Bizness Apps 4.0 Sneak Preview

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Important Updates:

Quarter 1 Software Release

We have been working on a “Native” overhaul for almost 6-months now which will be a complete rebuild/redesign of our Native iOS / Android app(s). We’ve set the bar in the market once again for small business mobile apps.

We are excited to share a preview of Bizness Apps 4.0!

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. You can expect the full Release within the month of March.

Below is a full feature list you can reference when informing your clients of this HUGE product release.

ETA: ~30-days (currently in final Q/A testing stages)

This will be going live within the next 30-days, so if you have apps you are working on with clients that require the old design, please be sure to publish within the next 2-weeks.

iOS / Android

Global Additions
- Upgraded iOS framework to 7.0 (supporting only iOS 6+)
- Full redesign
- Landscape orientation
- Common Image sizes
- Heavy focus on improving iPad
- iPad specific views (Contact / Real Estate / NewsTab) — not available on Android Tablet
- Header images for Tablet

Messages / Analytics
- Geofencing
- Revamped Message center (filter messages and in app removal feature)
- Additional Google Analytics criteria (Preview App views vs. Live app views)

Sharing
- Sharing control for all views
- Google Plus social integration
- Editable sharing text
- Sharing URL’s for all platforms (iTunes/GooglePlay/Mobile Website)

Loading / Caching
- Offline content caching
- Background image loading / caching

Universal / International
- Universal date/time format (mm/dd/yyyy 24:00)
- International Distance units (KM. vs. MI.)
- Timezones / Currency upgrades

Search
- Global Search
- Search control for each list view

NewsTab
- Facebook feed
- NewsFeed widget on homescreen

Music Tab
- New music play/pause/progress control
- “All Tracks” & “Albums” filter
- Multitasking
- Music widget on homescreen

YouTube Tab
- Featured / Popular / Recent filters
- YouTube API (Pulls & Pushes comments from Youtube.com)

Podcast Tab
- Audio & Video Podcasts filter
- Multitasking

Image Gallery Tab
- Multiple Galleries

Email Photo Tab
- Photo cropping tool
- “Recent Photos” Gallery

Social Engagement
- Comments on most tabs
- Activity feeds (GPS / QR / Loyalty Tab(s))
- NEW Social Tab
- Social Onboarding
- User stats displayed via web platform

NEW Real Estate Tab
- CSV Upload for quick listing population

NEW Google Ads Tab
- New Ads placement
- Supports AdMob
- Supports DoubleClick for Publishers by Google

Events V2 Tab
- Timezones
- Map & Directions
- Upcoming / Past filters

Web Platform:

- Added mobile additions

- Tons of web maintenance

- Redesigned Step 3 logic flow

- Website Scraping Tool improvements

- New App Onboarding process

- previewyourapp.com Update

HTML5 Mobile Website:

- Updated JQuery Mobile framework 1.4.0

- Tab Panel Navigation

- Redesigned Contact Tab

- Redesigned Mailing List Tab

LIVE Previews

Restaurant Example Real Estate Example

Musician / DJ Example Bar / Club Example

Side By Side Comparison

Current Preview App New Preview App

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This entry was posted by Andrew, CEO at Bizness Apps on February 13, 2014 at 8:54 pm, and is filed under App Reseller. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.

Pervez

This looks awesome! Looking forward to pushing some of the new benefits out to existing and new clients.
- http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
  
  Thanks so much!
Sheonna

I’m really excited about the multiple screen sizes for Android, landscape mode & Sharing for multiple downloads.
- http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
  
  We are too!
Brainwrap

Looks like some fantastic updates/additions. Question: Does the “universal date/time format” include a 12-hour AM/PM time? It’s already a 24-hour/military clock now, which I can’t stand.
Also, landscape view applies to photos & videos as well, yes? Full-screen YouTube playback?
Finally, has the WYSIWYG HTML/text editor been updated/improved at all?
Thanks!
- http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
  
  1. Universal date/time format is used (mm/dd/yyyy 24:00) since half our business is international. In the future we plan to add this but not for this release.
  2. Yes there will be landscape for videos and galleries.
  3. Unfortunately no plans at this time, but please note you can open up the HTML text and enter something more custom if needed. Or perhaps a sized image.
  - Steven
    
    Can you explain how with international clients the events are out by 13 hrs when you add to your device, food tab and contact us tab have no effected no matter what address you have or what time zone you are set on?
W.Hammer

Huge update! Tons of added up-sell value here
Philip Tomich

So how will this effect the old design - how will my current apps be able to update to the new design? thanks-
- http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
  
  Hey Philip, for old apps, nothing will be changed and all content / design will remain the same. If you’d like to update your apps for the new designs and features you can do so for a $50 republishing fee. You can read more about updating your iPhone app for new features here: http://biznessapps.desk.com/customer/portal/questions/702430-updating-for-new-features-
Paul

How will the geo-fencing work?
- http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
  
  Hey Paul, we’ll have detailed information on this during the release including a tutorial guide but basically it will allow you to fence off an area, so when the client enters that area, a push message is sent.
  - http://www.abideonlinemarketing.com Kimon Tinker
    
    I was recently asked if a church app could send a notification about events at the church when they got near the church property. This sounds like what they need.
    - http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
      
      Yup exactly. You could fence off an area, and when they enter that area — the preset message would send.
      - Paul
        
        Can you fence off more than one area at a time?
  - Paul
    
    Will the message work link any push message? Ex: send them to a tab in the app or an external link?
    - http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
      
      Yes we already have that feature in place.
      - Paul
        
        Can you geo- fence any location or just the locations that are in the app?
      - http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
        
        Any location.
Adam

This looks great… congratulations on a lot of hard work. I have a quick question about specifying distances, and it relates to this in the description “International Distance units (KM. vs. MI.).” PLEASE tell me we will be able to use miles, not kilometers, in the U.S.
- http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
  
  Yes we will have a M/K as a dropdown choice.
http://www.abideonlinemarketing.com Kimon Tinker

I really like the listings in the Real Estate app. I’m very excited to show some realtors what they can soon do with an app like this.
Bill

WOW! These features are great, and all the move reason the Bizness Apps platform is the best on the planet. The Landscape mode is great news. Im assuming this will also apply to the HTML5 mobile websites as well? Cant wait to get this out to my clients
- http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
  
  Hey Bill, thanks! For HTML5 mobile websites, we’ve always had that feature as it’s available in the browser.
  - Bill
    
    Sorry, I should have clarified. Yes, the landscape feature is available for the HTML 5 website, but the content gets completely stretched out, when you flip your smartphone to that mode.
Jay K

This all sounds amazing! Can’t wait!!!
Djidoc

Although I am still new to the platform. I am so glad I chose bizness apps. This is very impressive. I can’t wait to update client app and sign up new ones. Love the fact there will be landscape views and ipad specific views helps differentiate for tablet users. Great work Andrew and bizness apps team.
- http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
  
  Thanks for the kind words! And I have to admit, it is our great team at Bizness Apps that deserves all the credit. I’m excited as you are for this release. -Andrew
san08880tos

Regarding the real estate tab, will users be able to distinguish between a rental and for sale home? Alsowill other icons be available besi
- San08880tos
  
  Will other icons on the listing page besides the bed and bath icons? For instance, study, pool and car ports?
  - http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
    
    1. Yes you’ll be able to mark a property as a rental.
    2. No the icons will not be changeable to start.
sara

Any way
sara

Any way that the listings feature can be used for another category - besides real estate? (Say a directory type of listing?) looking for the csv upload feature! thanks - looks amazing!
- http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
  
  Hey Sara, in the near future yes, but to start it will only be available to customize for real estate agents. After that we will expand the customization to allow for say, car dealerships.
  - natascha
    
    any change the csv upload can be used for creating points of interests?
    - natascha
      
      any chance…
Costy Shteiman

So many great new features! We and our customers have been waiting for this geo-fencing feature for a long time!
Questions:
1. As your international enterprise partner we are very sensitive to web platform updates. Given this long list of updates seems that we’ll need to have a longer advance notice to translate and customize it befor going live. Please help us to avoid frustrations this time.
2. Will this update include the ability to customize and translate subjects on platform’s email notifications?
3. We’ve been asking for integrations with Russian analogs of Facebook, autoresponders, Paypal, Wufoo etc. Can we expect it in this or next releases?
- http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
  
  Hey Costy,
  1. Yes we will be giving you files ahead of time to translate to avoid any issues with your translated platform.
  2. Unfortunately no but very soon after this release we will have that functionality.
  3. Potentially in the future but as of now it is not on our roadmap because of the time needed for these integrations. If we hear more requests we will absolutely include them.
  Thanks.
Sergio Cury

Great features!!! Can’t wait to start working on them. Couldn’t see the search control for each list view in Previews. How does it work?
- http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
  
  Hey Sergio, in the top right corner there is a search ability on any list view — such as info tabs, event tabs, and other tabs. We have added this ability all over the mobile app now.
Ken George

The countdown has begun! I think that we resellers will refer to B4 Real Estate Enhancement and After Real Estate Enhancement! So excited for the next 30 days to come and go! Go Bizness Apps Team Go! Cheers to those who know what I am talking about! And Cheers to Ben! YES!!
Deano

Awesome work guys. I have clients that have been waiting for this. Geofencing is sensational.
Chris

Good to hear all the changes. One item that has been a real thorn in the side has been a specific area regarding the push notification. If you use a template for the push notification, it displays the word “template” in your message. Is this fixed?
Thanks and good work
- http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
  
  Hey Chris, we have changed this to the word “offers” instead.
  - chris
    
    outstanding!
  - pat b
    
    The word ‘Offers’ just doesn’t make sense for school apps etc, could it not just say ‘Flier’ or ‘News’?
san08880tos

I can see the real estate tab is live in the back end but when I go to edit the content it just goes to the contact tab layout. Is that because it isn’t completely live yet?
- http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
  
  You are correct. That is because it is not live yet. Once we push the feature live, it will then be available to add into your mobile apps.
Christina Bonner

Thank you! I love you guys so much… Bizness Apps hands down is the best app company out there. I love you Andrew! Thank you for your vision. You are truly giving small business owners an amazing opportunity and platform to thrive and become successful. God bless you all!
- http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
  
  Thank you so much for your support!
Dan

Do you have any screenshots of the revised web platform? Will this be rolled out to reseller account sub domains?
- http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
  
  Hey Dan, we have only revised step 3 to make it simpler and easier to use off the bat. This will be added to reseller accounts likely a week or two after we launch this live to our main website.
  - http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
    
    Hey Dan, here’s a preview of the step 3 redesign for you. As you can see it is a simplified version of what we already have in place. Nothing drastic, but a beautiful redesign that will make adjusting your app’s appearance much easier.
peter

hi does this use phonegap ?
- http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
  
  Absolutely not. All of our development is done from the ground up using custom frame works for the best possible more experience.
JirehMobile

Love the new features, tab etc. It will be an interesting spring-THANKS!!!
Steven Allen

Excellent stuff. Keep it coming. Loving the offline use. Well done guys.
Chris DiCristo

Realtor App Looks GREAT!!!
zack

like the new design however there is missing part when sharing news feed, or rss feed by email for example you should include the content of the sharing particular news and not just a link to the app download
- http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
  
  Thanks for the feedback Zack. I will be sure to share this with our development team for further review.
Jay K

Will there be an option on the real estate app for selecting properties for sale or for rent. And the have a search criteria based on value ie how much rent per month or how much to buy.
John

Looks great! Will there be a redesign for the home screen layouts?
- http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
  
  Hey John, we will indeed be releasing a few new layouts as well. See attached for a sneak peak.
  - Reezt
    
    Shit this is crazy!!! The global search and new layout is gonna bring to a greater height and no more “template look”.
    Plus it can compliment on mobile shopping kinda!
    Hey Andrew, please get the email, preset messages on photo, newletter tab done up soon. This will allow developer creativity to avoid template look great job guys! - from spore
- http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
  
  Here is another new layout we will be introducing. It works with the top left button being pressed, and then the layout will slide over. This is a common and beautiful layout used in many modern enterprise apps.
Jay K

With the real estate app will their be an option to search properties based on their rent or sale option. And will there be an option to add a criteria for the search function ie. only show homes of a certain rent value or sale vale
- http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
  
  Hey Jay, you can test the real estate feature above using the real estate example. You will be able to mark if it’s paid or for sale but to start you won’t be able to do a search based on certain values. We’ll likely gather as much feedback as possible and release a version 2.0 shortly after launch.
Philip Tomich

Hey guys..first awesome..second, I would like to show the app preview with the realestate on my site. When I try to do it now…sometimes it works and othertimes it will ask for the email and password. Any recommendations? Also I would like to try and resize it to be smaller. When I change the pixels even though its proportionate, it wont show or it will just maintain the size. Last - your CSV for real easate is obviously huge. Is there a way to think about this feature for other tabs like info and menus…thanks-
Teresa

this is great t hear!
Ed

What about signature capture? Do you have a field where customers can sign electronically?
- http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
  
  Hey Ed, we do not have any plans currently to integrate this type of functionality. If we hear more requests for this feature we will surely develop for it. Thanks for your feedback!
BetseyD

How will all these great new features be available on any new apps being published over the next couple of weeks (before this new release comes out)? I’m in the middle of a new app build for a comedy club and I can see form the Bars/Clubs preview demo that there’s a lot of features I’d like to incorporate.
- http://www.biznessapps.cn.com Bizness Apps
  
  Hey Betsey, if you publish before this all goes live and is announced your app will only contain the version we have available now. If you wait about a month, we will have moved to our new update seen above and your app will contain the new features.
  - http://www.awakin.com Awakin™ Digital
    
    Good to know!
    1. If you have an app already published - can you simply republish the app in order to add the new functionality (Particularly the offline cache for me).
    2.Is there any way of cacheing video offline? Thanks guys!
Morgan

I love the offline content…with this update is there the ability to download music or podcast to the app for offline listening? Also does the multitasking work just inside the app or will the media continue to play once the screen turns off? Thanks!
William Green

Can the Real Estate Listing functionality be used for car dealers?
ltorresr

My Bizness Apps 4.0 wish list.
1-In video tab - Use an Ustream or Livestream channel.
2-In email photo tab - Upload my own graphical frames with transparent area. The user can take photo inside of these frames (with transparent area) using their phone’s camera.
Torres

My Bizness Apps 4.0 wish list.
1-In video tab - Use an Ustream or Livestream channel.
2-In email photo tab - Upload my own graphical frames with transparent area. The user can take photo inside of these frames (with transparent area) using their phone’s camera.
- Mike
  
  Letting users take photo inside upload my own graphical frames is such a great feature, hop Bizness Apps will have this feature soon
Shannon

This update looks amazing!!! As someone who has been with BiznessApps for almost a year and a half… I’m VERY excited!!! One question, just to check. Are there any plans for making it so that if you choose “sub tabs” on the homescreen you can choose where those tabs show up rather than a predetermined place? Thanks for all your work and making it so easy for us!!!
John

With geo fencing feature, can you add multiple geo fences?
joe public

will someone have in to sign to to facebook etc every time they use the app or will it remember them ?
Jesse Carbo

Really excited about all the updates and upgrades…taking us to a whole new level! Way to go Andrew and Bizness Apps Team!
Deano

Would be good to separate out the food order and reservations into an easily accessible menu item at the top. So that anyone checking orders or reservations does not go near the design or content. Even better to have a separate login in that has access to only fulfilment options.
Mitch

I didn’t see an answer to the question of whether POI’s would be able to be imported using the new csv importer (for real estate). The current requirement to *manually* input POI’s (especially if we have dozens we want to show on the map) is tedious at best. This would be a welcome addition. Will it work?
pat b - London

Looks great! With the Tip Calculator is there a £ option rather than $?
Brainwrap

Hi, I was wondering about the new “sharing controls” section…could you explain what this means in more detail? Also, does this have anything to do with being able to control which clients have access to which sections of the administrative control panel (which would be nice to have)?
In other words, if I wanted one client to have the ability to edit the look & feel but not another client, can I do so?
Brainwrap

Oh, I was also wondering if there have been any improvements to the RSS/Blog feed tab:
1. currently, you have the ability to set a single thumbnail image to the side of each blog item, but it’s the same image for every item. Will there be a way of assigning an image (on the actual blog entry side, of course) to be recognized and displayed as the thumbnail for each individual entry?
2. currently, there’s 3 tabs for each blog entry: the list tab, the “teaser” tab…and then you’re taken to the actual full website page for the full view. Will the third (full) view be pulled into the app itself, or will it still load the full website view (which may or may not have a responsive design)?
Other questions:
-For Facebook/Twitter login tabs, will people still have to log in every time they use this (which is incredibly tedious) or will it save the login?
-For the Events tab, will we have the ability to control *which* events include a header image, allow comments/photos/rsvps and so on individually? Right now these features are either ON or OFF for all events within the tab, but I have several school clients where only certain events need some of these but others don’t.
Thanks!
- teddirez
  
  i’d love to see a decent RSS feed where the images are pulled from the blog instead of static images.. surely this is a massive oversight. RSS feeds are currently so unsightly looking
philipshard

This is real progress, some great new features to offer our clients
http://www.goinglocalapps.com Tariq Hussain

Do we have any updates yet on when this should launch? Have been very eagerly awaiting this.
- Michael
  
  Yes. It would be great to know how long to holdback current submissions to make sure we submit to apple with the new system!
http://www.enationworldwide.com Jacquie Rowan Gonzalez

Will there be any possibility of seeing in-app metrics? I.e. hits on pages within the app? How can we make this happen?
ukdev

anticipating. Will this be released before 20th March. Just building an app for client and don’t want to publish to early
Tim

How close are we to release?
- Michael
  
  yes please! How close???
FastAPPZ

When?
http://www.think-tasmania.com Gavin

CSS Style Sheets for html. Any chance we will be able to upload and use style sheets e.g. in POI information. The html editor can use style sheets but you can’t upload them (file extension excluded).
http://www.think-tasmania.com Gavin

Custom map icons for POIs?
Robert

Yes I would also like to know when can we expect the changes before publishing my new apps.
Kara

I think we need another update on when this release will be finalised. Almost end of March now.
Eric

Looks very nice so far, a bit glitchy and the transition for current clients in process is going to be tricky for us to manage since what we have been showing them will have significant changes to what we’ve been working on…
Also noticed (and did not call due to it being new) that the background sliders of the apps in process need to be re-assigned (the update did not catch them to the new preview app…).
Also some of the pop-up setting pages are not “scroll” reachable yet… but you can get there with a tab so for now its ok!
Glad to see the changes in the subtabs, very needed!
hank

Will the social features begin posting updates to end-users social accounts or simply logging them in through the social platform without creating additional exposure for the business?
R.F.

Dear Designers. The Youtube Module should allow us to create video categories to be able to add videos or channels using categories. My customers have a lot of videos and they would like to have video categories. I know that you can not design every single wish here but video categories is something that other users are also waiting for and something that make sence.
Eric

Frustrated with the change process in the update portal… Images are not showing properly (pngs are not being shown with transparent backgrounds)… The pop up dialog forms cannot readily be reached without going through tabs and stretches…
Realize that there is a lot good in this release… However, it clearly was not field tested completely by non-employees (your own software is always difficult to debug…)
Really like the effort and focus on meeting a date for a release! However, there needs to be a bit more testing prior to actually pulling the rip cord…
Aaron

Im pretty stoked about these new features and I know our clients will be as well!
Thanks Biz
Mariano Berro

Can you provide the apps codes of new examples to be able to wathc it in the previerapp aplications. Thansk
Dan

Can you upload events directly to the app from a google calendar?

Bizness Apps 4.0 Sneak Preview

Important Updates:

Quarter 1 Software Release

iOS / Android

Web Platform:

- Added mobile additions

- Tons of web maintenance

- Redesigned Step 3 logic flow

- Website Scraping Tool improvements

- New App Onboarding process

- previewyourapp.com Update

HTML5 Mobile Website:

- Updated JQuery Mobile framework 1.4.0

- Tab Panel Navigation

- Redesigned Contact Tab

- Redesigned Mailing List Tab

LIVE Previews

Restaurant Example Real Estate Example

Musician / DJ Example Bar / Club Example

Side By Side Comparison

Current Preview App New Preview App

FREE mobile reseller guide!

Watch Recorded Webinars

What is Bizness Apps?

Previous Blog Posts

Bizness Apps 4.0 Sneak Preview

Important Updates:

Quarter 1 Software Release

iOS / Android

Web Platform:

- Added mobile additions

- Tons of web maintenance

- Redesigned Step 3 logic flow

- Website Scraping Tool improvements

- New App Onboarding process

- previewyourapp.com Update

HTML5 Mobile Website:

- Updated JQuery Mobile framework 1.4.0

- Tab Panel Navigation

- Redesigned Contact Tab

- Redesigned Mailing List Tab

LIVE Previews

Restaurant Example Real Estate Example

Musician / DJ Example Bar / Club Example

Side By Side Comparison

Current Preview App New Preview App

FREE mobile reseller guide!

Watch Recorded Webinars

What is Bizness Apps?

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