Account Setup : Routes Google API Key (Cloud Console)
Remember GCP gives you a $200/month credit towards the use of all of their APIs, so you should not incur any usage fees as long as you receive approximately 25,000 or less requests on your MapMyStores implementations each month.
If your company does not have a Google Business Account, no problem, follow the steps below to setup your GCP account and billing at the same time.
Creating a GCP Account
In a browser, navigate to https://cloud.google.com. Click 'Get started for free'.
Select your country, check the 'Terms of services' checkbox, and click 'AGREE AND CONTINUE':
On the next page, it will either allow you to link to an existing Google billing account, or create a new one. Once you have entered/updated your company's information (not TurnTree Solutions information) click 'START MY FREE TRIAL':
Enabling the Appropriate APIs
You will have a project automatically created which is called ‘My First Project’. Click on the Project Settings and then Edit the name to be called 'TurnLink Route Planning':
After you have renamed the Project and clicked Save, you can get started by Enabling the Google Maps Platform. This will automatically enable all of the API Services required for MapMyStores and create a key.
Check the two boxes in the image below for 'Enable all Google Maps APIs for this project' and 'Create budget alerts...' and then press 'Go to Google Maps Platform' button:
(If for some reason you missed that step, you can go to Enable API & Services and find Maps Javascript and Enable it. THen make sure the 'Route API' is enabled.)
When asked to Protect your API Key, select none Then click on 'Credentials' on the menu on the left and then click on the API Key that was created to edit the name to 'Routes' and save your changes with only this one change to the name:
Copy/paste the key into an email and send it to support@turntree.com. We will promptly update them in your system!
Monitoring GCP Billing
You can monitor your billing from the 'Billing' submenu where you can drill down in 'Reports' to see daily usage and the corresponding monthly $200 credit.
