Vendora: Revolutionizing Wedding Planning with IoT

Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Event-Driven Application
Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms

Applicable Industries

Buildings
Cement

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development
Sales & Marketing

Use Cases

Building Automation & Control
Time Sensitive Networking

Services

Hardware Design & Engineering Services
Training

The Challenge

Vendora, a marketplace and community app for local cultural wedding professionals, was founded by Yaser Aldada with a vision to transform the wedding and event businesses in Canada and USA. The challenge was to create a digital platform that could cater to the marketing and advertising needs of these businesses, help them find new customers, manage their customers better, and drive a shift towards a demand-based, digital economy. Additionally, the platform was also aimed at assisting couples in planning their weddings, engagements, and other events by simplifying the process. However, building such a platform required extensive product design and coding knowledge, which could be time-consuming and costly.

About The Customer

Vendora's customers are primarily wedding professionals and event businesses in Canada and the USA. These include photographers, cultural entertainment groups, and many others who are looking for a platform to market their services, showcase their talent, and generate leads. Additionally, Vendora also caters to couples planning their weddings, engagements, and other events. These customers are looking for a simplified process to browse vendors, view their services, and book them. Vendora's platform is designed to meet the needs of both these customer groups, providing a comprehensive solution for wedding planning.

The Solution

Vendora chose Bubble, a no-code platform, to build their app. Bubble's easy-to-use tool required no product design or coding knowledge, allowing the Vendora team to focus on other important aspects of building their business such as marketing, sales, hiring a team, and raising funds. With the Bubble app builder, Vendora was able to make changes to their app in minutes and without any additional cost, giving them a competitive edge. The platform enabled wedding professionals and event businesses to register, create a profile, post their services, showcase their talent, and generate more qualified leads. Couples could browse vendors, see ratings, view the services they offer, send messages, and book services, making Vendora a one-stop-shop for wedding planning.

Operational Impact

The use of Bubble's no-code platform has significantly streamlined Vendora's operations. The ability to make changes to the app in minutes and without any additional cost has provided Vendora with the flexibility and agility crucial to early-stage startups. This has given Vendora an edge over competitors going to market at the same time. Furthermore, the platform has enabled Vendora to effectively cater to the needs of both wedding professionals and couples planning their events, thereby adding value to their customers. The team is now working on launching a mobile app and exploring other services to add to their platform, such as the ability to organize and promote wedding-related training workshops.

Quantitative Benefit

Vendora was able to build a professional MVP and go live within a few months and at a very low cost using Bubble.
Vendora was launched in February 2021 and within a few months, they were able to validate the product, engage with customers and add value to vendors and engaged couples.
Vendora is growing at a fast pace and is expected to have more than 10,000 active users by the end of 2021.