Vacationauts Web and Mobile app - Built by TriFin Labs

Community Building on Web and Mobile

Our Challenge

Space Florida launched the WE ARE GO campaign to inspire people to explore the wonders of where the final frontier begins: Florida. The famous beaches, theme parks, and extraordinary space experiences were surely enough to get space-crazed tourists to visit Cape Canaveral, but Space Florida wanted more. They wanted to engage, educate, and build a community of space lovers in hopes that they would come again and again.

We all know building communities on any platform is difficult. It requires the right mix of education, fun, valuable features, and engaging visuals to be successful. Building a community on an app? Sometimes even more challenging.

Solution

WE ARE GO tasked TriFin Labs with developing the Vacationauts web and mobile app. This app couldn’t be basic, it couldn’t be boring, and it had to really engage users as soon as they logged in. Taking this into consideration, the TriFin design team set out to create a modern, forward-thinking app, that would use all of the features that we know would keep people coming back.

Some of these features include:

Vacationaut Compass – Allowing users to always know their current distance from the launch station at Cape Canaveral.
Interactive Map – Florida provides a great number of space attractions, so we developed a map that plots out the locations for the users to experience while on vacation in the Sunshine State.
Space News: To keep up with the latest and greatest space discoveries, technologies, space companies and more
Quizzes: Test yourself with fun educational and personality space quizzes, and then share your results and challenge friends
Badges/Ranking System: Earnable badges for achievements, exciting points and ranking system to share and challenge your friends

These features, combined with a beautiful and engaging design, has proven to be successful in building a community of space enthusiasts.

Solution Components

Support Service Cloud

Service Cloud is built on the Salesforce Customer Success Platform, giving you a 360-degree view of your customers and enabling you to deliver smarter, faster, and more personalized service.

In addition to being a pioneer in cloud-based sales force automation, Salesforce is the recognized leader for CRM customer engagement. With Service Cloud, you can automate service processes, streamline workflows, and surface key articles, topics, and experts to transform the agent experience. Connecting one-to-one with every customer, across multiple channels and on any device, was never easier.

Authentication

We proudly deploy Auth0 to manage authentification and identification of users within the cloud. Authentication services provided by auth0 allow us to ensure that your company’s, and your users’ data is safe and secure, each and every time someone attempts to log into your web and mobile application.

Single Code Base for Web & Mobile

Gone are the days of writing the same application in 3 different languages to have a presence on Google Play, iTunes, and Web. With the RAMP framework, we are able to write an application using a single code base, drastically reducing our time of development.

Real-Time Data Feeds

Giving the ability to publish, or subscribe to, data that is being collected in real-time.

Built for  Heroku Connect

Heroku Connect is one of many services provided by Heroku. Connect allows for us to seamlessly sync your web and mobile application to Salesforce, enabling you to leverage all of your latest customizations on the Salesforce platform.

Push Notifications

If you have downloaded any app on your smartphone, you have probably been prompted to “enable push notifications,” upon downloading. This simple, but effective feature, is an incredible way to keep engaging with your users on a daily basis and keep them coming back to your app again and again.

Real Time Chat

Real Time Chat allows you to answer your customer’s questions and concerns, in real-time, through an instant messaging application built into your site. This chat function will greet users with a pre-determined and customizable welcome message each time they visit your site. These messages will be instantly delivered to your inbox, allowing you to document and share these conversations with members of your team.

Deep Links

Deep linking is one of many services provided by Branch, a mobile app marketing platform that builds software to make mobile experiences work the way they should.

“Deep Links” are simply customized links that direct users to the specific page within a web or mobile application. This alone can significantly improve the user experience by enabling seamless navigation to, through, and from, your web application.

App Mission Control in Salesforce

App Mission Control  in Salesforce

The most powerful aspect of a Salesforce connected app is your ability to control, and receive data from, your application directly in Salesforce. Things like changing banners, rewriting copy, sending notifications, automating tasks, generating usage reports, and much more can be done with the click of a button in your Salesforce org. This gives the business a level of agility that is unmatched and available without touching a line of code.

Marketing Automation

Today’s leaders in marketing automation are providers such as Pardot, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, HubSpot, and AutoPilot. These services allow you to perform specific actions such as sending emails, notifications, texts, update contact fields, assign lead scores, and so much more, all based on a user’s actions.

Image/Video Storage & Transformation

We have enabled cloud-based image and video storage & transformation by integrating Cloudinary into the RAMP framework. Cloudinary’s media management platform will allow you to seamlessly deploy graphics around the web that are instantly scaled to the size that you need.

Analytics

Being connected to the Salesforce platform gives you the ability to use your favorite analytics program to pull actionable insights from your app. Whether that is as simple as Google Analytics, or as complex as Wave analytics – we work with you to build a dashboard that allows you to monitor all of your KPI’s.

Our Challenge

Solution