Enlist tip: Use Guided Access on your iPad to keep new subscribers on task

Sure, many hands make light work. However, if you're using Enlist, our iPad app for adding new subscribers for your lists, many hands can cause a lot of mischief, too. If you fret at the idea of folks leaving the app or fiddling with buttons, then Guided Access is a godsend.

Simply, Guided Access is a great little feature that can be found in 'Settings' on devices running Apple iOS 6. Using Guided Access, you can limit your iPad to one app, disable buttons and have a passcode prompt display, should someone try to break out of the restrictions in place. This means you can start a Guided Access session, run Enlist, then leave the iPad on a counter to quietly do its thing. Or do the same and hand around your subscribe form at an event.

For the parents out there, we've also been told that GA works great as a "kids mode", preventing the littlies from firing jibberjabber emails to the boss. To find out more about what Guided Access can do and get started, check out Apple's walkthrough.

We hear you - a whitelabel app is on its way

We've had a lot of passionate requests for a non-branded version of our iPad app since Enlist's release in November, particularly from our agency and reseller friends. Well, here's some good news for all of us - a whitelabel app is most certainly in the works. Like Enlist, it will hook up with subscriber lists seamlessly, but you'll be able to give it to your clients.

To be one of the first to find out when it's released, you can subscribe to this blog using our new Subscribe Button to the right. We really can't wait to get this app into your hands, your client's hands, plus new subscriber hands, too!

Posted by Ros Hodgekiss

6 Comments

  • Jason
    8th March

    As a parent, guided access is amazing. And it makes total sense in this situation as well.

  • Skimbo
    8th March

    awesome cant wait for the white label app!
    it would be great if there was someway to add our own logo or rebranded name somewhere to tie it to us

    Eg ABC Mailer

  • Klaye
    8th March

    Great new guys. Any ETA on the white labelled version? We are just about to send out an email to our clients informing them of this great app, but would like to hold off until you’ve released the non-branded version. Will it still be called ‘Enlist’, or will we have control over this also?

  • David Greiner
    8th March

    Klaye, we’re hoping to get it out there early next week, so shouldn’t be too long at all. We’ll announce it here once it’s available.

  • Klaye
    4th April

    Hi, any more on the white labelled version?

  • David Greiner
    4th April

    Good news Klaye, we’ll be announcing this tomorrow. In the mean time, here’s the link.

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