Rebuilding a powerful online fitness appointment booking platform
Polcode extended the AppyBee team with up to 10 specialists to make their online booking platform a relaunch fit for success.
Personal trainers and athletic entrepreneurs
AppyBee Business Benefits
AppyBee is a bespoke online booking platform for personal trainers and athletic entrepreneurs to save 80% of their time spent managing their business. With an ever-growing system of reservations, payments, scheduling, and automated reminders, they reached out to Polcode to overhaul their website, mobile apps and codebase. Polcode extended the AppyBee team with up to 10 specialists to make their online booking platform a relaunch fit for success.
Entrepreneurs who own appointment-based businesses know that online appointment scheduling can be a nightmare. AppyBee helps fitness organisations and personal trainers manage their appointments with an easy-to-use, fully-featured booking platform that allows for:
The AppyBee project started as somewhat of a rescue mission. The previous agency responsible for the project had been unable to deliver a platform that worked at scale, and the old platform couldn’t handle more signups, or deliver customer-centric experiences beyond the basics.
The best online booking solutions are designed to be fundamentally scalable. New features are often added regularly, and each of those features must be integrated seamlessly with one another. Ultimately, the underlying technology and architecture must be robust enough to handle constant adaptations without breaking itself.
In AppyBee’s case, achieving this goal meant running a complete revamp project while keeping costs low. Polcode and AppyBee established 5 key goalposts together:
We moved from another agency to Polcode. They have a good track record and reviews, their sales process was great, and the audit was impressive. There’s no doubt that Polcode saved the project.
- Jan Donmez, AppyBee Founder & CEO
Polcode has a detailed audit process that looks at a client’s software ecosystem or any markers that could indicate a ‘legacy’ codebase, bugs or software architecture issues.
After the auditing process, our product development teams created a roadmap for AppyBee. This roadmap was carefully designed to move them swiftly from redesign, all the way to market relaunch. At the height of cooperation, Polcode extended AppyBee’s core technical talent by up to 10 developers and designers. Key members in the project were chosen for their seniority in building booking management systems, or expertise in refactoring codebases.
Polcode’s project managers also stepped in to ensure that all stakeholders were on the same page, informed about progress, and moving towards the same goal.
The entire project felt always-under-control. Development now has a visible, structured way of going forward. The project manager is really involved and cares about us.
- Jan Donmez, AppyBee Founder & CEO
Polcode chose the best fit for a backend environment, using PHP and Symfony as the framework. By raising productivity for developers, this setup saves money for AppyBee by cutting down on feature request timelines.
Symfony allowed Polcode to further extend AppyBee’s feature offerings and leverage web services, APIs and microservices. AppyBee was able to offer more nuanced capabilities to their clients, some of which included:
We continue to be really pleased with our results. The project is really big, and there’s a lot of technology inside. We make progress easily and new features keep coming so the code quality is really satisfying.
- Jan Donmez, AppyBee Founder & CEO
Delivering a Customer-Centric Experience
One of the core features that AppyBee offers is a widget that integrates directly with their subscribers’ websites. Personal trainers or fitness instructors can handle reservations from their own website with the widget powered by AppyBee. This delivered a more customer-centric approach in the following ways:
With the help of Polcode, AppyBee is set to become a leading booking management provider for fitness organisations in their market. Their website and mobile apps have been able to provide better key advantages to their clients:
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