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1. Android – once completed and submitted to Google Play Store using Google Developer Account, your android app will gain approval within 24 hours.
2. iPhone –  once completed and submitted to App Store using iTunes Connect Account, your iphone app will gain approval within 2 weeks on average.
   • If for some reason your app is not approved will provide you with assistance to make changes and resubmit.

Through SmallBiZzApps, advertisers, brands and companies are able to create:

• Android Apps – for Samsung, HTC and all other google devices.
• IOS Apps – for iPhones and iPads
• HTML5 Web Apps – for any web browser

The answer is Yes. Simple login and make your changes and ‘voila’, they go live immediately for your app users to see.

If you want to reach customers in today’s technology driven market, you will have to communicate with them on the one thing they never leave home without, their mobile device.

Why SmallBiZzApps?

• COST EFFECTIVE – SmallBiZzApps rates are inexpensive and very affordable. Leveraging SmallBiZzApps solutions is a great opportunity for small businesses seeking more cost effective alternatives to reaching and engaging their customer base.
• GENERATE LEADS AND INCREASE REVENUE – Generate Leads by allowing customers to connect directly with your business, submit orders and more
• BUILD CUSTOMER LOYALTY WITH REWARDS – Build Customer Loyalty through our mobile  reward system, which rewards customers for repeat purchases
• PUSH INSTANT NOTIFICATIONS TO CUSTOMERS – Deliver instant messages creating awareness about new offers and more, to your customers whenever you want or when the need arise.
• WE HELP BRAND SUCCEED – SmallBiZzApps offers cost effective mobile marketing solutions to help top brands and companies grow by cementing consumer loyalty, helping to drive additional revenue and providing access to meaningful consumer analytics

EDITOR

This is the panel from where you modify your app. From the design to the features.

Editor Steps to publish my SmallBiZz App:

1. Login or Signup to access the editor.
2. From the Editor Menu start with the Design, from here:
   • Choose template
   • choose layout
   • choose home page image
   • choose country
   • choose font
3. Next select colors from editor menu to choose your Colors.
4. Next select Features from the editor menu to Choose your features/pages for your app
5. Next select Application From the Editor Menu
   • add your app icon
   • add startup images
6.  Next step Publication on editor menu
   • choose whether you want to include Ads (Admob) in  your app.
   • Once you complete all the steps in the editor, select Ready? Publish my App
   • choose your subscription option

SmallBiZzApp is a simple do-it-yourself mobile app solution created for anyone who can surf the web. Try it now for free.

All of our plans come with a full 30-day free trial. Before you subscribe, you will be able to experience one of the most advanced, fully integrated mobile app solution.

Absolutely! Select our “Hire A Pro!” option and send us some details about your project and we will help  you to determine whether you need design or programming expertise.   Various options available for design or programming depending on your requirements.

To be sure your app will be validated by Apple you have some things to know (for Android’s Google Play there is a validation too now but, it’s more permissive):

• All your pages have to be filled out with content. Please be sure you have no empty pages. If you have a news feature for example, enter one news, and with a picture it would be even better.
• Content: no explicit contents in your apps! But it was obvious 😉
• Design: please choose cool colors with complementarity. If you don’t really know how to find colors with complementarity you can use http://colorschemedesigner.com/. But no rainbow apps, please don’t.
• Features: Apple want useful apps. So don’t create apps with only one or two features. And enter relevant content with multimedia (videos, images, etc)
• Write a good description of your app. You have to explain what the users would be able to find in your application, and why they have to download it. (250 characters minimum).
• Never talk about other platforms in your app! Apple doesn’t want you to talk about Android or Google Play, or Samsung in apps that are on the Apple App Store. Even if there is a logo, or an image about an Apple competitor, your app will be rejected.
• If there is an account registration tab in your app, or part of your app that is blocked with the Padlock feature, be sure to provide test credentials to Apple in the “Demo” fields on itunesconnect.apple.com if we have published the app under your developer account, or to send these credentials to us prior to publish your app. To know how to create test account, take a look to the Lock feature article.
• Never use test content in your app, like “Lorem Ipsum” content or texts with “test”, “demo”, etc. Apple refuses apps that are not finished, and/or apps for tests.

If you can’t add a product to the cart that means:
– You have not created a category (other than the root one)
– or you have not associated the product to a category
– or you have not associated the product to a tax.

Yes. Your app is automatically up to date.
The only things you can’t modify on your apps without new submissions are : app icon, app startup image (splash screen), app name, app description, categories and keywords, and the mobile website url (in settings>domain).
Another point concerns the “audio” feature, if you have bought it: if you want it to work with multitasking (navigate through your phone, outside your app, with music keep on playing), you have to integrate it on your first publishing, if your app is already published when you add this feature, it will not work in multitasking mode, and you will have to submit again if you want the audio to work in multitasking.
Some other features/option must be added from the start like the social sharing options, AdMob for iOS, and Places. But once you have added them you can change the content without resubmit the app on the store. You would just have to republish your app in case these features are not already added from the start (note that you can add this feature one time, for example you can add the Places feature just for one place, publish your app and then add new Places pages without submitting the app again).

And design, colors and of course features are editable when you want and without new publication process.

In this tutorial we are going to see how to set up your Paypal account to enable online payments in the M-Commerce feature and receive payments on your Paypal account.

FIRST, If you don’t have a Paypal account, you need to create one. Please go to paypal.com and sign up for free.

Your Paypal account must be “premium” or “business”.

Here is what you need to set up Paypal in your mobile app:

• Paypal API username
• Paypal API password
• Paypal signature

​The process is simple but need some requirements. First open paypal.com and log-in.

Under your name make sure your status reads: Verified. If your account isn’t verified you have to verify it by Paypal.

Then under the tabs click on “Profile” or “Preferences” and “More options”. Then click on “Settings” from the left menu, and if you have a Personal Account you have to upgrade to “Premier” or “Business” for free:

From the left menu click on “My Selling Tools”, and then on “Update” in the “API access” section:

Then click on “Request API credentials:

Then choose “Request API signature”, and click on “Agree and Submit”:

Then go to SmallBiZzapps Login, in the store of your M-Commerce feature, after enabling Paypal for your payment methods, just enter the credentials you just got from Paypal:

That’s all! Your app is ready to receive payments with Paypal.

This feature will allow your customers to use their camera to flash a QR Code and to access specific content.

To add this feature to your app, just click on  in “Add Pages”.

Basically, a QR code is data encrypted as an image. When you use your QR Code Scan, it will get you to the content it is linked to. It can be a specific url outside the app, an image, text or anything.

For those who don’t know what is a QR Code, it looks like this:

Note that each and every QR Code is related to a specific content.

(Warning: When you add the QR Code Scan feature, the icon will not be displayed in the Editor Previewer on the right. It is normal, and it will be displayed once the app is published)

The QR Code Scan will allow your users to:

– unlock discount QR coupons: see article.

– unlock the Padlock: see article.

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 at your point of sale or when they are delivered.

Let’s go!

1. Create a point of sale

After adding the Commerce feature 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 free when the order reaches a certain amount
• “Delivery radius”: indicate the area you deliver from your store address, in radius.
• “Minimum order”: if an order has a minimum amount for you to deliver a client

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 but once again it will not be shown to users so you can leave it like that. 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. Add as many photos as you wish.

You can some sizes to your product. Switch on Product Formats and then fill out sizes information of your product, with a price for each size. Note that if you activate this function, you won’t be able to change the price of your product in the main menu as you did just before. The price displayed in the app will be the smallest one (“from 3€” for example).

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

Here is an exemple with some sauces.

First, create a new options group:

If you check “at least one option is required” the user will have to choose from the sauces you offer when he orders the product. He will not be able to order without choosing one of these options (that’s useful when you have many sizes for a product, as 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, in your product details page you can see your options below.

Then check the categories for your product:

And click on “OK” to save your product.

You can also duplicate a product if you want to create a new product that doesn’t have many differences from another one.

If you have many products in the feature, it can be difficult to scroll to find the one you are looking for. That’s why we implemented a search bar, where you can type its name and find it easily.

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:

You’re done!

With this feature, you will be able to create a list of geolocated places.

It will display all the places on a map, or, if the user opens the sheet of a particular location, he will be able to get the path and directions to this location, by walking or driving. The listing of the locations is sort according to the distance between the locations and the user, from closest to farthest.

After having added the feature to your app, click on the “+” to add a place to the list.

You can add an image that will be displayed in the list for this location, a title, and a subtitle:

Then, you have to enter an address for this location, or its coordinates. You can add a label for this address but it’s not mandatory.

If you check the “Display address” checkbox, the address will be shown in the sheet of the location. If you check the “display location button” checkbox, it will display the button that will allow the user to see the path to this location.

Then you can add other sections like text + image, photo gallery, videos. These sections are the same than in the Custom page feature, thus you can take a look to our support article about the Custom page feature to see how it work, click here. You can also add touch to call buttons, or web links buttons.

Once you have set up the list, it could look like that:

The list:

The location sheet:

And you’re done!

The Offline Mode is not really a feature, but it allows your users to download the contents of the app in their phones so that they can access it later, even if they have no connection. Let’s see how this works.

When the users download the app and open it for the first time, they will be asked if they want to download the contents to access it when they are offline. If they do it, they will be able to access all the contents that are in the app even when there is no connection.

But you have to know that everything that is linked to an external website will not be downloaded, like for example Youtube videos, Instagram galleries, or Facebook pages. As you have to get the content from outside the app, you need an internet connection to access it.

Here is the feature for creating menus or bundles for a business. You’ll be able to create as many menus as you want.

Necessary components:

• Menu name, for exemple: “Evening menu”, or “Family menu”
• Price. This field isn’t mandatory, as you can enter the price in the menu description
• Description: you’re going to use the text editor to create a menu. Look below to see how to create a beautiful menu.
• Conditions. This field isn’t mandatory. You would be able to use it to specify some conditions, for example “only available on mondays”.

Here is what it looks like:

How to create a beautiful menu with the text editor:
Apply a style to your titles (“appetizers“, “dishes“, “desserts” for example) and center all your text. In order to do that, select your title in the text editor and click on  in the text editor’s menu, then click on  and choose “title 1″ or “title 2″. Your title will be formatted with the Lobster police (the same police that is used for the discount title in the Discount feature).

Press Enter. Enter your appetizers if the title is “appetizer”, press Enter between each item.

To enter a new title (“dishes” for example if you’ve just entered the appetizers), make a separation by pressing Enter and clicking on  in the text editor menu. Then press Enter and reproduce the previous process.
These modifications won’t be visible in the text editor nor in the app preview but will be well considered in the application.
Then, if you can, enter a picture for this menu and save all.
To enter a new menu, click on  and repeat the above process.

You can obtain this:

With the Loyalty feature you’ll be able to create a loyalty’s punch or stamp card. It means there will be a reward after a number of purchases. For example “one burger for ten bought”.
To validate a loyalty point the business owner will have to enter a four-digit password. As with loyalty stamp card, the client has to show his card to the retailer for stamping it, with our digital loyalty card, the client has to show his smartphone and the retailer has to enter his four-digit password to validate a point.

1. Loyalty card creation
Here are the things required to create a loyalty card:

• the total number of points
• the reward
• what’s the condition to validate a point

Here is an example:

2. Four-digit passwords creation:
It is possible to create a password for each employee. Like this it will be more easy to verify who validates what.

To create a password, you just have to click on the “my passwords” button:

3. The loyalty card in the application:

To validate a point, the client “touches” a point and shows his smartphone to the retailer:

The retailer chooses the number of points and enters his password :

Note:
It is not possible to edit or delete a loyalty card. Why? Because it works like a real punch card, when a user gets a punch card with a particular offer and begins to validate some points on it, it can’t be changed (meaning that it would be too easy to attract customers with a big offer and then to change it for a lower one while they already have some points validated on it).
But it’s possible to create a new card with a new offer. All the customers who have already validated points on the old card, will keep using this card until it is completely validated, and then they will get the new card. The customers who haven’t validated points yet on the old card, will get the new one instead.

Once your application is featured on the App Store and Google Play, you’ll be able to send push notifications. Or your clients will, if you’re a reseller.

It is quite simple. First of all, you have to click on the Push feature. This will appear:

Then, you have to click on the , to create a new Push message. This will appear:

The option “Open a feature or a custom url” allows you to redirect your users to a specific url or a specific page of your app when they open the push notification.
Now, choose your message an click on . Once you have clicked, this will appear:

This option allows you to choose if you want to send your notification to all your users or only to those who have subscribed to specific topics

Case 1: Send a notification to all users

Click on “Send to all my users” and then click on . This will appear:

It enables you to choose if you want to send your notification now or on a specific date. If you choose “now”, you only have to click on OK to send your notification.

But if you want to send your notification on a specific date, this calendar appears:

Choose in the calendar the day and hour you want your notification to be sent. Then click on “Done” to validate your choice.

Finally click on OK to validate your notification. Your notification will be sent at the moment you choose.

Case 2: Send a Topic based notification

Thanks to this feature you will be able to lock your app wholly or partly. The locked content will be accessible for authorized users only. We are going to see how to set up this feature.

First, you have to add the Padlock feature to your app, click on  from “Add pages” to add this feature to your app.

Then you can set it up.

You have two possibilities to unlock the Padlock and grant access to the whole applications to registered users. The first one is to use a QR Code and the QR Code Scan, and the second one is to create an account for your users, or to let them create their own account. Of course you can use both at the same time if you want, it’s up to you.

To allow your users to unlock the Padlock by scanning a QR Code, select QR Code in the Padlock feature. This will create a QR Code that you have to save and print and, for example, display inside your store to allow your customers to unlock some parts of your app by using the QR Code Scan.

Now let’s see how to set up the pages that will be locked by the Padlock.

“Allow all users by default”:

If you select “yes”, all users who have already an account on your app, or users who create an account on your app, will be allowed to access to the locked content. Setting on “yes” is useful to create a database of registered users who are the most engaged with your content.

If you let on “no”, that means you will have to authorize your users manually from the “Users” menu which is between the “Analytics” and “Extra” menus. We will see how a little bit later in this article.

“Lock the entire application”:

If you choose “yes”, your whole app will be blocked. And users will have to create an account or to create an account and to be authorized depending on what you have chosen for “Allow all users by default”. With this option you can create a private app.

If you choose “no”, you will just block some pages of your app:

Just choose from the list the pages you want to block. Of course, you need to have added pages to your app. You can add pages later and open this feature again to block them. The locked pages will not be displayed to the users until they are authorized to see them. Instead of seeing the tabs of this pages, they will just see one tab meaning there is a private content behind:

Once the user is logged in and authorized, the padlock tab disappears and all the tabs are displayed:

How to authorize the users.

If you have chosen not to authorize all the registered users by default, you will have to authorize them manually from the “Users” menu, in the editor:

Click on it. All the users who have created an account in your app, are listed.

Click on  to edit a user.

If you want to authorize the user, all you have to do is to check the corresponding checkbox “This user can access the pages locked by the “locker” feature. Then click on “Ok”.

A little warning regarding the publication of your app on the App Store. Before submitting an app, create a test user with authorized access. Then, when you publish your app on iTunes Connect just fill out these info in the user demo fields to let Apple reviews what is behind the padlock feature.

Have fun!

Thanks to this feature you will be able to lock your app wholly or partly. The locked content will be accessible for authorized users only. We are going to see how to set up this feature.

First, you have to add the Padlock feature to your app, click on  from “Add pages” to add this feature to your app.

Then you can set it up.

You have two possibilities to unlock the Padlock and grant access to the whole applications to registered users. The first one is to use a QR Code and the QR Code Scan, and the second one is to create an account for your users, or to let them create their own account. Of course you can use both at the same time if you want, it’s up to you.

To allow your users to unlock the Padlock by scanning a QR Code, select QR Code in the Padlock feature. This will create a QR Code that you have to save and print and, for example, display inside your store to allow your customers to unlock some parts of your app by using the QR Code Scan.

Now let’s see how to set up the pages that will be locked by the Padlock.

“Allow all users by default”:

If you select “yes”, all users who have already an account on your app, or users who create an account on your app, will be allowed to access to the locked content. Setting on “yes” is useful to create a database of registered users who are the most engaged with your content.

If you let on “no”, that means you will have to authorize your users manually from the “Users” menu which is between the “Analytics” and “Extra” menus. We will see how a little bit later in this article.

“Lock the entire application”:

If you choose “yes”, your whole app will be blocked. And users will have to create an account or to create an account and to be authorized depending on what you have chosen for “Allow all users by default”. With this option you can create a private app.

If you choose “no”, you will just block some pages of your app:

Just choose from the list the pages you want to block. Of course, you need to have added pages to your app. You can add pages later and open this feature again to block them. The locked pages will not be displayed to the users until they are authorized to see them. Instead of seeing the tabs of this pages, they will just see one tab meaning there is a private content behind:

Once the user is logged in and authorized, the padlock tab disappears and all the tabs are displayed:

How to authorize the users.

If you have chosen not to authorize all the registered users by default, you will have to authorize them manually from the “Users” menu, in the editor:

Click on it. All the users who have created an account in your app, are listed.

Click on  to edit a user.

If you want to authorize the user, all you have to do is to check the corresponding checkbox “This user can access the pages locked by the “locker” feature. Then click on “Ok”.

A little warning regarding the publication of your app on the App Store. Before submitting an app, create a test user with authorized access. Then, when you publish your app on iTunes Connect just fill out these info in the user demo fields to let Apple reviews what is behind the padlock feature.

Have fun!

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:

With the discount feature you’ll be able to create as many discounts as you want and display them in the application.

Here are the various parts of a discount:

• Title: for example ”One free coffee”, keep it short and simple
• Description: for example : “One free coffee among classical L and XL coffees”
• Conditions: for example : “Available for a $10 order”
• Can only be used once: check this box if you want the discount to be available for the client only once. A “use this discount” button will appear in the application and the client will have to press it to use the discount.
• End date or unlimited: choose if you want your discount to have a due date or if you want it to be unlimited and to stop it when you want.

Here is what it looks like:

To enter a new discount, click on  and repeat the process.

This feature will allow you to create discount coupons that will be unlocked by scanning a specific QR Code. Once unlocked, the customer can use the discount when he wants.

That means the coupon will not appear in the app for the user until he has scanned the QR Code (When you will add a coupon code you will not see it until you’ve scanned the QR code). As a business owner you create a QR coupon, and you obtain a QR Code. You can distribute this QR code on your website or in a newsletter, etc to reward specific actions, or just show it to premium clients so that they can flash it. Once scanned the coupon will appear in their apps.

To add it to your app, just click on  from “Add pages”.

Then let’s create a QR Coupon.

– You can add a picture to illustrate your special offer.
– Give a name to your coupon.
– Enter a description of your special discount.
– Enter the required conditions to access this discount.
– You can decide if you want this discount to be available only once for each customer or unlimited.
– Then you can decide if you want your discount to be limited in time and set an end date. But you can also decide to set it to “illimited” and decide later when you want to stop this special offer.

Once you’ve set your coupon as you want, click on “Generate QR Code”. It will create a QR Code that you can print and display anywhere you want to allow the users of the app to scan it with their QR Code Scan and to benefit from your QR Coupon!

1. Create an adwords account

To login to AdMob you need an Adwords Google account. Create one first at http://adwords.google.com

2. Login to AdMob

at https://www.google.com/ads/admob/

And create your account after choosing your Adwords account

3. Create your ad

– click on “Monetize a new app”

– Select an app:

• If you have an app which is already published and which contains the AdMob framework already, choose “Search for an application”
• If your app is not published yet, choose “Add an app manually”

In this second case, enter the name of your app.

Select the platform depending if you want to integrate your ad on an iOS, Android or Windows device. Then click on “Add app”

Then choose from interstitial or banner. An interstitial ad is an ad which will open when the app starts on the homepage only, covering all the screen size.

For the kind of ad that will be displayed we advise you to choose if it will be text ads only, illustrated ads, or video ads, or you can choose both. You can also set the delay between each ads.

Name your ad block a way you will remember like “interstitial ad for iOS”.

Click on Save and you obtain the ad block ID which looks like that: ca-app-pub-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/XXXXXXX

You can repeat the same process to create another kind of ad, or the same kind of ad but for another kind of system/device.

4. Add your ad block ID into your App at www.smallbizzapps.com

Just go to your editor.

Go to the Publication section

Check “Monetize my app using AdMob?” and enter the ad block IDs for each OS. Note that you can enter an ad for one OS only and this way it will display an ad just for the devices using this OS. For example if you enter an ad block ID for iOS and not for Android, only the iOS devices will see the ad, the Android ones will have no ad. (Note that the ad is not displayed immediately, there is always a few minutes delay after you have integrate the ad block ID before the ad is displayed in your app).

With the “Radio” feature you can add a radio streaming inside your app.

It’s very simple to set up but you need to have the good streaming URL. Here is how a good streaming URL looks like for our “Radio” feature:

Example of good URLs for streaming:

• http://myradiostream.com/4/9754/
• http://89.111.189.3:6325/

Your URL mustn’t end by “listen.pls” or “listen.m3u”, etc. Meaning that if your URL is http://89.111.189.3:6325/listen.pls, you need to just keep http://89.111.189.3:6325/.

Note that sometimes you will need to add “/;” at the end of your URL to make it work both on Android and iOS, for example you will add to add the url like this http://89.111.189.3:6325/;

Then fill in the fields with the appropriate info, like in this example:

Then you just have to click on “save”, and you’ve just set up a radio streaming in your app.

This feature allows you to create image galleries. You’ve got three options:

• Create a gallery from Picasa
• Create a gallery from Instagram
• Create a gallery with your own photos

1. Create a gallery from Picasa

The “name” field allows you to give a name to your gallery. If you have several galleries, users will thus be able to choose the gallery they want to take a look at.
With the “search” field you’ll be able to retrieve all photos from Picasa that are relevant to this search.

And the result is:

2. Create a gallery from Instagram

Instagram gallery works like the Picasa gallery. You have to enter the name of your gallery in the appropriate field and then enter your username or the one of the user you want to integrate the photos in the second field.

And the result is:

3. Create from your own photos :

Name your gallery, and click on “0 image” to upload photos from your computer.

You can upload several photos in the same time, just select from one folder all the photos you want to upload.

It’s not mandatory, but you can enter a title and a description for all your photos.
Click on “Ok” to save your gallery.

To create a new gallery, click on  and repeat the above process.

SmallBiZzapps 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:

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:

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:

With SmallBiZzapps you’ll be able to integrate videos from Youtube, Podcast and Vimeo. If you want to integrate a business video gallery, the best is, if not already done, to create a Youtube or Vimeo channel in which you’ll upload all the business’s videos.

You create a thematic gallery too from other sources than the store (for example a fashion video gallery for a trendy bar).

Here is how it works, it’s quite simple:

1. YouTube

Begin by giving a name to your gallery, if you create several galleries, user will be able to select the one they want to watch:

Then, in the “search” field, what you’re are going to enter depends on what type of search you’re are going to select:

Display videos from a Youtube channel:

Let’s suppose this Youtube channel is called “RockCafé”, here is how you create the gallery:

Enter the name you want for your video gallery and then the name of the Youtube channel in the “search” field. Then choose “Channel” for “Type”:

If it doesn’t work with the Youtube channel name, just enter the id number of this channel you will find in the url of the channel.

Create a thematic video gallery:

Enter the name you want for your video gallery, the keyword you want to search for in the “search” field, and choose “Search” in “Type”:

Here is the result:

If you want to add another gallery, just click on  and repeat the process above.

2. Podcast

You can also integrate videos from podcasts. To do this, you have to enter the name of your video gallery and the URL address of your video.

3. Vimeo

If you want to add a channel you have to enter the ID of the channel in the “search” field and select “Channel” in the “type” select box.

You can find the ID of the channel at the end of the channel URL. For example, for this channel:

https://vimeo.com/channels/513799 you just have to enter “513799″.

For the other types of choices (User, Group, Album), it is the same process than for Channel. Just enter the ID that reads at the end of the URL. For example to import all the videos of this user:

https://vimeo.com/user24085556

enter “user24085556″ in the “search” field and select “user” for type.