Checklist for connecting your Restaurant to Google MyBusiness

Checklist for connecting your Restaurant to Google MyBusiness

Find out here what you should take into account before connecting your Restaurant to Google My Business.

In order to make sure that the end result of the connection is what you wanted, you need to consider two things:

1. Number of Locations

Before connecting to Google, we recommend checking that amount of locations is the same in our platform than in your Google My Business account.
If the location data does not match, check where the difference is and make any needed amendments - e.g. adding a missing location to MozRest listing platform. If you have decided to use your StoreID as an identifier on our side, you can use that to easily spot missing locations.
If you have more locations on MozRest platform than you have on the Google side, these locations will be automatically created and added to your Google account during the connection.

2. Existing location data

It is important that the location information in the platform is matching the Google My Business location data (including pin placement).
If these are differing the system will not recognise the location and potentially create a duplicate.
Before connecting to Google, we recommend checking what information you already have added to the locations on Google's side. This is important if you do not want to override the content in your Google listings. You can easily get a general understanding of the existing data by exporting locations to an Excel file from your Google account.
Once you have an overview of the existing data, you can choose between the following options:

Keep your existing location data from the GMB account

In order to keep the data you have in your GMB account, you need to make sure you have added the below listed location data to your locations in our platform as well. This way you won’t overwrite existing location data with empty content.
Please go through the following fields in GMB and make any necessary changes in our side before connecting:

Field in Google My Business
Field in MozRest Platform
Comment
Payment methods, Accessibility, and other attributes
Please notice: “Payment methods” in our platform does not send its content to Google. Payment method information must be added via “attributes” field in our platform in order to show this for mentioned directories.

Opening Hours
Opening Hours
We will overwrite this field
Special Opening Hours
Special Opening Hours
We will overwrite this field
Website
Website
We will overwrite this field
Business description
Short description/ Long description
We will overwrite this field. The description length on Google side is limited to750 characters. Therefore, either a short or a long description from our platform is taken:

- The long description is taken: in case description is shorter than 750 characters
- The short description is taken: in case of description long description is longer than750 characters
Photos
Photos
When connecting with Google My Business, we only add new photos; our platform never removes existing photos from your Google listings.
If adding the same photos via our platform, those photos will be duplicated in your Google listing.
Labels
Not Available
Our platform does not have a connection point to this field
“I deliver goods and services to my customers at their locations."
“I don't serve customers at my location address“
/
Display Address
We will overwrite this field

Ignore the existing location data in your GMB account

On the other hand, if you want to give your locations in your GMB account a fresh new start, you don't need to worry about the current location data available there. When connecting our platform with Google, the system will overwrite the location data, excluding photos.


Field in Google My Business
Field in MozRest Platform
Comment
Photos
Photos
When connecting with Google My Business, we only add new photos; our platform never removes existing photos from your Google listings.
If adding the same photos via our platform, those photos will be duplicated in your Google listing.


Additional consideration:
You can connect even if your locations have profile suggestions on Google My Business side. Our platform will ignore those suggestions and the data will be pushed from our side.