WordPress Page

WordPress feature allows you to integrate the content of a WordPress blog or website in an application. With this feature you have two options:- You can create an application with only one WordPress page in which you will publish all the content of the blog or some categories you would have chosen. 

ex:

– Or you can create an application with several wordpress pages in order to publish in each of these pages the content of one category of the blog. This way the application homepage will look like this:

Of course, you can change the icons of the wordpress pages in order to set up your own design. To sum up you can add as many wordpress pages as you want to enlighten the content of the blog.

Now, we will learn how to integrate the content of a WordPress website in an application.

Step 1:

First of all you must add a WordPress page in your application. Click on . This window appears:

Click on “Click here to download our WordPress plugin”. Without this plugin you cannot use this feature.

Then, go in your wordpress admin interface. This window appears:

Click on “Plugins” then “Add new”. This windows opens:

Click on “Upload”. This appears:

Click on “Choose File” and select the “app-creator.zip” document (no unzip necessary). Then, when you have selected it, click on “Install Now”, and activate it.

Step 2

Go back to your app
Enter the URL of your blog in “Enter your WordPress URL”
Once you have entered the blog’s address click on OK.Siberian will automatically find all the content of the blog and sort all the categories out. Thus you will be able to publish all the content of this blog or only one category. By default Siberian selects all the categories of the blog but obviously you can unselect the ones you don’t want in the page.

Here for example, we decided to only select the “Exercices” category, but we could select others if we wanted to. You can adopt the strategy you want, either you can create an application with only one wordpress page in which you will publish all the content of the blog, or you can create an application with several wordpress pages in order to publish in each the content of one category of your blog.

Once you have chosen your strategy and imported your wordpress content, don’t forget to click on “Save” .

Links

The Links page allows you to share information linked to your business with your clients.

For example, you can create pages like this one with this feature: 

If you want to create a Links page, click on . It opens this window:

First of all, you have to work on the content, then you can work on the design.

1. The content

To add a new link, clik on “+ Add a link”. Then this appears:

Now, you just have to write the name of your link in “Title” and the url address of the link in “link”. You can also add a logo to your link if you click on  “Picto”. This way, you obtain this link:

You can create as many links as you want, you just have to do this process again.

 

2. Design

 

In order to make this page unique, you can insert a cover photo. To do this, you have to click on .
Then, you can change the background if you click on:Once you have clicked on , this window opens:

If you click on the background (here the blue rectangle) you can change it.

3. Conclusion

Thus, when someone will click on a link, he will be automatically redirected towards the page he wishes. For instance, if you click on “Vogue” in the above page, you will be redirected towards:

Booking

Thanks to this feature, your customers can schedule an appointment at your business(es).

If you want to add this feature to your application, that is very easy. First of all, you have to click on the Booking feature:

Then, you have to click on  and to enter the location of your business and the email address of the manager:

If you have several businesses, you can add these businesses to your Booking feature. To do that, you only have to click on . Then, you just have to enter the location of this business and the email address of your manager. You can do this process, as many time as you want in order to reference all your businesses.

Why these information ? 
The location of your business(es) is important for your customers, so that they know exactly where they schedule their appointments.
Thanks to the email address of your manager, the application will send him an email to validate the appointment.

And the result:

Social Gaming

With the Social Gaming feature, business owners will be able to increase the pruchasing frequency of their clients by giving them their ranking based on their loyalty. This feature is working only if a loyalty card is integrated in the application. The more a user gets loyalty points, the higher his level in the ranking will be. All users see their positions in the ranking and the business owner can offer a gift to the leader. The more the gift is important the more the challenger users will come back to dethrone the leader, and the more the leader will come back to consolidate his rank.

The period of a game could be a month or a week. After this period the game will restart with counters reset to zero. For a first game, we advise to choose a monthly period as the user base isn’t important. When more and more users have downloaded the application on their mobile, the period can be set to a week.

Give a name to a new social gaming. It’s just for you and won’t appear on the mobile application.

News Page

This feature allows you to create a news page with a photo and comments from users. It works like a news wall, users are able to find all the posts you wrote on it.

To create a news, first of all you have to upload your logo: click on modify my logo and upload one.

Then click on plus and create your news. Keep it simple and short, users will read it on their mobile device so it must be short. Insert a picture if you can.

You can obtain this:

Contact Page

This feature allows you to create a contact page for your business. Just complete the fields to automatically create a one-touch-call button, a geolocation button and a contact form.

You can obtain this:

Mcommerce

With the Commerce feature you will be able to sell your products from one or several points of sale. Users will be able to pay online via Paypal, or to pay in your point of sale or when they are delivered.

Let’s go!

1. Create a point of sale

After having added the feature Commerce to your app, click on  to add a point of sale :

Then fill out with your store info:

Then add your delivery options. You can choose from:

  • “For here”: meaning that people should come to eat/drink/whatever in the store
  • “Carry out”: meaning that people should come to the store to get the product and then leave the store with the product
  • “Delivery”: meaning that you are able to deliver them

If you choose “Delivery”, some other options are displayed:

  • “Delivery fees”: the cost of the delivery
  • “Tax”: indicate your tax in percentage, if zero write “0″, if 10% write “10″.
  • “Free delivery starting from”: if you want the delivery to be gratis beyond a certain amount of order
  • “Delivery radius”: indicate the area you deliver from your store address, in radius.
  • “Minimum order”: if a minimum amount of order is mandatory to deliver a client (When you test your app be sure you’ve reached the minimum amount in your cart, because, if not, the delivery option will not be displayed in your ordering process)


Then add your payment options. If you choose Paypal, you’ll need to do some mandatory operations in your Paypal account, click here to see how you have to set up your Paypal account to enable it in your app. It’s the only online payment solution you can have in your app. “Credit card” is only here to tell users they will be able to pay in the store or to the delivery man with credit card, not within the app.

Save by clicking on .

 

2. Create categories for your products

Then go in “Catalog” and click on “Categories”:

Click on “+” to add your categories.

A first one is automatically created but won’t be shown to users. It’s your root category and it’s there just to be able to display your own title for the categories page and your own cover image, but this category will not be listed with your very own categories. Select it and click on “+” to add a subcategory (in fact, as the root category is not shown, this new category will be a main category). Add as many categories and subcategories as you need:

 

3. Create products

Then click on “products” from the main menu in “Catalog”, the products page is displayed:

Click on “+” to add a product. And fill out with your new product info:

You can add some options to this product. By options we mean sizes, sauces, complementary products, etc.

Here is an exemple with some sauces, and then we will see another one about sizes.

First, create a new options group:

If you check “at least one option is required” the user will must choose from the sauces you offer when he orders the product. He will not be able to order without choosing from these options (that’s useful when you have many sizes for a product like we will see next).

Then, in the “Add it options” section, click on “+” to add options to this group of options:

Click on “OK” to save.

Now below in your product details page you can see your options.

It’s the same process for sizes.

Name your options group and check that at least one option is required (thus the client will have to choose a size):

Add options to your group of options:

Click “OK” to save.

Then, in your details product page, check the options for this product and indicate their price.

IMPORTANT: when the user choose the option the price of an option will be added to the product price you’ve indicated above. Meaning that if you sell a product with different sizes, don’t indicate the product main price, it will be the price of your smallest size, like below in “Sizes”:

For example, if there is no product main price and if there are 3 prices for the 3 sizes, and the smallest size price is $3 (and of course if you’ve checked “At least one option is mandatory), the price that will be shown in the app to the user will be “From $3″.

Then check the categories for your product:

And click on “OK” to save your product.

 

4. Manage

In the “Orders” menu, you will be able to see and manage the orders you receive.

In the “Settings” menu, you will be able to link, for each store, a connected printer to your app to print orders when they arrive, and also to manage your tax rates if you have several:

That’s all! Now your app can sell products!

Custom Page

VMTApps offers you a wide choice of features to put your products and activity forward.
Custom page allows you to enlighten your business by numerous ways. You can write an article with a picture or not, you can publish a photo gallery and you can publish a video directly on this page.

For instance, custom page gives you the opportunity to create pages like these ones:

Let’s see how to create a page such as these ones. First, you need to create a new Custom page:

Then you must name your new page (here it will be Our Activities).

A custom page is made up of independent blocks. Thus you can realize  as many blocks as you want in the same page (in the example page “Our Activities” there are three blocks: one about golf, one about tennis – which are both text sections – and one about the lake which is an image section).

1. Text Sections:

Here, we will create the first section, which is dealing with golf. To do this, click on “Text”. A new text document appears and you can write your article in it.

Then, insert the picture we want in this section. To do that, click on the icon which is circled in red.  This icon appears  and allows you to insert your picture.

When it has been inserted, you can act on its alignment and its size:

Thus you obtain this result:

To obtain the section concerning tennis, click again on  and follow the process we have seen. But you must act on the alignment which must be on the right and not on the left. You can realize as many sections as you want (custom pages are made up of independent blocks).

More:

You can also add in your text element a link to a website or a phone number. To do this, click on:

This appears:

You have to choose the protocol you want to integrate “http://” if you want to integrate a website or “tel:” if you want to integrate a phone number. Then write in the URL case the link.ex:Website:
Phone Number:

2. Picture sections

Creating a photo gallery is as easy as realizing a text section. To do that, click on  and then on “Add pictures”.

You obtain this:

You can add a description of your picture if you want. Here again you can realize as many sections as you want, you just have to click on .

3. Video Sections

The creation of a video section is as easy as the creation of text sections and picture sections. To do that, you must create a new section, click on . This appears:

Here you have to choose the kind of video you want to integrate into your custom page: YouTube videos, Podcast videos or your own videos.

YouTube:

Click on . This appears:

Enter your research or your YouTube URL in the field. For example, here I entered “Freeride in Sweden”.Then click on OK. This appears:

Select the video you want to integrate and then click on  to save your video.

Podcast: 

Click on . This appears:

Enter your video podcast address ( .xml format) in the appropriate field. Then click on . This appears:
Select the video you want to integrate to your custom page. Then click on .

My video: 

Click on . This appears:

 

Thus, to include a video, you have to write the URL address of your video in “Video URL”.

Once you have written the URL address of your video, you can write a little description of it and add a loading picture. To add a loading picture, click on .  You obtain this: