How To Register With Waze

Today Waze introduced the ability to add together "Places" to their mobile awarding. For any of you who aren't familiar, Waze is a mobile traffic/mapping application that was acquired by Google in the not-too-distant past. Google-owned local applications are always on my radar, then hither is a quick walk-through on how to list a business on Waze using the Android version of the application on a Nexus v.

1) Download Waze
The newest version of Waze, which has the ability to add a place, is is just available in the Google Play and Apple App stores. Sorry Windows Telephone and Blackberry users, but it'due south probably time to upgrade to a existent smartphone 😉

2) Report a Place
Once you lot are inside the Waze application in that location is an icon on the lesser correct that looks like a Google map pin. This is the "Report" menu where you can add a business. After you tap, information technology opens up a screen that has an icon for adding a place. Information technology's the center icon in the screenshot below, and conveniently labeled "Place." Tap information technology.

Add a Business to Waze

iii) Take a Picture of the Storefront
At present this is where things starting time to get a PITA. The adjacent pace is to take a moving picture of the storefront of the business. That's correct, you have to have a motion-picture show of the front of the building in lodge to add it to Waze. On my start endeavour to add a business I tried to accept a flick of the Google Street View of a customer's storefront that I had opened on my desktop. Unfortunately, for reasons that will become abundantly clear in the next step that was a total failure. Anyhow, I drove over to Umami Burger to complete this stride.

Adding Umami Burger to Waze

Later you take a photo you lot become the popular-upwardly bulletin in the screenshot above (Editor's Annotation: Can nosotros delight retire "awesome sauce"?) and the camera icon turns into the double "pointer." Tap on the pointer to get taken to the next pace.

4) Claim Your Business organisation
And so this is where things really break downwardly in terms of beingness able to add clients' businesses. When you lot advance after taking a flick yous are taken to a screen that lets you enter business info. Still, it pulls info from their database and only lets you lot enter specific info.

So the commencement matter y'all see in the screenshot above is that Waze has marked Umami Burger every bit a residential place. I tried to tap on everything to be able to edit this option, but could not. Maybe information technology's a problems. Maybe it's the Android version of the app. Whatsoever the crusade, information technology doesn't brand this feature specially useful for a user or business owner. To top it off, Umami Burger is located in a very popular strip mall. Anyway, you can either tap on "This is a residential place" or apply the search bar to discover your business. Since a search didn't return Umami burger, I clicked on the "residential place" tab.

five) Add a Street Number & Properly Locate the Map Pin
The next, and thankfully final, step is one where y'all have to enter a street number and properly locate the pin.

Claim Your Business Screen 2

Since it adamant that Umami Burger was a residential address, I wasn't given the ability to add together a business name, but according to this promotional video you should be able to add together that information if Waze can properly determine the location is a identify of business.

You might accept noticed the greenish checkmark next to "Bristol St Costa Mesa" above. This was machine-populated by the phones GPS and is something I could not change (despite much furious tapping.) Because of this, there is no way to add together a business concern if your aren't currently at its location. Then much for calculation customer locations. Anyhow, later you enter the street address, tap to verify the location and and then tap "done".

Congrats, you added a business concern listing to Waze! At present information technology just has to pass community review
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*Update:

Yous tin can add/edit places using Waze'due south web editor, but whether this is the aforementioned as calculation it via the mobile application is non clear at this point. Yous are still limited to editing based around a radius of places yous've driven. For instance I am a level 1 editor and can edit ane mile around roads I have driven. H/t to HurricaneK8 over at Linda's forums.