To ensure a great experience with Mapiq, knowing what you can do within Mapiq and setting your preferences is very important. On first login, you'll be presented with an onboarding flow in which Mapiq will set your preferences based on some easy questions. Like what office do you often work at, do you have a specific floor or area your team often sits and are you in need of specific equipment. Finally you can clarify how you want to receive notifications. After being guided through the onboarding flow, you're setup and you can start using Mapiq to its fullest!

Upon first log in, you're immediately presented with the onboarding flow, which explains what Mapiq does, how you can plan your workdays, setting your preferences and allowing notifications. A summary of everything available in the app is given during the onboarding flow, depending on the configuration of the app (e.g. general settings, available integrations, building setup) done by administrators on the admin side of the app.

The first step in the onboarding flow informs you on the available permissions within Mapiq. As stated, these permissions are granted to you by the administrators of the app. You're informed on:

After explaining your possibilities within the app, Mapiq takes you through the flow of setting your preferences to support you in effortlessly finding a workspace.

The second step is to set your specific booking preferences. You're presented with a few questions. Depending on the configuration of your building and parking facilities (optional), you can be presented with six questions. By answering these questions, Mapiq understands how you schedule your workdays. Based on these set preferences, you can opt to allow Mapiq to automatically book your preferred workspace. If you want to stay in control you can also do this manually.

For more information on the questions and how the decisions impact how Mapiq can book a workday for you, please refer to our dedicated article Setting your booking preferences.

The final step to get you started, is to turn on your notifications if you want to stay updated by Mapiq. It's possible to receive notifications in two ways:

By default the email notifications are enabled, by selecting Allow notifications during the onboarding flow, push notifications are also enabled. Mapiq provides notifications for three types of events:

If, at some point, you decide you want to change your notification preferences, that is possible. You can change these settings from your profile, additionally, it gives you a bit more freedom then the onboarding flow does as it also allows you to disable all types of notifications, including email. Refer to our Managing app notifications article to learn more.