Stores are the backbone. Almost everything else in the product refers to them: a unit protects a store, a person's territory is a set of stores, an alert names a store, and an OSHA record is per store.
| Field | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Name | What appears in alert messages. Make it what your team calls the place. |
| Store number | Your own identifier. This is the key your people search by and the one that matches your other systems. |
| Address | Places the store on the map view, and lets a cellular unit's reported position be checked against where you think it is |
| Operating hours | When the building is occupied. Alerts outside these hours are held until it opens. |
Store number is worth filling in even though it's optional. At any real scale it becomes the thing everyone types into search, and it's how a bulk import matches rows to stores you already have.
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