TCP WEB ADVERTS USER GUIDE

Login

The First step to setting up Adverts is to Log in to TCP Web. Once logged in to the system locate and click on the below icon down the left-hand side of the screen

This will then load the Promotions section of TCP Web. From here Click on Advert Links as shown below

Creating your Advert

The First thing to do is to press on the Plus symbol to the right of the screen above the grid to add a new Advert

Pressing this will take you to the Advert Creation Screen as below

As you can see adverts require a Minimum of a Description and a Duration. At the end of each of the input sections you have a Question Mark symbol, clicking this will give you a little detail about what the field is required for. 

Give your Advert a Description, Set the duration you want the advert to display on the advertising screen (in seconds) before it switches to the next advert and tick the Enabled box, if this is not ticked the advert will not display. If you are wanting to display a webpage enter the website address in the Advert Box

Hit Save at the button.

Designing your Advert

Upon saving the Advert tabs will appear at the top of the advert section as below

If you are displaying webpages as adverts skip to the next section.

As you are wanting to create your own advert select the Design Tab to load the Advert Designer.

This is a simple Text Editor used to build your own custom Adverts. Most users will already have their advert designed as an image so you will want to press the Insert Menu and Select Image

 

This will then Prompt you for the image details. As the source press on the folder to navigate to it using the file browser

 

Upon Selecting the image, the system will fill out the rest of the details other than the description, go ahead and give the image a description

With Adverts there is a bit of guess work required for the screen size as this depends on several factors such as screen size and if the screen is also been used to show transactional information or not. If the advert created is too large scroll bars will be displayed on the advertising screen once it is sent to the till along with as much of the advert the system can display. Unfortunately, you will only know this once it gets to the till

You can alter the image size you are inserting by changing the dimensions on the Insert/Edit image window.

Once you are happy with the image press Ok followed by Save

Setting the Schedule

Now the Advert information is set up we need to configure When it will display.

Select the Advert Schedule Tab and then the Plus symbol to the top right again

In this screen you will need to provide the details of when you want the advert to display, again there are the Question mark symbols at the end of each entry to give you information on what the setting is used for. Please note there are a few options which are of screen so please scroll through the page to set all the options.

Once you are happy Press Save & Close

Setting the Tills

The next part is to Set with Tills the Advert is for, to do this go to the Associated Pos Tab and press the Plus symbol at the top right 

 

In this screen we need to select all the available Pos Group the Advert is to be used for. Most systems will have a Pos Group Per site as default however you can create more as needed e.g. an All Sites Pos Group. Here is a KB on our support site explaining Pos Grouping/Pos Groups https://support.fidelitysystems.co.uk/portal/en/kb/articles/an-introduction-to-pos-grouping-13-12-2019. Once you have selected the Pos Group go ahead and hit Save & Close. If you wanted, you could add more entry’s now by following the same process.

Finishing up

You have now successfully created an Advert with its Required Schedule. The Final Thing to do is to send this down to the tills. Unfortunately at this time this must be done in TCP Desktop following the same process used to send product or screen changes to the tills.