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Your site as a mobile app

Your site is a progressive web app: your customers can install it on their phone like a real application. It shows up on their home screen, with your icon and your colors, opens full screen with no browser bar, and can receive notifications. There is nothing to publish on the App Store or Google Play, nothing to get approved, and nothing more to build.

What you have to do

One thing only: provide the PWA icon, in the Appearance tab of the settings. That is what will show on your customers’ home screen. A square PNG or WebP, at least 512×512 pixels, with a solid background: iOS renders transparent areas as black, and refuses SVG icons outright. The accent color you picked becomes the theme color of the installed app.

How your customers install it

  • On Android and on desktop, the browser offers to install it on its own, and the site invites them with a banner.
  • On iPhone, installing is manual: the Share button, then "Add to Home Screen". The site shows the instruction at the right moment — it is the question your customers will ask you most often.

Offline

The app still opens with no network: it shows a waiting page rather than a browser error, and a banner signals the lost connection. Booking, however, needs a connection — a booking is checked on the server, capacity and credits included.

The installed app is your site: it updates itself. A published page, a changed price, an added session appear immediately, without anyone having to install anything.