Purpose

Operators have the option to create their own custom advertisements that will display on their vending devices on a rotation.

Process

Create an Advertisement

1. Click on My Company > Advertisements from the Machines page.

   

   This is the Advertisements page.
   Here you can see all of the advertisements you have already created and are available to be assigned to your machines.

   
2. Click Create Advertisement.

   

3. Click Browse to upload an image for your advertisement. Some devices have specific requirements for the image to display:
   
   
   1. PicoVend devices require images formatted as JPG or PNG with a 3:4 (portrait) aspect ratio.
      
      
   2. PayPlus and PicoVend Mini devices require images to be 320 pixels wide and 400 pixels tall. These images must 24 bit BMP (bitmap) files.
      
      
   3. PayPlus Cash devices require images to be 320 pixels wide and 160 pixels tall. These images must 24 bit BMP (bitmap) files.
      
      
   4. Legacy AirVend AV7 and AV5 devices require images to be 480 pixels wide and 633 pixels tall, formatted as JPG or PNG.
      
      
   5. All images must be 500 KB or smaller.
      
      You can create and convert BMP (bitmap) files with the Windows application Paint. Paint should default to 24 bit files to make this simple.
4. Enter a Name for your advertisement.
   
   
5. Set a Duration. This determines how many seconds the advertisement will be displayed on your device before switching to the next screen.
   
   
6. The Automatically add to new machines checkbox will assign the advertisement automatically to any newly created machine in the future.
   
   
7. Select which machines to add the advertisement to and click Create.
   
   

View Existing Machine Advertisements

The steps above show how to create and manage advertisements at the company level. To view or manage advertisements for specific machines, you need to view the Machine Advertisements page.

1. Click on the name of a machine you want to manage.

   

2. Click on Manage Advertisements from the Edit Machine page.

   

   This page shows all the advertisements that are currently assigned to this machine, including  their duration and the order in which they will be displayed.
   
   

3. Click Create Advertisement to assign an advertisement that you created at the company level.

   

4. Click the drop-down menu and select the advertisements you want to use.

   

5. Click Create.

   

The newly assigned advertisement now shows in the Machine Advertisements page.
From this page you can edit, delete, or change the display order by using the Move Up and Move Down buttons.