Designing a mobile app with Builderfly is as easy as creating an ecommerce store. With our intuitive mobile app builder, you can turn your Builderfly store to a mobile app and gain the attention of mobile users.
If you are wondering, do you even need a mobile app for your business, let us tell you that mobile commerce revenue is expected to hit $3.56 trillion by the year 2021. That’s not happening without any reason. The shopping pattern of the customers is changing rapidly, and these days, people mostly prefer to shop via their mobile phones rather than exploring over desktops.
M-commerce apps are known to improve customer loyalty in a better way than that of web stores. And, what could be better than gaining the cusotmer’s attention from all the possible means? That’s why we believe that it’s best to add as many platforms as you can, to market your products & services.
How can I create my mobile app with Builderfly?
Once you create your account with Builderfly, you will get access to the free ecommerce store builder as well as mobile app builder. But your mobile app will not be created automatically. We offer you the choice to create your mobile app. In your 14-days free trial period, you will get access to the mobile app builder. In the post-trial period, access to the mobile app builder will be removed for startup plan users.
To create your mobile, log-in to your Builderfly store with the credentials you’ve used to register.
- Click on ‘App front’ in the left pane of your user dashboard.
- On the new window, you have to click on ‘Get started.’
- Here, you will be asked to make a few choices. Firstly, update the name of your mobile app that you want to mention, choose the mode of theme, select the pages you want to add from your ecommerce store, the social handles that you want to integrate, the menu tyle that you want for your mobile app.
Your mobile app is ready! Unable to believe? We know, but it’s this easy.
So, what’s next?
Well, it’s time to customize your mobile app as per your choice. The best thing is, you can update and change all those things that you chose above. From splash screen to internal content and catalog, you can edit it all by clicking on ‘Edit your mobile app.’ Also, you can click on ‘App customization’ by going into the ‘App Front.’ You can update internal content; user displayed content, static blocks as well as images. For step-by-step assistance, to customize all the screens, you can refer to our user-guide to build your mobile app.
In your native mobile app, you are provided with a design section separately, to update the front end layout of your m-commerce app. From the app settings section, you can update all the required information about your app. In the navigation tab, you can manage notifications, anlaytics, build history, and log history.
The notifications tab will help you update the settings of push notifications, locations based notifications, and other order based notifications. The build history will have the list of several builds or the updated versions created for your mobile app and for the type of platform that you chose. The build history is crucial for you to check the fixes that you’ve made and restore the previous version in case of any odd circumstances. Log history will keep the information of the log-in session of each of your customers. It will help you in fixing the bugs, if any, that are creating barriers in the conversion from your ecommerce store.
Furthermore, you’ve to create your developer’s account at the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store to make your mobile app live. Before proceeding further, don’t forget to test your mobile app by downloading its SDK file. For any technical assistance, feel free to reach us.
Why is Builderfly best to launch your native mobile app?
When you are finding the reasons to count on Builderfly, there are many. Here, we are emphasizing on the benefits to opting for Builderfly for building your mobile app:
- Pocket-friendly ecommerce solution: Builderfly is the only ecommerce platform in the industry that lets you design and launch your native mobile app in the budget of creating an ecommerce store. In a way, you can call it a freebie!
- Auto-fetch the data: The native mobile app that you will create with Builderfly is in sync with your ecommerce store. The catalog, blogs, and other pages that you have on your ecommerce site could be added to your mobile app as well. The best thing is, you don’t have to update data distinctly; rather, it could be directly fetched from the store. You can select the pages and the content that you want to add or remove on your mobile app. This reduces the efforts that you need to put in while creating and updating products individually on the two platforms distinctly. Whenever you update your catalog in the backend for your store, go to your backend of the mobile app and click on sync. The inventory will be automatically updated every time. The discounts and gift cards can be added distinctly, or navigate in sync between store and app.
- Customize the screens of your mobile app: We have readymade themes for your mobile apps, just like your online store. By selecting the theme of your choice for your mobile app, you can give a distinct look to your mobile app than that of your ecommerce store. We also have the templates for different screens of your mobile app, with which you can customize the screens as per your choice. The color palette has the standard colors set for the theme that you select. We want you to experiment with your creativity, thus, permit you to customize the color combination as per your choice.
- Access to resources: Builderfly arms you with all the necessary resources to lay the foundation for your business. We have the step-by-step guide for store builders as well as mobile app builders to help our customers at different stages of the business. Unlike the ecommerce store, the launch of a mobile app takes some real effort and we mentioned all those things in our comprehensive guide. If you are still stuck anywhere, you can reach our experts for assistance at any time. Our support is available round-the-clock to assist you in your entrepreneurial journey.
- Mult-device adaptability: The native mobile app that you will create with Builderfly will be adaptable for your Android as well as iOS versions. You need not create the mobile app distinctly for each of the OS or supporting devices. By selecting the Android build, you can download the .apk for Android devices, and by selecting iOS, you can download for iOS devices. You have to launch your app separately on the two platforms. Your native mobile app is compatible with Android & iOS mobile phones, iPad, and tablets. The versions that will be accessible to you depend on the business plan you are subscribed with.
- Leverage the power of AI: As soon as you launch your store, the AI flow starts between your mobile app and ecommerce store. Artificial Intelligence helps you in tracking the live behavior of your customers; thus, offer you more opportunities to know your customers. Your customer activity every day will be saved in the log file. You can use them later, for your reference as well. Using this data, you can give live offers to your customers and grow the opportunities of getting conversion at your store.
- Central management: Since your mobile app and ecommerce store is sync, you need not check the orders on the two platforms distinctly. You can access your dashboard to view your regular orders and process them right away.
- Push notifications: In your native mobile app, you can turn to enable or disable push notifications for your users. By enabling the push notifications, the update for any changes made or new products added in the catalog will be sent directly to your customers. This will help you to interact with your mobile app users and make them curious to interact with your business. Push notifications are also known to improve the engagement and chances of conversion.
- Geo-specific notifications: By enabling geo-specific notifications, you offer the chance to your location-based users to connect with you for location-specific discounts or events. This way, you build connections with the local audience and leverage their connection to create a local community. The reviews by the live user at your physical store are more trustworthy and helpful to build reliability on the online platform.
This is how Builderfly can help you launch your mobile app. The benefits that you will add to your pocket by doing so are unbelievable. To unfold this mystery, you should create your store and unleash the opportunities to take your business to the horizons. To know more about the Builderfly plans that can suffice your requirements at it best, you can communicate with our experts by writing us on support@builderfly.com.
