Requests first
Anyone waiting on you sits at the top with Accept and Not now, then your searchable contacts, then the requests you are still waiting on.
iPhone, Android, Apple Watch
Your community, in every member’s pocket
Native apps for iPhone and Android, built from scratch, not a website in a wrapper. Your name and icon on the home screen, your members signed in, and the room they are standing in one tap away.
Live on the App Store and Google Play today as the Melville Chamber of Commerce app. Every screen on this page is a real capture of it.
Five tabs
The whole community, in five tabs
Home, Feed, Connect, Events and Directory. Your account opens from the photo in the corner of every screen, so the tab bar stays for the things people do every day.
Home
Everything new, on one screen
The community’s masthead, then what is on next, then the newest member posts in a row you swipe through, then your news.
- A “Next up” strip with the date, time and venue of the next event
- The twelve newest member posts, with a card that opens the whole feed
- A lead story, four more, and every story after that
- “Submitted by” credit on news a member sent in
Feed
Members post what is new
Hiring, moving, launching, celebrating. A post is words and one picture, seen by everyone who opens the app.
- Up to 5,000 characters and one photo from the library
- Three posts a day per person, so nobody floods it
- Post as whichever business you manage
- Likes, share, and a link straight to the poster’s listing
- Edit or remove your own posts
- Report a post for four reasons, or block a business so its posts vanish from your feed without them being told
Connect
A business card that never runs out
Every member has a card with a QR code. Hold it up at a mixer; the other person scans it and asks to connect.
- Your photo, name, title and company above a large QR code
- Scan another member’s card with the camera in the app
- Nothing is shared until they accept, then both of you get each other’s phone and email
- “Where did you meet?” fills itself in from today’s event
- Scan a business’s code and its listing opens
Events
Every event, a tap to register
The next event leads with its artwork; the rest are grouped by month, with past events after.
- Seats left, members-only and canceled badges on the list
- Register in the app for free events and member registrations
- Prices shown only to people who are not members
- Add to calendar, directions and share on every event
- Your tickets, with a QR code, saved on the phone so they work with no signal
Directory
The whole directory, with a call button
Search by name, trade or town, then filter by category and town. The list is kept on the phone, so search still works in a basement ballroom.
- Call, email, website and directions on every listing
- Opening hours with an “open now” check
- Photo gallery, services, social links and “Chamber member since”
- Save a business to your contacts, with your own private notes
- Paid “Promoted” listings, always labeled as paid
Apple Wallet
Tickets on the lock screen. The card in the Wallet.
Two passes, both signed by your own server, added from inside the app with one tap.
- Event tickets“Add to Apple Wallet” on every upcoming ticket. Near the start time the pass surfaces on the lock screen by itself, and the door scans its QR code like any other ticket.
- Your business cardThe same button under your card on Connect. It sits in Wallet, which means it is on your Apple Watch too. Update the card and adding it again replaces the old one.
On Android the same ticket QR code lives in the app and works offline; a Google Wallet pass is not built yet.
Apple Watch
Your card, on your wrist
At a mixer your hands are full. Raise your wrist and the QR code is there, black on white, big enough to scan from across a table.
- One screen, one job: your contact-card QR code and your name
- The phone sends the card to the watch when you open the app, sign in, switch accounts or open Connect
- The watch keeps the last card it received, so it works with no phone and no signal
- Sign out, or unpublish your card, and the watch clears it and says why
- It never talks to the server itself: nothing to sign in to on a tiny screen
Contacts and saved businesses
A small CRM for every member
The people you connect with and the businesses you save live under Contacts, with room for what you want to remember about them.
Notes, tags, a follow-up date
Private notes, tags, where you met and when to follow up, on every person and every saved business. Only you see them.
One tap to reach them
Call, text, email or open their card, with a “Verified” mark on a phone number the member confirmed.
Your listing
Members keep their own listing right
Anyone who manages a business sees an Edit button on its page. Changes are live on the website and in the app the moment they save.
- DetailsTagline, about, phone, email, website, address with a switch to hide the street, services, service area, year established and social links.
- PhotosUpload the logo, the banner and gallery photos from the phone. Pictures are shrunk on the phone first, so an upload on one bar still works.
- TeamThe owner invites colleagues by email and removes them. The owner can never be removed by mistake.
- ReceiptsEvery payment to the community, each with a PDF receipt ready to send to the bookkeeper.
Manage more than one business? Pick a default, and the app and the website both open on it.
Push notifications
Notifications people keep turned on
The app asks after someone signs in and taps Turn on, never on first launch. Staff send notifications from HQ, by hand, when something is worth a buzz.
Lands on the right screen
A tap opens a specific story, event or member, or the news, events, feed or directory.
Urgent when it is
Mark one urgent and on iPhone it breaks through Focus and Scheduled Summary. Use it for a room change, not a newsletter.
Tested before it goes
HQ sends the notification to your own phone first, and shows how many people and how many phones it will reach.
iOS and Android
Two native apps, each done the platform’s way
SwiftUI on iPhone, Jetpack Compose on Android. The same features and the same five tabs, with each app using what its phone does best.
| iPhone | Android | |
|---|---|---|
| App | App Store, iOS 18 and later | Google Play, Android 8 and later |
| Five tabs: Home, Feed, Connect, Events, Directory | Yes | Yes |
| Wallet passes for tickets and your card | Apple Wallet | Not yet (QR works the same) |
| Watch app | Apple Watch, your card on your wrist | No Wear OS app yet |
| Scanning a card | Camera in the app, asks the first time you scan | Google’s scanner, no camera permission at all |
| Add to calendar | Adds straight to your calendar | Opens the calendar app filled in |
| Paying for a ticket | Checkout in a browser sheet over the app | Checkout in the phone’s browser |
| Receipts | PDF to the share sheet | PDF in the phone’s PDF reader |
| Push notifications | Apple push, “Urgent” gets through Focus | Firebase Cloud Messaging |
| Light, Dark, Auto | Yes, opens in Light | Yes, opens in Dark |
| Larger text | Follows Dynamic Type | Follows the phone’s font size |
The Android app, captured on a Pixel
Sign-in and privacy
No passwords, ever
- No sign-up form in the app: an account starts on the website, or with an invitation from the community or a listing’s owner
- Sign in with a six-digit code sent by email, filled in automatically on iPhone
- The screen answers the same whether or not an address is on file, so nobody can use it to check who is a member
- Delete your account from inside the app
- Help links on each screen open the community’s own help guide
Honest about the edges
Where the website takes over
Some jobs are easier on a big screen, and the apps say so rather than hiding it. Today these happen on the website:
- Changing opening hours and categories on a listing
- Changing your profile photo
- Publishing your contact card for the first time
- Paying for a ticket as a non-member, which opens secure checkout in the browser
See the app with your name on it
Your icon, your colors and your members, on the same apps the Melville Chamber runs today.