How much I save using Eventbee?

This is the question we have been asked hundreds of times since we went live with our new flat $1 fee per ticket model.

To make it simple, we developed simple savings calculator. Find it on our home page, just below our contact info, click on “My Savings by switching to Eventbee” link. Make sure to enable pop-ups to see the savings calculator window.

Just input what you are paying now, it will display how much you save by switching to Eventbee You can also see savings in Credit Card processing fee by using Google checkout or PayPal as your CC processing provider.

Here is the screenshot:

Evenbee Savings Calculator

Eventbee covered in Bonjourevents.com

If you are looking for very precise third party view on Eventbee, don’t miss reading Eventbee article in Bonjourevents.com.

Here is the snippet from coverage:

Selling event tickets online can be complex, as well as costly, for the organizers. The team at Event Bee decided to change the business model and recently announced a new payment structure that should appeal to event planners, especially charity event organizers.

Event Bee now charges a $1 flat fee per ticket sold using their system rather than the industry standard of taking a percentage of the ticket cost.

Link to complete article:

http://www.bonjourevents.com/thefreshtips/2008/7/31/new-event-ticket-payment-option.html

We are on meetingtechonline.com

We got great coverage in meetings technology focused website meetingtechonline.com

Here is the snippet from the article:

 Eventbee’s ultimate goal is to sell more tickets, and they aren’t necessarily focusing on the software itself as a revenue generator. “People are willing to pay more for lead generation than for software,” maintains Bala, “The software itself is becoming more of a commodity.” Based on this software-as-service model, Eventbee only charges a flat $1 service fee per ticket, regardless of ticket price, and supports PayPal, Google, and traditional credit card processing.

Link to complete article:

http://www.meetingtechonline.com/articles_Networked_Event_Ticket_Sales.aspx

Eventbee 3.0 press sightings

Introducing Eventbee 3.0

As our Press Release (and  Media) says  Eventbee 3.0 brings disruption to the event ticketing market by introducing flat $1 per ticket service fee model.

We put great deal of efforts in bringing this release, this is a major milestone in Eventbee’s history. Thanks to all our valuable customers and partners, who constantly gave us feedback on  our service time to time. We also improved many existing features in this release, as our tag line says we are here for you to “Sell More Tickets. Put Less Efforts!”

New Features:

Flat $1 Service Fee

Regardless of your ticket price, now you only pay a dollar per ticket sale.

PayPal and Google Support

Now you can use PayPal, Google or Eventbee for credit card processing to save further on credit card processing costs.

Facebook Application

Event Register Faceebook application is available starting immediately. You can add Event Register application by visiting http://apps.facebook.com/eventregister

Amazon Web Services

Eventbee migrated its infrastructure to Amazon Web Services. Our reliability and scalability is as good as Amazon Web Services itself. You can count on 24/7 availability of your event ticketing.

Support Community

We are launching exclusive Support Community with this release, completely powered by Eventbee Communities feature. Now you can post your questions here, get answers from Eventbee team and other community members.

Twitter

We are now on twitter, http://twitter.com/eventbee.  This is the place to find site updates, new features, ideas…and more.  Follow us on twitter!

Improvements:

User Experience

Entire UI  was revamped in our Eventbee 2.0 release, now we  tweaked  UI further to give you even better experience using our tools.

Help Center

We are introducing completely rebuilt Help Center, our new Help Center is powered by Google sites wiki software.

TechCrunch breaks new Eventbee flat $1 pricing model

TechCrunch breaks the news one day before our formal press release, officially scheduled for tomorrow.

Here is the Techcrunch coverage:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/08/eventbee-tries-to-take-on-eventbrite-with-1-flat-service-fee/

Here is the complete text of our press release: 

Eventbee brings pricing disruption to the event ticketing market, introduces flat $1 per ticket fee model, regardless of ticket price!

Eventbee Inc., the online Event Management software company trusted by thousands of event managers and attendees, announced today the release of Eventbee 3.0. The new release introduces the ground-breaking $1 per ticket service fee model, regardless of ticket price. This disruptive pricing model essentially grounds the traditional percentage-based pricing model that has been perceived as an industry standard until now.

Eventbee believes that an Event Manager or Attendee should not be paying more for the same piece of software just because the ticket price is more. Percentage-based pricing is old school thinking. Eventbee is here to change and challenge how things work in the Events industry. With this new release, Eventbee changes the dynamics of the Event Ticketing market, moving away from the rest of the competition to provide more savings to Event Managers and Attendees.

This power punched release also brings the following features in response to customer demands:

PayPal and Google Support

Now you can use PayPal or Google for credit card processing to save on credit card processing fees.

• Low credit card processing fees with PayPal or Google
• Instantly receive ticket sale proceeds to your PayPal or Google account
• PayPal and Google are trusted by millions of users online

Facebook Event Register Application

Event Register Faceebook application is available starting immediately. You can add Event Register application by visiting http://apps.facebook.com/eventregister

• Add tickets to your Facebook events with just a few clicks and enable online payment instantly
• Your Facebook event page visitors do not go out of the Facebook context to register for the event
• Increase your event visibility through mini-feeds and other viral effects built into the Event Register application
• Display all your ticketed events in Event Register application box in your profile page

Amazon Web Services

Eventbee migrated its infrastructure to Amazon Web Services. Our reliability and scalability is as good as Amazon Web Services itself.

• You can count on 24/7 availability of your event ticketing
• Reliable cloud computing platform trusted by thousands of companies
• Easy scaling to support more traffic and users

SPECIAL PROMOTION: We will credit $100 towards the Service Fee for your first event. Experience the power of the Eventbee platform while selling your first 100 tickets for FREE.

About Eventbee

Eventbee Inc., provides state-of-the-art web-based event management and event promotion tools to the Events Industry. Since 2003, over 7000 Event Managers sell tickets using the Eventbee Platform. Eventbee operates with the single mission of maximizing ticket sales while providing easy to use web-based software to the Events Industry. 

All material presented here is a copyright of Eventbee Inc., and all features mentioned in the document above are the property of the company. Sell More Tickets. Put Less Efforts!

New Eventbee teaser video….

Moving to Amazon Web Services

We did lot of brainstorming before making a decision to move to Amazon Web Services. AWS has been our customer, now we are their customer

With this move, site availability is as good as Amazon WS, and scaling is as easy as firing up new machines in AWS. We got our load balancers, data base servers and main severs all ready to go live with our new release (hold on to few days for big announcement…)

Replacing:

with:

We are Techcrunched!

Techcrunch calls Eventbee “AdSense for events.” Here is the URL to complete story:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/24/eventbee-adsense-for-events-has-busy-plans/

We are at the forefront of innovation in events industry, we strongly believe that our Network Event Listing and Ticket Selling features will benefit everyone in the equation: Bloggers, Event Managers and Eventbee.

Introducing Eventbee 2.0

Finally, it is here! We listened to you, worked very hard over a year to get this release. Today, we announced general availability of Eventbee 2.0. This release introduces major new features to increase your ticket sales, and improves usability multi fold. We are sure that you like what we got in this release, please send your feedback to support@eventbee.com

Major New Features:

Network Ticket Selling: List your event at Eventbee, and sell tickets from Eventbee Partner Network that consists of thousands of Websites and Blogs. Set your own commission to pay to the partner for each ticket sale lead generation.

Network Event Listing: Eventbee Partners enable listing events on their Website or Blog for a fee. This allows you to showcase your event on desired web destinations with few clicks, and reach broader target audience to increase ticket sales.

Network Ticket Selling combined with Network Event Listing allows you to create viral marketing effect, distributed ticket selling phenomenon, resulting in maximum ticket sales with minimal efforts.

More Features:

Photo Sharing: Upload event photos, share them with Attendees and get comments from them.

Events Page: Create and publish Events calendar. Customize the look and feel to match with your website.

Community Building: Build community around your events to create momentum and to increase ticket sales. Use paid membership feature to collect membership dues on regular basis.

Improvements:

Online Registration: Event listing UI is completely revamped using AJAX technologies. Now adding tickets, custom attributes to registration flow takes only few clicks.

Email Marketing: WYSIWYG editor is added to email campaign design software. Now, you can easily design and blast custom email campaigns without the knowledge of HTML or Dream weaver.