App Features

Easy to Use Control Panel

Our easy-to-use control panel will allow you to send out your own Push Notifications, set up GeoFences wherever you'd like, add or edit your own content, add your own calendar events, and virtually anything else that you would ever want to control in your app.

We have a complete "How-To" guide that will walk you through step-by-step directions including screen shots and information about each feature of the app. While we are always here to help you if you are in a bind- we always want you to know that even a novice user can navigate through our control panel and successfully run their app!

Event Calendar

Is your company holding an event and you'd like to share the information with your app users? We have a completely native event calendar that allows you post event information, venue directions (via GPS through the phone), and even RSVP functionality right through the app!

Office or Location Information

Location Information

With this function you can easily share basic business information with your users. They can see your business hours, call or email your business, or choose to receive turn-by-turn directions to your store. The easier you are to find and communicate with, the more customers you'll have at your locations!

Integrate Your Social Media Accounts

We can hook your existing YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, etc. channels directly to your app. This makes it easy to share information with your users. For instance, when you upload a few new pictures to Instagram, they will automatically appear in your app to all of your users!

Loyalty Program for Repeat Customers

Surely you've seen the "punch cards" at your local sandwich shop... Each time you come in for lunch, they punch your card. On the 10th punch, you get a free sandwich? Well- we can provide you with that exact same capability right through your app, but don't be mistaken and think it's just for sandwiches.

With a little imagination, you can use this function for event attendance, number of times they've come into your retail store, etc.

You can also award the users more "points" for leaving location services and push notifications enabled!

QR Scanning

With the ability to pass information through a QR code, your business can take advantage of some incredibly powerful marketing opportunities with a native QR Scanner.

This technology was originally developed for manufacturing in the automotive industry, but its applications in today's use are far more reaching. We'd like to provide you with some examples of ways that we have successfully implemented QR codes into our clients' business models. Click on a link below to expand that tab:

Online Sales Videos

No one can sell your company's products like the head of your sales team! Instead of relying on their network dealers who sometime hire temporary help personnel in their stores to do the selling, one of our clients was able to successfully implement a series of sales videos featuring their VP of Sales! In the display kits that they sent to the dealers they included a QR code for each model of their products. The Dealer App that their dealer network uses has a QR scanner built into it utilizing the camera to scan the codes. When a customer wants to know more about the product, the salesman on the floor could simply scan the code and voila- the customer is now watching a video of the VP of Sales talking about that exact product.

The dealers loved it, the customers loved it, and our client loved it. It allowed them to scale their sales capabilities into the hands of each of their dealers without having a lot of additional training, overhead, or marketing bandwidth.

Lost or Damaged Items

One of our clients ships large amounts of orders on a daily basis to customers all over the country. This is a business-to-business relationship, but the person receiving the box is never the person that actually placed the order. There are times when some items are missed during packaging or damaged during delivery. To streamline the ability for the person receiving a potentially damaged or missing item in a shipment to directly contact a person that could solve their problem, we leaned on the technology of QR codes. On the top of every packing slip that goes out of their warehouse there is a QR code and instructions to scan the QR with the QR scanner built into the app. When they do, it will bring up a form for them to fill out but is pre-populated with all of the order information for that exact order. The result is a dramatically faster turn-around time on a replacement part so that both parties are happy!

Enter To Win - Contests

A client of ours was registered to go to an education tradeshow for teachers, but didn't want to pay the extra amount of entry costs to receive all of the information about each registrant at the show. There were a lot of registrants- but they really wanted to more strategically target the audience members. As part of their booth, they printed a large 18" x 18" QR code on a banner that read "Win a FREE $500 Camera!" When people scanned the QR code, they were directed to an entry page that we created for them which asked for their name, phone number, email, and a few other brief items that they wanted to know for sales profiling. Each person that entered their information had a chance at winning a camera that they had brought as a prize. This served multiple purposes:

It drew people toward their booth as they needed to be close enough to scan the QR code.... Which also left them close enough to talk to.
It drew out registrant information for profiling that wasn't readily available from the data provided by the show organizers
It automatically placed those who entered into an automated marketing drip to help generate sales

As soon as the show was about to end, a winner was selected at random. All of the other names received an automated and personalized email exactly 20 minutes after the drawing that stated "Sorry you didn't win, here is a coupon code for you to use on our site."

The result was a huge success in both drawing people into their booth as well as increase web traffic an online revenue!

Loyalty Program - Check-Ins

One of our clients is a brewery. There are several local bars and restaurants around town that sell their beer, and so they decided to cross-promote across those bars. They set up an agreement with the bars where the bars would help to sell more of their beer and they would help to push clients to those bars. It worked like this...

A push notification went out to everyone with the app within a 25 mile radius informing them of the contest. They got a prize that would normally cost about $750 that they advertised as the reward to the winner. The contest went for one month, and the rules were simple. You go to each of the bars identified in the app and you ask the bartender for the QR code that you need to scan in order to "check in" after they had ordered a beer from that brewery. The bartender gave them the QR code which was provided by the brewery and the customer used the QR scanner in the app to "check in" via the code. Once they checked in to each of the available bars, they received 1 entry to win the prize at the end of the month. It drove customers into the bars/restaurants, which was great for them with the accompanying food/drink sales. It incentivized the bars/restaurants to push their beer as a requirement of the give-away. It also drove the customer back into the app on a regular basis, further establishing the relationship between the end user and the manufacturer.

In short- the entire program generated a LOT more than the $750 prize cost them...

Reservations / Scheduling

Does your business have a need for reservations? For instance, a restaurant might want to provide the ability for one section of tables to be reserved through their app while an attorney's office might want clients to be able to schedule appointments in their available time slots... Either way- we can help!

If you own a restaurant and are currently using a reservation system, chances are that we can connect your app directly to that system allowing you to manage your data exactly the way you currently are!

Reservations Feature

Customer Feedback

In-App E-Commerce Sales

Have an e-commerce store on your website? Chances are- we can pull it directly into your app.

Don't have an e-commerce store but you'd like to be able to sell your product or service to your customers via your app? We have a 100% integrated, native function that will allow you to do just that.

Have a restaurant or coffee shop for which you'd like to accept orders via the app? No problem... We can certainly handle that as well. If your business is in the service industry, you need to check out our Service Industry page!

Collect payment right through the app, or allow the customer to pay when they get there. It's completely up to you!

Geo-Fencing

GeoFence

Among the most attractive features of our mobile applications is the ability to send out push notifications based on geofencing. Bascially, this means that you can set a pre-determined area where you would like to send your customers a pre-written message or link.

How is this useful? Well, in an effort to protect the privacy of how many of our clients are using this functionality in their sites, we'll offer up some "hypothetical" uses for geofencing...

Local Restaurant/Bar

"John Doe's Mugs and Chugs" is a local restaurant/bar in a college sports town. The owner, John, doesn't have the same marketing budget as some of his more established competitors who can afford to advertise at university games, events, radio commercials, etc. Instead, he invests in a unique technology that allows him to reach out and touch his customers in a way that is both effective and affordable. John invests in an app...

John utilizes a rewards and loyalty program where each time a patron comes into the bar, their server "stamps their loyalty card" in the app by entering an employee code. By entering this code, their app adds 10 points to their loyalty program. Every time the patron reaches 100 points, he gets a free draft beer. To incentivize customers to download the app, they automatically get 20 points for installing it on their phone.

The opening day of football season is a busy time for this college town. In anticipation of a large crowd, John has set up a geofence around three of his competitors for two hours before the game starts, lasting until one hour after the game is over. As the crowds swarm in toward his "big marketing spender" competitors, John watches as they receive automatic push notifications informing them that John Doe's Mugs and Chugs has available seating and that each patron will receive a free 20 point credit on their loyalty card if they come to the bar. To the dismay of his competitors, patrons are diverted away from their establishments and head toward John's restaurant to watch the game.

Based on his loyalty program, 20 credit points cost John about $0.35 per customer. The average customer ordered $12 worth of food and $10 worth of drinks. The push notification and the geofence cost him nothing, therefore John literally used his competitor's advertisements to his advantage.

Local Coffee Shop

"John Doe's Cup of Joe" is a local coffee shop that finds themselves competing against the big name franchise stores every morning. To help drive some early morning specials, the owner decides to invest in an app that will help market to his customers. To incentivize customers to download the app, he includes a loyalty program where every fifth time they come into his shop their cup of specialty coffee is free. Because he has the loyalty program in the app, it requires no effort for him to maintain this program. For downloading the app, each customer gets a free "punch" toward their free drink. John Doe also added the ability to order a cup of coffee right there through the app, and then placed a geofence around a 4 mile radius of the local Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts for the hours of 6:30 a.m. until 8:30 a.m. each morning.

Whenever one of John's customers gets within 4 miles of either Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts during the early morning breakfast rush, they get a push notification right to their phone. When they open the notification, they are already on the ordering page for John's coffee shop, allowing them to adjust their route toward his shop and pickup their ready-made specialty coffee. He is literally pulling customers directly out of his competition's parking lot...

Real Estate Agent

John Doe is a real estate agent who has a number of listings that are always changing. He has a number of clients that are looking for houses, others who are looking for town homes, and others who are interested only in apartments.

John is able to list all of his listings by category in his app, and allows the users to filter out the results so that they only see what is pertinent to their interests. He also allows them to subscribe to push notifications for just those types of listings that they are seeking. When John has a hot new listing that he just landed, he schedules an open house and adds that to his calendar of events. He sends out a push notification to the group that is interested in those style of homes that takes them to the details of the open house. On the day of the open house, he sets up a geofence within 5 miles of the home that will alert any of his users about the location of the property. As they get within the 5 mile radius, a push notification pops up on their phone and says "You're almost here! Click here for directions!" When a user opens the notification, their phone automatically starts routing them turn-by-turn until they arrive at exactly the right address.

By being able to easily communicate with his buyers according to their interests and by creating a more positive experience for his users, John enjoys increased sales and therefore higher commission checks each month!

Local Musician

John Doe is a local musician who has gathered a pretty decent following. He plays in various locations most every weekend, spanning a distance of 45 miles in every direction from his home. Because he plays at locations that are fairly far apart, John likes to reach out to his followers and let them know that he'll be in town on the upcoming Friday night.

To do this, John schedules a series of push notifications to go out at a pre-determined time. On Wednesday evening at 6:00 p.m., John's app automatically sends out a notification to all of his followers within a 15 mile radius of the sports bar that he'll be playing at on Friday. The notification takes the users to the event page where they can share it with friends, comment, and RSVP if they will be there. On Friday at 4:00 p.m., John's app automatically sends out a follow-up notification reminding people of the time and place.

John also places a geofence around the bar that he'll be at. If any of his users pass within 5 miles of the location, they will get a notification that will send them driving directions directly to the host restaurant. John makes it easy for his followers to know when he'll be in town and provides directions to the venue. He also utilizes a special function in the app to allow his users to buy his songs directly through their phones! This means that John makes tips while performing, followed up by additional sales for those people that have his app and enjoy his music. He can use notifications to alert them of new albums, and uses his app as a true revenue generator for himself.

The venue loves it because he draws a larger crowd, the fans love it because he is so easy to follow, and he loves it because it supplements his income.

Law Office

The Law Offices of John Doe set up a geofence around a local bail bond company displaying a pre-written message for anyone with their app that reminded them of their contact information and informing the user that they now provide criminal defense in addition to their typical divorce settlements. When someone who has their app enters that bail bond company, they will get a push notification on their phone. Upon opening the notification, they are looking at a pre-written article that explains how the attorney now offfers criminal defense... You know, "just in case" the person knows someone who needs their services...

Push Notifications

Push Notification

If you have a smartphone, then inevitably you've received Push Notifications from your favorite apps. They're small alerts that pop up on your phone to tell you something about that app... It may be a coupon code, a touchdown in a football game, or countless other reasons that apps send out push notifications. When you open them, they have the ability to direct you to a place that provides you with whatever the alert pertained to. For example, you receive a notification about a new menu item at your favorite restaurant. When you open the notification, you are directed to a brief write-up and a few images that describe the new dish.