8 reasons to switch to Eguide

Eguide is specialized software for guide associations

Eguide is specialized software tailored to the guide organization. Software is a thorny issue for many guide organizations. Keeping your organization's administration up to date is and remains one of the difficulties we struggle with on a daily basis. Perhaps you have a system today, e.g. a database developed in Access, Filemaker or Excell? Maybe you took an expensive step and had a commercial agency program a solution so that your website is connected to the back office.

Often the current solution is a tangle. The software becomes obsolete and needs expensive updates. The person who did this is no longer available. The company you work with keeps coming up with expensive invoices or proves unreachable, but your software needs to be kept up to date. Maybe you just want to change your website but can't because then the software won't work with it anymore. But what is the alternative?

Below I give some reasons why Eguide is a good alternative.

Eguide already exists

Eguide is already built, you can start using it now, today. All it takes is an email to Eguide and a short setup session to start using it. No need to reinvent the hot water.

Eguide is user-friendly

Because Eguide is made for many potential guide organizations, we have taken into account what such an organization needs. We are aware that within the guide organization there are often volunteers who are not always fluent with computers and the Internet. Therefore, we have kept it as simple as possible. Nevertheless, running a guide organization is a complex business.

Eguide is much cheaper than custom made

The creators of Eguide the web design company Code-on has already created several custom guide systems. We found that this is a very expensive business for a guide organization. Therefore we started developing Eguide to make it affordable for all possible guide organizations. A tailor-made system easily costs many tens of thousands of Euros and brings with it full dependence on the builder. You also have to consider maintenance costs and hosting. This is really only feasible for the very large guide organizations and even then it is a big risk. With Eguide, it's simple. You just pay a flat monthly fee and a small fee per guide turn. If a pandemic comes along, you have very little sales, it will cost you virtually nothing. (See our pricing)

Accessible via the Internet

Because Eguide is an online platform, you can perfectly follow up from anywhere in the world. All you need is an internet connection. The administrators can log in, the guides can log into their portal. Suppliers can log into the system. Eguide allows everyone to work together smoothly.

Guide Friendly

Your guide can always log in to his own portal. There he can accept assignments, look at his earnings and complete his availability via calendar. When a tour has been completed, he can indicate this and provide the necessary feedback. If no one shows up then the guide can mark the tour as a no show.

Custom website

Without a good website, your guide organization will no longer work. With Eguide there are several options for allowing online bookings. The first and easiest is that you can link to an Eguide page where your customer makes a booking. The second option is for a web designer to use the API we offer. This way you can tailor your entire website to the potential bookings that Eguide has. 3rd option is that you ask Eguide to build your website. The web design & development firm that Eguide is Code-on is happy to build your new custom website. You can see an example at Gentse Gidsen where we have already done this. We then do this with Wagtail through Eguide's web design company.

Extensions

If something is not in Eguide, please consult with us. We can add features every year according to budgets. What's more, thanks to the API we can also create custom pieces of software if needed.

Help with for Eguide

If something is not working properly you as administrator always have an open line with Eguide so that we can help should a problem arise.

In short, Eguide is a good choice for any Guide organization large or small that would like to grow with the future.