Install custom Showpad Apps

If you want to create custom sales applications and integrations specific to your company, industry, and market, you can do that without losing Showpad’s excellent sharing and tracking capabilities. Showpad's enterprise-grade deployment and permission settings allow you to control who has access to each sales application, and content analytics help you see what content works and what doesn't. To create these custom Showpad Apps for your sales reps, your developer or agency can check out our Showpad Apps documentation on our Developer Platform. 

As an administrator, you can install a custom app and convert it to a Showpad Experience. Once that’s done, you can edit, update, assign access, and find your existing Experiences in the Online Platform. No further coding is required to link, share, and edit the assets stored in Showpad. 

These applications can be mobile-friendly calculators, configurators, personalized content navigations, or interactive presentations. The possibilities are endless. Showpad Apps are compatible with all Showpad mobile apps (iOS, Android, Windows) and with Showpad's Web app.

Key features

• Enjoy limitless personalization with all the power of Showpad
• Instant distribution with Showpad’s deployment and permissions
• Preview your Showpad App and see how it looks on desktops and mobile devices
• Update your Showpad App and include Release Notes to highlight the changes
• Automated updates in the Experience App Builder without further coding

Note: If you're looking for a developer, you can learn more about Showpad's certified partners here.

You need this to succeed

• Showpad’s Ultimate plan with the Enterprise add-on
• Showpad Apps feature enabled
• Your Showpad Partner Code (Available in the Install App dialog in the Showpad Apps section of the Admin Settings menu on Showpad's Online Platform.) 
• A custom Showpad App created by a developer or an agency 

The quick way to awesomeness

• Developers create and assign Showpad App(s) to your organization
• Select and install a Showpad App
• Assign the app to Divisions
• Create a New Experience
• Edit the Experience and add content
• Update the app when a new version is available (manually or automatically)
• Update the Experience with a new app version
• Remove an installed app

Do this step by step

Install Showpad App

When a version of a Showpad App has been assigned to your Showpad organization, you can install it from the Online Platform:

1. Click the gear icon and select Admin Settings.
2. In the Showpad Apps section, select Manage Apps.
3. Click Install App.
4. Select an app to install. As an option, you can enable automatic updates by clicking the checkbox.
5. Click Install.

The app is now available to be converted into an Experience.

Select Divisions

Your new Showpad App may be for one or more specific Divisions. By default, the app is available to all of your organization’s Divisions. To avoid clutter and confusion, you can assign the Experience types contained in the app to only relevant Divisions.

1. If you want the app to be available only to specific Divisions, click the edit icon next to Available to in the Experiences section.
2. Choose Selected Divisions and check all the Divisions that can use the app. Click Save. Only these Divisions can create an Experience type with the app.
   You can edit the selected Divisions at any time. If you unselect a Division, all the Experiences created from this Experience type in the past will still be available.
3. To see details about the app’s usage, click See where this App is used. The Experiences created from this Experience type are listed. You can see the name of each Experience, what Division it belongs to, and which version it’s running.

Create an Experience from Showpad App

1. Open the Library menu, and if relevant, select a division. The Library will open directly on the Assets & Experiences tab.
2. Click the Open Experience Builder button.
3. Select Create a New Experience from the Select an Experience dropdown.
4. Select your installed app.
5. Enter a Label for your new Experience, select your app, and click the Create button.

Modifying Your Experience

After installation, the Experience Apps Builder opens, and you can click the Edit button to start modifying the content that will be available in your experience (depending on what your developer defined).

• In the Jump To section, you can navigate to the items created in your app (if enabled by your developer).
• There's a Search function to look for specific content within the app.
• You can select one of the following display options:
  • All - to edit everything
  • Content - to edit only the content
  • Labels - to edit only the labels (depending on the developer’s defined settings)
• You can verify how your app will look on different platforms by clicking the Preview button and selecting a platform from the list.
• Options are available to Discard or Publish your changes.
• You can easily view when a Showpad App was last updated.

Install a new version of an App

When a new version of an app that has been assigned to your Showpad organization is available, you can install it manually or automatically.

Manual update

1. In the Online Platform, click on the gear icon and select Admin Settings.
2. Select Showpad Apps. A list of your installed apps is displayed, and any apps with a newer version available will have a notification icon.
3. Click the three dot menu and select Install latest version.
4. In the dialog window, click Install.
5. Confirm the installation by clicking Install.

Note: You can also update your app by selecting View details and clicking the Install latest version button.

Automatic update

1. In the Online Platform, click the gear icon and select Admin Settings.
2. Select Showpad Apps. A list of your installed apps is displayed, and any apps with a newer version available will have a notification icon.
3. Click the three dot menu and select View details.
4. Select the Automatic installation checkbox.

Note: You can also enable automatic updates when you first install the app.

Update an Experience to the latest version of an App

1. Follow the steps to install the latest version of the app in your Showpad organization.
2. Open the Library menu, and if relevant, select a division. The Library will open directly on the Assets & Experiences tab.
3. Click the Open Experience Builder button and select your Experience from the Select an Experience dropdown.
4. Click the Edit Experience button.
5. When the Experience opens, it will automatically upgrade to the latest installed version.
6. Click the Publish Experience button to distribute the updated Experience to all assigned users.

Note: If you don’t want to update your Experience with the latest app version, click Exit without saving.

Uninstall an App

1. Click the gear icon and select Admin Settings.
2. Select Showpad Apps.
3. Select an app to uninstall. 
4. Click the three dot menu and select Uninstall.

The app is now uninstalled. Any Experiences that were created from the app will continue to work. 

Note: You can also uninstall your app by selecting the app and Uninstall.