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Event Espresso Now Integrated with Intuit (QuickBooks) Merchant Services

Intuit (QuickBooks) Payment Gateway for Event Espresso and WordPress

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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Event Espresso Brings Official Integration with Infusionsoft

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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 InfusionSoft.

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 Infusionsoft 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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Over $20k In Discounts Given To Non-Profits

 

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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.

Lucy Conn

Lucy Conn
Troop 462

 

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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Espresso Bar Episode 6, Tuesday June 11

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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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Now Integrated with Luottokunta Payment Gateway

We are pleased to announce that Event Espresso is now fully integrated with the Luottokunta payment gateway.

About Luottokunta and Event Espresso

luottokunta Event Espresso IntegrationLuottokunta 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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Now Integrated with PsiGate and Merchant-Accounts.ca Gateways

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 EspressoPSiGate Event Espresso Gateway Integration

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:

  1. Secure, Real-Time Transactions
  2. Simple API
  3. Recurring Billing
  4. Hosted Pay Pages
  5. And more.

Contact PSiGate today to get started.

Merchant-Accounts.ca Event Espresso Gateway IntegrationMerchant-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:

  1. No hidden fees
  2. No locked in contracts
  3. Low setup and monthly costs
  4. 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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Now Integrated with the Moneris Solutions Gateway

We are pleased to announce that Event Espresso is now fully integrated with the Moneris Solutions payment gateway.

About Moneris and Event Espresso

Moneris GatewayMoneris processes more than 3 billion credit and debit card transactions a year, for over 350,000 merchant locations across North America. We have over 1,300 dedicated employees who understand transaction processing and know how to make it work for you.

Moneris touts that more businesses choose them because:

  1. Proven Expertise
  2. Industry Leadership
  3. Easy Solutions
  4. Innovation

Moneris offers 99.9% system reliability and 90-day risk free trial to cancel without penalty.

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 Moneris.

The Moneris gateway is compatible with Event Espresso 3.1.32+ AND is currently only available for Canadian customers.

Event Espresso is integrated with dozens of merchant accounts where Moneris is just one of the latest. Download Event Espresso and activate Moneris today!

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Now Integrated with Google Checkout

Google is retiring Google Checkout. This integration will no longer be supported after November 20, 2013.

We’re pleased to announce that Event Espresso, the event registration and ticketing plugin for WordPress,  is now integrated with Google checkout.

About Google Checkout and Event Espresso

Google Checkout WordPress Plugin EventsGoogle Checkout (Google Checkout is now Google Wallet for buyers) is a fast, secure checkout process that helps increase sales by bringing you more customers and allowing them to buy from you quickly and easily with a single account, online or in-store.

Event Espresso is the world’s most advanced event registration and ticketing platform 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. Event Espresso is integrated with dozens of other payment options and merchant accounts in addition to Google Checkout.

Google Checkout is compatible with Event Espresso 3.1.32 or greater.

Google Wallet/Checkout touts the ability to:

Google Checkout Fees

Google Checkout’s fees are very comparable to other gateways, but we noticed they have graduated fees based on the amount you process with them each month (which PayPal doesn’t offer).

The transaction processing rates you’ll be charged each month will be determined by your sales volume during the prior calendar month. Learn more

Monthly Sales Through Google Checkout Fees Per Transaction
Less than $3,000 2.9% + $0.30
$3,000 – $9,999.99 2.5% + $0.30
$10,000 – $99,999.99 2.2% + $0.30
$100,000 or more 1.9% + $0.30

 

With its proprietary fraud detection technology, Google Checkout works to protect you from unwarranted chargebacks. In cases where you are found liable for a chargeback, you’ll be charged the full amount of the chargeback plus an additional $10 chargeback fee. Learn more about how Google Checkout protects you from fraud with our Chargeback Resolution Policy and Payment Guarantee Policy.

Google Checkout offers you the ability to partially capture funds and explicitly reauthorize an order if the initial 7-day authorization window expires. You will be charged $0.30 each time you charge an order.

Event Espresso is now integrated with dozens of merchant accounts where Google Checkout is just one of the latest. Download Event Espresso and activate Google Checkout today!

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JSON API Officially Released

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We’d like to officially announce that the Event Espresso JSON API for WordPress events has been officially released. Yes!

The Event Espresso JSON API add-on allows other applications (such as other websites, mobile apps, etc.) to access your Event Espresso data through an JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) application programming interface (API).

Seth Shoultes, Co-Founder of Event Espresso, commented about this new product: “We’re taking another step forward in empowering event mangers to make their events more successful. This API opens the door for any customer or developers to build their own applications that use the registration data contained in Event Espresso. Customers and WordPress developers aren’t tied to the limitations of WordPress or WordPress plugins. We’re really excited to see what people do with this, the sky is the limit.”

The API is available to all Event Espresso customers who have a current support license. They can download the API files from their account page on EventEspresso.com.

The Event Espresso API also works with the iPod touch, iPad and iPhone mobile apps.

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Espresso Bar Episode 5 will be Tuesday, May 14

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The fifth installment of our monthly hangout, Espresso Bar, will be tomorrow at 10am MDT (4PM UDT). Seth and Chris will  be talking about several new add-ons that are now available in the pre-release channel, new badge templates for the Ticketing add-on coming in 2.1 and the user experience improvement program. If you have questions for us or are interested in being a guest on the Espresso Bar, fill out the form below to send us your information.

As always, we’ll be taking questions via Twitter with the hashtag #EventEspresso. We look forward to seeing you there!

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