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Review my app - Guestlist: online event registration made simple

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Re: Review my app - Guestlist: online event registration made simple

#11
Overall this is a very clear and concise first page to land on. It explains clearly what your app does and why I should sign up.

Once I did those things I like the step-by-step flow of filling out details of my event.

Sites like eventbrite have endless options, but I find that I do not use most of them. When I need to find something it is usually hidden, but this is not the case.

Beautiful and simple design with a quality backend usually work best.

Re: Review my app - Guestlist: online event registration made simple

#15
I'm building an app in a related space (project planning for event planners) and bumped into a potential competitor on a message board. Turns out he is more in your space than mine. We got on Skype and he gave me a tour of his app. If you want to see the feature set of a mature event registration app for enterprise, you should shoot him a note and request a demo. Looks like your market is decidedly not enterprise, but rather casual event hosts, but you might pick up a cool feature or two.

http://event-master.com/regis.html

Simon was the guy who gave me the tour.

Re: Review my app - Guestlist: online event registration made simple

#16
You'll need a few features

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* Tally feature to check guests in, correlate to web list after event.

.. A4 Pages of guests to cross out via pen 0-200 guests

.. Barcode scanner db 200+ guests (-idea- maybe an iPhone app with db sync?)

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* Generate tickets and ticket address labels

.. Customers can print out their own voucher perhaps?

Re: Review my app - Guestlist: online event registration made simple

#17
post #16

You'll need a few features . * Tally feature to check guests in, correlate to web list after event. .. A4 Pages of guests to cross out via pen 0-200 guests .. Barcode scanner db 200+ guests (-idea- maybe an iPhone app with db sync?) . * Generate tickets and ticket address labels .. Customers can print out their own voucher perhaps?

If you go to the attendee or order list we do have an option to print a list. Its formatted nicely to print on any size sheet and will allow you to cross people off at check-in. We also export attendees and orders to CSV so you can pull it into Excel and format it to your specifications.

The other features we are hesitating on because we aren't convinced that people really need them. Doing less, but doing it significantly better is what we are aiming at. We realize that we will not be getting the really large events to move to us, but they are not our target market. We are aiming for the smaller events that don't have professional planners that take care of everything.

That said, we have a list of features that we think we need to add. We plan to add most of them before we exit beta. Features on our list include a public attendee list, ability to ask for custom information per attendee, and uploading of custom background images for events.

Re: Review my app - Guestlist: online event registration made simple

#18
post #9

I checked out your app yesterday, after seeing that you'll be presenting at DemoCamp. I was very interested in this idea, because I've needed or been asked to develop this type of app in the past. I'm very impressed with everything I've seen so far. I played around with it as much as I could, stopping short of making any actual payments, and it all looks great. Best of luck! P.S. I'd also be interested in hearing abo…

You have a point about the Quantity label. I will see about including that in my planned revamp of the ticket type lightbox.

Re: Review my app - Guestlist: online event registration made simple

#19
post #16

You'll need a few features . * Tally feature to check guests in, correlate to web list after event. .. A4 Pages of guests to cross out via pen 0-200 guests .. Barcode scanner db 200+ guests (-idea- maybe an iPhone app with db sync?) . * Generate tickets and ticket address labels .. Customers can print out their own voucher perhaps?

If you go to the attendee or order list we do have an option to print a list. Its formatted nicely to print on any size sheet and will allow you to cross people off at check-in. We also export attendees and orders to CSV so you can pull it into Excel and format it to your specifications. The other features we are hesitating on because we aren't convinced that people really need them. Doing less, but doing it signific…

I guess you'd also want to do a White Label version of your engine so that small-medium Bed&Breakfasts and Hotels could use you as their guestlist provider.

Re: Review my app - Guestlist: online event registration made simple

#20
I really like the user interface and simplicity. You're right, there are sites out there with too many unnecessary features. I liked your approach to only keep what's absolutely needed and present those features in a lovely way. The creative and clean placement of Edit links on the event page especially captured my attention.

Great job and best of luck with this!

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