Business Directory Ionic is a beautifully designed and easy to use business and store listing application.Users can easily browse through businesses and stores using various filters such as category, name or distance.
Store and Business owners can display and promote their products, services, news, contact information and more.
Best practices, proven techniques and experienced software architecture are packed with a well-crafted design.
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Preview on iOS and Android – Ionic View
Note: Some features are not fully functional for preview on Ionic View. Especially, those that need to launch another application of the device such as “Find us” which launches device’s Google Maps application.
Features:
1. Business Finder
Intuitive finder with several search filters such as category, name or distance (measured from your location).
Users can use one or all the available filters at once to find exactly what suits them best.
2. Favorites Screen
Users can favor businesses or stores and gather them in a single place for quick access.
3. Map Screen
Map screen displays all businesses as map pins. Users can easily access a store profile just by tapping a pin.
4. Comprehensive Business Presentation
Business Directory Ionic effectively displays all the necessary information for each listed business using relevant screens while engages the user with one tap actions.
In detail:
4.1. News Screen
Displays business news and announcements. Data can be fetched by using a remote JSON structure or from your already existing WordPress and/or Drupal site. Everything you need for that is already built and no additional code is required.
4.2. Products Screen
The products screen displays products organized in lists with a title, a thumbnail and price. A detailed screen provides additional information for each product including a slideshow of images and a “Buy now” link. The link points to the actual web site where the user could find more information about a particular product and proceed with the purchase.
4.3. Services Screen
The services screen displays services in lists of cards with a title and thumbnail. A detailed screen provides additional information for each service including a slideshow of images and a “Read more” link. The link points to the actual web site where the user could find more information about the particular service.
4.4. Catalogs Screen
Display a list of pdf where users can access documents with informative or product-based content.
4.5. Contact screen
This screen displays business or store information. It also enables users to interact with app making one tap phone call, get direction or connect with social networks.
4.6. One tap actions:
- Call us: It will make the device to start a call to the phone number you have defined
- Send us an Email: Mailer will open with your business’s email already set so as the user won’t need to type it
- Map / Get directions: The map application which is already installed on the device will be launched to show your exact location on the map and the User will be able to get directions to reach your business.(Note: You can set more than one locations in the configuration file)
- Visit us on Facebook: Users will be able to see business’s social profile with just one click
4.7. Open hours
Let users know if a business is open at the particular time they open the application. The app gets the current time from the device, takes into account the time zone of the business and the device and displays a friendly message to the users. A list of the open hours is also displayed in the “Contact Us” screen.
5. Data Sources – Remote or Local data
Business Directory Ionic app fetches data either from a local location or a remote one (e.g. S3). In any case, the protocol that is used is JSON. Basically, a single JSON file is the one responsible for all the business related information. The source URL is set as a single variable in the application’s configuration file and no additional interference with the code is required.
The News, Products and Services and Catalogs listing windows for each business are fetching data from online sources by using the JSON protocol too. Images, texts and whole entries can be updated by adjusting the remote sources without the need to rebuild and redistribute the application. All the content of the application can be updated just by adjusting the remote sources.
6. Easy Configuration / Modular Architecture
Menu categories and items can be adjusted by just updating their JSON files. They only need to be placed in the related folder and everything else is set up and ready to be used.
Besides, Restaurant Ionic’s modular architecture is going to eliminate any unnecessary complexity for the configuration of the rest features too. Its code is clean and well-organised into modules to make configuration even easier.
You could review this super-modular architecture by checking our SuperModular Ionic starter, which is provided for free. https://github.com/skounis/supermodular
7. Yeoman Ionic Framework Generator powered
Yeoman Ionic Framework Generator combines the best practices and features for scaffolding a hybrid application. It makes building of a mobile app easy and quickly since Yeoman is integrated with Ionic Framework and Cordova plugin. Also, the included Grunt build system optimizes and automates some important tasks of your workflow.
8. Ionic design
Business Directory Ionic is based on the UI elements that the Ionic Framework provides. Ionic Framework comes with a detailed and impressive CSS framework for layout styling. Furthermore, it handles header elements in a very similar way to existing libraries you may have used. Headers are available in many different default color options. Adding a footer element is as easy as adding a header. Moreover, Ionic comes with its own icon library built in which contains almost everything you should need. Use Ionic’s UI components and they will give you a fully customised and functional UI.
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