Bally EBS - Creating a Virtual Race

Background Information

In effort to increase the Slots Player experience, Elite Bonusing Suite allows us to create, manage, and run promotions for certain games throughout the Slot Floor to allow Carded and Non-Carded players to qualify to win Points/Promo Dollars.

Creating a Promotion

Logging Into EBS

  1. Access to EBS will be known if the EBS icon is accessible from the Desktop.
  2. Open up the App and input credentials. UserName and Password are both Case Sensitive. In order to have access, a UserName must be assigned, by the Systems Administrator, from within EBS.

Create a Virtual Race

  1. The “landing page” that is first shown when logging in is the Dashboard.
    • Click on the VR icon on the top of the screen. It will be the 2nd icon, from left-to-right, on the row of 4 icons.
    • Click on Create Promotion on the left-hand side of the screen.
  2. This will bring up the Create Promotion screen.

Promotion Tab

  1. The option is there to either Create New Promotion or Copy Exiting Promotion.
    • Note: It’s recommended that Copy Existing Promotion is selected.
  2. From the drop-down menu, for Select Promotion to Copy, select one of the existing promotions
    • After selecting, you may change the Working Name and/or Display Name
  3. Click Next.

Racer Setup Tab

  1. If there is more than one Racer Name Set, any of those can be selected from the drop-down menu.
  2. Click Edit if there are changes to be made to Player Eligibility.
  3. Click Test Eligibility to see how many machines/players are eligible for the promotion.
    • There is no need to alter Wager Required or Wager Period.
  4. Click Next.

Schedule Tab

  1. Set the following criteria for the promotion:
    • Race Start Date
    • Start Time
    • How many times would you like to run this promotion?
    • Which Schedule would you like to use?
    • Race Setup: (In Minutes) – this will be a result of what you set for the following:
      • Pre-Race
      • Countdown
      • Qualify
    • Note: These are all defaulted to 60 seconds

Winner's Tab

  1. Set the necessary criteria and Price Value cannot be set to 0.
    • Winning Position (can be up to 8)
    • Prize Type (can be either Cash or Points)
    • Prize Value (cannot be 0)
    • Prize Distribution (Auto or Manual)
    • Award Prize Value (can be either To Each Winner or Divide Between Winners
    • Add the amount of Tiers desired to win and what Prize Amounts
  2. Click Next.

Notification Tab

  1. Enter in the appropriate information in the 3 fields seen on this page
    • Name: This would be the name of the person in charge of approvals on promotions
    • E-Mail ID: This would be the email address of the approver of promotions
    • Mobile Number: The would be the mobile number approver of promotions
  2. Click Next.

Review Tab

  1. This tab is just to be able to review the overall promotion and if there are any details that need to be edited; this can be done by clicking on the edit icon next to the area that needs to be edited.
  2. If everything is set, or after changes are made, click Next.

Approval Tab

  1. If the promotion is ready to be approved, choose Yes for the top Yes/No question of “Do you want to approve this Promotion?” Otherwise choose No.
  2. Select Yes or No to the 2nd question of “Would you like to notify the person approving this promotion?” Click Finish.
    • There is no right or wrong answers to these questions.
    • If Yes is selected for the approval of the promotion, it doesn’t mean that it cannot be edited at a later time. Instance where this may be applicable is if there are certain machines that want to be included in the promotion.

Manage Machine Group

  1. To get to this section, click on the Dashboard icon on top of the screen.
  2. After that, click on Tools, on the left-hand side of the screen, and then click-to-select Manage Machine Group.
    • From here select the machines to be included within the Promotion.
    • When done, click Save.

Approve Promotions

  1. Click on the icon at the top and then click on Manage Promotions on the left- hand side of the screen.
  2. Next, click on Approve Promotions and this where the Pending Approval Promotions are shown.
    • In order to approve the Promotion, click on the green checkmark shown under the Actions column.

 

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