Adding Regions

One of Scantrust's most popular features is our product traceability and status of every secure unique identifier, including QR codes with an anti-counterfeiting feature Scan. Scantrust provides its secure  QR code track and trace technology that allows you to connect products, and bring brand protection, supply chain awareness, and consumer engagement benefits to your company. Regions on the Scantrust portal can be one single country, a group of countries, or custom-drawn areas. 

Here are the steps to set up the Regions.

1. Click on the hamburger menu in the upper left corner of the screen
2. On the slide-out menu, click on "Regions"
3. Left to the map, in the "Define your Region Groups" column at the bottom of the screen 
4. You will have two options to create a REGION, Create a New Region Group from Here, click on the "ADD" button:

          4.1 Draw my own

• • In the pop-up window add the following information:
    • Region Group Name
    • Click on "CREATE"
  • In the "Define your Region" column at the bottom of the screen click on the "ADD" button. In the pop-up window add the following:
    • region name (defines the regions you are going to draw)
    • region key (must be lower case)
    • click "CREATE"
    • click on the region name you just created
    • now you can draw your region using the tools on the upper left of the map (your drawing can be very detailed - in that case make sure to zoom in, or very general, the last point must equal the first point to finish, you can always edit later)
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           4.2 List of countries 

• • In the pop-up window add the following:
    • • Region Group Name
      • Click "CREATE"
  • In the "Define your Region" column at the bottom of the screen click on the "ADD" button. In the pop-up window add the following:
    • region name
    • region key* (must be lower case)
    • Search for all Countries you would like to add 
    • click "CREATE"

*We recommend setting up alpha-2 standard lowercase as region key. Please refer to the country codes list

if you set up regions other than countries, recommend a non-alpha 2 lowercase key in all cases.

The key name will be used in CSV file upload or API calls when updating the SCM data.