1. Feature Overview
Track and monitor the distance travelled (in kilometres or miles) by your field sales users on any particular day. The distance travelled is calculated based on the check-in/check-out activities, and location coordinates identified by the LeadSquared Mobile App. Admins and Sales Managers can also apply filters on the report and export data.
2. Prerequisites
- You must have the LeadSquared Mobile app installed on your device, and location permission access must be enabled. To know more, please refer to Location Tracking on LeadSquared Mobile.
- Enable Location Insights on your account. To do so, contact your account manager or write to us at support@leadsquared.com.
- Admins must enable location tracking permissions for their users. To do so, navigate to Settings>Mobile App>Permissions. Under Location Tracking, enable all the permissions.
- Enable user check-in in your account for location tracking and distance calculation. To do so, navigate to Settings>Users and Permissions>User Check-in and enable the Show check-in widget to web users setting.
- All mobile users must Check-In/Check-Out daily for the system to effectively track their location and calculate the distance travelled during the day. Distance calculation will not be initiated for the day if the mobile user has not checked in.
- To get data with highest location accuracy, refer to
3. Distance Travelled Report
To view the Distance Travelled Report, navigate to Reports>Reports Home>Field Sales Tracking>Distance Travelled Report. On this page, based on your user role and organisational hierarchy, you can view the list of users and their corresponding distance travelled during the specified date range.
- To edit the date range, above the list of users, click on the date dropdown and select the relevant date range. You can also create a custom date range here.
- To add and/or reorder columns, alongside the column headers, click
. - To find a specific user, enter the user’s name or email ID on the search bar.
- To view a user’s location history, alongside the user name, click
. - To filter the report by teams or sales groups, click
. - To export the report, on the top right side of the page, click Export. The data available for the selected date range will be exported in CSV format.
Note:
- To view a user’s location history, you must select a specific date in the date range.
- Distance calculation will not be initiated for the day if the mobile user has not checked in.
- Sales Users cannot export the distance travelled report or perform any search/filter-related operations on the report.
- The Distance Travelled Report cannot be accessed on mobile.
4. Settings
To view the settings, on the bottom left corner of the page, click 
. On this page, you can configure the following advanced settings –
- Google Maps Platform API Key – By default, the distance travelled by users is calculated using the Haversine formula. To use your Google Maps Platform API Key for Distance Calculation, enter the key here. Once you configure this setting, all future distance calculations will use Google Maps API, while your past data remains unaffected.
- Metric for distance – You can set the metric for distance as Kilometres and metres (km, m) or Miles and yards (mi, yd). Your selection will be applied to all distance related metric across journeys and reports.
Note:
- The Haversine formula is a mathematical formula used to estimate the displacement between two points, given their latitude and longitude coordinates. It provides a reasonably accurate estimation for shorter distances.
- The Google Direction Maps API records the latitude and longitude coordinates and returns the distance travelled by your users, by assuming a specific path of travel.
Any Questions?
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