Ticket Buyer and Attendee Registrations

Continuing with the minor changes to doattend’s workflow, we bring to you the Ticketing Options page, previously known as Payment Options.

Why the change you ask? Well, we’ve provided you with an additional setting on the type of information you can collect for your event and this necessitated a refreshed Page Name.

In the “Information to Collect” settings box, you can now specify whether to collect:

1. Each attendee’s information in a single order
This is ideal for conferences or formal events where information on each event attendee is a requirement. Many a time, a group of tickets are purchased by a single buyer, for example, a company purchasing tickets on behalf of its employees who wish to attend the event. Information on each attendee is often crucial, as seating arrangements, badges and other attendee specific arrangements need to be made. In such cases, opting to collect every attendee’s information in an order would be most beneficial.

2. A single person’s information in an order
This is ideal for social events such as plays and concerts where information on the ticket buyer alone is satisfactory to maintain event registrations. Even if more than one ticket was purchased on a single order, typically, a social event may require details on the ticket buyer rather than each and every attendee.

3. A combination of both attendee information and ticket buyer information
There may be specific requirements where both attendee and ticket buyer information is required to maintain a list of all registrations, in which case, this option provides you with a comprehensive list of registrant information.

For whichever ticketing option you select, you can easily export all details to a CSV file for onward editing in a spreadsheet. The option to choose between any three of these selections is yours, providing you with an optimal use of the information collected from your event registrations.

The rest of the page, as before, allows you to specify the currency in which tickets will be sold as well as relevant details required for event manager payouts.

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Hey, that’s a new event tab!


That’s probably what you said to yourself after logging into your Event Manager’s desk and having a look at your menu tabs, if you’ve been using doattend for a while now.

Yes, your event tabs now include Overview, Event Setup, Ticketing, Registrations and LIVE, with the new tab entrant being “Event Setup”.

To make your event configuration all the more easier and straight forward, “Event Setup” is designed to include settings for your event that you are likely to establish just once, namely:

  • Event Information (basic information about your event)
  • Ticketing Options (more on this later)
  • Registration Form
  • Ticket Design

Event Setup. Creating your event just got quicker.

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DoAttend Reloaded – More Features, Better Workflow

The secret to a winning recipe lies in the ingredients used to make it. And so, we’re pleased to offer you another round of new features to make your Event Management experience on DoAttend a tasty, or rather, satisfying one.

Watch this space as we update you, in detail, on the host of new features and workflow changes that have been introduced.

Please keep your feedback and suggestions coming in to support@doattend.com – we really do appreciate all the valuable input.

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No event too small or too large for doattend. Indeed.

We believe in practicing what we preach.

When we unveiled doattend to the world, one of our opening lines was, and still is, the title of this blog post; “No event too small or too large”.

It got us thinking, late last week- whilst burning the midnight oil and breaking our minds over a crucial topic that would determine our weekend’s fate (the menu for our first ever Sunday lunch cookfest) – why not use dear ol’ doattend to spread the word about it?

And so, “Cook With Rethas” was born. An event that saw the Tenmiles team get together for an afternoon of fun, food and fondue (our white sauce pasta was the talk of the day, but that’s a different story altogether).

We enjoyed ourselves, so the “Cookwith….” events will now feature regularly on our monthly calendar and the next one will definitely be opened for public registration.

Why the next one you ask? Well, we’re confident of our cooking now. Confident enough to invite you to have a taste.

Keep a lookout for a “Cookwith…” event near you!

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doattend – New & Improved

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A vibrant new look. A handful of new features. Check out what’s new at doattend:

1. Custom Fields for Registrations

Event managers can now set up custom fields for their event registration forms, choosing from either a set of pre-determined fields or creating their own custom fields and deciding which fields are mandatory. Get a complete information in CSV format with the ’Export’ link under Registrations.

2. Offline Orders

Sometimes registrants may prefer not to pay online. Event managers can now enable Offline Orders which allows
registrants to enter their details and pay event managers in a manner of their choice (cheque, cash, bank transfers, etc). Once the payment is received, the event managers can update basic transaction details and mark the offline order as purchased, allowing for e-tickets to be delivered to the registrants.

3. Google Maps and Calendar Integration

All event pages now have Google Maps showing the route to the event and links for visitors to add the event to their calendars. Nifty right?

4. Custom Ticket Design

Event managers can now add custom header and footer images along with the event logo to the ticket design. Perfect for having your sponsors featuring on tickets! Also, each ticket can now be customised to show select components.

5. DoAttend LIVE

A single page that pulls in tweets from your official twitter account, tweets about your events and photos of your event from flickr. With a simple single page setup, this is one feature thats sure to boost your event promotion efforts.

6. Brand new Interface

If you are returning to DoAttend after quite some time, then we suggest you hold on to something before you log in lest you get blown away ! A whole set of added features and more on their way; we have revamped the User Interface for both Event Managers and Registrants. With the new Event Overview page, you are brought upto speed instantly about whats happening with your event.

7. Website Update

All the information you need is now available on our website. Take a look at the new FeaturesPricing pages.

Got feedback/requests/suggestions/praises for us? Mail us at support@doattend.com

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New payment options for INR based tickets

With the recent addition of Mastercard, doattend now supports a multitude of payment options, ensuring that your event registration process remains simple, easy and hassle free.

For Indian Rupee (INR) based ticket sales, your event attendees are guaranteed of a single, secure, platform for processing major credit card, debit card and net-banking payment options which are continuously updated to include the most popular ones.

Here’s the complete list of currently supported payment options:

Credit Cards

  1. Diners Club
  2. Mastercard
  3. Visa

Debit Cards (VISA Electron only)

  1. Axis Bank
  2. Citi Bank
  3. Corporation Bank
  4. Deutsche Bank
  5. HDFC Bank
  6. ICICI Bank
  7. Indian Overseas Bank
  8. ING Vysya Bank
  9. Karur Vysya
  10. State Bank of India

Net-Banking

  1. Axis Bank
  2. Federal Bank
  3. HDFC Bank
  4. ICICI Bank
  5. JK Bank

Cash Card

  1. ItzCash

We regularly update this list to include the latest payment options supported by doattend, so keep watching this space!

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INR Payment Gateway is now live

We’re pleased to announce that doattend has partnered with a leading Indian payment gateway to offer online ticket sales in INR.

With this recent addition, secure, online payment processing is now available through:

1. Paypal – for ticket sales in all currencies supported by Paypal
2. doattend Payment Gateway – for Indian Rupee (INR) based ticket sales

Once you’ve registered your event and set your ticket price in the currency of your choice, doattend will take care of the payment process for you.

For USD based tickets (and other currencies supported by Paypal), attendees will be redirected to Paypal.com to make a payment via credit card, or from a paypal account. With over 150 million paypal users across the world, your event, regardless of where in the world it’s taking place, is assured of an online sales ticket counter that’s open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to anyone in the world who speaks Paypal.

For events in India, INR based ticket sales are handled entirely by our payment gateway. A secure, trusted system will provide your attendees with a simple process to purchase tickets to an event, in INR, through a wide variety of payment methods including credit card (Diners & Visa with Mastercard soon to be made available), debit card and net banking.

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Add Discount Coupons to your Event Tickets

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It is a good idea to pass out discount coupon codes to boost  your event tickets sales or pass on discounts to select group. DoAttend allows you to setup and manage discounts effortlessly.

Let me get to the finer details:

  • You can setup as many discounts as possible for a ticket
  • You can restrict the number of times a discount coupon could be used
  • You can define the discount amount either as an exact amount or a percentage
  • You can setup a date range for which the coupon code would be available. The discount code will automatically expire when it reaches the end date specified by you.
  • The discount code can be applied on one or more ticket types
  • Your sales data would reflect the discount code used by the attendee during the purchase

Try out this new feature and do drop in your feedback. Log in to your account or sign up now to get started.

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INR Payment Processing coming soon

It’s been a while since we last updated you on what’s been happening behind closed doors at the doattend nerve centre. There’s a lot of excitement being generated, with doattend being considered as an online registration service for events ranging from corporate themed conferences to social weekend meets. One of our mates actually turned down our request to be invited over to her place, since the event was sold out on doattend!

Well, we’re busy incorporating a number of key features; an important one being the online payment gateway which will provide the platform for both USD & INR based online ticket sales. We expect to roll this and other features out very soon, so watch this space for more details!

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Please take your seat, the show’s about to begin

The lingering thought in your mind now is probably, “What exactly is doAttend?”

A brief preamble would help in explaining.

Event Management has taken on a new meaning. What started off as a term used to describe those large, snazzy corporate sponsored entertainment shows has moved on to encompass everything from small social get togethers, charity fund runs and cultural shows to conferences, exhibitions and the like. Realistically, any meeting that calls for participation by varied individuals or groups should be termed an event.

Now any event needs an audience. We’ve all heard that the World is Flat, and sure to that statement, the Internet has opened up the boundaries of communication to such an extent that an online-promoted event is now able to garner attention from audiences all across the world, if it is promoted well enough.

Putting these two points together, the question we ask is :

“How do you promote and manage an event online, well enough to ensure that your target audience is successfully tapped for participants and registrants while providing them with a straight forward, easy to use online registration system that allows for tickets to be purchased and emailed or printed, all the while guaranteeing that an online payment processing platform takes care of your payment collection, at minimal cost, leaving you to concentrate on the event itself rather than the administrative responsibilities of organising it? ”

That question’s quite a mouthful, but luckily, we have an answer that’s much, much simpler.

We present to you, an Online Event Registration Service that does all this, and more.

doAttend. We’ve got a seat for you.

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