code Yourself"

And press ok until the pixel has been created. Be sure to select the events that interest you

When you click done you will be able to see the Tracking ID at the top of the screen

Connect Appfront Tracking

Go to Appfront tracking tab:

Copy that ID and paste it into the FACEBOOK box in our portal tracking tab and select the events that you would like to follow:

Google Ad Words

Go to https://ads.google.com in order to create a tag

Google Analytics

Set Up Tracking Id

In order to find your GA tracking ID: Go to https://analytics.google.com/analytics/web And select the last option on the left menu : ADMIN

Create a new property, or use a property that was already defined in the account and select "Property Settings"

In the property settings you will find the Tracking Id:

And in the Appfront portal, you paste your Tracking Id under GA:

Track your ROI

Google Maps Platform

Overview

AppFront platform integrates with the Google Maps Platform API (industry standard maps and location services provider) for any geo location based service.

Google Maps API is mainly used for the online ordering product but not just. Here are some examples:

• Searching an address for delivery

• Asking where is the nearest restaurant

• The customer current address (by using reverse geocoding of the user coordinations to retrieve their address)

• Restrict delivery areas / zone

Set Up / Get keys

First thing, you should set up a Google account (if you already have a G-Suite account that's great!).

Please follow the steps below and send the map credentials to AppFront:

Step 1: Go to: https://cloud.google.com (login with your username and password):

Step 2: https://console.cloud.google.com (or just click 'Go To Console')

In order to connect AppFront platform to Google Maps API, you will need to get the API Key and send it to your AppFront Account Manager (currently send it to [email protected], in the future you will be able to set it up in the AppFront portal).

Step 3: Get Api Keys:

To get an API key:

Docs

4. Now send this key to [email protected]​

5. Click restrict Key and keep this tab opened for the next step.

Restricting your Google Maps API key

In order to prevent other parties from using your API key do the following:

1. Open your portal in another tab (for convenience)

2. Go to Applications -> Settings

3. Now from the previous tab you kept open add the Google Maps API http referers listed one by one

1. From the Project drop-down menu, select or create the project for which you want to add an API key.

2. From the navigation menu (top left hamburger icon) - select APIs & Services -> Credentials

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3. On the Credentials page, click Create credentials > API key.

4. The API key created dialog displays your newly created API key (an encrypted string).

5. Click Close. The new API key is listed on the Credentials page under API keys.

6. See below how to restrict the API key before using it in production.

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For more info:

​https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/get-api-key#restrict_key​

8. Now send this key to [email protected]​

9. Click restrict Key and keep this tab open for the next step.

Restricting your Google Maps API key

In order to prevent other parties from using your API key do the following:

1. Open your portal in another tab (for convenience)

2. Go to Applications -> Maps

3. Now from the previous tab you kept open add the Google Maps API http referrers listed one by one

4. Please send Appfront ([email protected]) a screenshot of the configuration so that we can confirm that everything is correct before switching the Keys in your account

Enable APIs

Enable Maps Javascript API:

1. Go to https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/library/maps-backend.googleapis.com​

2. Click 'Enable':

Enable Places API:

1. Go to https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/google/places-backend.googleapis.com​

2. Click 'Enable':

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Done ✅

Opt out of 3rd Party SEO Hijacking

What does it mean?

When someone is searching your brand name in Google, and instead of going to your site directly, and enjoy thee brand awareness you've worked so hard to create, and from the organic traffic that a customer search directly for you in Google (from all the businesses ini the world), all of the 3rd party delivery companies are HIJACKING to your Google business account, and are using SEO tricks, to still your traffic, and make you pay 30% of your order.

For example:

Why and how are they doing it?

They are laterality stealing your traffic and making money on your back. They are doing it by using tricks of SEOs.

What should I do?

Luckily, lately Google understand that they are actually hurting small businesses and they started to offer a really easy opt out option. You just need to sign up here and fill up the form:

Go here:

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https://support.google.com/business/contact/business_food
 

Make sure you choose all providers:

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