Hosting a fundraising event for your non-profit organization is an excellent way to inspire people to donate and support your cause - especially around the holiday season. Having an event website that allows you to display events, manage volunteers, promote the fundraising event, and sell tickets makes it all the easier to raise funds. In this article, we'll show you how you can use Event Smart to host a fundraising event such as a Christmas gala and some Christmas party ideas, this giving … [Read more...]
How To Organize A Christmas Gala For Your Organization
How Successful Event Organizers Sell More Tickets
How Successful Event Organizers Sell More Tickets and Attract More Attendees As an event organizer, you’re probably always on the lookout for ways to sell more tickets and attract more attendees to your event. Developing an event marketing and promotion strategy that generates early interest among attendees and encourages them to register for your event can be pretty difficult. In this article, we’ll share some tips on how successful event organizers sell more tickets and attract more … [Read more...]
MailChimp for Beginning Event Marketers
As an event marketer, you’re always on the lookout for different ways to promote your event, encourage prospective attendees to register, or sell event tickets. One of the best ways to market your event is undoubtedly through email marketing. Email marketing is an incredibly effective marketing channel for promoting events. And the good news is that you can integrate your Event Smart website with one of the most popular email marketing platforms, MailChimp. In this article, we’ll show you … [Read more...]
Receive Event Payments with PayPal Express Smart Buttons
Event organizers in many countries around the world can accept online payments such as credit cards, debit cards, and PayPal funds from their attendees with our PayPal Express payment gateway. With our new PayPal Express Checkout Smart Payment Buttons payment gateway, attendees can also pay using Venmo (on mobile phones) or PayPal Credit (where available). Your attendees will have even more flexible ways to pay online for their event registrations. Get online payments for event registrations … [Read more...]
First Data Payeezy & QuickBooks Gateways Online
Event Smart now supports payments through QuickBooks and First Data Payeezy. QuickBooks As an event organizer based in the United States, you can accept credit card payments from your guests through QuickBooks payments on your Event Smart website. A subscription to QuickBooks Online is required to use this service. To get started, just subscribe to the QuickBooks feature upgrade and then check out the documentation on getting setup. First Data Payeezy First Data Payeezy is available in … [Read more...]
Google Analytics Integration Now Available
Today, we'd like to announce that you now can add a Google Analytics Property Tracking ID to your event registration and ticketing website, allowing you to track visitors, page views, traffic sources, and more to turn data into insights and insights into action. The Google Analytics Integration feature is included in the Business plan, or for $5/mo with the Personal and Basic plans. How to Setup Google Analytics for Your Online Event Registration and Ticketing Website With Google Analytics, … [Read more...]
Attendee Mover Now Available
Wouldn't it be great if you could quickly move attendees to a different event or ticket? If you have sold-out an event quickly, then added a new time, only to have current registrants request to reschedule to the new time. You know what a pain that can become; moving registrations between events can be a very time-consuming process. To help ease some of that pain for our customers, we created the Attendee Mover Extension for Event Smart. Attendee Mover Features If you have an attendee that … [Read more...]
Authorize.Net eCheck Payment Gateway Feature Online
Hello everyone! We are happy to announce that we have just released a new payment gateway (Authorize.Net eCheck) for our Event Smart customers. eCheck.Net (eCheck Payment Gateway) is Authorize.Net’s exclusive electronic check processing solution. eCheck.Net enables event managers already processing credit card transactions through the Authorize.Net Payment Gateway to offer their customers an additional payment option. Don't have an Authorize.net account? Create one now. The Authorize.Net … [Read more...]
MasterCard internet Gateway Service (MiGS) Gateway Online
We are happy to announce that we have a new payment gateway available for Event Smart customers. MasterCard internet Gateway Service (MiGS) The MasterCard internet Gateway Service (MiGS) payment method provides fast and secure electronic credit and debit card processing for your ticket sales and event registrations. MiGS is a popular payment gateway throughout many parts of the world. It is usually bundled in by banks when they sell you a merchant account. If you are interested in using our … [Read more...]
iPay88 Payment Gateway Now Online for Malaysia Events
With Event Smart you can use your own payment gateway account to get paid directly for your online event registrations and ticket sales. Today, we’d like to announce that we’ve added ipay88 to the Event Smart network for Malaysia as new ways to get paid directly. If you currently have an account with either of these gateways, or want to get a higher level of service and better transaction rates then we encourage you to consider using one of these gateways. About ipay88 iPay88 is a leading … [Read more...]