Local Business Ionic - Full Application
Mobile
Local Business Ionic is the bootstrap you need in order to build your next extremely modular Ionic application for any kind of BUSINESS and LOCAL STORE. It is a well structured, well organised and implemented, full working generic app that comes with all the features that are necessary for every business needs a modern all in one application. Best practices, proven techniques and experienced software architecture are packed with a well crafted design.
News
Display news and announcements about the business by using a remote JSON structure or your already existing Wordpress and/or Drupal site. Everything you will need for that is already building and no additional code is required.
Products
Expose the products of your business in your clients and potential clients mobile devices. Products are organised in lists where a title a thumbnail and the price are mentioned. A detailed pages provides additional information for each product including a slideshow of images and an “Buy now” link. The link points to the actual web site where the user could find more information about the particular product and proceed with the purchase.
Services
Give information about the services your business is providing. Services are organised in lists of cards where a title and a thumbnail are mentioned. A detailed page provides additional information for each service including a slideshow of images and an “Read more” link. The link points to the actual web site where the user could find more information about the particular service.
Catalogs
PDF and Online Catalogs is a crucial part of the information every business needs to expose to existing and potential clients. Promote your products and see your sales rising! Online Catalogs and PDF will give the chance to the international buyers to be effectively and inexpensively informed of your products, services or even instruction manuals and other support documents. And all of that, it is ready to be used in one step.
Open hours
Make your clients instantly aware about the “Open Hours” and if the business is open at the particular time the user opens the application.
Set the Open Hours in a configuration file and let the code of “Local Business Ionic” to take care of the rest. The solutions that is already implemented gets the current time from the device, takes into account the time zone of the business and the device and displays a friendly message to the users
A detailed list of the all the open hours is also automatically created and is available in the “Contact Us” screen.
Your are just 300m away, visit us…
Motivate even more your clients to visit you by making it easier for them to find you. They will be able to know any time if they are close to your business and drop by for a visit. Perhaps, they are closer to you than they thought!
Contact us
Provide to your clients an one-click-away action to drop you a call or stay in contact with your business. Let them contact you by four different options, e.g. email, address, phone number and Facebook profile, practically without the need to interfere with any programming.
Set your phone number, your email address, your location and your facebook page in the configuration file and you are all ready! The code that is coming with “Local Business Ionic” will take care of the rest and will make available to the users 4 buttons:
Map
Give your clients everything they need to find you by defining one or more locations of your business or store(s). Everything is so easy to be set in the blink of an eye! You only need to set the location(s) once and the application does all the work for you and presents it on the map.
Remote data
The News, Products and Services and Catalogs listing windows are fetching data from online sources by using the JSON protocol. The source URLs for these listings are set in the application’s configuration file. Images, Galleries, texts and whole entries can be updated by adjusting the remote sources. Also, Catalogs’ JSON model allows you to display more details of a catalog either by setting a url or by setting a pdf. Nevertheless, rebuilding and re-distributing the application are not required for constant updates. The same applies for the pins in the live map too. The users are able to add and configure the pin points just by adjusting the remote source.Articles and products listing
Four different content types are used and demonstrated in Local Business Ionic. The application provides the ability of forming Articles by adding a unique photo in any of them. Products, Services and Catalogs are similar to Articles but are supporting an unlimited number of accompanying images. An Image Slider is created by using them. Also, Catalogs JSON gives the option to the User to view a Catalog’s details either online or in a pdf file.Push notification
A full working Push notification example is integrated into the application. It comes also with detailed instructions on how to configure everything in your end and have your application ready to send and receive Push Notifications.Yeoman Ionic Framework Generator powered
Yeoman Ionic Framework Generator combines the best practices and features for scaffolding a hybrid application. It makes building of a mobile app easy and quickly since Yeoman is integrated with Ionic Framework and Cordova plugin. Also, the included Grunt build system optimizes and automates some important tasks of your workflow.Modularity / Configuration
Local Business Ionic’s extremely modular architecture is going to eliminate any unnecessary complexity. Its code is clean and well-organised into modules to make configuration even easier. A configuration file is responsible for each feature of the application such as:
The News
The Products
The Services
The Catalogs
The URLs for the remote data
Therefore, the configuration of all of the features is done through the services by which they are accompanied.
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