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“We use Guidebook to welcome families for Family Weekend, offering event schedules and insights into Wildcat traditions.”
“Through the app, family weekend guests can explore the exciting event lineup, dive into Wildcat traditions, and discover campus dining options. Plus, they can learn about the various departments that support their students throughout the year and find easy ways to stay connected via social media even after the weekend wraps up.”
“With schedules constantly shifting, we needed a solution that could handle real-time updates. Our team used to print 40,000 programs for events, which was expensive, environmentally unfriendly, and impossible to update once they were printed.”
Help families and guests feel at home on campus. Your app allows them to create personalized schedules for planned activities, find local restaurants, see popular attractions, and connect with the community.
Keep families engaged and connected to campus. During events like open house, 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 parent and family event’s carbon footprint and contribute to your campus sustainability goals like 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.
Expecting a crowd of parents and families on campus? Make their experience as seamless as you can. An integrated website, registration, and campus experience app all help to make everyone’s lives easier - yours too! A mobile app specifically can give them access to interactive maps, contact directories, and all the info they need, right in their pocket.
Campus tours are a big deal for anyone that is new to campus, but managing them can be tough. With Guidebook, you can offer self-guided tour apps that let visitors explore at their own pace—no need to worry about finding extra student ambassadors.
Showcase all the fun sessions you have planned for families and guests. Attendees can create personalized schedules with My Schedule.
Keep families up to date about schedule changes, weather announcements, reminders and more.
Share event logistics such as parking and transportation, restaurant guides, local attractions, and more.
Help attendees navigate their surroundings - whether that’s campus as a whole, the floorplans of specific buildings, or the traffic flow of specific rooms - with interactive maps.
Link to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram so guests can connect with your office and stay informed.
Want to promote your event with an integrated website? Or manage registration? Guidebook’s campus event management platform can do it all.
The University of Arizona wanted to make Family Weekend more memorable and easy to navigate for families and supporters.
With Guidebook, they created a Family Weekend app that put everything families needed right at their fingertips. Guests could easily check out the schedule of exciting events, dive into Wildcat traditions, and find the best spots to eat on campus. The app also connected them with key campus resources and made it simple to stay in touch after the weekend through social media.
Using Guidebook turned Family Weekend into a smooth, enjoyable experience. Families felt more connected, not just to their students, but to the entire campus community. With real-time updates, easy access to information, and a direct link to the university, they made sure everyone left with great memories and a stronger bond with the Wildcat family.
“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.”
Yes, you can. If you’re comfortable sending an email or putting together a few basic PowerPoint slides, you can build an event 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.
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.
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.
Of course. Guidebook’s award-winning customer success team has reps in the US and the UK, and we pride ourselves on fast response times, and 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, 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, 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.
