Replace paper and save time with mobile guides for campus tours, open houses, new student orientations, commencement, and more.
Send push messages to high school counselors and faculty on your route to your campus.
Customise your app with your logo and colors to increase brand visibility.
Provide campus maps, directories of campus contacts and more.
Guidebook allows admissions counselors to stay connected to their peers wherever they are.
Add your financial aid info to spare parents from website searches; apps are preferred for phone browsing.
An interactive social feed provides a central place for attendees to discover content and engage in lively discussions.
Deliver important updates to attendees' home screens, even if the app isn’t active.
Your schedules, interactive maps, and speaker lists can reflect up-to-the-minute changes.
Keep students on track by allowing them to create personal schedules and to-do lists based on your full events calendar.
Use an interactive self-guided tour to help students and visitors navigate campus, even when you’re not around.
Learn about students’ preferences and behaviors by monitoring app usage.
Collaborate with others on a single platform - no extra licenses or costs necessary.
Take a look at our pricing or get a live demo from one of our dedicated product experts
Students are welcomed to NC State's campus with a wonderfully detailed orientation app. Their orientation app features:
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The University of Kentucky's Admissions team switched from printing paper programs for their prospective and admitted student events to building a mobile application, with no coding experience.
Rutgers uses Guidebook to help students navigate around campus using the Rutgers self-guided tour app built with Guidebook.
Charleston Southern University uses Guidebook year round as a resource for students to find activities, sporting events, fitness schedules, and anything related to student life.
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Students are welcomed to Manchester’s campus with a wonderfully detailed Tour Guide App.
Royal Holloway University uses Guidebook year-round as a resource for students to find activities, union events, travel and local area information, and anything related to student life.v
The Welcome Team at King’s make onboarding seamless with powerful mobile schedules and reduced printing to almost nothing by using Guidebook’s no-coding app builder.
Students who visit Bournemouth’s campus have all the information they need in one easy-to-access mobile app.
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 ‘techy.’
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 becoming a trusted advisor to you and your team.
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.
Campus apps typically have some of the highest engaged audiences on the Guidebook platform and some of our university customers have been able to generate sponsorship revenue from other departments, or selected partners. You can allow them to get in front of students through 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.
It’s important to first understand what kind of app you’re looking for -- an app that’s neatly housed within a container app, like Guidebook, or a standalone app in the App Store. If it’s the former, you can move very quickly.
- Generally for newbies, you can expect to spend around 8 hours from start to finish on an app that’ll be housed in a container app. It's fun, creative work, and you and your whole team can simultaneously build the app - so that 8 hours will probably fly by.
- If you’re looking for a standalone app, however, there are other variables at play. When publishing any app to the Apple App Store, you’ll need to set up a Developer account with them, which can take a week or so. They’ll also need to approve your app once it’s complete, which further slows things down. All in all, you’ll want to be prepared for a lead time of at least a month, to be safe. To clarify, this expected time is the same for any event app platform or custom developer out there.Most higher ed institutions choose a Branded App, and can navigate this whole process in typically 3-4 weeks.
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.
Guidebook is specifically optimized to be more accessible to users. We’ve worked directly with accessibility specialists at the College Board, AUCD, and Knowability to ensure our app can be accessed and navigated using the phone’s built-in screen reader functionality. You can read more in the regularly updated pdf attached to this support article.
Whether your event or association is large or small, building trust with your attendees is important. You want to make sure that their information and your information is secure. Guidebook takes security very seriously, and you can learn more about our approach here: Security | Guidebook.
Yes - although Guidebook is easy to use, we offer Professional Services where we can set you up with a dedicated app builder to build your app from start to finish. Since events are in our blood, you know you'll be getting a beautiful app that your users will love. All you'll need to provide is your content (sessions, speakers, etc.) and we'll take care of the rest.
Yes! We know how hectic using multiple campus softwares 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.
As long as you’ve encouraged your users to download your app ahead of time (tip: following best practices for event promotion advises you've done this), most of the information in your app will work offline. In the unfortunate case of poor wifi at your event, all your schedules, maps, and lists will still be accessible. You will, however, not be able to use features like photo albums, social media, and messaging until users have an internet connection again.
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Our mission is to make it simple to create and manage mobile apps. Over a hundred thousand organizations 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.
