Keep your attendees informed and engaged with Canvas Guides for Events. Create and update agendas, line-up information, venue details with our high performance interface.
Canvas Guides allows you to provide up-to-date event information quickly and easily to your clients via this app-like progressive web application. And with Open Street Maps and Open Weather integration, your attendees are kept informed about your event. Built using the latest coding frameworks and running on a blazing-fast server, Canvas Guides has the performance and power needed to sustain intensive data throughput by multiple users and APIs.
Three parts to Canvas Guides
The Canvas Guides dashboard
Where you keep your event data. Agendas, venues, speaker biographies, accommodation and other activities. These are all hosted on the dashboard, along with any supporting images and video as well as your branding and contact information.
The itinerary generator
Drag-and-drop data from the dashboard into the itinerary generator as the event takes shape. Tailored to attendees if you wish and with all the information they need to get the most out of your event.
The Canvas Guides product
Once all the information is assembled, the Canvas Guides can be published and a unique URL is created that can be sent to attendees, giving them a personalised microsite / web-app with all the information they need. New information can be added and sent to attendees via push notifications.
Technical Specifications Features
PWA enabled Can be saved to home screens
Available offline once downloaded
Can be continually updated, with changes synced to the clients mobile version, etc. which enables enhanced notifications from pre to post-sale, on trip tool
Customisable page content, as well as ability to add additional pages
Attachable documents (PDF, word, etc)
High Performance small assets sizes, plus lazy loading images with responsive sizes based on the device means that the itinerary can be downloaded quickly even on bad connections
Open Street Map Routes viewable when online and also partially available offline. Previously viewed maps are cached by the PWA for offline viewing
Easily branded with company logo and colours
Media Assets hosted on AWS for rapid content delivery around the world
App-like UI and interface
Cloud-based fully responsive HTML (so not device specific or dependent)
Imagery optimised for each device similar to a responsive html CMS
Easy link to share unlike a large PDF
API / Generator Features
Primarily built with Laravel (PHP Framework) which includes first class security and performance features, and provides a structure to build highly customised and maintainable applications
Back-end stack includes MySQL, Nginx, Redis, Node, and more
Hosted on a high performance Vultr server for blazing fast response time
Uses a Node application as a micro service that generates the PWA versions of the events
AWS integration for storing of media
Stripe integration for secure payment transactions
Mailgun integration for quick and reliable email delivery
Soon to have Third-party access for integration with others systems
Integral PDF Generator PDF generated versions of events (This means the account holder will be able to generate a branded PDF of the html Canvas, with date stamp to reference that it is the most up to date)
Custom subdomain (e.g. create canvas.yourcompanyname.com) and we can configure our server to load generated events on that URL. For example: canvas.yourcompanyname.com/O0fw0e7 rather than e.wdcanvas.com/pwa/yourcompany/O0fw0e7.
Dashboard Features
PWA enabled can be saved to your computer for quick access
Built with cutting edge tech stack React JS framework allowing for seamless user interactions, and code splitting for fast loading pages
Integrated Maps to easily add destination markers, etc
Easy to manage and build library of venues, features, hospitalities, images, PDFs and more
Event Templates plus clone-able events for quick reproduction
Flexible information can be added in a variety of ways, e.g. venues can be added through the main venues section for use, or on the fly when building an event
