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Placing Coins on the Map

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This article walks through day-to-day map operations in the Lead Distribution Platform (LDP): placing a coin, adjusting its radius, moving it, removing it, and saving your changes.

Opening the LDP Workspace

To manage your coverage area, sign in to cloud.fotomaster.com and click LDP in the main navigation menu. The application loads a full-window interactive Google Maps canvas as the primary workspace layer, featuring several floating operational panels:

Left Panel (Coins and Wins)

    • My Coins (Top Section): Lists your available, placed, and locked coin inventory grouped by product software license.

    • My Wins (Bottom Accordion): A collapsible log displaying all rental leads successfully awarded to you, showing the event city, country, product line, and win date.

Right Panel (Metrics and Notifications)

  • Coverage Summary (Top Section): A matrix breakdown of every software product showing your active "Placed" vs. "Locked" coin counts.
  • Lead Activity (Bottom Section): A real-time notification feed tracking wins, regional lead losses, and temporary uncovered campaign opportunities near you.

Top Header Bar

Houses the text-based city search bar, the interactive product filter dropdown, the country selector dropdown, and the primary Save Changes button.

Bottom Status Bar

A dynamic text indicator that surfaces at the bottom center of the map canvas to warn you when you have uncommitted map alterations pending.

Placing a Coin

  1. In the My Coins panel on the left, find an Available coin under the product you want to receive leads for.
  2. Click the visible drag handle on the coin card, drag it over the map interface, and drop it onto your target geographic location.
  3. The coin will immediately appear as an interactive map marker surrounded by a translucent coverage circle.

💡 Tip: You can use the city search input in the top toolbar to quickly fly the map canvas to a metropolitan market or hotspot before dragging your coin into position. Always place your coins where your target client inquiries originate, rather than just where your business office is physically based.

Adjusting the Coverage Radius

  1. Click on any of your placed coins directly on the map canvas to automatically activate the floating Coin Inspector panel on the right side of the screen.
  2. Use the interactive radius slider or type an exact mileage value directly into the input field. The map overlay will adjust its size live as you modify the controller.
  3. The coverage circle updates live as you drag.

Radius limits depend on your plan:

PlanMinimumMaximum
Basic50 miles100 miles
Pro20 miles200 miles

If you require narrower boundaries for a highly competitive urban zone, or an expanded reach to cover a vast rural territory from a single coin, you can upgrade that specific license package to Pro inside your dashboard.

Moving a Coin

Relocating an existing coin allows you to shift your target territory without consuming additional coin allocations.

  • Drag it on the map. Click and hold the coin marker, then drag it to the new spot. The coverage circle follows.
  • Using City Search as a Helper: You can use the city search bar in the top toolbar to quickly jump the map camera over a target city. Once the viewport repositions to that market, you can manually drag your coin marker into the newly focused area.

Removing a Coin

If you want to pull a coin out of a regional market to place it somewhere else later, return it to your unplaced coin inventory:

  1. Click the target coin marker on the map workspace.
  2. Inside the floating Coin Inspector view on the right, click the Remove from Map action button.
  3. The coverage boundary will disappear from the map view, and the coin card will smoothly return to the Available inventory pool in the left panel.

Note: Removing a coin from the map does not delete it. Each valid software license permanently retains its allocation of 5 coins.

Saving Changes

Placements, movements, and radius adjustments exist strictly inside your local browser session until they are synced. To commit your setup:

  • Check the status bar text floating along the bottom center of the screen -it will display "Unsaved changes" when edits are outstanding.

  • Click the blue Save Changes button located directly inside the top floating bar overlay.

  • The status prompt changes to Saving, and flips to Saved once the new coordinates and boundary parameters are fully committed to the database.

Filtering the Map View

When you own coins for multiple products, the map can get busy. Use the top toolbar to narrow what you see:

  • Product filter -- Show coins for one product at a time (for example, only Mirror Me Booth coins).
  • Country filter -- Limit the map view to a specific country.
  • City search -- Jump to a specific city to inspect or place coins there.

These filters are visual only -- they do not affect which leads you actually receive.

Locked Coins

Coins shift into a Locked status automatically if the 24/7 Support plan on their parent license expires.

  • When a support license lapses, its 5 coins:

    • Are flagged in a dedicated Locked sub-list within the left panel.

    • Render on the map canvas as grey, visually muted, and disabled boundaries.

    • Display a prominent Renew button directly on the coin card.

Locked coins are completely ignored by the matching engine and cannot claim incoming leads or uncovered campaigns. Once your renewal processes in the dashboard, the system automatically reactivates all 5 coins at their exact previous map coordinates and radius miles—requiring zero repositioning work.

💡 Tip: Unless you have "Auto Renewal", set a calendar reminder a couple of weeks before your 24/7 support and LDP coins expiry dates. Locked coins will miss leads in your area until you renew.

Map Controls

The floating toolbar anchored in the bottom-right quadrant provides standard map manipulation utilities:

  • Zoom In / Zoom Out (+ / -): Scales the geographic detail of your workspace area.
  • Recenter Map: Snaps the camera viewport back to encompass your entire active coin deployment.
  • Locate Me: Centers the viewport over your browser's current physical location.
  • Map type switcher (Map / Satellite / Terrain)

Side panels stay open while you interact with the map -- only the panels themselves capture clicks, so panning and zooming work normally underneath them.

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