LabWay – a scalable digital solution for healthcare
Healthcare, App
EventSource. Event planning app that covers it all
Flexible browsing through offers by the best event vendors in the Greater Toronto Area
Industry
Social media, HoReCa
Tech stack
Swift, Cotlin, .NET, SignalR, Google Maps API, Youtube/Vimeo SDK
Link
The story
EventSource functions as a comprehensive guide to special event planning in Toronto and GTA. To help locals connect with the best venues and vendors even faster, the company hired us to create customer-facing native mobile apps.
The challenge
EventSource is a running business with a large database of local vendors and information about them. We had to integrate everything that is in place on their website into easy-to-use and informative mobile apps: hundreds of vendor profiles, each including visual materials, reviews, blog mentions, details about catering, capacity, prices, and so on. We aimed to provide EventSource’s customers with an effective way to plan their special events with the best vendors and to the finest details.
Key features
| Search | Flexible vendor search |
|---|---|
| Chat | Secure chat |
| Feedback | Ratings and reviews |
| Map | Interactive map |
| Calendar | In-app calendar |
| Notifications | Push messages |
| Recommendations | Personalized recommendations |
Value we delivered
Handling lots of data
We integrated a large database of available vendors, each with a number of characteristics: their contacts, types of services, photographs and videos, special offers, awards, mentions in EventSource’s blog.
We added numerous filtering options for users to search for vendors and venues by keyword, event category, capacity, price, location, etc.
We used Google Maps API to enable location-based search and show each vendor on the map. For the map not to seem cluttered, we used powerful geoclustering techniques: several points on the map are combined into clusters as the user changes the scale.
Concise and clear UX
The customer-facing app includes 3 tabs: Explore (to explore the offers), My vendors (to view and manage booked services), and Messages (to communicate with selected vendors). The app covers all the steps of the event planning process from finding suitable vendors to checking their details and from booking and chatting with them to reviewing the experience.
When browsing through lists of offers and checking out vendor profiles, users can add any offer to favourites or share it. When a user books an offer, they get automatically transferred to My vendors. Users can use the in-app real-time chat that supports attachments or move to the native calling feature from the app.
If a vendor is mentioned in the company’s blog, the app can redirect a user to relevant blog posts.
Visual interactivity & Personalization
Vendor profiles include high-resolution photographs available for a 360 view and may feature videos collected from their Youtube or Vimeo accounts.
Vendor profiles include high-resolution photographs available for a 360 view and may feature videos collected from their Youtube or Vimeo accounts.
The result
It took us less than 3 months to build the apps based on EventSource’s business needs and requirements. We engaged the company to take part in each sprint demo, which made it possible to deliver the apps in total sync with their vision and expectations. Satisfied with our cooperation, EventSource is planning to trust us with making a vendor-facing app as well.
Keep exploring
Get an estimate
Complete this simple 5-question form. Our team will contact you promptly to discuss next steps.
Get an estimate
Complete this simple 5-question form. Our team will contact you promptly to discuss next steps.
How can we help you?
Fill out and send a form. Our Team will contact you promptly.
How can we help you?
Fill out and send a form. Our Team will contact you promptly.