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Powering 80,000 Registrations & 900 Events for Social Media Week

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

Event Espresso is a major technology sponsor of Social Media Week. Event Espresso provided core registration functionality and developed powerful user management controls. A major portion of our involvement was making sure the roles and permissions, with the addition of regional manager permissions, set up to work across the network of 12 different sites/event cities.
Seth worked with them personally to make sure that the development went smoothly. Social Media Week had one designer and two developers working on an integrated theme.

About Social Media Week
Social Media Week (SMW) is a global platform that connects people, content, and conversation around emerging trends in social and mobile media. Delivered primarily through a network of internationally hosted biannual conferences and online through social and mobile media, Social Media Week brings hundreds of thousands of people together every year through learning experiences that aim to advance our understanding of social media’s role in society.

UPDATE:

In 2011: 20,000 attendees, across 700+ events, in 12 different cities around the world, from September 19th to 23rd, 2011.
In 2012: 80,000 attendees at the first event in 2012.

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Now Available: Multiple Event Registration Add-on

Friday, May 27th, 2011

We’d like to make a quick announcement that the Multi-Event Registration Add-on is now available for purchase. We understand that it took longer to complete than we wanted it to, and we still have plans for its future, but we couldn’t hold it back any longer. This add-on allows allows attendees to register for multiple events during a single checkout, and even add additional attendees. This add-on makes it easy for your attendees to register by giving them an option to reuse the information later in the registration form if they are registering the same person for multiple events. (more…)

Posted in News, Addons, Registration, Ticketing, New Versions, Event Management, Features | 3 Comments »

Drag-and-Drop Questions Into Order or Sequence

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

We’ve made it even easier for you to create custom registration forms with drag-and-drop technology. Simply drag-and-drop the questions into place, or in the order, you want them displayed on the registration form.

We also incorporated this technology into the question groups. Question Groups can be organized or re-ordered by dragging and dropping individual table rows into the desired positions.

This improvement was just released today and is available in versions 3.0.19.P31 and later.

Drag-and-Drop Question Manager

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Coming Soon: Multiple Event Registration

Monday, April 25th, 2011

Updated: The Multi-Event Registration Add-on is now available.

I don’t know how else to put it, except to say that this is really awesome functionality!

Gone are the days when people can only register for one event at a time. We have been developing a system that allows people to register and pay for multiple events at one time. The theory is that when it’s easier for your attendees to register for more events you will sell more tickets; and with the Multi-Event Registration System it couldn’t be easier.

Some of the features of the multi-event registration system addon include:

Register or Add to Cart and Add More Events links – This gives the person the opportunity to immediately register for the single event or continue shopping to add more events to their cart.
Multiple Event Payment – The person registering can pay for an unlimited number of events at one time (paid or free events), all from one page.
Single Registration Page – The person registering can register for all the tickets they are purchasing all from one page. They can click a check box to reuse an attendee’s information or enter all new information for a different person.

This new addon will be very useful in situations when you want attendees to register for a main event and also sub-events such as conference breakout sessions; when your events are for the entire family, but you want each member of the family to register for separate events; etc.

This new addon has taken a long time to construct but it’s nearly done. We are accepting applications to beta test the multiple event registration addon, and you can follow the multi-event registration development progress in the forums.

In order to keep the base-price of Event Espresso low for those who do not need this functionality, this addon will be sold separately for about $40.

We encourage all Event Espresso users to consider how the multi-event registration system can help you save time and sell more tickets.

Tags: multi-event, multiple event, single checkout, event registration
Posted in News, Addons, Events, Registration, Ticketing, Development, Event Management | 20 Comments »

Happy Birthday Event Espresso!!

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

Happy Birthday Event Espresso

The original version of Event Espresso, first named “Events Registration with PayPal IPN”, later renamed to “Advanced Events Registration”, was released on April 20, 2009 and has been rewritten a total of three times since its initial inception, and is now aptly named “Event Espresso”. After three name changes and three complete rewrites, here we are. It all started out as a simple plugin for my wife. All she needed was a way for people to register for her scrapbooking classes and events. I couldn’t find any good plugins that were easy for a non-tech person to manage events and accept payments. So I went ahead and created my own solution.

In addition to celebrating our second year as the premiere events registration and management plugin for WordPress, this month was especially awesome! Thanks to my business partner and long time friend, Garth Koyle, Event Espresso is $40,000 richer. Garth wrote a winning 30-page business plan and gave an outstanding presentation that ended up winning first place–and $40,000–in the Utah Entrepreneur Challenge. This extra money will allow us to spend more time expanding our current services and framework, to bring you the best event registration system for WordPress.

As of January 2011, we had 1400+ purchases of the premium version, and over 15,000 downloads of the free version on WordPress.org. We now have over 18,000 downloads of the free version and almost a 5 star rating! We have been featured on WP Plugins.com, WPCandy (several times), and WPMU.org (two times). This year is also bringing us the first Mobile Ticketing App for WordPress (very excited about this!) In addition to all of that, we have also given out over 200 non-profit discounts to non-profit organizations all over the world.

Last, but NOT least, I would like to give a BIG THANKS! To all of our customers and the WordPress community that have made this an awesome two years. Without YOU and ALL of the wonderful feedback you have provided throughout these past two years, we would all still be paying high fees to Eventbrite and the other companies. This year we plan to make a dent in their pocket books and bring even more features, while still keeping you in control of your data, events, and hard-earned cash!

Please take the time to:

Share your Event Espresso story with us, using the comment form below or email
Let us know how Event Espresso has helped you grow your event business or organization
Tell your friends, your community, your church, or the world about Event Espresso
Sponsor a WordCamp!

Posted in News, WordPress, WordPress Plugins, Eventbrite, Open Source, Event Management | 3 Comments »

Event Espresso – Winner of the $40,000 Utah Entrepreneur Challenge

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

Event Espresso Wins $40,000 in Entrepreneur Competition

Event Espresso has been awarded $40,000 as winner of the 2010-2011 Utah Entrepreneur Challenge. This recognition comes after four months of preparation and three rounds of judging with only a fraction of the businesses moving on through each round. The final round culminated in 10 businesses competing for the top prize.

Because this is one of the largest cash prize business competitions in the country, many other great businesses entered with excellent ideas. We didn’t expect to win, but are very pleased to be recognized with such an award. The prize money will be put to good use and help us further the success of Event Espresso. We are very excited about our future and the great products and services we will continue to offer our customers.

The potential prize money certainly gave us the incentive and motivation to compete in the Utah Entrepreneur Challenge, but what we are taking away from this competition is much more than the monetary award. After preparing business plans, presentations, and learning from mentors, we are better prepared for the future and know what we really offer to the market, where we want to take this business and how we are going to get there.

We would like to thank several people and organizations that helped us succeed:

Pierre Lassonde and the Pierre Lassonde Entrepreneur Center – for helping entrepreneurs be more successful
Zions Bank – for being the primary sponsor of the entrepreneur competition
The Utah Entrepreneur Challenge organizers and Judges – for organizing the competition and thoroughly reviewing and evaluating all the entries
Bonita Austin – for being our impromptu mentor, who helped us better understand our business model and competitive advantage

Press:

Video:

Video Courtesy of KSL.com

About the Utah Entrepreneur Challenge:
Each year, the Utah Entrepreneur Challenge (UEC) helps hundreds of students across the state of Utah make their business ideas realities. The UEC is a student-run entrepreneurial competition. Utah college and university students with a business plan are encouraged to submit their ideas for review. Entries begin in January, and the winner is announced at an awards banquet in April. The winner receives $40,000 to help start their business, and over $80,000 of cash and in-kind prizes are awarded to the runners-up. As one of the largest student entrepreneur cash prize competitions in the United States, the UEC has enjoyed much success throughout its history; jump starting the careers of many students.

Tags: 40000, awards, entrepreneur competition
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Version 3.0.19 Now Available for Download

Saturday, March 12th, 2011

Another stable version of Event Espresso is available to download. We recommend you upgrade now. This upgrade includes the improvements made in version 3.0.18.

Version 3.0.19.b.7
Added two columns to the attendee overview in the admin area. One column shows the price/ticket option, the other shows the time of the event chosen.
Version 3.0.19.b.7
Removing from beta. Everything seems to be pretty stable for most users.
Fixed a lot of potential problems with the language files. It seems some of the translations had return and new line breaks (\r\n) in them. This seems to have caused lots of problems for international users. Hopefully removing these pieces of code and formatting the text located in the translation functions will fix this problem.
Version 3.0.19.b.6
There was still a problem when registering attendees from the same computer for free events or when payment was not finalized (ie. downloading an invoice or paying by check.) This has been fixed in the gateway files and template files. If you are not using the default payment gateways or templates, you will need to make sure these are updated.
Attendees with a ‘Pending’ payment status are now counted as a paid attendee.Added the payment_overview.php template for displaying payment information after a payment has been made or if clicking on the payment details link. This will also display if the attendee chooses to pay using cash or check payment option, provided they click the new ‘finalize registration’ link, if these modules are active.
Clicking the ‘Download PDF Invoice’ payment option will now mark the attendees as pending.
Added a ‘finalize registration’ link when using cash or check payment gateways. Clicking the ‘finalize registration’ link will mark the attendees as ‘Pending’ in the payment overview.
Version 3.0.19.b.5
Added filters for displaying events and attendees in the Event Overview page. Filter events by month/year, category, active/inactive/deleted status. Ability to show all, today’s, and this months events.
Filter attendees by month/year, category, payment status. Search by email address, name, transaction id, payment type/status, etc. Ability to show all, today’s, and this months attendees.
Added “Edit” and “Delete” links to the additional attendees
Fixed emails not showing the right information for attendees and additional attendees. As long as the primary attendee updates the additional attendee data, it should display the custom questions properly.
Fixed the bug when multiple people register from the same computer, for the same event, the previous record was deleted. As long as everyone goes through the entire process and pays, the previous wont be deleted.
When registering for free events the registration is now finalized and does not delete the old record when using the same computer to register for the same event twice.
Added fix to remove the HTML entities from the PayPal response
Fixed the coupon code bug
Version 3.0.19.b.3
Fixed an error in the email.php. Was missing an ‘>’ in one of the array variables for the address on line #126.
Version 3.0.19.b.2
Added the option to choose the amount of events to display in the admin dashboard.
Version 3.0.19.b.1
Updated attendee and event listing pages in the admin area
Fixed problems with editing custom questions in the attendee editor and confirmation pages
Fixed excel export problems
Fixed HTML formatting error in the dashboard widget

Tags: news, versions, download
Posted in News, New Versions, Versions, WordPress Plugins, Event Management | 2 Comments »

Event Espresso Jobs

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

Event Espresso Jobs

Our mission is to empower business and organization leaders with the event registration, ticketing and management tools that maximize the success of events. Although we are uniquely qualified to offer customization services to all our clients, with limited resources, we can’t do everything for everyone. This is where Event Espresso Jobs comes in.

Event Espresso Jobs is about bringing a community of developers, designers and clients together for these types of jobs & projects, when we aren’t available to help directly:

Event Espresso Modifications – Modifying the Event Espresso software to meet a very particular event registration need.
WordPress Projects – Modifications of existing, or creation of new, WordPress themes or plugins on a freelance basis.
WordPress Jobs – Post your jobs – full-time or part-time, working remotely or working in your offices – for designers and developers to join your growing business.

Our goal is to help you be as successful as you can be, so we hope you find this resource helpful.

PS ~ Sometimes we need your help; we’re looking to work with the most talented WordPress programmers and designers, so if you’re one of them, please apply.

Tags: php, programmer, WordPress, design, customization, jobs
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Sneak Peek: New Event Manager Admin

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

Development on Event Espresso continues and we wanted to give our event managers a sneak peek of the new event admin coming in version 3.0.18. This may be replacing the Attendees/Payments page and Event Setup pages. These two pages will be combined into one “Event Overview” page where you can click to add a new event or view all the information (previously available on two pages.)

We’ve added the following event management options:

Quick Filtering Options – all current events, today’s events, and this month’s events
Advanced Filtering Options – month/year, categories, and active/inactive status
Improved Column Sorting
Event Start Dates and Times
Registration Start Date and Times
Actions – view event (magnifying glass icon), edit event (edit icon), view attendees (people icon), view shortcodes (<> icon), export excel (excel icon), export csv (csv icon), and send event newsletter (mail icon).

Here is a comparison of the new version (on the left) with the current version (on the right)

Event Manager Admin Comparison Dec. 2010

Here is a closer view of the new event manager admin.

Event Manger New Admin, Version 3.0.18

We believe this new design, will make Event Espresso more convenient and efficient for event managers, than ever before.

What do you think? Any additional suggestions?

Tags: 3.0.18, admin, design, version, event manager
Posted in News, New Versions, Versions, Event Management | 14 Comments »

Version 3.0.17 Released

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

We’d like to announce the most advanced version of Event Espresso. Version 3.0.17 makes improvements upon the existing features and paves the way for new ones. See the release notes for complete details and upgrading.

Some of the Important Improvements in 3.0.17

Event Espresso Calendar

A rewritten registration system to allow for easier customization.
A rewritten payment gateway system to allow for additional payment gateways.
Added a custom email manager to create customized emails for use in multiple events.
Added support for custom post types and shortcodes for posts.
Enabled multiple post categories in edit_event.php
Added support for the Recurring Events Manager addon.
Added address2 field for event the address.
Updated the event_espresso_get_price function to include early pricing in the display.
Fixed coupon system on the attendee list page.
Fixed the /templates/return_payment.php file.
Added the espresso_event_category_data($event_id) function to get the category details of an event.
Added a “Secondary” status to to events. This will allow events to be set up as a secondary status for use as overflow or waiting list events.
Fixed some style issues in admin styles.css
Added an export all attendees (for all events) button.
External Registration URLs. Can be used to link to external websites or registration pages.

See the release notes for complete details and upgrading.

Screenshots:

Create a Custom Post

Custom Post Type Editor

Calendar Week View

List of Attendees

Movie Listings (in Custom Files Addon)

See the release notes for complete details and upgrading.

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