Tips and Tricks to Build a Tour

Follow these best practices to build tours that are engaging, informative, and easy for visitors to navigate.

Audio

• Provide audio content in all languages you have configured for the tour. Visitors who do not understand the audio language will miss key information. Use text-to-speech as a quick alternative to professionally recorded audio.
• Keep audio clips under two minutes. Visitors lose interest with longer clips.
• Use layers to offer additional detail for interested visitors without forcing everyone to listen.

Images

• Avoid text in images — the same image is used across all languages.
• Upload a cover image for your site via Site Settings > PWA. See PWA Access for detailed steps.
• Download stop-specific QR codes from the Stop Settings pop-up to highlight individual stops on signage.

Complete Tour Checklist

Podcatcher Pro

• Provide audio content in all languages (click the pencil icon on a clip to upload).
• Connect a Beacon to each stop.
• Connect a Beacon to each language at the first stop.
• Publish the most recent changes.
• Start a sync or wait for the daily sync to distribute data to all Podcatcher Pro devices.

PWA

• Upload a cover image in Site Settings > PWA (see PWA Access).
• Check tour and stop titles for each language — the PWA displays the language-specific title. If none is set, it falls back to the default language. Adjust titles in Tour Settings and Stop Settings.
• Provide audio content in all languages.
• Activate the PWA for each tour you want visitors to access on mobile.

Use this checklist before going live to ensure a complete visitor experience across all platforms.

Related articles

• Create a Tour — start a new tour with the wizard
• Publishing a Tour — make your tour live for visitors
• Activate PWA — enable mobile web access
• Text-to-Speech — generate audio from scripts