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“We had a blast creating our own app – picking our icons and setting it up from scratch. And we really like that it’s just ours.”
“Our app costs 29% less than printing. A team of 5 people used to spend 400 hours creating printed materials. With our app, it takes 2 people less than 25 hours.”
“With schedules frequently changing, we needed a flexible solution to accommodate updates in real time. The team would print 40,000 programs to hand out at the events, which were costly, bad for the environment, and once printed, couldn’t be updated with any changes.”
Highlight premium employers with sponsorship ads and resources that provide students easy access to company information, job opportunities, and contact details.
Interactive maps and personalized schedules allow students to find employers quickly and plan their day in advance, helping them make the most of their time at the event.
Replace business cards with in-app connections, so students and employers can exchange information, schedule appointments, and follow up after the event.
Push notifications ensure students and employers stay informed of any last-minute changes or important announcements throughout the day.
Eliminate the need for printed materials by updating event information instantly within the app. This approach saves time and money while reducing waste, helping lower your carbon footprint and can support your university's efforts toward LEED certification.
Build a website, or registration, or an event app easily with a drag and drop for your chosen features. Upload content, click publish, and off you go. Your department is always in full control.any last-minute changes or important announcements throughout the day.
Position campus programs and resources critical for student retention. Promote events that support student networking, involvement, and access to resources to aid their college experience.
Develop a holistic campus resource guide for first-year students. Compile orientation, welcome week, transfer events, and valuable resources for the first-year transition. Connect to your existing fundraising platform and extend your reach via mobile apps. No special programming required.
Promote top employers by featuring them in banner ads, giving them prime visibility to students and helping them stand out at the career fair.
Help everyone find the best parking and navigate campus changes with interactive floor plans and campus maps. Or build audio tours for a personal touch.
Enable seamless communication between students and employers through in-app messaging, and use the Interact feed for live updates and networking.
Keep attendees informed about last-minute updates, reminders, and important announcements during the career fair event, directly through their mobile devices.
Inform everyone about schedule changes, weather announcements, reminders and more – straight to their personal device.
Want to promote your event with an integrated website? Or manage registration? Guidebook’s campus event management platform can do it all.
Bowdoin College connects current students and alumni with a Homecoming guide in their personalized app. People can use the app to access exclusive homecoming discounts, check which of their favorite facilities are open to explore, and peruse local dining options. The Schedule Tracks help organize the schedule based on inaugural events, athletic events, and even events with virtual offerings so everyone can find something that interests them!
Supporting three distinct career fairs, Guidebook helps the University of North Florida provide students with a streamlined experience tailored to each event’s audience. The career fair event app serves as a one-stop shop for employer details, including company websites, job opportunities, and contact information. Premium employers gain extra visibility through sponsor ads, while interactive maps make navigating the exhibit hall easy for attendees. Students can also save favorite employers and take notes, ensuring they stay organized and prepared for follow-ups after the event.
“We lead around 14 orientations each year. With Guidebook, we can copy app content from a previous orientation and use it as the foundation for the next one to save time.”
“With Guidebook, administrators are able to create the app themselves without any IT support and non-technical content creators can easily upload and publish content.”
“We went from 200 hours and 5 staff members to just 25 hours and 1 person - compared with creating a website and printed programs.”
Absolutely. If at any point you need to make a change, just jump right back into our system, make those edits, and hit Publish. Within seconds, your updates will be live. And, if you need to send any last-minute notifications to your users, you can do that straight from your phone or tablet with our Mobile Admin capabilities.
Yes! We know how hectic using multiple event planning tools can be, so we integrated our app Builder with the tools our customers use most. We connect with software like Eventbrite, Marketo, Cvent, and Splash. Plus, our Zapier integration allows connections to 10,000+ systems. Contact us to learn more about how our Open API works: integrations@guidebook.com.
Many of our higher ed customers have highly engaged app audiences. This is great for local businesses, the campus bookstore, and other departments to get their message in front of more eyes. Sell options like banner ads, sponsored in-app social feed posts, push notifications, and more. Speak to us today to learn more about what you can sell and how.
Yes! You can integrate your desired social media platforms right into your app interface. Find out more here.
Not everyone can download an app, we get it. Those individuals can access your app content through their phone’s browser or desktop computer on Guidebook Web, so everyone can feel connected to the experience.
Upon publishing your app, you’ll have a custom landing page to share with your audience - as well as a unique QR code. Our app Builder also gives you tools like email promotion, posters, and social media templates (and more) to make promoting and downloading your event app super simple.
Your app content is available as soon as you publish. So, if your app is ready months in advance, alumni and guests can download it as early as you want! You can build interest for your event and encourage app download with your event marketing website. After the event is over, your app content remains live as long as your audience needs.
Our mission is to make it simple to create and manage mobile apps. Over a hundred thousand organisations have used Guidebook to power their mobile experiences. While we’ve had a lot of success powering conference apps, corporate meeting apps, and university campus apps, our platform has been used for thousands of different use cases. Forward-thinking professionals are using Guidebook’s simple app builder to make interactive mobile guides for their student orientations, college campus tours, venues, corporate campuses, parks, and airports. Start going green with iPhone and Android apps built by the best event app company in the industry.
