Manage Geofences

Managing your geofences is made simple via the Developer Console. If you’re interested in managing them programmatically, check out our Geofences API.

Create a Geofence

From the Geofences section in the Developer Console, click the Add New Geofence(s) Button.

There are five types of geofences you can create:

• Venue - a geofence around a specific venue (e.g Joe’s Pizza in NYC)
• Chain - a geofence around a specific chain of venues (e.g Walmart)
• Category - a geofence around a specific category of venues (e.g Thai Restaurants)
• Circle - a circular geofence around a specific lat/lng pair
• Polygon - a polygon geofence using lat/long pairs

Additional Properties

Additional properties allow you to add custom metadata to each geofence event, where the additional properties will be appended to the event payload as a key-value pair.

Note: You can set a max of 10 pairs and each "key" must be unique.

Once you’ve successfully created a geofence, you’ll see it listed in the Active Geofences section.

Create Geofences via CSV upload

In addition to creating geofences via the UI, you can also upload geofences using a CSV file.

Note: The maximum number of geofences per upload is 5000 and each geofence must have a unique name.

Instructions:

1. Download the csv template here.
2. Add your geofences following the format specified in the template. For e.g if you’re creating a venue geofence, ensure the venueid column is populated with a valid Foursquare venueid, similarly for a chain geofence a chainid, category geofence a categoryid etc.
3. Drag and drop or click to upload your csv file, specifying whether or not you want to append (add to) or replace (delete) existing geofences.