• Studies show that people prefer online channels more than ever.
• It’s easy to setup and sell tickets online: It takes less than five minutes to setup event registration and accept payments online.
• Attendees like payment choices and convenience: Online ticket sales make it easier for your attendees to purchase tickets from any place, at anytime as per their convenience.
• Online transactions are secure: Online payment gateway systems do not share attendee’s credit card details with the event organizer and it makes the transaction safer.
• Event organizers can receive payments instantly:Online event registration software like Eventzilla directs money from ticket sales directly to the event organizer(s) account.
• Attendees get incentives for online purchases:Most of the credit card companies provide incentives for using their credit card and it is an added advantage to make purchases online.
• Easy to track, cancel and refund payments
• Easy to sell tickets from multiple sites:Online sales make it easier to sell tickets from a website, blog or social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
• Setup special discount codes for your event: Discount codes are a popular way to gain traction and entice target customers to purchase tickets at a lower price.

Read more on how easy it is to manage event registrations and sell tickets online at competitive prices.

Analyze the Event

This is the most important step once the event is done. We need to evaluate if the output from theevent was according to the expectations. If it wasn’t, where did we lack and even if it was, thereis always scope for improvement, isn’t there? Here are some suggestions that can help you measure the success of your event.

There may be many parameters to judge the success of an event.

1. Customer satisfaction
2. Budget for the event
3. Turnout for the event
4.Number of potential business leads

One of the important ones is the customer satisfaction. If your event attendees are satisfied – analyze the factors that will help fixing this problem in future. Make sure you follow-up with your event attendees with simple surveys to collect their feedback. You can also use online event registration tools like Eventzilla to send them discount codes for future events.
Budget: Add up the tangible as well as intangible benefits and outcomes from the event and compare that to the expenditure.While a profit or loss may not be your biggest concern, it is an imperative aspect for any event planner.

Turnout: Compare the turnout for the event to the number of people who had been invited. If there’s a shortfall, look back at the planning process and try to find out the weak areas.

Assess your marketing campaign and then analyze whether the turnout was as per the marketing done. There are new tools in the market to measure the social media marketing success and if the number of attendees were less, it’s time to re-design the marketing strategy.

Potential business leads: Analyze the number of leads for your business vs planned target number of leads expected out of this event.

Last but not least – create a lessons learned plan and share it with your event management team. Consider using online event registration software products like Eventzilla to setup and track event registrations for upcoming events.

Online event registration allows event attendees to register online (RSVP) and make secure payments easily.  Event organizers can setup custom registration forms, deliver branded tickets on email, manage cancellations using an online event registration service like Eventzilla.net

2. What is Eventzilla.net?

Eventzilla is an inexpensive online event registration and ticketing website to list your event details, collect secure payments from attendees, promote your events using email marketing, Facebook, Twitter, Blogs and manage cancellations in one place.

3. What types of events can I manage with Eventzilla?

Eventzilla can be used to manage registrations and payments for a variety of events ranging from business conferences, seminars, training events, fund raising events, cooking classes, language classes, fitness classes, computer  training classes,  tour packages, workshop registration, live concerts, comedy shows, expos, webinars, local meetups, marathon events and much more.

4. How much does it cost to use Eventzilla?

Free events = Free
Paid events = $1/attendee (You pay only when you make a sale)

Setup costs = None

Fees for ticket sales in Indian Rupees:  4.75%+Rs 5/attendee

Please check the pricing page for more international currencies support and fees.

5. Does Eventzilla support multiple currencies?

Yes – Eventzilla currently support 24 different world currencies including USD, CAD, GPD, EURO, AUD and Indian Rupees. Please check the pricing page for more details.

6. What do I need to get started?

A valid email address and a PayPal account. You can sign up for a free account at eventzilla to sell tickets/registrations online and we direct all the payments from your event sales directly to your PayPal account.

Eventzilla will send you an invoice at the end of every month for the fees that your incurred from ticket sales and you can easily pay the fees online.

For Indian Customers:
You just need a valid email address. We use CC Avenue/Citibank for securely processing payments for your events in Indian Rupees and we deliver the payments to your bank account every Month.

7. Can I create a repeating event with Eventzilla?

Yes – You can use our easy to use calendar widget to select recurring event dates up to 1 year.

8. How do I share the event details with my contacts?

Eventzilla allows you to create a unique subdomain like http://your-event-name.eventzilla.net – which can be shared with your potential target audience. In addition to this event web page – you can also easily embed the registration/ticket details in your website, blog, email marketing, Facebook, Twitter etc to promote your events in minutes.

9. Can I add different registration / ticket types for my event?

Yes. You can create early bird pricing with specific start date and end date, regular pricing and even onsite pricing as different options for registering to your event.

10. Can I send email invitations to my contacts?

Yes. You can import your existing contacts easily and send a professional looking email invitation announcing your event easily. (Daily limit for sending email invitations: 2000)

11.Can I pass on the Eventzilla service  fee to my attendees?

Yes. When you setup the event ticket / registration types you have an option to make your event attendees pay the small convenience fee. This means you pay absolutely nothing for using Eventzilla.

12. Can I create discount codes for my events?

Yes. You can add one or many special discount codes for your event which can be used by your attendees on checkout.