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“Our app gives us the flexibility to make changes on the fly that create a better experience for students during orientation.”
“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 constant changes.”
All campus visitors can build their own personal schedules and manage everything in one place. Your app’s digital schedule is easy to update with last-minute changes.
Room changes and speaker delays happen, now you can keep everyone in the loop with real-time push notifications.
Lower your carbon footprint and help your university achieve LEED certification when you replace printed programs with a simple-to-build mobile app.
Build in 4 easy steps. Choose a template, drag and drop your chosen features, upload content, and publish your app. Your department always has full control.
Be sure new students have a smooth transition to college with an app they can rely on.
Reduce the volume of calls and emails by sharing vital information ahead of time.
Organize your schedule with tracks to distinguish between student and guest sessions, plus create personalized schedules.
Help students and guests find their way around and answer fewer questions with interactive floor plans and campus maps.
Provide all the information students and parents need in one place. Document libraries, campus safety information, new student checklists, FAQs, and more.
Inform students and guests about schedule changes, weather announcements, reminders, and more – straight to their personal device.
Build community and foster peer-to-peer interactions with our engagement tools.
Understand the success of your work - see which content resonated, what your audience wants from your app, and continuously iterate.
With Guidebook, each unique audience - Freshmen, Transfer students, New Graduate Students, and Families - has its own orientation guide. Students see pre-orientation checklists and tools to connect with peers. Families receive information about on-campus resources and joining the Parents Association.
With Guidebook it’s easy to welcome new and returning students to campus each new academic year. In addition to the schedule of events, Bournemouth University uses its campus app to share ways to get involved, academic resources, and tools for navigating campus. Students can use in-app tools to create personalized schedules and to-do lists, ensuring a smooth start to the semester.
“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.”
Yes, you can. If you’re comfortable sending an email or putting together a few basic PowerPoint slides, you can build an app on our platform. Most of our customers would not describe themselves as tech-savvy.
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.
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.
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.
Of course. Guidebook’s award-winning customer success team has reps in the US and the UK. We pride ourselves on fast response times and on becoming a trusted advisor to you and your team.
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, at no extra cost, so everyone can feel connected to the experience.
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. Want to do more? Contact us to learn more about how our Open API works.
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.
