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DISCOVERCreate an architecture firm app
Architect app: first meetings booked online, a project questionnaire and every stage explained
Future clients choose to meet you at the office or on their land, describe their project with photos before they come, and know what lies ahead, from the first sketch to the job site.
New homes, additions, renovations: your architecture firm's app is built without coding, as an iPhone app, an Android app and a web version. Clients book their first meeting in it, the project questionnaire comes in with photos of the lot, each stage has its own article, your completed projects are sorted by type, and open houses in a finished home are announced by notification.
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From first sketch to job site: one stage, one article
Schematic design
Two or three ways to site the house or attach the addition to what's already there, sketched freehand: your client sees that nothing is fixed yet and that now is the time to talk about light, views and budget.
Design development
Plans get their dimensions, elevations get their materials, and a first estimate of construction costs appears; the page explains what the client signs off on here, and why every change will cost more once this stage is behind you.
The permit application
When the project needs a permit, your firm puts the application together; the page explains what the client signs and hands over to you, and why nothing starts before the answer comes back, without going into rules that vary from one town to the next.
Contractor bids
Masonry, framing, windows and doors: each trade goes out to bid with several contractors, and your client sees how you compare their bids together, line by line, before choosing who will build.
Construction
Site meetings, most often once a week, until the keys are handed over: the article says what you check on each visit and when the client can come and look; if your role ends earlier, it says so too.
The first meeting, at your office or on site
An hour around the table, or an hour and a half on the land: the client decides
Two sections are waiting: an hour at the office, to talk through the project in front of your models and past work, or an hour and a half on the client's lot, travel included, long enough to walk it and check orientation, slope, trees and the neighbors' windows. When booking, the client gives the address of the lot or the house, the type of project (new home, addition or renovation) and a phone number. The confirmation goes out by email, to them and to your firm, with their answers; the event added to your Google Calendar holds them too. Floor area, budget, timing and photos go through the project questionnaire, a separate Form section, because the booking form takes no files.
Office and site visits in one calendar
A site visit booked Thursday at 2 p.m. closes the office slots it overlaps
Link both sections, "At the office" in one-hour slots and "On site" in 90-minute slots, to the same Google Calendar: yours. Each keeps its own days: the office Tuesday through Friday, site visits only on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, for example. For site visits, a two-day minimum notice gives you time to look up the lot before you drive out. When a client books Thursday at 2 p.m. on site, the visit goes into your calendar and the app pulls that day's 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. office slots. Two partners? Each one connects a pair of sections to a personal Google Calendar. One thing stays common to every section, the booking form, so ask questions that work for both places.
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Daily downloads for apps built with GoodBarber*
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* Source: internal download tracking, App Store and Google Play, April 2026.
Architects: your questions about a firm app
First meeting: host clients at the office or go see the site?
Both make sense, and the app lets the client choose. For a renovation or an addition, going there is usually better: you spot the load-bearing walls, the light in each room, the state of the roof framing. For a new home, an hour at the office with photos and a plan of the lot is often enough to get started. Give the sections names that steer the choice, such as "On site: renovations and additions".
How does a client send me photos of their lot?
Through the project questionnaire, a free Form section: desired floor area, rough budget, timing, then file fields for photos of the lot, the street or the house to be extended. Each submission reaches you by email, and all questionnaires stay in the back office, where a CSV export turns them into a spreadsheet. Ask clients to fill it in before the meeting: you show up having already seen the slope, the access and the neighbors.
Plans as a PDF on an iPhone: how does the client get them to me?
Not through the native iPhone app, whose file field takes photos but not PDFs. The client opens your app's web version instead, on a computer for example, and attaches the PDF to the same questionnaire; from an Android phone, the format is no problem. For the original plans of an older house, one photo per sheet can do in a pinch, taken flat: a plan shot at an angle is hard to read.
How do I explain the stages to a client who has never built a home?
With a CMS Articles section that follows the order of the project, from the first sketch to construction, one article per stage: what gets decided, what the client brings, what they get back. The app doesn't track where each project stands and never writes to one person in particular: it explains to everyone. At each meeting, you point the client to the article for the stage that's starting.
Can we announce an open house in a home we just finished?
Yes, with the owners' agreement. Post the visit in the CMS Agenda with the date, the hours and the town; keep the exact address for people who sign up through a Form, and email it to them. A few days before, a scheduled push notification can target the surrounding area, reaching users who have allowed location access. Visitors don't book a spot: Appointment booking takes only one booking per slot. Afterward, the house joins the "New homes" gallery, next to your timber additions and renovations.
Can the app be used to draw sketches or plans?
No. Sketches, plans, sections and renderings are drawn in your usual software; the app calculates neither floor area nor construction costs. It shows what you choose to publish: images of a finished home, a rendering with notes, photos of a model. Plans for a project in progress concern only its client: send them through your usual channels, without publishing them.
Can clients pay my fees through the app?
No. Booking the first meeting charges nothing, and the app knows nothing about your contract or your invoices: everything is signed and paid the way it is today. If you charge for site visits, say so in the section name or in an article, since no price appears at the time of booking.
Extension Store
For an architecture firm, Appointment booking is the only paid extension on this list: an add-on to the Premium plan, already included in Pro. Free: the Form that holds the questionnaire, CMS Articles for the stages, CMS Agenda for open houses, CMS Map to show where you've built, and Push notifications.
