Event ticketing service Amiando (we are using them for the Crunchies) wants to spread its ticketing service throughout the Web. It has a new Community Ticketing feature that lets websites and social networks embed the ticketing functionality into their sites instead of linking off to Amiando. Here is the API.
Amiando is offering to waive $200 from its fee for the first 50 TechCrunch readers to sign up for the API (mention “techcrunch).
One of Amiando’s features is its ViralTickets, which allows anyone in the community around a particular site to grab a widget and sell tickets on their site or blog. As an incentive, they get to keep a portion of the ticketing fee. So if a niche social network implements the API, its users could sell tickets directly from their pages. The social network or any site owner would be able to set a fee that it would keep (about 60 percent of which would go to Amiando, not including some expenses), and the rest would go to the organizer of the event. For a $100 ticket, if the fee is 10%, the event organizer keeps $90, and the rest gets split between the social network/community site, Amiando, and any viral marketing fans of the event.
If you happen to be a smaller venue looking to sell tickets for local entertainment – bands in particular – the Madtown Lounge provides this service to venues for free. All the venue does is indicate the quantity and price of the tickets for a previously entered show and the rest is done. Print out the roster, give it to the door person, and validate advance ticket sales owners as they arrive!
The venue also has the ability to embed the code in their site so the purchaser doesn’t even hit our site; rather they go straight to the (Google) Checkout.
Allen, founder
http://madtownlounge.com
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Here’s on thing I have not figured w/ Amiando.
An event with many sessions…where users can sign-up for (a) whole event or (b) for individual sessions of choice.
With Amiando…I’m left with only solution for this scenario. Creating “Amiando Events” for each session.
Consider a 1 week Conference…with 12 Sessions. Given this scenario, I have to create 12 Amiando events…the have users do multiple sign-ups (pay via credit card multiple times, etc).
Anyone who’se an avid Amiando user…let me know about this problem set.
Hi MG,
facing a scenario such as a 1 week conference you do not have to set up several events / checkouts by using amiando.
Set up the registration (amiandoEVENTS or amiandoTICKETS) by defining the start date and the end of the event. You may then set up different categories for 1. the general conference ticket and 2./3./… for the different workshops. The amiando form editor is an additional powerful feature to meet more complex event registration needs.
Have a look on this event site: http://www.amia...ligence-squared (integrated http://iq2green...val.com/tickets )
Just contact us for further assistance during set up.
Cheers,
Boris
a very cool implementation is here
http://www.doze...iandoshop/15854
MG, this is something I’m working on right now with our event management application. It’s a surprisingly nuanced problem. Adding sub events introduces a lot of complexity to the end user and event runner interfaces, and to the backend programming. I’m sure that’s why most web apps that deal with events avoid it entirely.
We’ll be rolling out our conference-style solution this spring, which will make it very easy to set up large events with sub-events, with separate upcharges for sub-events, prerequisites, restrictions based on user types, and a host of other features apps like Amiando and EventBrite don’t even touch.
Obligatory self-marketing link:
http://www.busyevent.com
This will definitely be huge i think.. Good going guys!