Registration - WordPress Event Registration Ticketing Plugin

How Successful Event Organizers Use Feedback Loops to Grow Their Events

Thursday, February 14th, 2019

By creating feedback loops for your events, you let attendees, staff, and vendors know that their opinion is important to you and you take their feedback into consideration when planning future events.

As a result, everyone involved with your event will understand that your goal is to help them meet their objectives and will be more inclined to provide feedback that helps you deliver better experiences.

With this in mind, in this article, we’ll take a look at how successful event organizers use feedback loops to enhance event experience for attendees, staff, and vendors. We’ll also discuss some of the ways you can create feedback loops for your events. (more…)

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Using Open Source Software for Conference Event Registration and Ticketing

Tuesday, February 5th, 2019

Deciding between open source software and proprietary software for conference event registration and ticketing can be a daunting task. As an event organizer, there are a number of factors you need to consider.

In this article, we’ll go over some of the main reasons why you should use open source conference management software to organize conferences for your business. We’ll also introduce you to an open source conference management solution for WordPress and highlight the key features it offers.

Let’s get started. (more…)

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Event Espresso: An Enterprise WordPress Events Plugin for Businesses

Wednesday, January 16th, 2019

Finding suitable enterprise event management software can be a daunting task. There are a number of different factors you need to consider.

For example, you have to look for a solution that offers stability, has experienced developers, uses best coding practices, and has a knowledgeable support staff. In addition to this, you have to consider if your internal staff has the expertise to implement the new software and the costs associated with deploying it.

With this in mind, in this article, we’ll take a closer look at what features you should look for in an enterprise WordPress events plugin solution for businesses.
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Event Organiser vs. Event Espresso: Which WordPress Plugin Is For You?

Thursday, December 20th, 2018

What’s the best way to manage your event registrations in WordPress?

In this article we will compare two popular WordPress plugins for event management: Event Organiser and Event Espresso.

Promoting your events online is vital to ensuring that attendance is high. Running an event registration and ticketing website lets you make the key details about your events easily accessible, such as dates, times, and locations. However, sharing information is only one aspect of hosting a successful event.

In fact, you can actually use your website to manage your events – before, during, and after. As long as you use the right tools, you can streamline the process of attracting attention, selling tickets and registrations, tracking attendance, and much more.
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Should You Go Free or Premium for Your Events Website?

Thursday, December 13th, 2018

Comparing Events Made Easy vs Event Espresso: Should You Go Free or Premium for Your Events Website?

If you’re looking to offer online event registration and ticketing on your WordPress website, you’ll need a specially-designed tool. WordPress doesn’t offer any features to help you display events and sell tickets, but you can do those things (and more) with the right WordPress events plugin.

When it comes to WordPress events plugins, there is a range of options available. For example, there are simple free tools like Events Made Easy or Event Espresso Decaf, which make getting started quick but can be limited in terms of functionality. There are also premium solutions such as Event Espresso (premium version), which won’t come for free but will offer more features.

In this post, we’re going to discuss the pros and cons of going with a free or premium WordPress events plugin. We’ll also introduce two of the most popular options, and help you choose the right one for your site. Let’s jump in! (more…)

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Why Do Events Require “Personal” Information From Attendees?

Monday, November 26th, 2018

Why Do Events Require “Personal” Information From Attendees?

There are four main reasons why an event registration and ticketing website might collect personal information from attendees:

Providing better service or offering a more personalized event experience.
Getting an idea of what generates interest.
Sharing attendee lists with event sponsors and other attendees.
Contacting attendees after the event with marketing offers and related events.

Most event websites require attendees to provide personal information (such as contact information and billing information) to complete their event registration or purchase a ticket.

In this article, we’ll take a look at what personal information is and explore some of the reasons why event websites require personal information from attendees. (more…)

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A Beginner’s Guide to Event Technology

Monday, August 6th, 2018

Innovations in event technology have made it easier for event planners to automate and streamline all kinds of event-related processes.

Guide to Event Technology

In this article, we’ll explain what event technology is and how you can use it to plan and host better events. Along the way, we’ll take a look at some of the built-in features, and add-ons Event Espresso offers that can help you get started with a step in the right direction. (more…)

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4 Ways to Convert Pending Payment Registrations Into Paying Attendees

Monday, February 6th, 2017

Event Espresso is a WordPress e-commerce plugin specialized for online event registration and selling tickets. Just like any other WordPress e-commerce plugin, you have to convert your website traffic from an audience to a customer, or in this case an attendee. It takes work, at the right time you can convert Pending Payment registrations into paying attendees.

Lorenzo has a created a learning series titled 7 Days to a Better Registration Checkout that covers very well how to convert website traffic into ticket sales or registrations. I’d recommend subscribing to that email course.

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Tags: ticket, email, payments
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Attendee Mover Add-on Now Available for Beta Testing

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.

Documentation

Documentation can be found here: https://eventespresso.com/wiki/ee4-attendee-mover/

Reporting Issues

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.

Tags: attendee mover, attendee reassignment
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Multiple Event Registration Now Available for Event Espresso 4

Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

Thanks to the efforts of our development team, sponsors, and support team, we have just released the Multiple Event Registration (MER) for Event Espresso 4.

What is Multiple Event Registration?

The premise behind this great add-on is that the easier it is for people to register for an event, the more events they are likely to attend. With the Multiple Event Registration add-on, attendees can register for several events at once and even add additional attendees to any of the same events–in the same checkout process. Additional attendees also get the customized registration form as the first/primary attendee.

Purchase the Multiple Event Registration for Event Espresso 4, also included in the EE4 Everything License.

How does it work?

The Multiple Event Registration add-on is super easy to use. Just install the plugin on your site, then the EE4 ticket selector and registration system is automatically updated to allow registrants the ability to add events to an “Event Cart”. Going forward, your customers will be able to add multiple events to their cart and checkout in a single, streamlined registration.

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Here’s a quick step-by-step overview of the Multiple Event Registration process:

Customers are shown a list of events to register for, in which tickets can be added to the “Event Cart”.
Customer adds events to their cart, then checks-out. Additional tickets can be added/removed in the cart.
Customer is taken to a single registration page for all of the events in their cart.
Customers can reuse information from the first form, across all registration forms on the page, or pick and choose which form data to reuse.
After the registration forms are completed, the customer is taken to the payment page to finalize the registration.
That’s it! The customer is registered for as many events as they want in one checkout.