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Learning Checklist

Cross these items off the list and work your way to PiinPoint mastery

Written by Amanda Maze

New to PiinPoint?

This checklist has you covered, outlining the major features, tools, and tasks you'll want to take for a spin within your first month on the app. Once you've got this set of functionality under your belt, you're well on your way to becoming a PiinPoint power user If you've got any questions, don't hesitate to use the Chat button in PiinPoint to get a hold of your Customer Success Manager.

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📆 Week One

  1. Set up your PiinPoint account with a unique username and password (if you're reading this and you haven't received an email invite yet, let your Customer Success Manager know and they'll help you out).

  2. Take a look at PiinPoint's Quickstart Guide to do a step-by-step tutorial

Features to Learn

Target Market: add some criteria from the library and turn the heatmap to "ON"
Points of Interest: add a POI name (like Tim Horton's) or Category (Coffee)
Draw a Trade Area: using a polygon, drivetime, or ring, create your first shape
Build Report: build your first single-site report from any drawn shape
Chat: try asking the PiinPoint team a question by clicking on the blue chat button

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📆 Week Two

Connect with your Customer Success Manager for a one-on-one session. You’ll drive via a screen share! Show them what you’re working on and pepper them with questions.

Features to Learn

Comparison Reports: look at 2+ sites side by side in an all-in-one report
Site Profiles: create a site profile to include scoring in your reports
Summarize Data: get demographics, POI counts, and layer point counts for your custom drawn shape or drive time
PiinPoint on Mobile: open up a report's shareable link on your phone

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📆 Week Three

Features to Learn

Basemaps: change your map's look and feel to satellite view, transit, dark, etc
Streetview: easily check out what’s going on a site that you’re not too familiar with
Candidates: bookmark sites of interest by making a Candidate Layer
Measure a distance: calculate distance from an origin to a destination
Upload data: any file you have with an address can be geocoded in your account 

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📆 Week Four

Let your Customer Success Manager know how things are going. It’s been one month now and they want to make sure you’re 110% confident in using your account.

Features to Learn

Heatmap Filtering: isolate the top or bottom demographic areas on the map
Batch Reports: create multiple reports at once based on your Layer data
Shape Layers: show city boundaries, zip codes, or custom territory shapes
Demographic Tables: bring in mass amounts of data to your single-site report
Show customer data: find out where your customers are coming from

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Still have questions? Ping your Customer Success Manager in the Chat or
email our team at support@piinpoint.com

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