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“Our app connects current students and alumni with a Homecoming guide. They can access exclusive discounts, check open facilities, explore local dining options, and we use Schedule Tracks to organize events based on different themes – ensuring there's something for everyone!”
“We run a number of different programs in our app. Our Commencement guide provides essential information for graduates and guests to ensure a smooth celebration. After Commencement, recent grads can use the HPU Alumni guide to connect with the alumni office and regional alumni communities.”
“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 constant changes.”
Help alumni and guests make the most of their visit. Your app allows them to create personalized schedules and manage all their event details from a single platform.
Keep alumni engaged and connected to campus. During events like homecoming, push notifications can instantly communicate changes or delays. Throughout the year, notifications can bring alum back to the app for donations, surveys, and more.
Reduce your alumni event’s carbon footprint and contribute to your university’s sustainability goals like LEED certification.
Build a website, registration, or an event app with an easy drag and drop platform with your chosen features.
Whether you're celebrating 5, 10 or 30 years, reunions are a powerful time to reconnect alumni with their alma mater. Use the Guidebook platform to promote events, manage registration, and increase attendee engagement with an app - keeping all alum up-to-date on the latest information
Connect to your existing fundraising platform and extend your reach via mobile apps. No special programming required.
Showcase inaugural activities, athletic events, club celebrations, and other sessions
you have planned for your alumni and families, and even create
personalized schedules if needed.
Create a space for alums to share content, comment, like, and build community again with the built-in social feed. And the app lets them connect 1:1 through direct messages.
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.
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!
The High Point University app hosts 5 different guides to bring the campus and community together. Each guide serves a specific event. For example, the Commencement guide shares information for graduates and their guests to ensure a smooth celebration. Following Commencement, recent graduates are encouraged to check out the HPU Alumni guide which connects them with the Office of Alumni Engagement and regional alumni communities so they can stay engaged.
“Our app costs 29% less than printing, and our student yield increased by 105% once we began using Guidebook.”
“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.Â
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.
