Are you selling tickets to your next event? Are you willing to give away 3.5% of your ticket value + $1.59 in Eventbrite fees for every ticket sold? Eventbrite pricing means that you have to fork over a percentage of every ticket you sell when you use their ticketing service. With Event Espresso you are in control of your money because your events are hosted on your website. That means no monthly fees, no registration fees, or ticketing commission fees. And because with Event Espresso you use your own merchant account (e.g. Stripe or PayPal) so you get paid instantly.Read More
Posted by Seth Shoultes on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017
Whether you plan events year round, or once a year, promoting your event is essential to it’s success. The advances in social media marketing (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc) alone have changed the structure of event planning and promotion in unimaginable ways over the last decade. In 2016 there were some 195.7 million social network users in the U.S., the equivalent of about three quarters of the country’s population. According to estimates, the number of worldwide social media users reached 1.96 billion and is expected to grow to some 2.5 billion by 2018. On average, global internet users spend around 118 minutes per day surfing social networks.
Posted by Seth Shoultes on Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
We’re happy to present you with the Attendee Mover add-on for Event Espresso 4. With this add-on, you can easily shaving a few minutes off the current attendee reassignment process!
Mistakes happen and sometimes you may have people register for the wrong event…or if there are multiple tickets for the event, they may purchase the wrong ticket. This add-on makes it easy to move attendees from one event/ticket to another event/ticket, within the same event or a different event.
Posted by Seth Shoultes on Monday, October 3rd, 2016
During Connect Week 2016, Website Weekend LA will bring in non-profits and organizations doing great work in the local Los Angeles, California community and pair them up with teams of digital professionals. Then over the course of a weekend, these teams will collaborate and build something amazing for their organization that will help them grow their outreach and positively impact how they contribute to the community.
Posted by Seth Shoultes on Monday, September 26th, 2016
Hey Event Espresso users in Arizona! If you want to learn more about WordPress, meet great new people, and have a great time while doing so, then WordCamp Phoenix is the place to be. You might even get to meet some of the biggest names in the WordPress community, such as Aaron Campbell, Alex Vasquez, Betsy Cohen, and Mary Baum.
Posted by Seth Shoultes on Tuesday, September 6th, 2016
Hey Event Espresso users in Utah! WordCamp Salt Lake City is happening this weekend.
If you want to learn more about WordPress, meet new people, and have a great time while doing so, then WordCamp Salt Lake City is the place to be. You might even get to meet some of the biggest names in the WordPress community, such as Chris Reynolds, Carrie Dils, and Garth Mortensen. Read More
Posted by Seth Shoultes on Monday, August 29th, 2016
We’re excited to share with you new details on a powerful new add-on that has emerged as one of this year’s coolest features – Event App Customization – Only $69.95, for a limited time!
This is great news for event managers wanting to show their own logo in the Event Espresso event app. With our new Event App Customization add-on, you can now customize the Event Espresso 4 event app for Android and Apple using your own logo image.
Did you say customize the event app?
Yes! Customizing the EE4 event app is easy and allows you to upload and display your own logo in the app screens. This is a great add-on for companies that want their employees to have a custom branded event app. However, it should be noted that the login screen will not be updated until after logging in the first time.
Bonus! We even made it easy to change the powered by text in the login screen footer. Enjoy these example screenshots from a re-branded event app 🙂
Posted by Seth Shoultes on Thursday, August 25th, 2016
The EE4 QuickBooks Payment Gateway is an on-site payment method for Event Espresso for accepting credit and debit cards and is available to event organizers in the United States.
Features
Accept Major Credit Cards / Debit Cards – Visa®, MasterCard®, American Express®, Discover®, Diner’s, JCB
Customers never leave your site during checkout
Track and manage your registration
transactions in QuickBooks
Using the Intuit QuickBooks Payment Gateway add-on keeps the customer on your site for the entire process, providing a slick checkout process for the user.
Easy and secure credit card processing for event ticketing
The Intuit QuickBooks Payment Gateway add-on provides an advanced payment integration for Event Espresso while providing the security and reliability that comes with using Intuit for payment processing.
If you need help with QuickBooks, then feel free to reach out in our support forums so we can share feedback and help you move forward with your project. EE4 Everything License holders have had their accounts updated to include this gateway.
Posted by Seth Shoultes on Tuesday, August 23rd, 2016
Flexible Payment Methods is an off-line payment option for Event Espresso for accepting payments. You can provide your registrants/attendee with specific information on how to pay for their registrations (e.g. call a phone number to pay, pay at the event, etc).
With this payment method, you can provide instructions to your registrants/attendees on how to pay for their registrations. Here are some examples:
Thanks for starting registration. Call us at 800-555-1234 to complete your payment. We accept all major credit cards.
You can pay the day of the event. Be sure to arrive early. We accept VISA, MasterCard, Discover, American Express.
Please send us a payment through Square Cash to the following email address: hello@example.com
Be sure to check out the Payment Methods Pro add-on if you would like to offer certain payment options for some events. For example, you could offer one payment option for one event and a different payment option for all other events. BE sure to check it out!
If you need help with the Flexible payment method, then feel free to reach out in our support forums so we can share feedback and help you move forward with your project. EE4 Everything License holders have had their accounts updated to include this gateway.
Posted by Seth Shoultes on Tuesday, August 9th, 2016
If you’ve ever had a registrant sign up for the wrong event, then you know how important it can be to be able to move them to a different event; moving registrations between events can be a very time consuming process. With the Attendee Mover add-on for EE4, you can now move attendees to different events with ease.
The Attendee Mover add-on is compatible with Event Espresso 4.9.7+ and available to download from the pre-release channel while in beta testing.
Shave at least 5 minutes off the attendee reassignment process!
With the Attendee Mover add-on, it only takes four simple steps to move an attendee to a new event, from the Registrations Overview page, click the “Attendee Mover” icon in the attendee row.
Attendee Mover Icon in Registration Overview
Next, you can choose the event that you would like to move the selected attendee to.
Moving an Attendee – Registration Step 1
Then select a ticket and click the “Next Step” button…
Moving an Attendee – Registration Step 2
…and voila! The attendee is reassigned to the correct event.
Moving an Attendee – Registration Step 3
Attendee Mover Beta Testing
Want to beta test this new add-on for us? Please follow the short guide below to get started.
Download
The add-on is available for beta testing from the pre-release channel (PRC) within your Event Espresso account page. Once you’ve signed up for the PRC, your download will be available in the EE4 tab of the PRC.
Install
The add-on installs like any other WordPress plugin, just upload and activate it via the WordPress plugin admin screen.
Please report issues in the Attendee Mover support forums.
We look forward to your feedback from testing the Attendee Mover add-on beta. Please feel free to start a new topic in the Pre-release channel forum if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions.
