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Your Journey with Guidebook

From your first conversation to a thriving, year-round campus platform. Here's every step of the partnership, and how our higher-ed team walks it with you.

75% of the top US universities use Guidebook

Step 1

Explore

Discover and evaluate
One step, two moments: Discover, then Evaluate.
1a

Discover

You're looking for a better way to connect with students, families, and campus visitors. You come across Guidebook at a higher-ed conference, through a peer institution, or while searching for an event app that actually fits campus life.

Milestone You see a fit for your campus and want a closer look.
1b

Evaluate

You bring in the people who matter: student affairs, IT, marketing, orientation. Then you dig in with our higher-ed team. Together we work through your goals, accessibility and security requirements, and how Guidebook maps to your academic calendar.

Milestone You've aligned stakeholders and have a proposal built around your institution.
Step 2

Commit

A partnership begins

You choose Guidebook as your campus partner. We finalize scope, pricing, and timeline around your academic year, and you sign. This is where the partnership starts.

Milestone Agreement signed and kickoff scheduled around your calendar, with success goals we set together.
Step 3

Make it yours

Brand and build

You shape an app that feels unmistakably like your institution: school colors, campus map, academic calendar, and student organizations, with a dedicated onboarding partner alongside you the whole way.

Milestone You publish your first campus guide.
Step 4

In their hands

Launch to campus

You launch your first campus event: orientation, move-in, admitted student day, or a conference, running smoothly on Guidebook.

Milestone Your students experienced their first event on Guidebook.
Step 5

Thrive

Grow year-round

Trusted by your students, parents, and families. More departments, more events, more engagement. Guidebook becomes a key contributor to the success at your institution.

Milestone You renew, add a new use case, or refer another campus.

Built for the student journey, not adapted to it

Made for students and families

One app students and families actually open. No login required. Just the schedules, maps, and real-time updates they need, from first campus visit to commencement.

One platform. Every step of the journey.

Students have one source of truth for all their campus resources through the whole campus lifecycle. No more multiple sources and fragmented tools.

Live updates. One source of truth.

Students are always kept up to date, and know the moment anything changes. A room moves, a time shifts, and everyone knows in seconds.

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