Geoverify

I apologize if this has been asked before. I looked but did not see it.I see more and more shops requiring Geoverify. I am planning on starting to use it. I want to get clarification on a few things. I would rather find out here that I am doing it wrong than after submitting a shop that can't be used.

I see in another thread that tracking is sometimes off. Do I contact the scheduler from there? Will my phone show me where it thinks I am?

When I input the code, scheduler will get the time and place. Do I do it at the beginning of the shop, the end, or both? Or just anytime at all during the shop?

Thank you in advance.

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I only know of two shops that REQUIRE it. Others prefer it, but are smart enough to know that many shoppers don't want to use it. If you're using it, always do something as a backup -- take a timestamped photo of the front of the store, buy a cheap item and get a receipt, etc.

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I used Geoverify 3 times last month. One showed me still at home, one showed me half a mile away from where I was, and the third was dead on but only after I restarted the phone..
I'll be parked next to the entrance sometimes and the GeoVerify code comes up as 200 meters away after I put it in the report.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/12/2018 01:50AM by dkpskipper.
I think that it would be useless to contact the scheduler. They can's "fix" GeoVerify, and I doubt that they can even see it. I always look at the map that GeoVerify produces. That map is stored with the GeoVerify code on your phone, so if there is a question, you can make a screen shot of your phone and show that you were at the right place on the map.

That being said, sometimes the location the map is way off. I don't know why that occasionally happens. My solution is to restart the phone. That always works.

Another issue is the the GeoVerify code is sometimes slow to appear. Not to worry. It will eventually appear, usually minutes, sometimes hours, later. Just don't turn of the phone.

Sometimes the shop specifies when to use GeoVerify. I generally do it at the beginning. If I forget, I do it at the end. The MSCs seem to use it for location, not time. For some very long shops (a computer store audit), I do it at the beginning and end just for my own use in tracking time. I advise against pulling out your cell phone in the middle of a shop to run GeoVerify.

Since GeoVereiy needs access to satellites, it often will not work inside malls or other buildings.
@mgoodreau wrote:

I see in another thread that tracking is sometimes off. Do I contact the scheduler from there? Will my phone show me where it thinks I am?

When I input the code, scheduler will get the time and place. Do I do it at the beginning of the shop, the end, or both? Or just anytime at all during the shop?

Shopping Southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware above the canal, and South Jersey since 2008
I finally started GeoVerify because I was missing out on some of my favorite shops that required it. I really like using GeoVerify and now use it all the time, even for shops that don't require it. I find it really useful giving me my start time and at the end of the shop, I take a photo of the store to give me my end time. The GeoVerify times have been accurate each time. I have gotten a wrong GeoVerify number a few times and both were accepted without any word from the MSC.
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