You stop a salesman from faking his location by refusing the visit when the phone reports a mock or fake location: no visit is recorded, and the refused attempt still shows to the owner. The caveat is that the trust check is the mock-location flag only. There is no root detection, no tamper detection, and no geo-fence, and he can check in when he is not at the shop. Fake GPS location in field sales, on this Guwahati book, is Raju's phone claiming Gupta Stores while that flag is on: the stamp does not land, Station Road stays empty for that hour, and the owner still sees the refused attempt. If the owner has granted that device an exemption, the visit is accepted and marked Unverified. Five salesmen, about 120 dealers, five road names. Camera photo, Global Positioning System (GPS) location with accuracy, device time, his name and the dealer. This article walks the refusal, the Unverified label, and what the flag cannot catch.
Key Highlights
- When the phone reports a mock or fake location, check-in is refused and no visit is recorded. The refused attempt still shows to the owner
- An owner-granted device exemption accepts the visit and marks it Unverified. The trust check is the mock-location flag only
- There is no root detection, no tamper detection, and no geo-fence. He can check in when he is not at the shop
In This Article
- How do I stop my salesman from faking his location?
- Mock location: no visit recorded, the attempt still shows
- Fake GPS location in field sales when the owner grants an exemption
- The trust check is the mock-location flag only
- He can check in when he is not at the shop
- What the owner does with refused attempts
- Frequently Asked Questions
How do I stop my salesman from faking his location?
By letting the phone's mock-location flag stop the stamp. Fake GPS location in field sales is that flag, on the device, at the moment of check-in.
Raju opens Gupta Stores on Station Road at 10:40 and checks in. If the phone reports a mock or fake location, check-in is refused. No visit is recorded. The refused attempt still shows to the owner. The Salesman app for Tally does not follow the rest of Tuesday. A geo-tagged visit photo versus all-day GPS tracking already set that: the record is the photo, the coordinates and the time.
Beat-wise sales management is Station Road as a named list, then this stamp at the shutter. The mock-location flag is the answer the product actually has.
Visit capture is phone-only. Field Visits is available on request. The owner's Field Visits screen is phone-only. Feed defaults to today, filterable by salesman or Everyone.
Mock location: no visit recorded, the attempt still shows
Check-in captures a camera photo, mandatory, gallery closed, GPS location with accuracy, device time, the salesman, the dealer, and an optional note. Before that record is kept as a visit, the phone is asked whether location is mocked.
If the flag is on, the visit is refused. Gupta Stores does not get a 10:40 row. How long he was at the dealer never starts. The refused attempt still shows to the owner. He opens Raju, today, and sees that Gupta Stores was tried with a mock location.
He WhatsApps at 8:10. "Gupta Stores ka visit nahi aaya, mock location dikha raha hai." Five salesmen means five handsets. Manoj on GS Road can trip the same flag. Filter Everyone and the refused attempts sit with the visits that landed.
What a beat is in distribution sales does not put a pin on Gupta Stores. The refusal is about the flag on the phone.
Fake GPS location in field sales when the owner grants an exemption
Some devices report a mock location when the salesman is not faking anything. Older phones, a leftover developer setting. The owner can grant that device an exemption.
With the exemption, check-in is accepted. The visit is marked Unverified. The photo, the name and the time still stand. Gupta Stores at 10:40 still has a shutter photograph. Unverified means the location could not be trusted the usual way.
The exemption is per device, granted by the owner. Raju's old phone can be exempted. Manoj's phone still refuses. Check-out runs its own trust check, the same flag. If the check-out leg fails, duration is shown as unreliable. Unverified is about the location on a visit the exemption allowed through. Unreliable duration is about the second stamp.
The trust check is the mock-location flag only
The trust check is the mock-location flag only. There is no root detection, no tamper detection, and no geo-fence.
The product asks the phone whether location is mocked. It does not inspect whether the phone is rooted. It does not inspect whether the OS has been tampered with. It does not draw a circle around Gupta Stores and measure the salesman against it. A phone that spoofs coordinates without raising the mock-location flag will not be caught by this check. The owner still has the photograph. What actually proves the salesman went is still the four facts together: who, where the device said, when, and a picture of the place.
Takkada records the photo, location and time. It does not track the phone all day. Visit check-in with no signal does not soften the flag. Visit check-in and check-out are saved on the phone without signal and upload when signal returns. Creating an order, invoice or receipt needs a working data connection. If the phone reported a mock location in the dead-signal lane, check-in was already refused on the device. Signal returning does not post a fake visit.
He can check in when he is not at the shop
He can check in when he is not at the shop. There is no geo-fence. Gupta Stores has no pin. Check-in does not test how far the phone is from a stored shop coordinate, because there is no stored shop coordinate.
If Raju photographs the tea stall, the godown, or the scooter at home, the visit is recorded so long as the mock-location flag is off. The photo and the coordinates show where he actually was. The owner reads those on the caption plate: salesman, an approximate street address prefixed "Approx.", coordinates with accuracy, timestamp. Camera-only is the attendance act. Gallery is closed.
Distance at check-out is from where the visit started, not from a dealer pin. Fake GPS location in field sales is a different failure: the first point itself was mocked, so the visit never started, unless the device is exempted and the row says Unverified. Create beats and assign a salesman from the phone still only names Station Road.
What the owner does with refused attempts
By evening the owner has a pile of rows. Station Road: Gupta Stores refused at 10:40, next kirana landed at 11:05, two shops with no attempt. GS Road: Manoj, one Unverified on an exempted phone.
A refused attempt is a conversation. "Mock location kyun on hai" is a smaller call than "gaya tha ya nahi" with nothing on the feed. Visit outcomes, booked on the visit versus at the dealer reads orders against stamps that landed. A refused Gupta Stores does not put 14 cartons on Booked on these visits. He can still book the order into Tally without re-entry when there is signal.
What field teams actually need from a Tally app in India starts at this counter. The stop on fake GPS location in field sales is the flag, the refused attempt on the owner's feed, and Unverified when the owner has chosen to let that device through. There is no root detection, no tamper detection, and no geo-fence. He can check in when he is not at the shop. The photo still has to be taken there and then.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How do I stop my salesman from faking his location?
A: The app refuses check-in when the phone reports a mock or fake location. No visit is recorded. The refused attempt still shows to the owner. The trust check is the mock-location flag only.
Q: What happens with fake GPS location in field sales if I exempt the device?
A: The visit is accepted and marked Unverified. The photo, the name and the time still stand. Unverified means the location could not be trusted the usual way. The exemption is per device, granted by the owner.
Q: Does the app detect rooted or tampered phones?
A: No. There is no root detection and no tamper detection. The trust check is the mock-location flag only. A phone that spoofs coordinates without raising that flag is not caught by this check.
Q: Can he check in when he is not at the shop?
A: Yes. There is no geo-fence. Gupta Stores has no pin. Check-in does not test distance against a stored shop coordinate. The photo and the coordinates show where he actually was. The owner reads those on the caption plate.
Q: Does a refused attempt disappear?
A: No. The visit is not recorded, and the refused attempt still shows to the owner. Feed defaults to today, filterable by salesman or Everyone. The gap is visible as a refusal.
Q: If he is offline, can a fake location upload later as a real visit?
A: No. Visit check-in and check-out are saved on the phone without signal and upload when signal returns. Creating an order, invoice or receipt needs a working data connection. Mock location is refused on the device. Signal does not change the flag.
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