Tag: app development

October 20, 2020

TabUp – An app developed by Pioneer and invested in by Pitbull!

For the guest experience it’s… “game changing.”

Through their own mobile devices, guests can order and keep ordering for their on premise table, cabana or any specific location they may be. Extend your existing service and increase revenue, decrease costs all while keeping the very best staff busy and making more money. The guests order more often, receive the best service; the cost/benefits are astounding.

Pioneer (New York based App Development) has partnered up with Hermit Crab Technologies to create an iOS and Android application that is quickly being adopted by restaurants and venues across the United States. With exciting new features, Pitbull has jumped on board and invested into the platform as well!

Core Features:

QR Coded Locations: TabUp uses QR Codes to uniquely identify the guests’ ordering location on premises, whether it’s a table, dock, cabana, or any other place where service can be provided. It’s inexpensive, easy to implement, and everyone is familiar with them.
Order Sharing: This process gives guests the choice to order from their own device on a shared tab, eliminating the requirement to use one device. Order Sharing accelerates the ordering process and give guests a better experience.
Built in two-way communication: Enhanced communication with guests that take a longer distance or more time to service improves the guest experience. Marketplace POS systems do not offer two way communication.
Guest Controlled Check Splitting: Servers don’t like splitting checks and guests don’t like waiting for their check to be split. TabUp gives guests the power to split the check on their own, saving everyone time and hassle.
Open Tab Technology: Other services require every round to be closed out and paid for prior to being submitted. This is frustrating and limits revenue. With open tab technology the guest experience is enhanced.

App Screenshots:

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August 11, 2020

The Concept of a Personalized Mobile App

Personalized apps have been making their way into the market and are incredibly useful for selling. Whether the product is a subscription, fitness plan, skincare routine, or merely physical products, a personalized app can increase sales and provide a much more personalized and targeted experience for the consumer. So how does it work?

Personalization

There are many ways in which an app can be personalized, and it will all depend on what algorithms you or your company use, but it is possible that your app can learn to replace human recommendations. The ability to craft a skincare routine, a workout routine, etc. is all possible through an app. The big question is, how do you create an app that learns users’ preferences?

Questionnaire

The first and most straightforward way to start personalizing the app is to start with a questionnaire. For example, if you were creating a mobile app to help consumers determine what meals to cook for dinner, your questionnaire can narrow in on what a particular user would like and dislike and then offer recommendations based on their own preferences. The same goes for skincare and fitness apps.

Like and Dislike

After the initial questionnaire, you should consistently be asking for feedback on the recommendations from the user. The easiest way to do this is through a like or dislike button on each recommendation. That way, the app is continually learning about the user leading to more targeted recommendations.

Browsing Ability

The app should have the ability for users to browse products, recipes, workouts, etc. That way, you can track a user’s clicks and browsing data to provide more targeted recommendations. This is also a great way to have the user’s introduced to items that your algorithm didn’t pick up.

These were some quick tips when developing a personalized app and why a personalized app could be extremely beneficial for you or your company. If you’d like to know more about the functions and possibility of building a personalized mobile app, reach out to Pioneer, and we can help you along the way.

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July 30, 2020

Tips for Starting a Food Delivery App

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the food and entertainment industry, it is now more than ever that consumers are looking for takeout/delivery. Here are a few tips on how to start your own food delivery app.

Ease of Search and Location-Based

If you plan to have a food delivery or takeout app, you’ll want to make sure your customers can find what they are looking for and not get frustrated and close the app. The same goes for when they are perusing a restaurant’s menu. Ease of use and simple ordering methods will make your app more successful.

Estimate Delivery/Pick-up Time

Most people, when looking for takeout or delivery, are hungry and want their food as soon as possible. An app with a time estimate will provide customers a sense of patience as they are aware of when to expect their food. It will also help inform their decision of where to order from as I’m sure they won’t want to wait hours for their food.

Payment

This is a crucial factor in a food delivery/takeout app. Customers should be able to pay and tip through the app. No one wants to have to search for cash or hope that the delivery driver can swipe their credit or debit card. A payment processor in the app will ensure customer satisfaction and an increase in sales.

Ratings/Reviews

This is a no-brainer, most people, when making a decision, will look at reviews and ratings. If those reviews and ratings are easily accessible, the customer will most likely go somewhere else and spend their money on a competitor. Make sure to include ratings and reviews for all partnered restaurants.

Delivery/Pick-up Options

Ever since the pandemic began, the way we interact, shop, and travel has been changed, so has the way we want our delivery or pick-up. Make sure your app includes options for your customers to choose from whether your customer doesn’t mind meeting the delivery driver at the door or if your customer opts for a contactless approach. Options are everything.

These were just a few tips to get you started on the road to your mobile app development. For more tips and advice, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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July 28, 2020

App Redesign – When Is It Needed?

Let’s say your business is already up to speed and has an app. When is an app redesign needed, and how do you decide what you need to change?

Design changes just as quickly as technology, so it’s important to know that at some point, your mobile app is going to need to go through a remodel. So how do you know when it is the right time?

Low Conversion Rates

Is your user base not growing? Are users bored or not impressed with the app? Are sales weak? If any of these apply to your app, it might be time to polish up your app’s UX. (Read more about UX vs. UI)

Low Ratings and Negative Comments

Is your app getting negative reviews and minimal stars on the app store? If so, take advantage of the negative comments and determine if your UI/UX design needs changing. If you are getting low ratings, it’s probably a good time for a redesign.

Modifying your Target Audience

If you modified your target audience just like changing your tactics to captivate your audience, you’d need to change the design of your app. Your app will have to be modified to accommodate your new audience, as well as your product vision and marketing strategy.

Your Company Rebranded

This seems pretty straightforward; if your company has just undergone a rebranding, you’ll want to ensure that your branding is consistent across all platforms, including mobile. This is an indicator that a mobile app redesign is needed.

How to Know What to Change

Like above, user feedback is incredibly valuable when understanding the changes needed to ensure your app’s success. Analyze all user feedback as well as analytics to get an idea of the changes necessary. Don’t be afraid to conduct some research, whether it is surveying your users or researching the competitor, research can lead you in the right direction when determining app changes.

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July 22, 2020

How Hotels Impacted by COVID-19 Can Re-Engage Their Travelers with a Mobile App

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on and continues to impact businesses worldwide, it is hard to miss one of the most impacted industries, hospitality. Within the hospitality sector, hotels have lost a significant amount of revenue. As hotels begin to reopen, they are being met with low occupancy and wary travelers. How can hotels re-engage with their travelers, make them feel more comfortable and willing to stay, and combat low occupancy and lost revenue?

A poll shows that a smartphone is the most valued travel companion of 76% of travelers, while 70% of travelers book their hotel on a smartphone. In 2019, there were 204 billion mobile apps downloaded worldwide and 3.2 billion smartphone users. That equates to an average of roughly 63 mobile apps on each smartphone. This seems like a no-brainer, hotels, inns, bed & breakfasts, and motels should have a mobile app to keep up with the evolving hospitality world.

What can a mobile app do to help your hotel?

Reserve on Mobile

With a mobile app, your guests can book their rooms directly in the app. This is great for travelers who are on-the-go, stuck at the airport with limited access to a computer and prefer mobile.

Virtual Check-In

No longer will you force your visitors to stand in long check-in lines. With a mobile app, your guests can skip the lines, check-in, and access their room right through the app on their smartphone.

Showcase and Sell Add-Ons Before and During the Stay

Does your guest want a bottle of champagne waiting for them in their room when they arrive? No longer will your guest have to call and request this, they can order it in the app before their arrival. A mobile app gives you the ability to market and up-sell to your guests before and during their stay. Does a guest want in-room dining? No longer will your guests have to call and order; they can do it all right in the app.

Provide Updates and Information

The mobile app can help you communicate with your guests in an easy, efficient way that is personalized to each guest. You can opt to send notifications before the guest’s check-in to ensure they know how to access the property or ask for in-app feedback after the guest’s stay. The options are almost limitless on how and what you can communicate with your guests.

Customer Loyalty Program

You can now build optimal engagement with your guests by launching an in-app loyalty program. Guests can receive upgrades, accumulate points, manage their stay preferences, etc. A rewards program is a great way to boost sales and keep your customers engaged.

The options available to hotels with a mobile app are almost unlimited. The mobile app can boost sales via marketing and upselling, but it can also keep your guests engaged and provide a more efficient and pleasant experience for the guests. We at Pioneer believe that mobile apps for hotels will begin to take-off once travel becomes normality again.

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June 15, 2020

How an App Can Make You Money

Mobile apps can make you money and serve many different purposes. You may have had an app built so you could communicate with your constituents more effectively, you may have had it built so you could market your products directly to your consumers or have an app used for contact tracing to help in the healthcare industry. There are so many different reasons why apps are developed, but how do you make money?

The most straightforward answer to this is charging for the app, but most people don’t want to pay for an app unless it is very targeted and specific. The other obvious answer is ad placement. Ad placement can be useful, but it can also backfire. If your users get annoyed with the constant bombardment of ads, they may delete the app and never return. There is also the issue of needing large amounts of users to make money with ad placement, requiring a significant marketing budget.

So what are some ways you can make money with your new mobile app?

In-App Purchases

In-app purchases can be one of the best ways to make money with your app consistently. The app itself is free for download, but users can opt to purchase additional content or premium access in the app.

Email Marketing

Email marketing remains the top seller in the game of marketing. 58% of people check their email first in the morning, even before social media. Some app developers opt to require a sign-in feature on their app to collect email addresses and user data. They then can email the user and begin that user in the conversion funnel or even place advertisements in the email.

Subscriptions

Subscription modeled apps can create quite the revenue for businesses and individuals. If you do go down this road, you want to make sure that you can deliver well-tailored content to ensure long-lasting subscriptions.

Sponsorship

Sponsorship can be a significant way to establish and enhance a revenue stream from a mobile app. App developers can partner with large or small organizations to build an app and provide content. App developers and the organization would then split the profits in an agreed-upon manner.

As you begin to think about app development, you’ll also want to focus on the revenue strategy for the app, as that is just as important as the construction and design of the app. Mobile apps should be developed with a revenue strategy in mind to enhance the success of the app.

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June 8, 2018

Florence: Development in the Mobile Gaming App Industry

Florence

Can you imagine a game on your phone that had no levels, no high scores, and no way to win? Is it even a game? Florence, an app that embodies this strange concept, actually won the title of Apple’s Game of the Year in 2014, breaking ground in the app industry.

If it’s not a competitive game, then what exactly is it?

Ken Wong, the designer and app developer, created the app as an interactive story-telling game for users. His gaming company partnered with a film studio in order to create the game in which you follow the life story of the main character, Florence. As you progress in the app, you see her go through relationships and hardships, delivering an entertaining game while invoking an emotional response in users.

It definitely changes the pace of the mobile gaming atmosphere, and will be a trend to watch in years to come with further gaming app development.

Check out “Florence” in the App Store today!

About Pioneer

Pioneer Mobile Applications is a one stop shop for bringing your app idea to life. It is our mission to provide personal, affordable, & reliable app development for individuals, organizations, and businesses by being with our customers from the idea stage to launch and everything in-between!

With several years of expert mobile app development experience, United States app design and development company, Pioneer Mobile Applications is committed to the success of our clients. Whether your business is at the idea stage, currently in development, or already has a million users, Pioneer Mobile Applications can help create an affordable, reliable, and beautiful experience for your users. As a United States app design and development company, Pioneer Applications prides itself on being a full service development agency. We don’t just make apps, we will take a simple idea and create an application personalized for your business. Our goal is to ensure that our clients are succeeding. We accomplish this by providing idea conceptualization, market validation, app design (user experience & user interface), iOS, Android, and web development, testing, and marketing! We are constantly keeping up with new technology as it comes along to be sure that your app is using the latest, most cutting edge tech. United States mobile app design and development agency, Pioneer Applications is a United States based organization that is a team player on every project both small and large.

We have over 5+ years experience working with all different types of clients such as BuzzFeed, UMass Amherst, All in One Music Applications and many more! Our strategic process provides quick turn around times which lets us keep development costs down, saving our clients money!!

Services

iOS & Android: We have multiple developers on hand to build your iOS and Android Applications. The code we create is always clean and easily understandable by other developers.

UI/UX: Design is a very important thing. Our User Interface and User Experience developers make sure that your app is beautiful and easy to navigate through. We’ll help you out with branding and ensuring your app is recognizable!

Project Management: When there are a bunch of different moving parts, things can get messy. Our project managers makes sure everyone is on the same page and getting their work done as efficiently as possible.

Sales & Marketing: We don’t stop once we’re finished developing the app; we want to make sure that your app gets users on it and help you get featured in the App Store. Our sales and marketing experts will help you get the word out and acquire users!

Our Process

Conceptualize, Validate, Brand, Develop, Test, Launch, Promote

June 2, 2018

Collections: App Development to Organize your Cluttered Camera Roll

Collections

Finally, an app developed to organize your thousands of screenshots and snapshots of important ideas and information you wanted to remember, but can no longer find in your photo albums.

App developers often have a hard time forming ideas for apps that are useful for consumers, but this idea combines organization and utilization to create a platform to help people keep track of their pictures on their mobile device- a very common problem faced by anyone with a cell phone.

Check it out on the app store: https://www.collectionsapp.co.uk

About Pioneer

Services

iOS & Android: We have multiple developers on hand to build your iOS and Android Applications. The code we create is always clean and easily understandable by other developers.

Our Process

Conceptualize, Validate, Brand, Develop, Test, Launch, Promote

May 24, 2018

Augmented Reality in Mobile App Development

Fantasy and Reality Collide in Mobile App Development

One of the latest trends taking over mobile app development is bringing virtual experiences to life through augmented reality.

This trend has been seen in a number of games or film editors that place virtual objects right in front of you using your mobile device’s camera. Also seen in social media, Snapchat and Instagram use facial recognition to create interactive filters. Perhaps the most expansive example of this mobile app development is Google Maps. They use satellite technology to give you step-by-step directions that use the view right in front of you through your camera. Google even recently introduced a new feature that brings a virtual fox on your screen to follow for directions.

While these technological advancements seem daunting, more and more developers have obtained the tools to integrate them into their web and mobile platforms. Using physics-based techniques, companies have increased their access to 3D technology to use your surroundings and create content based on your location. This gives those companies a whole new market in mobile app development to invent useful and powerful apps that enhance consumers’ everyday experiences. It has even been said that at the rate the technology is moving currently, it will be difficult to determine the difference between a digital and physical scene.

The possibilities of these advancements are near endless. They have already been used in games like Pokemon Go, social media platforms, as well as navigation and public transportation apps. As augmented reality progresses, it will no longer be a figure of speech to say you have the “world at your fingertips”.

May 21, 2018

Fujifilm App Development: Promoting Creativity

Fujifilm recently renovated their web platform and created a brand new app to keep inspiring photographers’ creativity.

Their new app includes articles keeping creators up-to-date with different events and photo shoots occurring, as well as giving tips and advice on photography and photo editing. They also plan to hold contests and sweepstakes to the photographic world a competitive edge and provide inspiration for users.

Download the on the App Store