Woodforest Offers Business Directory to Residents

Offering "something for everyone", Woodforest has over 5,500 single-family homes in addition to an active adult community with over 700 homes. With a community as robust as theirs, it's easy to see why they needed a way to bring everything together in one place through the Woodforest App.

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• Resident Owned Business Directory
• Personalized Woodforest Home Page
• Parks and Amenities
• Commercial District
• Social Groups
• Development Updates
• Community Calendar

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The Situation

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An active community with a thriving commercial district, Woodforest offers plenty of opportunities for resident businesses to thrive. It was important to Woodforest Admin to showcase resident businesses but they lacked a sustainable way to ensure information was up-to-date and distributed properly. Before the Woodforest App, they collected any resident business information into a PDF document shared with the community.

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The Solution

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The Woodforest App brings together resident businesses in a succinct library known as the Resident Business Directory. Organized by category, the Resident Business Directory is its own menu in the app with individual business pages throughout. Each page incorporates interactive buttons to access business websites, contact information, social media handles, and more.

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Their Results

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The Resident Business Directory is a great success with over 200 resident businesses within the Woodforest App. There are over 20 different categories for the community to explore and support their neighbors like technology, legal, and animal care.

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Image from Woodforest

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FAQs

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1. How does Woodforest showcase resident-owned businesses?

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Woodforest uses the Woodforest App, powered by Alosant, to showcase resident-owned businesses through a dedicated Resident Business Directory. Before launching the app, Woodforest collected resident business information in a PDF that was shared with the community, but that process was difficult to keep updated and distribute consistently.

Now, resident businesses are organized in a searchable, app-based directory with individual business pages, categories, website links, contact information, social media handles, and other interactive call-to-action buttons. This gives residents a simple way to discover and support businesses owned by their neighbors.

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2. What is the Woodforest Resident Business Directory?

The Woodforest Resident Business Directory is an in-app business library that helps residents find and support local businesses owned by other Woodforest residents. Organized by category, the directory includes more than 200 resident businesses across more than 20 categories, including technology, legal services, animal care, and other professional and personal services.

For a large master-planned community in Montgomery, Texas, the Resident Business Directory gives Woodforest a sustainable way to promote resident entrepreneurs while keeping business information easier to access and update.

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3. How does the Woodforest App support community engagement?

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The Woodforest App supports community engagement by bringing resident businesses, community updates, parks and amenities, social groups, development updates, the commercial district, and the community calendar into one branded app experience. Instead of sharing information through separate documents or disconnected channels, Woodforest gives residents one place to find and stay connected to all community information.

This is especially valuable in Woodforest, a 3,000-acre master-planned community located about five miles north of The Woodlands and six miles south of Lake Conroe, where residents have access to retail, dining, medical services, schools, churches, parks, trails, and amenities within the community.

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4. Why did Woodforest need an app-based business directory?

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Woodforest needed an app-based business directory because its active community and thriving commercial district created strong opportunities for resident businesses, but the team needed a better way to keep information current. A shared PDF was not a sustainable solution for organizing, updating, and distributing resident business information across a large community.

By moving the Resident Business Directory into the Woodforest App, the community can make updates easier, organize businesses by category, and help residents discover neighbor-owned businesses from their phone.

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5. How does the Woodforest App bring the community experience together?

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The Woodforest App brings the community experience together by connecting resident-owned businesses, parks and amenities, the commercial district, social groups, development updates, personalized home page content, and the community calendar in one place. This helps residents navigate a large, active community without having to rely on scattered documents or separate communication channels.

Woodforest offers more than 700 acres dedicated to parks, open space, recreation areas, and sports fields, along with amenities such as Forest Island, The Palm, Woodforest Golf Club, parks, trails, and community gathering spaces. The app helps make that broad community experience easier for residents to find, use, and enjoy.

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