Installing BeeSection as an app - iPhone and Android step by step

BeeSection is not in the app stores, and that does not mean there is no app. The CRM installs straight from the browser: the page is added to the home screen and from then on behaves like an ordinary app. It takes less than a minute, and for a specialist working from a phone the difference is noticeable.

What installing gives you

• An icon on the home screen. The CRM opens with one tap instead of "tabs - bookmarks - it was around here".
• A window without an address bar. More screen, and nothing to tap by accident.
• Shortcuts. A long press on the icon opens a list - Bookings, Clients, Tasks - straight into the section you need.
• Push notifications on iPhone. In an ordinary Safari tab they do not exist at all; that is a system limitation. In the installed app they work.
• A screen that opens without a connection. The app shell lives on the device, so in a lift or the salon's basement you see the app rather than a browser error.

There is no "Install" button inside the app: the browser offers installation, and each browser keeps it in its own place. Here is where.

iPhone and iPad: Safari

1. Open your CRM address in Safari. Chrome on iPhone will not add it to the home screen - that is a system limitation, not ours.
2. Tap Share - the square with an arrow pointing up, at the bottom of the screen.
3. Scroll the list and choose Add to Home Screen.
4. Adjust the name if you like, then tap Add.

The icon appears on the home screen. Open the app from that icon, and switch notifications on from there, in Settings - Notifications. Switch them on in a Safari tab and the system will refuse, which looks exactly like something being broken.

Android: Chrome

1. Open your CRM address in Chrome.
2. Menu (three dots, top right) - Install app or Add to Home screen.
3. Confirm.

Chrome on Android often offers installation itself, as a bar at the bottom of the screen. If it appears, accepting it is enough.

How the app differs from the site

The code is the same; the wrapper differs - but two differences are felt in daily work.

Notifications. On Android push works in a tab as well; on iPhone only in the installed app. If you are setting up notifications for your specialists, installing stops being a matter of taste.

Behaviour without a connection. The app opens and the data you last looked at stays visible - as a snapshot, labelled with how old it is. Take that literally: it is a snapshot, not live data. Bookings, clients and money will not arrive from the server without a connection, and we deliberately do not keep them in the browser cache.

Actions you took offline are not lost: they queue up and go out one at a time, in the order you made them. An operation leaves the queue only after the server confirms it, and a refusal on the merits - "that slot is already taken", say - is shown to you with its reason. That is the difference between "not sent yet" and "lost".

Updates

The app updates itself: a new version is picked up the next time you open it, and there is nothing to download. If a screen behaves oddly after an update, close the app completely and open it again.

If it did not work

• Safari has no "Add to Home Screen" - you are not in Safari, or the page is open in private browsing.
• The icon opens a browser with an address bar - an ordinary bookmark was added; delete it and repeat through Share.
• Notifications will not switch on in the installed app - permission is denied at the system level. Clear the block in the phone's settings for that app and try again; it cannot be cleared from inside the app.
• An old version keeps opening - close the app completely (not just minimise it) and open it again.