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Give every prospective student a reason to say yes

One branded app, that is always up to date, carries students through every visit, tour, and admitted student day. They arrive already picturing themselves here, so saying yes feels easy.

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The Only Event App Built For Higher Ed

“Our app costs 29% less than printing, and our student yield increased by 105% once we began using Guidebook.”
Assistant Director of Admissions for Campus Experience
Indiana Tech

Give students one place with everything they need to pick your school

No login required. No download friction. No "which app was that again?" Students get one link, one time. That's it.

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Open house

Run an unforgettable open house

Turn open house and preview days into an experience students can navigate with confidence. Accurate information lives in one place, so first impressions land.

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Admitted Student Day

An admitted student day that makes saying yes easy

The event that earns the deposit. Give admitted students a clear, confident look at life on your campus, so saying yes feels easy.

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Self-guided tours

Self-guided tours to explore campus their way.

Let prospective students choose their own adventure and explore your campus at their own pace. No need for 100 student volunteers, just one app with live routes, updates, and maps that make finding their way easy.

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Already syncs with Slate. No double data entry.

In app engagement data feeds back into Slate automatically, so you see valuable information and make informed outreach decisions. The moment a student's status changes in Slate, their app reflects it. Event invitations, tour confirmations, and next steps stay in sync automatically.

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  • 2 way data sync
  • Understand how students engage with your campus
  • Know how many times a prospective student opened and used your app
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Applicant

One connected admissions journey

1

Inquiry

Capture interest and respond
2

Visit

Showcase your campus
3

Application

Collect, review and manage applications
4

Decision

Communicate and make decisions
5

Enrolment

Confirm, onboard and welcome
Rachel schlachter -
Senior Admission Counselor  at University of Virginia

"After our first year, we were just blown away at first, the amount of people that, like, downloaded the app beforehand and had set their schedule."

Engage your Campus with a Mobile App

A short guide to running the whole student journey in one app. No fluff, just what works.

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Event builder

Events always have changes. Students never have to feel it.

Rooms move. Speakers cancel. Weather turns at the worst possible time. Students only ever see one thing: an app that's always accurate, no matter what changed behind the scenes.

Your team updates in seconds. Visitors know where to go and what's next instantly.

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The results campus teams actually see

Indiana Tech more than doubled their student yield, cut costs by nearly a third, and reduced staff admin time by 90%. The numbers tell a story your director will want to hear.

Guidebook has become the heartbeat of our campus communication

VP of Enrollment, Indiana Tech

105%

Yield increase

at Indiana Tech

29%

Cost reduction

saved annually

98%

Student adoption

in week one

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Create a branded app that gets used, and helps students feel they belong

Give every visit, tour, and event your school's own name and colors, not a stock event app icon lost in a sea of downloads.

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resources

Make every student feel like they belong.

What works, what doesn't, and what we've learned from 13+ years in the education space

Webinar
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One App, Every Touchpoint: How FGCU Uses Guidebook to Power the Full Student Journey

Run open houses, tours, and yield events with more ease. Engage prospective students and increase applications with a branded mobile app.
Blog
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What is student belonging, and how do you measure it?

Run open houses, tours, and yield events with more ease. Engage prospective students and increase applications with a branded mobile app.
Campus Notes
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Why Belonging Can't Be Assigned — It Has to Be Felt

Run open houses, tours, and yield events with more ease. Engage prospective students and increase applications with a branded mobile app.

75% of the top US colleges use Guidebook

The people running campus events say it best

Louisiana Tech University

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Louisiana Tech University brings orientation to life with Bulldog’s First Bite, a Guidebook-powered app that welcomes new students with everything they need in one place.



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Inside the app, students can:



  • Explore session-specific schedules and interactive campus maps.
  • Access handbooks, directories, and key campus resources.
  • Connect with campus culture through photos and social feeds.
  • Stay organized with built-in notes and real-time notifications.

Louisiana Tech University

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Louisiana Tech University brings orientation to life with Bulldog’s First Bite, a Guidebook-powered app that welcomes new students with everything they need in one place.



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Inside the app, students can:



  • Explore session-specific schedules and interactive campus maps.
  • Access handbooks, directories, and key campus resources.
  • Connect with campus culture through photos and social feeds.
  • Stay organized with built-in notes and real-time notifications.

Louisiana Tech University

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Louisiana Tech University brings orientation to life with Bulldog’s First Bite, a Guidebook-powered app that welcomes new students with everything they need in one place.



‍

Inside the app, students can:



  • Explore session-specific schedules and interactive campus maps.
  • Access handbooks, directories, and key campus resources.
  • Connect with campus culture through photos and social feeds.
  • Stay organized with built-in notes and real-time notifications.

Louisiana Tech University

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Louisiana Tech University brings orientation to life with Bulldog’s First Bite, a Guidebook-powered app that welcomes new students with everything they need in one place.



‍

Inside the app, students can:



  • Explore session-specific schedules and interactive campus maps.
  • Access handbooks, directories, and key campus resources.
  • Connect with campus culture through photos and social feeds.
  • Stay organized with built-in notes and real-time notifications.

Bates College

The Bates College app guides prospective students through their journey of exploring Bates' campus, and helps to make choosing Bates feel easy. In a visitor's pocket, they have:

- Housing tours
- Parking info
- Interactive campus maps
- Student club and org info
- And much more

Families know where to go, students have the answers at their fingertips, and modern experience during their visit on campus keeps Bates memorable and a top pick for prospective students.

University of Florida - Tours

The University of Florida's Gator Way App is a key piece in a prospective student's experience on campus, and gives a feeling of what it feels like to be a Gator. Their app allows students to:

- Tour campus with a guided route, audio descriptions.
- Register for sessions relevant to their major, and other interests.
- Connect with various departments on campus.

Students and families leave campus after a strong first impression, and can revisit the campus at home in the app to view anything they missed.

FAQs

Can each prospective student get a personalized experience?
Yes. Create a 'choose your own adventure' experience by letting students build their own schedule and pick the sessions and tours that match their interests, so a business admit and an engineering admit each get the day that speaks to them. You can also assign schedules to students yourself.
Does Guidebook connect with Slate and our other admissions tools?
Yes. Guidebook syncs with Slate and the systems your team already runs on, so prospective student lists and visit registrations flow in automatically, with no spreadsheets or manual uploads. Need something specific? Our Zapier integration reaches over 10,000 systems, and our Open API covers the rest.
Can we make changes to our app on the day of an event?
Absolutely. You can make and publish changes anytime that go live in seconds. You can do this from your desktop, or even from the app itself with our mobile admin tools. Jump in, edit, and hit publish. If a session room or time changes during the day, you can also send a notification to every family straight from your phone.
Is our student data secure?
Yes. Guidebook takes data security seriously and protects student and family information with the privacy and security controls higher ed institutions expect. You can read more at guidebook.com/security.
We're a small team and not very technical, can we still build this?
Yes. If you can send an email or put together a few slides, you can build a Guidebook app. No developers and no code required. It's all drag and drop. Most of our customers wouldn't describe themselves as especially technical, and teams of one or two regularly run events for thousands of students.
How do prospective students and families get the app before a visit?
Once you have published your app, you get a custom landing page and a unique QR code to drop into invitations, confirmation emails, social media, and signage. Guidebook also gives you email, poster, and social templates, so getting families to download before open house or admitted student day is simple. You can also direct people to your app store listing directly.
Do you offer real support?
Yes. We have an award winning customer support team who are known for fast responses and for acting as a genuine partner to your team.
Will this actually move our yield and increase enrollment?
Our customers see it. Indiana Tech took their Admitted Student Day yield from 40% to 82% after introducing Guidebook, and they did it without adding staff. Apps cut through the noise and engage students more effectively, and the results prove it.
What happens if students and families don’t want to download the app?
Not everyone can download an app, we get it. Those individuals can access your app content through their phone’s browser or desktop computer on Guidebook Web, so everyone can feel connected to the experience.

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