Our app is a web wrapper (WebView). The native part powers the header, sidebar, notification pop-ups and the bottom navigation. It also routes your website traffic within itself, including handling notifications.

Yes, all of PeepSo notifications are sent to the app via push. That includes pop-up notifications, sound, vibration, and badge count.

If you prefer to use Better Messages instead of PeepSo Chat, it’s also possible – we integrated that plugin with our app, and implemented push notifications.

The app is completely white label, meaning it is completely tailored to your brand – it will have a name, icon, splash image, logo, and colors of your choice. 

In general, all apps will follow a similar design:

• App header with logo, notification icons and user avatar. The color, logo, and size are based on your preferences. The user avatar will open the Sidebar.
• App header can also have a “search” icon, linked to the PeepSo Early Access: New Search functionality.
• Sidebar – available for logged-in users, loads user cover, avatar and profile/community navigation. We can customize the sidebar navigation with a PHP filter – but we will need FTP access for that.
• Bottom tab navigation – the buttons users will use to switch between major app features. We can hide some of these from users who are not logged in (for example Profile and Messages)

The only required tab is the Community tab, but we also recommend having a Messages and Profile tab, so we can route notifications and menu clicks there. 

We recommend at most 5-6 tabs in the bottom tab navigation, perhaps more if you choose not to display any labels and just have icons there. We can also add a “more” button at the end, opening a pop-up with additional menu items.

Apple (iPhone / iPad): we can deploy the apps via our own developer account at  no extra charge. But you can add us to your own Apple Developer Account, and we will deploy the apps under your account.

Android: if you’d like to have your app on Google Play Store, you will need your own developer account. You’ll need to invite us there, and we’ll deploy the app via your account.

The app stores won’t approve of any apps that allow anything that can be considered illegal (copyright infringement, drugs, guns, ammunition), nudity/pornography, or realistic depiction of violence. Restrictions and deep scrutiny apply to apps related to gambling, health features, or financial services.

If your app has any form of social login (with Google, Facebook, etc) you are required to also have Login With Apple in your app. In that case, you are required to have your own App Store Developer Account.

Any sort of digital goods sales must go through in-app-purchases (IAP). Our current app does not offer IAPs, so if your website has any sort of digital goods sales, we would need to surgically hide it from the application context.
Users are still allowed to use the app “consume” digital content purchased on your website. But the app cannot have a shop, checkout or even a link or information about where things can be bought.

The app currently does not support paid memberships – the e-commerce rules apply here as well. If your site is using PMP or similar, we will require a free membership level to use for registrations coming from the app, and we will use overrides to hide the paid memberships from the app.

If you prefer to monetize the app, we have an option of selling it instead of releasing it for free. If you prefer to make your app paid, we will need to deploy it via your own Apple Developer account.