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Posted by Garth on Monday, October 7th, 2013
One of the most frustrating things about online event registration is the time is takes to process payments and get an accurate count of who is attending your event. At the last minute you might find yourself with more people than you were prepared for.
To help our customers in the Asia Pacific region process payments quickly and securely, Event Espresso now offers integration with ANZ eGate, the premier processing gateway for the Australia/New Zealand area and beyond.
About ANZ and Event Espresso
ANZ offers complete payment processing online through its eGate merchant solution. It is easily integrated into your existing website, supporting shopping cart functionality and interactive voice recognition services. ANZ eGate supports 24-hour, high-speed payment processing and offers 24-hour service, so you always know where you stand with attendees. eGate also supports “Verified by Visa” and “MasterCard®SecureCode™” for improved security, as well as detailed payment reports.
Event Espresso is the most powerful event registration and ticketing plugin available for WordPress. EE empowers you to manage events, collect payment and customer information, and even allow customers to print tickets that you can verify at the door using our mobile ticketing apps. Offering the best customer service and support in the industry, EE is integrated with dozens of payment options and merchant accounts. Download Event Espresso and activate a new gateway today!
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Posted by Garth on Friday, September 20th, 2013
We recently heard about an unfortunate event that affected a group organizing a Christian writing workshop. The group hired an outside company to handle its online event registration, only passing along the payments to the organizers once the event was finished. Unfortunately, the registration company’s checks began to bounce, eventually leaving the workshop group short $65,000 in registration fees.
At Event Espresso we were disheartened to that one company takes advantage of a group that placed a great deal of trust in it. At the same time, this is a good opportunity for us to reiterate the flexibility and security of the Event Espresso model, and assure our customers that their confidence in us is well placed. Here are three reasons Event Espresso customers can rest easy, knowing that they have made the right choice to trust us with their online event ticketing and registration.
- First, our customers all receive a copy of our software for their own use. The great draw of our platform is that you get to use EE the way you want to meet your specific needs. Once you purchase your license, it’s all in your hands and we CAN’T run away with your money and you shouldn’t trust anyone who could.
- In addition, our fees are all handled up front in a completely transparent transaction, which means we’re not holding your registration funds at all. Instead, we partner with many of the most secure and trusted payment gateways on the Internet. You have the freedom to choose how you collect payments.
- We have worked with non-profit organizations from our earliest days, including religious and community groups. We understand the unique needs of the non-profit community, and in many cases we even offer discounts. If you think your event merits a discount, we invite you to fill out our Non-Profit Application form; we’ve already given away more than $20,000 in discounts to non-profits.
In short, there is one more reason Event Espresso is the premier event registration and ticketing platform around: trust. With our dedication to constant improvement, and best-in-class support, we’re helping you make the world a little better—one event at a time.
To see some of the great things our customers are saying about Event Espresso, visit our Testimonials and Reviews page.
I want to commend you on a fabulous product which is just the right price for a small non-profit. People are happy with the registration process, as are we! ...Thank you SO much for a great product.
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Posted by Garth on Tuesday, September 17th, 2013
At Event Espresso we’re never content with what we’ve already accomplished with online event registration for WordPress. We’re always looking to make improvements so our customers can sell tickets online. There are so many significant developments coming soon to Event Espresso that we wanted to highlight some of the great changes that are on the way.
A New Ticket Selector to Control Every Option
The Ticket Selector in Event Espresso is being completely redesigned. we’ll show you the full redesign later, but just one powerful function will be the ability to control single ticket options.
Part of that redesign includes the power to control the Ticket Quantity, #Uses per Ticket, Minimum Number of Tickets and Maximum Number of Tickets.
Ticket Quantity
WordPress event managers will be able to set how many of each specific type of ticket is available. You may have only one type of ticket, or many different ticket options for attendees. You will be able to offer a limited number of, say, VIP tickets so you can give a certain number of attendees a special experience. You could also limit the number of promotional tickets that are available for sale, and so on. There are a lot of powerful things you can do with setting quantity limits to your online ticket sales.
Pro Tip: We’ll address this again later, but setting quantity limits for individual online tickets will be one form of setting seating limits for your event or venue in Event Espresso.
Number of Uses per Ticket
When you combine Number of Uses per Ticket with our mobile ticketing apps and ticketing add-on, you really become a professional event manager; you also make online event registration a breeze for your attendees. With the Number of Uses per Ticket, you can sell tickets to attendees that can be used any number of times. For example, if want to sell a ticket that will let people return to the same event twice (or more) then you can do that. You could configure your ticket sales so that attendees can reuse one ticket for all the events in your event series instead of having to print off and bring new tickets each time. This also allows you to let attendees use their ticket as a badge. On the other hand, if you want limit how many times someone can go through the food line, then you can do that too!
Pro Tip: What if you want offer unlimited access to your events or unlimited number of uses during a certain time period? Well, you’ll be able to do that too!
Minimum Number of Tickets Allowed to Purchase
It’s obvious that attendees have to purchase at least one ticket to attend your event. But what if you wanted attendees to purchase more than one ticket? You can sell tickets online with WordPress and require that attendees purchase more than one ticket at a time. For example, if you want to sell sponsorships to your event with the requirement that the sponsors purchase more than one ticket for their company, now you can set it up that way. What if you want to sell a family pack of tickets online and offer a discount for purchasing multiple tickets? Well, you can do that too.
Pro Tip: What if you wanted to sell tickets online with tiered pricing? You can now configure the price of each ticket to be different based on the minimum number of tickets they have to purchase. The more tickets you require, the bigger the discount. That’s awesome!
Maximum Number of Tickets Allowed to Purchase
What about the opposite situation, when you knew people would want to attend your event multiple times, but the goal of your organization was to engage with more unique individuals? Now you can specify that someone can only purchase a single (or any maximum you want) number of tickets per transaction. The Maximum Number of Tickets Allowed to Purchase also means you can specify the price of each ticket for a quantity range of tickets (e.g., purchase 5-10 tickets and the price of the ticket is $xx each; purchase 10-20 tickets and the price per ticket is only $x).
Pro Tip: Want to make it less convenient for ticket scalpers to hoard tickets? You can at least get in their way with Maximum Number of Tickets Allowed.
Are you a
developer? Are you interested in having early access to Event Espresso 4 for preparing for its release? Take a look at our
developer resources where you can request access to our GitHub repo and more.
All these features and more are coming soon to Event Espresso, the best registration and ticketing plugin available for WordPress. These features are in active development and could change between now and the first release. If you have an idea for a feature you’d like to see in the future,
let us know! We’d love to hear from you.
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Posted by Garth on Monday, September 16th, 2013
At Event Espresso, our goal is to make your life just a little bit simpler. Whether you are organizing a cooking class, rock concert, or business trade show, we want to make your online event registration and your events go smoother. We believe you should be able to use today’s best tools, like smartphones, to help you take control of your event—no matter where you are.
That’s why we’re so happy to be working with Qrious, another innovator in event organization. Qrious is a leader in smartphone lead retrieval for conferences and trade shows, showing that face-to-face interaction is still an indispensable tool for today’s businesses. This official integration with Event Espresso is a perfect example of how Event Espresso’s online event registration JSON API empowers event organizers by giving them the tools to deliver more value to their exhibitors and sponsors.
“We’re so excited (really!) to integrate with Event Espresso. So many of our customers use WordPress to power their event web sites, and now we can recommend a solution that enables them to continue using that platform while seamlessly integrating with our own. It’s a win-win-win proposition.” — John Federico, CEO & Co-founder, Qrious
About Qrious
As a complementary service to Event Espresso, lead retrieval from Qrious helps maximize the time, money and effort that your sponsors and exhibitors spend at your conference or event, by making it easy for them to scan badges, collect contact information and further qualify leads. Qrious has made lead capture more accessible and affordable for small and medium-sized conferences.
Contact Qrious if you’re curious (pun intended) about how lead retrieval, attendance tracking and turnkey badging can help your events.
About Event Espresso
Event Espresso is the most powerful event registration and ticketing plugin available for WordPress. EE empowers you to manage events, collect payment and customer information, and even allow customers to print tickets that you can verify at the door using our mobile ticketing apps. The official integration with Event Espresso is powered by the new JSON API that was released just earlier this year. Offering the best customer service and support in the industry, EE is integrated with dozens of payment options and merchant accounts.
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Posted by Garth on Monday, August 12th, 2013
At Event Espresso we are not only committed to creating the most versatile online event registration product possible, but we also want to help make our customers’ lives easier. And while we are constantly expanding our compatibility with gateway payment systems, that can still complicate bookkeeping for our customers.
That’s why we are especially pleased to announce that Event Espresso is now fully integrated with the Intuit (QuickBooks) Merchant Services payment gateway, not only furthering the capabilities of our WordPress event registration plugin, but helping our customers save time recording transactions. And we know how important that is:
EventEspresso saves us money, saves our secretary 16-24 hours and looks so professionally done that people ask us how we do it; which we happily tell them, "Event Espresso, and be sure to get the ticketing add-on."
It is often difficult or impossible to connect your gateway and accounting software together. Some gateways have antiquated systems for connecting to the data or forcing you to manually export the data from their website to your software, but Intuit facilitates better connection and can make your business faster – not to mention that it’s easy to activate this new gateway in Event Espresso.
About Intuit and Event Espresso
As the provider of Quickbooks, Intuit Merchant Services gateway is designed to let you easily process credit cards online, through mobile devices, at point-of-sale systems and on Quickbooks software itself. Available in more than 30 countries, it also allows you to sync all your online transactions with your Quickbooks data for accounting that is always up to date, eliminating the need to reconcile your online sales. Intuit is constantly adding new features that are making it more convenient for small businesses around the world to accept payments anywhere, at any time.
Integration with the Intuit (QuickBooks) Merchant Services is yet another way that Event Espresso empowers event managers to make their events more successful.
Now is the time to get Event Espresso and Intuit Merchant Services for your business, because right now you can get have your monthly fee waived for two months.
Event Espresso is the most powerful event registration and ticketing plugin available for WordPress. EE empowers you to manage events, collect payment and customer information, and even allow customers to print tickets that you can verify at the door using our mobile ticketing apps. Offering the best customer service and support in the industry, EE is integrated with dozens of payment options and merchant accounts. Download Event Espresso and activate a new gateway today!
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Posted by Jonathan Wilson on Friday, June 21st, 2013
At Event Espresso we’re all about making our customers’ lives easier. We know that your time is precious. That’s why we are excited to announce the stable release of our Infusionsoft integration add-on.
Infusionsoft is touted as, “The only all-in-one sales and marketing software built for small business”. Just check out their latest press releases. With Infusionsoft, you can attract customers, automate marketing, close sales, and even sell online. Infusionsoft is designed to meet the needs of small businesses with less than 25 employees. They combine customer relationship management (CRM), marketing, and e-commerce into one, web-based system.
Now, with Event Espresso running along side your Infusionsoft account, you can push valuable customer data from event registrations on your website straight to your Infusionsoft database. No more copying and pasting data. Did I mention the process is automated?
Here is how the integration works:
1. A customer registers for an event on your website and the data is transferred to InfustionSoft.
2. The customer pays for the event using either a built-in Event Espresso payment gateway or your Infusionsoft Merchant account.
3. The customer is shown a payment confirmation back on your website.
4. Once the customer has made a successful payment, the payment record is updated within the Infustionsoft app.
The add-on is included in the
Developer License Package, so our Developer License holders can take advantage of this tool today, at no extra charge! The add-on can also be purchased separately and used with any of the other
license packages.
Get it here!
Expand your possibilities today with the Infusionsoft integration for Event Espresso.
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Posted by Jonathan Wilson on Thursday, June 20th, 2013
Each of us at Event Espresso loves to help other people and businesses be successful. So, as a company, it’s only natural for us to lend a hand of appreciation to those who do the same. Since December of 2011 we have had the privilege of offering discounts to qualifying non-profit organizations. We have issued discounts to all types of organizations, from human rights groups, to economic development organizations and even political parties.
Non-profits all over the world have saved a cumulative of over $20,000 on Event Espresso products in the last year and a half. We are humbly proud that we have been able to do this. With the power of WordPress at it’s foundation, Event Espresso can help any organization, large or small, be successful in their event registration and ticketing.
A few testimonials…
I am in love with your product, I work with many educational institutions that hold classes/events and I will definitely recommend this to all of them, the only time I have seen a system this comprehensive and sophisticated is when an organization I worked with paid a programmer nearly $8,000 for a custom solution, and yet still there are features in your registration system that his didn't have. Thank you so much for your help and patience.
My hope with this whole integration is to be able to show other school districts an affordable and easy solution to these registrations. I cannot believe how much money they are charged for less by other companies. This has the potential to save schools tens of thousands, which is huge right now.
I recently downloaded it to add to a nonprofit site for a Boy Scout troop and the features work wonderfully with what we wanted to accomplish for the site. It allows us to set up calendar, events, and even take payments for trips. At first, I thought that it would be overkill for such a small site, but now I see the possibilities and will definitely be offering Event Espresso to my clients that need an event organization system for their web sites.
If you are a non-profit, and would like to take advantage of our non-profit discount, please complete the Non-profit Discounts application, and we will be in touch as soon as possible. If someone you know could benefit from this offering, please pass the message on to them; and how you can help.
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Posted by Chris Reynolds on Thursday, June 6th, 2013
The Espresso Bar will be back and broadcasting live next Tuesday, June 11. This month, your hosts will be Chris Reynolds, Garth Koyle and Event Espresso’s own support hero, Josh Feck.
Here is what we’ll be discussin:
- Latest updates in Event Espresso 3.1.33 as well as the Calendar and MailChimp add-ons
- Event Espresso 4 (Arabica) progress
- Espresso Requirements Check plugin
- Tools we use for internal (and external) communication
- and more.
Be sure to come by at 10am MDT and hang out with us in our IRC channel via the embedded client on our site or in your own favorite IRC client (#eventespresso on Freenode) or send us your questions/comments on Twitter with the hashtag #EventEspresso. If you have any questions or topic ideas that you’d like us to discuss on the show, use the form below to send us your feedback, or if you’d like to be a guest on an upcoming episode of the Espresso Bar, send us your information and a little about yourself.
We’ll see you there!
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Posted by Garth on Friday, May 17th, 2013
We are pleased to announce that Event Espresso is now fully integrated with the Luottokunta payment gateway.
About Luottokunta and Event Espresso
Luottokunta has some 20,000 customer enterprises where travel and purchases are paid for using the Business Eurocard, Finland’s leading corporate card. More than 100,000 cards are already in use. Luottokunta allow merchants to accept card payments more conveniently and more safely, in stores and online. Their merchant network includes more than 100,000 points of sale in Finland, and we are the second largest transmitter of credit card events in the Nordic countries.
For more information visit on pricing visit their website.
Event Espresso is the world’s most advanced event registration and ticketing plugin for WordPress. With Event Espresso you can manage your events, collect payment and customer information, create printable tickets for attendees to bring and verify them at the door with our mobile ticketing apps and much more. Event Espresso is integrated with dozens of other payment options and merchant accounts in addition to Luottokunta.
The Luottokunta gateway is compatible with Event Espresso 3.1.32 +
Event Espresso is integrated with dozens of merchant accounts where Luottokunta is just one of the latest. Download Event Espresso and activate Luottokunta today!
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Posted by Garth on Friday, May 17th, 2013
We are pleased to announce that Event Espresso is now fully integrated with the PSiGate and MerchantAccounts.ca payment gateway.
About PSiGate, Merchant-Accounts.ca and Event Espresso
PsiGate makes it easy to get your business online and accepting credit card and debit transactions quickly and securely. They provide Canadian and U.S. Dollar Internet merchant accounts to businesses across North America, so you benefit from secure, reliable, real-time payments from your online customers worldwide. Choose from Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Visa Debit, and Interac Online to offer your customers the ultimate in payment choice.
PSiGate offers:
- Secure, Real-Time Transactions
- Simple API
- Recurring Billing
- Hosted Pay Pages
- And more.
Contact PSiGate today to get started.
Merchant-Accounts.ca prides itself on being Canada’s first merchant account provider to specialize in multi currency e-commerce payments. You will receive everything that is needed in order to securely accept credit cards online. They include both the merchant account and secure payment gateway together as a bundled solution.
Merchant-Accounts.ca offers:
- No hidden fees
- No locked in contracts
- Low setup and monthly costs
- And more.
Apply today to get started..
Event Espresso is the world’s most advanced event registration and ticketing plugin for WordPress. With Event Espresso you can manage your events, collect payment and customer information, create printable tickets for attendees to bring and verify them at the door with our mobile ticketing apps and much more. Event Espresso is integrated with dozens of other payment options and merchant accounts in addition to PsiGate and MerchantAccounts.ca.
The PsiGate and MerchantAccounts.ca gateways are compatible with Event Espresso 3.1.32 +
Event Espresso is integrated with dozens of merchant accounts including PsiGate and MerchantAccounts.ca are just one of the latest. Download Event Espresso and activate a new gateway today!
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