The We Love Chester app will encapsulate everything lifestyle in one easy to use application from places of historical interest, attractions and shopping through to leisure activities, car parks and ATMs. The first of its kind for Chester will see a simple user-friendly format allowing local businesses to interact with locals and visitors to the city. The app is unique in its format in that it will bring every lifestyle enhancing business together, with free listings for all businesses in Chester.
The app now available for download, already has over 500 businesses and offers and over 100 events on the event calendar, projected to increase to over 1000 businesses by the end of the year.
The We Love Chester app will use state of the art technology and functionality. The app is not just a listing for amongst other things every restaurant, bar, shop, place of historical interest…, it will allow the user to filter and search on different criteria, will provide geo-fenced notifications as well as push notifications, live promotions and collector rewards, a central events calendar incorporating all events within the region, longitude and latitude references and coming soon, exciting augmented reality options.
Izzy Grey founder member enthused about what excited her most about the app "There’s just nothing of its kind around that brings everything you could want to know about the city into the palm of your hand. Users will be able to walk around the city and all businesses, offers, vouchers, will pop up on their device within a set radius, set to the criteria they want. The technology behind it is mind-blowing and it really is the first of its kind!”
As well as all the benefits to the users and businesses, the app will help to promote a strong local economy by driving footfall to the city, building loyalty and increasing spend. The development of the app has taken a number of years with the last year focussed on partnering with some of the city’s major agencies, attractions and organisations to ensure everyone in the city is involved.
The We Love Chester app is free for users to download and available on iOS and Android via App Store & Play Store We Love Chester will be the first district with a further two Northern district apps available to download by the end of the year and a further 3 set to launch in the first half of 2018. All Chester businesses will receive a FREE listing regardless of size, sector or location.
A dazzling line-up of well-known entrepreneurs are unsurprisingly behind the new app. Izzy Grey owner and operator of We Love Cheshire and well known in the hospitality industry having opened up over 20 hospitality venues throughout the country; Chris Nixon, Director of Money Supermarket and MD of Travel Supermarket; Start up expert and UK entrepreneur Peter Wilson, owner and operator of Printworks Chester and Liverpool; and northwest app development team Obelisk Apps Ltd.
Chris Nixon, Director of MoneySupermarket and a founder member of the We Love Chester App is delighted at being involved in this exciting project from the start, "I’m a massive fan of Chester and I love technology so I saw the huge potential in the app and the technology behind it. Having worked with Izzy for years, we have built up a good business relationship and have a lot of mutual respect for each other. I had been looking to invest in an app which could deliver a good localised product for Chester and the We Love Chester app is so well designed, with comprehensive content it is sure to become the app of choice for people living in Chester, as well our valued visitors”
Peter Wilson, Izzy Grey and Chris Nixon have launched the We Love Chester app