Bizness Apps Newsletter: Upcoming Features For 2014

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Important Updates:

iOS 7 Source Code Update

On Monday, we will be releasing a new iOS source code that will include iOS 7 upgrades. We will be submitting our Preview App(s) to iTunes on Monday 1-13-14. Expect an update on your phone towards the end of the week.

Go here for more information – http://biznessapps.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/1295997-ios-7

New Front End Website Translation Feature

Reseller Rebranded Client Panel Sync

We have completed a full partner sync for ALL White Label client panels. Main fixes include: push notification dashboard improvements, Reservations Tab updates & Analytics dashboard upgrades.

Bizness Apps Web Platform

Nov 21, 2013 - Present

Reservations Tab Improvements:

Google Calendar Integration

Update UI & Functionality for Appt. Calendar

Ability to add a reservation to the calendar

Go here for more information – http://biznessapps.desk.com/reservation-tab-questions/articles

Merchandise / Ordering / Reservation Tab(s) Improvements:

Added the ability to have multiple printers linked to different locations

Added the ability to select your printer

Go here for more information – http://biznessapps.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/481159

HTML5 / Mobile Websites

Nov 21, 2013 - Present

Added Flickr Image gallery integration

Added Picasa Image gallery integration

Added slider image linking

Added Email field to Food Ordering / Merchandise Tab(s)

Updated Quantity control for Food Ordering / Merchandise Tab(s

Upcoming Upgrades: – Q1

We are currently working on a “Native” overhaul that will be a complete rebuild/redesign of our Native iOS / Android app. This redesign will take full advantage of the iOS 7 UI components, increasing user engagement and social integration opportunities. As you can imagine, this is a large effort that touches every view in our product.

Our goal is to release this by the end of Quarter 1.

Please see a sneak peak below.

Real Estate Tab is Finally being released!

Contact Tab Loyalty Tab Events Tab

News Tab Mailing List Tab QR Coupon Tab

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Dave

Looks great! I look forward to the new features. Can we have a table booking system too (like the excellent reservations tab, but for restaurants)?
- http://www.biznessapps.com Bizness Apps
  
  Hey Dave, that is great feedback! I will relay this to our development team to review. It’s not on the immediate road map but we have a rather large development team that is capable of anything.
  - Fred
    
    I for one think this should absolutely be in the immediate road map . Thanks for the good work!
John

Looks good!! Great way to kick off the year. Will the real estate feature pull listings from MLS?
- http://www.biznessapps.com Bizness Apps
  
  Hey John, not immediately but potentially in the future. We’d love to enable it right away but there are many legal issues around mobile MLS listings and patents. So once our legal team concludes we are not infringing any patents we will develop for this, but I cannot provide a time frame for this. Thanks for the feedback!
  - Elijah
    
    Will the real estate feature have an HTML source code feature for any possible customizations? Also would be cool to add something similar like the Real Estate feature but for local deals like a daily deal map where I can select business location and use the current coupon or purchase deal offer that may interest customers. Just an idea. Also would be cool if we can customize our own pin drops as an option too.
Bill

I was hoping there would be an update coming to the HTML 5 websites to allow them to be viewed in landscape.
- Joe
  
  I was hoping the same thing.
  - http://www.biznessapps.com Bizness Apps
    
    We will have landscape viewing available for our native apps on iPhone / Android, and in the near future HTML5 as well.
    - Steven Allen
      
      I launched an app yesterday. Few people want Landscape. Will that auto update on the app over the air when released?
      - Albert
        
        I was wondering the same thing. Will the Apps automatically update to the new design? Or will there be a need to redesign on our end ?
Daniel D.

The real estate tab looks fantastic, Very much looking forward to taking it for a test run
- http://www.biznessapps.com Bizness Apps
  
  Thanks! We’re excited too!
Daniel D.

Will the real estate tab allow us to categorize property’s for easier viewing on the map? It would work similar to what is currently available on around us tab. For instance, for sale, for rent, sold.

Or even better, giving the user a choice of each category before going to the map. Any categorization options??? Please say yes
- http://www.biznessapps.com Bizness Apps
  
  I think you will be very please when it is released. I can’t say much of the details but it’s been very well thought out and is extremely robust.
  - Daniel D.
    
    Awesome, I’m very happy to hear that
Juan

Awesome update. Thank you. But can clients go back to sending push notifications from their panel?
- http://www.biznessapps.com Bizness Apps
  
  Hey Juan, this issue should have been fixed already. If you still have any specific problems feel free to email support and we’ll take a look.
  - Juan
    
    Thanks for replying!
- Philip Tomich
  
  Juan are you still having issues with push notifications. I too see that many Android phones are not showing when my clients send push’s. Just wondering what you experienced as well.
Ken George

Wow everything looks great!!

With the real estate tab…
1. When will it be available?
2. How will all of the content be added to the tab?

Other than that, I think this will be a game changer and we are looking forward to selling them by the bunches!!
- http://www.biznessapps.com Bizness Apps
  
  Hey Ken,
  1. We’re expecting end of March at the very latest, but likely sooner. We’re trying to under promise and over deliver here.
  2. There will be a detailed dashboard with the real estate tab.
  Thanks!
Andy

Awesome! I’m excited with the Real Estate tab! I can see questions about MLS integration have already been asked… so I’ll stay tune to what’s more to come in the future..
Arthur Whosoever Rios

Awesome!
Joe Lopez Buys Houses

Super stoked about the real estate tab, can’t wait!!

A couple of suggested features/modifications though.

I did this mock-up to experiment with the sub-page on the homepage(very cool feature, btw).
The birds are links to features, but I was thinking it would open up worlds of possibilities if we had the ability to move the buttons to the place of our choosing.(maybe on a grid system)

Another thing that would go perfectly with that is the ability to remove the row of buttons. This would allow for a great amount of variation in our apps.

The one and only complaint I ever hear from clients(both current and prospective) is that most of our apps look very similar. This would fix that and increase the value of the app and allow us to take in larger set-up fees.

Just a thought, hopefully you guys can do something with it!
- Nahum_reyes
  
  this is a great idea!! More customization for the buttons locations on the screen!!
  - http://www.biznessapps.com Bizness Apps
    
    Hey Joe, thanks so much for the feedback and we completely agree that more layouts / styles / views are needed next for our mobile app, and that is on our road map. After this next release we hope to focus an entire quarter specifically on adding new layouts and customization options.
    - Steven Allen
      
      Excellent news.
- Bill
  
  I totally agreement with this suggestion. BTW, nice iPad layout.
Brainwrap

Some nice improvements, but how about some other long-needed features such as:
-Landscape mode for photos & video
-The ability to pick from individual event features (ie, right now you can go with the “basic” event, which only includes the title/description, or the “advanced” event, which includes image header, comments, RSVP & photo gallery. Some of my clients like having some of these features but not others; it’d be nice to be able to turn each one on/off per event or at least per calendar tab.
-The WYSIWYG text editor appears to be based on an extremely outdated version of CKEditor (or possibly TinyMCE?)…any chance of updating it to a newer version?
-Are there any plans for some sort of API/Module integration with Drupal, WordPress or Joomla? For instance, the blog/RSS feed function imports the entry titles and initial text, but can’t display different thumbnail photos per entry, and you have to click through to the actual website display itself to read the full entries.

Sorry, I know that’s a lot to dump on you guys
- http://www.biznessapps.com Bizness Apps
  
  Hello, thanks for all the feedback!
  1. Landscape will be available within our next update.
  2. We have some really nice updates coming to the events tab as well. Please note we also have an events v1 tab (basic) and events v2 tab (advanced) for those that may want less or more functionality.
  3. This is great feedback. I will relay this to our development team.
  4. At this time no not specifically but we do have some nice updates coming for just about every tab, including the RSS feedback tab.
  - Brainwrap
    
    Great to hear it, thanks!
    
    At the risk of overplaying my hand, here’s a few others:
    
    -The ability to set/save the default font family & size for the text editor so I don’t have to reset it every time I go in to create or edit an entry (for both info tabs as well as events, etc)
    -The ability to choose between military (24-hour) and 12-hour time mode for events (and ideally to save that setting)
    -The ability to place one type of sub-tab within another one (for instance, adding a PDF tab to several Web Page tabs, etc); this is done in a limited way in “More Button” mode, but it’d be nice to be able to do so in other layouts as well.
    - http://www.biznessapps.com Bizness Apps
      
      Hey Brian, we will be having the ability to choose between military time and 12-hour time enabled for our next release.
      - Brainwrap
        
        Glad to hear it.
  - http://www.EricSilva.me/ Eric A. Silva
    
    Events Tab: Are there any plans to integrate Google Calender, Facebook Events, ics, etc?
    - http://www.biznessapps.com Bizness Apps
      
      Hey Eric, not at this time but potentially in the future. You can add an event to your phone’s calendar though.
      - http://www.EricSilva.me/ Eric A. Silva
        
        Specifically, I ment to import events from those third party sources, not so much exporting them.
      - Pat B
        
        Is there any news on the time zone issue when adding events to calendar - specifically for GMT where events when added to calendar get 6 hours added to the start time? Thanks
      - Leigh
        
        This is my biggests problem also. And that events show only in USA format.
      - http://www.biznessapps.com Bizness Apps
        
        For our next release next month, this issue will be addressed.
Joe

Great update! can you also add a feature like when you click on a tab, the tab bar will just remain below. This will make navigation a lot easier especially for IOS users.
murad chowdhuey

Great News! Waiting for the new features.

1. Any plan on integrating credit/debit card payment method.
2. Option to change tab icon color just using color picker.
Steven Allen

Here is a functionality request. Is it possible for the app to show when they are booked? eg: a villa, hairdresser, personal trainer could log on the app and show when they are booked so that you don’t get duplicated reservations?
- http://www.biznessapps.com Bizness Apps
  
  Hey Steven, we’ve completely redesigned our reservations tab for our next release and this issue among many other smaller issues have been addressed as well.
  - Steven Allen
    
    Very good news. To get existing apps on to this will you have to upgrade or will you be able to update the ‘app over the air’?
    - chris
      
      I have the impression that none of this will be automatically updated to previous apps. Notice how there’s no answer to this question and its being asked multiple times?
MOUSSA

kindly i have an issue and i raise it from 3 months without any solution.

my issue with the advanced messages for android, i update some off my apps with the latest apk which have the offline content. if these Apps are closed and i send an advanced message they will not receive, they will only receive an error message

the Apps that i did not update the apk for them, they are receiving the advanced messages if the App is opened or closed.

please solve, i raise it without any solution
SD

Hi

Is it possible to integrate social media further instead of a social media webpage?
- Albert
  
  Yes, clients want the ability to allow Facebook Check-Ins directly from their Apps. How can we do this ?
MyLin

Hi, the sharing feature on the GPS and QR coupon tabs currently posts the message to facebook and twitter “I just redeemed [coupon] using app” when the user only Checked-In and not Redeemed yet. When user Check-In to business, we would like the post message to say “I just checked-in to earn [coupon] using app” when user clicks on Check-In button.

Having a facebook and twitter wall with so many Redeem posts each day is confusing to the user since they ask the business owners where is their reward. We’re not able to activate the GPS Coupon feature because of this issue and the business owners want the app specifically for this feature and the sharing function because it’ll get the users opening the app each day. The business owners have conditioned their users to share on facebook to get their reward.

Can the verbiage on the sharing function be fixed by or before the next release? Thank you.
j

will all our apps update? or do we need to redo them all ?
Albert

I am really excited for these updates and to see Bizness Apps progressing with their goal to be the #1 platform is truly beneficial for us all. However, I have 2 questions.

1) Will our current apps be automatically updated to the new UI/design? Or what will that process be like ?

2) I have an app I built for a radio station and a lot of iPhone users are complaining that the each time the screen fades or they leave the App, then the live radio stream shuts off. It’s not like this on Android, just Apple. Does BiznessApps have any plans to resolve this issue on iPhone ?
Philip Tomich

I would like to request a new loyalty tab - I understand we have 3, but 2 of them can easily be gamed and the qr code - unless you want someone scanning 3 or 4 codes at a time limits your ability to have more then 1 reward at one location. The system would work as followed - Create a QR Code - Each scan gives you a predetermined amount of points (allowed to be merchant determined) then there a list of rewards - 10 to unlock free drink - 20 to unlock free dinner and so on. When a customer looks to redeem, the manager must enter a code or tell it to them - simply so they dont hit the redeem button and loose the coupon (like the qr code now - where if they do by accident or not understanding how it works will void it if an employee is not there to see it happen) - the points would then deduct accordingly.

Add this feature with this layout would be a direct competition to SpotOn - 8000 national clients - Belly - “loyalty card scanning system in 500 locations. Belly said those chains collectively represent 40,000 restaurants and stores nationwide,…….” - These system typically cost 75-150$ per month for this system while they control the environment. I would be also open to personally investing to make this happen or to know if there is a collective interest to contribute to a loyalty program that would further our domination in this sector. Thanks - just one man’s opinion
Marie Carroll Rigby

Will the new version have the ability to link tabs/create sub-tabs for a better menu structure in complex apps?
genie

Love you all! Great updates! Some questions in regards to loyalty since I see the changes to the loyalty card and qr above.

My clients have been asking for a way to track the loyalty, opened push notifications and R.O.I.

QR Code - Tracking (how many times scanned, location, time any other data…etc)

Punch Card - How many times a card have been “stamped” & “redeemed”

GPS Checkin - How many times has someone checked in using the app

Push Notifications - How many times an offer or “template” has been opened compared to how many people received.

R.O.I. - I completely understand we can not track what a customer purchases. But believe we could track # of people that came in from a push notification or how many times someone scanned a qr code or punched a loyalty card (ultimately bringing the customer in to spend money). Asking a business to track this is difficult depending on the size.. If we instead had a tool or report to generate and share with a business….and show them how to test and improve…would be vital to businesses success.

ROI =
X Average customer purchase (Business Revenue)
X response rate (How many Customers came in - direct result of loyalty/push)
X monthly cost (Business cost)

They would only really need to know from us a response rate….

Sorry for the book!
- chris
  
  completely agree

Bizness Apps Newsletter: Upcoming Features For 2014

Important Updates:

iOS 7 Source Code Update

New Front End Website Translation Feature

Reseller Rebranded Client Panel Sync

Bizness Apps Web Platform

Reservations Tab Improvements:

Google Calendar Integration

Update UI & Functionality for Appt. Calendar

Ability to add a reservation to the calendar

Merchandise / Ordering / Reservation Tab(s) Improvements:

Added the ability to have multiple printers linked to different locations

Added the ability to select your printer

HTML5 / Mobile Websites

Added Flickr Image gallery integration

Added Picasa Image gallery integration

Added slider image linking

Added Email field to Food Ordering / Merchandise Tab(s)

Updated Quantity control for Food Ordering / Merchandise Tab(s

Upcoming Upgrades: – Q1

Our goal is to release this by the end of Quarter 1.

Please see a sneak peak below.

Real Estate Tab is Finally being released!

FREE mobile reseller guide!

Watch Recorded Webinars

What is Bizness Apps?

Previous Blog Posts

Bizness Apps Newsletter: Upcoming Features For 2014

Important Updates:

iOS 7 Source Code Update

New Front End Website Translation Feature

Reseller Rebranded Client Panel Sync

Bizness Apps Web Platform

Reservations Tab Improvements:

Google Calendar Integration

Update UI & Functionality for Appt. Calendar

Ability to add a reservation to the calendar

Merchandise / Ordering / Reservation Tab(s) Improvements:

Added the ability to have multiple printers linked to different locations

Added the ability to select your printer

HTML5 / Mobile Websites

Added Flickr Image gallery integration

Added Picasa Image gallery integration

Added slider image linking

Added Email field to Food Ordering / Merchandise Tab(s)

Updated Quantity control for Food Ordering / Merchandise Tab(s

Upcoming Upgrades: – Q1

Our goal is to release this by the end of Quarter 1.

Please see a sneak peak below.

Real Estate Tab is Finally being released!

FREE mobile reseller guide!

Watch Recorded Webinars

What is Bizness Apps?

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