Discover the 5 reasons why you should start creating your Shopping App today.

Today, we are launching GoodBarber Shopping App, the premier App Builder 100% dedicated to the creation of eCommerce apps.  Mobile sales statistics are setting new records every year..  When you shop, it's from your smartphone. For those born with the Internet, this is the norm. For others, it's amazing.. except when the user experience is not up to par.  We have all had disappointing shopping experiences on our mobile phones: the need to login again, poor display, long and tedious checkout process, a lot of data to enter on a small keyboard, etc. When the user experience is so discouraging, we give up and head for a merchant who allows us to shop easily.   GoodBarber Shopping App was born from our desire to equip all e-merchants with the technology that makes mobile shopping fun and powerful. 

With your app published on the Store (App Store and the Play Store), you are one step closer to your goal. However, it’s not the time to stop working. You must now focus on promoting your app to boost your audience.  In order for your app to be successful, you need to think of all the details from the day you start creating it (or updating it). In this article we will go over the best practices to increase your downloads.

As you know, we have made it a point to improve GoodBarber day after day, and your suggestions are a great source of inspiration for us. This month we have developed two novelties that you have been many to plebiscite: A new confirmation screen for the Form section : You now have the option to display to your users a summary page of their answers before the final submission of the form. New types of links for the Contact section : you can now add links towards Instagram, WhatsApp and Skype in your Contact section You can find below a summary of the developments and updates made during July, 2019

You asked us, and now it's done : links towards Instagram, WhatsApp and Skype are now available in your Contact section. To set them up, go to Content> Sections> Contact> Edit content. Choose the type of link you want to add from the drop-down menu and enter the requested information. User side behavior will differ depending on the type of link chosen: Instagram: the user is redirected to the web version of Instagram, on the page you have entered, he will then have the choice to stay on the web version, or to open the page in the app, if the latter is installed. WhatsApp: If the user owns the WhatsApp app, a pop up will ask permission to open the chat page in the WhatsApp app. Skype: A pop-up will ask for permission to open the Skype app. If the user does not have it, he will be invited to download it.

The Form section can have multiple uses in your app. Polls, orders, surveys, customer feedback etc... The potential for user engagement is enormous. As you know, we strive to constantly develop our features, especially when they come from your suggestions.  Today we present a new feature for this section, which you have been many to plebiscite: a new confirmation screen before sending the form.

You can find below a summary of the developments and updates made during June, 2019

You can find below a summary of the developments and updates made during May, 2019

Mobile has trained all of us to expect to get what we want, when we want. The impact of this new way of thinking can even be seen in the way we interact with mobile apps. With every extra second your app takes to load, your conversion rates drops by 7%. Making keeping your app running fast a must. For example, when Amazon  decreased their loading time by 100-millisecond, their revenue increase by 1%! And with so many options available in the Stores today, users patience is shrinking. You’ll read here and there that the ideal loading time for an app is 2 seconds. That’s a good average indeed. We will see in this blog post how to stay close or below this threshold. We’ve asked one of our lead developers, Sergio, for some advice on how to optimize the speed of your GoodBarber app. Here are his 3 best practice tips:  

This month a new menu has been published in your back office. It centralizes all your Back Office Settings pages and gives you one-click access to the following pages: Team, it allows you to add members to your team and manage their access rights Preferences: you can choose your app language and default email Cookies, to inform your users of the cookies use of your PWA 404 error, you can customize your 404 page  External connections, to connect your app to external services ( Facebook, Twitter etc.) Data Privacy, to be in compliance with your users privacy  App texts, to customize the generic texts used in your app Backups, where you can back up your app My files, to store files to use in your plugins HEAD tag, allows you to add HTML tags to your PWA HEAD tag

Last year, Google warned developers of a technical change in sending and receiving push notifications. GoodBarber took this change into account by updating the Android engine of your apps. Fire Cloud Messaging, the system used to send and receive push notifications will therefore be the only system in effect from April 11, 2019. You probably missed the announcement by Google and it’s perfectly normal. It’s GoodBarber's job to make sure that your Android app adapts to Google's regular updates (and Apple's iOS app). You can find below a summary of the developments and updates made during March, 2019

The GoodBarber regulars are already familiar with the Live+ add-on since it's been a part of our catalogue for a long time and has attracted many a user.  For those of you who don't know, Live+ is an advanced audio player, allowing you to broadcast an M3U feed, display the title, the artist name, and the album illustration.    The user can share the title of what they're listening to on social networks, as well as buy it. They can view the last 5 items they listened to in the application.

Do you use our Couponing add-on ? So you're going to be particularly interested in what's new this month. If you are not yet a user, they should definitely convince you! These new features concern the back office and will radically simplify the way you manage and analyze your discount coupons: - new sorting options: On the Business > Couponing > My Coupons page, until today you could sort your coupons based on their validity and expiration dates. From now on you can also sort them by: Their number of uses (Most used) Shops - a new management page: You can find the Business > Couponing > My Redeemed Coupons page which allows you to view the list of coupons used, by whom, in which shop, and on what date.

Did you know that a 3 seconds delay causes you to lose half of your users? A figure to reflect upon, especially when every other second you lose another 7% of your users. During the crucial time it takes your app to open you could lose the attention of your users. Even though your GoodBarber app or PWA is build to launch quickly, you shouldn't overlook the importance of this General Design section : the Splashscreen. It allows you to display an image, message or logo while your app is launching therefore catching the eye of your users and improving your chances to keep them interested until your content is displayed. As you can see it is essential to take the time to perfect your Splash screen, its content as much as its design. If the content falls onto your creativity, we are putting our best features forward to help you with the design. Nowadays with so many different devices on the market, it is difficult to imagine and picture how your Splash screen will adapt to various screen sizes. We are now proposing different options to preview your splashscreen.

  We really take it to heart to constantly improve the back office as it is such a central instrument. We not only want to offer the best app building platform, but also give you the tools to manage your app and your audience. The new dashboard offers you an overview of your app. In a glimpse you can access all the major informations regarding your app. Responding to your subscription and enabled add-ons, it was created to only display relevant informations.   You will access this new dashboard as soon as :      - If you have a PWA subscription                 ● “My app” block on your checklist is completed                 ● PWA is published       - If you have an Android native subscription                 ● “My app” block on your checklist is completed                 ● Your app is published on Google Play      - If you have an iOS Premium subscription                 ● “My app” block on your checklist is completed                 ● Your app is published on Google Play                 ● Your app is published on the App Store

This year we started strongly with the release of a new back office version: GoodBarber 4.7   GoodBarber 4.7 main goal is CMS (Content Management System) improvement. In the version 4.7 , CMS was designed for a smooth, efficient content management, no matter the content volume of the app. We’ve also implemented a new way to preview your app. With the idea in mind to keep a visually clean interface, only the smartphone format is available from the back office. If you want to preview your app in all the available formats  (mobile, tablet or desktop) click on the preview link (top right). You’re already enjoying all the benefits of GoodBarber 4.7 but if you are interested in learning more about this new version, don’t hesitate to read this article. You can find a summary of the developments and updates made during January, 2019 below

GoodBarber 4.7 will be published on January 29th for all users to take advantage of upgrades available with this new version. For a few months now, a group of users have been able to already use GoodBarber 4.7. We decided to launch the new version through different stages, which allowed us to offer you today a version of GoodBarber even more eye catching and efficient. The main objective with GoodBarber 4.7 is the improvement of the CMS (Customer Management System). GoodBarber was the first app builder to offer to create content directly from an app BackOffice. If it seems obvious today, those who have an interest in App building understand how advanced this functionality was. Thanks to the CMS, content creators were able to reach an audience simply with an App. With GoodBarber 4.7, it is now even easier to manage Apps with high volume content.

2018 is already over and as you know, we have not been idle during this year. It is time today to fully embark on our 2019 projects, and you can be sure, you will not be disappointed by what we are preparing ;) This article is the first of the year on our blog is the opportunity for us to wish you a wonderful New Year, full of success for you and your beautiful app!

All the best for 2019 Pace e Salute (* Peace and Health)

You may not know it, but recently Google has changed its pricing policy for its Map services. Previously completely free, the use of Google Maps is now subject to billing, and it may impact you if you reach a certain rate of use on your PWA.   Explanations.

As you know, at GoodBarber, we like to give you choices. Once again this month, our teams were working on a specific option, which has been talked about for a few months following Google’s pricing changes. Now you can choose the map provider that will be used to display all the maps of your PWA: Google Maps or Mapbox. There are not a lot of map providers in the market and new uses are giving location data more and more value. If those services were previously free, pricing is now applied in most cases. With this in mind, it was essential for us to give you the opportunity to choose the provider that best suits you between these two market institutions. You can find a summary of the developments and updates made during November, 2018 below:

You have questions about using GoodBarber and more generally about creating native mobile apps and Progressive Web Apps? This article lists the most frequently asked questions by our users.

A lot of you give us regular feedback on your usage of GoodBarber and possible fixes and improvements that you think we could make. We are really appreciative of these suggestions, as they are a significant help to us in continuously making GoodBarber a more powerful app builder that meets your needs.  This month we worked on different fixes and improvements that you've asked for—one in particular that should really please Map section users—from now on, the distance between the user and the map points is displayed even if the list of points isn't ordered by location.  You can find a summary of the developments and updates made during October, 2018 below:

September is already over, so it's time to take a look at what our developer teams did this month.  Below you'll find a summary of the developments and updates made in September, 2018: