Eventsbot: Event Management With Ticketing

This is the second review in our series of event management applications. For an introduction to this category, including a rundown of features common to all four applications reviewed this week, please see: Managing Events With Web 2.0.

As event managers and public relation managers attempt to get a handle on events, eventsbot can help them, providing attendee and ticket management with options.

With eventsbot there are two models to choose from right from the beginning. The first, Basic, is free and will provide a url for your event, integration into your website, and ticket sales. With a 2% commission of ticket sales (capping at $7.95 per ticket) there is a Premium version that gives users an advertising-free site for their event with more options.

Once a version has been selected, users create an event page, filling in information that they want to share with their attendees. Users have the ability to create a specialized url, upload a logo, and select a layout from a collection. Pre-formatted color schemes are also available.

Among the options that users will like are at-a-glance reports to see which invites have been sent, how many tickets have been purchased, and a dashboard with a drop down menu of options. Users looking to promote their events can enter in tags and place their event in a directory hosted by eventsbot. Attendees can also share, tag, and add the event to their calendar via links on the event page.

The features that may appeal most to users is the full-featured ticketing. In addition to the ability to adjust ticket prices and set discounts, eventsbot has auto-reply forms that you can customize, and ready-to-import buttons for your website to quickly bring attendees to ticketing. Complementary tickets and direct payments can be handled through the Add Attendee link.

The weakness of eventsbot is in the way it handles invites; it does allow users to send as many as they may require, but the contact list is a simple form that collects name and email, and there is no sorting. Users can import address books, but manual additions into the contact list also require the user to type in a verification code.

Address book aside, eventsbot provides a range of options and customization to help manage events. To find this and other applications like it there is the Listio search: events+manage.

Previously in this series: MadeIt: Making Event Management Easy
Next in this series: Eventbrite: Event Management With Options

Application: Eventsbot
Listio Profile: http://www.listio.com/web20/app/Eventsbot/
Website: http://www.eventsbot.com

Eventsbot is a convenient option to Online Event Registration and Management -- a paperless solution to creating events online. It is an effortless solution to event planning online with features to collect payments, manage tickets and attendees, and send invitations, all with an advanced reporting... Learn more

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