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“With Guidebook, we use an audio tour guide to help prospective students navigate campus, learn more about university offerings, and feel part of the campus community - even if they’re unable to visit in person.”
“When we started we yielded 40%. After implementing Guidebook our yield grew to 82%. We believe Guidebook had a strong impact on that growth.”
“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.
Help prospective students envision what life would be like for them on your campus with an app that connects them with all the amazing things your institution has to offer.
Reduce the volume of calls and emails by sharing vital information ahead of time. Allow everyone to quickly access information after the event too.
Showcase the fun and informational sessions you have planned for your prospective and admitted students, and even create personalized schedules if needed.
Help students and guests find their way around, and answer fewer questions, with interactive floor plans and campus maps. Or build audio tours for a personal touch.
Provide all the information students and parents need in one place. Document libraries, campus safety information, admissions processes, FAQs, and more.
Inform students and guests about schedule changes, weather announcements, reminders and more – straight to their personal device.
Hitting the road to meet students from your feeder schools? Mobile apps can send push messages to high school counselors and faculty on your route.
Use Guidebook to easily create your own visibility-raising mobile app complete with your institution’s logo and branding palette.
Bringing prospective students and other members of the community together on campus? Use a mobile app to provide campus maps, directories of campus contacts and more.
On the road and in the air. Admissions counselors need instant access to information and the ability to connect with their peers. Guidebook allows them to stay connected wherever they are.
People prefer apps to surfing websites from their mobile devices. So don’t force parents to search your institution’s website for financial aid information. Instead create a mobile guide with essential information right on their phones.
Indiana Tech switched from printed materials to a Guidebook app, saving time and increasing yield by 105%. It used to take 5 team members 400 hours to plan and print the booklet. Now, it takes 2 team members 25 hours or less to create and manage the app. After launching the app, student yield from Admitted Students Day attendees increased from 40% to 82%.
Chapman University uses their Guidebook app to facilitate self-guided tours of their beautiful campus in Orange, California. Students can easily learn about Chapman’s various campuses, explore degree and program options, and connect with current Chapman students through the app.
Messiah University uses their Guidebook app to welcome prospective students to campus for their Open House events. Students and supporters can use their app to plan for their trip to campus, view and register for sessions, and connect with Admissions to learn more about submitting an application.
“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 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.
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.
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.
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.
