Located In/Located Within Add/Edit/Delete options?

[Henry LocalClarity]

Looking to help a client with significant Located In/Located Within issues internationally, and at scale? This seems to be a black box and I can't find any API documentation. Any resources we can take a look at to build up best practices?

 

[JS Girard]

Looking to help a client with significant Located In/Located Within issues internationally, and at scale? This seems to be a black box and I can't find any API documentation. Any resources we can take a look at to build up best practices?

Maybe someone else has API info, but the API is not something I know much of anything about.

As far as I'm aware, the "located in" bit can only be modified by suggestions. I've never heard of another way. That would certainly explain why it's a "black box" with no info vailable

However, if that is actually what's going on, maybe you can ask for department status instead?

@whitespark is this something your GBP monitoring tool is capable of handling?

 

[DClark]

REST Resource: accounts.locations | Google Business Profile APIs | Google for Developers

REST Resource: accounts.locations | Google Business Profile APIs | Google for Developers

RelationType​

The type relations to be specified.

Enums
RELATION_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED	Type unspecified.
DEPARTMENT_OF	This represents a relation between 2 locations which share one physical area, same brand/upper management/organization, but with different key attributes like store hours or phone numbers. For example, Costco Pharmacy is a department in Costco Wholesale.
INDEPENDENT_ESTABLISHMENT_IN	This represents the cases where 2 locations are co-located in the same physical location, but from different companies (e.g. Starbucks in a Safeway, shops in a mall).

 

[Henry LocalClarity]

REST Resource: accounts.locations | Google Business Profile APIs | Google for Developers

REST Resource: accounts.locations | Google Business Profile APIs | Google for Developers

RelationType​

The type relations to be specified.

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[TH]Enums[/TH]
[TH][/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]RELATION_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED[/TD]
[TD]Type unspecified.[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]DEPARTMENT_OF[/TD]
[TD]This represents a relation between 2 locations which share one physical area, same brand/upper management/organization, but with different key attributes like store hours or phone numbers. For example, Costco Pharmacy is a department in Costco Wholesale.[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]INDEPENDENT_ESTABLISHMENT_IN[/TD]
[TD]This represents the cases where 2 locations are co-located in the same physical location, but from different companies (e.g. Starbucks in a Safeway, shops in a mall).[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

Thanks so much. I had forgotten about these enums.
Now, the hard part. Getting Google to accept changes when there are wrong. Again, thanks.