We are pleased to announce that our payments solution has been released, allowing Eventarc customers to accept payments for their events securely and in real time.

No more chasing after checks, promised payments or missed phone calls. Just smooth, automated online event registration and ticketing.

Right now you can accept payments for your event in one of two ways:

1. Use Eventarc to hold and securely process the payments
2. Use your own merchant account

Both options are a fantastic way of easily processing payments for your events. Soon you will also be able to use PayPal as well.

You can register for a free account here to try Eventarc for yourself.

Let us know if you have any questions or queries at all, as …

Building a ticketing and online registration product has its difficulties. One of those is deciding what features are most important, and what can be left for another day.  Feature selection becomes even harder as launch day gets closer.

A major element we bailed over the side in order to launch on time was the ability to make paid ticketing events.  Given that processing payments is our entire business model this may seem like a strange decision to some, but you should never underestimate the power of actually launching something.  Launch brings momentum, heightens enthusiasm and injects an energy into the office that is impossible to replicate.  We should have launched earlier!

We knew that payments wouldn’t be that far …

We launched the self-service version of Eventarc yesterday, the culmination of more than two years of effort and countless iterations. We have been up and running with a working product in those two years, but it always involved us manually setting the client up in the background. Yesterday’s quiet launch of our free self service product starts us down a brand new path.

Over the last few months we have been madly finalising the remaining Trickytix functionality to be included for launch. At the same time, we have been thinking about our sales and marketing processes, our market, our customer development, and how each of these contributes to future success.

It has been almost two years in the making, but the Trickytix launch is edging closer. Back in 2007 when we first met with the guys at Australian Anthill we boldly stated “we will launch something in 8 weeks, no matter what”. Well we did launch at the end of 2007, but it took longer than 8 weeks and it certainly wasn’t a full self-service application! Throughout 2008 we allowed various clients to use the system as it underwent changes, and in 2009 we re-launched a self-service version for our two biggest clients (Mothers Day Classic and Million Paws Walk).

Welcome to the Trickytix blog.  More posts to come soon!