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title: "Mapp Engage: Location Targeting for Mobile Push Messages"
slug: "mapp-engage-location-targeting-for-mobile-push-messages"
updated: 2024-04-04T08:28:48Z
published: 2024-04-04T08:28:48Z
canonical: "docs.mapp.com/mapp-engage-location-targeting-for-mobile-push-messages"
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# Mapp Engage: Location Targeting for Mobile Push Messages

**04 Aug 2020** Mobile Push Messages in Mapp Engage now allow you to target your contacts based on their location. Reach your app users in a particular location via real-time push messages and encourage them to visit your nearby store by sending them the latest news, special offers, and discount coupons.

## Key Benefits

- Reach your contacts in real time via location-based Mobile Push Messages
- Configure and manage your locations easily in Mapp Engage
- Create single locations and location clusters, for example when they are related to a particular campaign
- Boost the performance of your campaigns

## Prerequisites to use Location Manager

- Your mobile applications are integrated with the relevant Mapp SDK.
- The Location Manager is enabled on your Engage system.

For further guidance, reach out to your Customer Success or Account Manager.

## How does it work?

## ![](https://cdn.document360.io/554b9b98-6720-4d8b-9919-c7b203d72648/Images/Documentation/b6bc9382-9124-4593-9b5c-29f762a10623.gif)

1. Go to *Contacts > Location Manager* in Mapp Engage and click **Create Location.**
2. Give your location a unique name and click **Next**.
3. Specify the address of your location and the diameter from which the Push Message should be sent and click **Next**.
4. Specify whether you want to add your location to a cluster or not. You can also create a new cluster and click **Next**.
5. Schedule activation and repetition pattern of your location. In this step you can also plan to deactivate the location and click **Next**.
6. Check the configuration of your location and click **Save** if you want to save it, or **Previous** if you want to change anything.
7. Click **Activate** to make your location ready to use. Click **Close** to save it as a draft.

Also, check out our [GeoLocation Video](https://vimeo.com/437114504/f98520b769)!

## Further Information

[Best Practices for Android](/v1/docs/location-management-best-practices-android) [Location Manager - Documentation and How-To's](/v1/docs/location-management)