Blog | Dryfta - Part 40

Dryfta Event CRM Just Got Even Better!

When it comes to managing events, we know that organizing contacts and staying on top of communication is one of the most important—and sometimes one of the most time-consuming—tasks. That's why we built Dryfta’s Event CRM, which we believe is the best in the event industry for managing your contacts, centralizing data, and creating personalized experiences. And now, we’ve made it even better!

At Dryfta, we put our customers at the center of everything we do, and we take your feedback seriously. So, when we heard from event organizers that they needed more ways to manage contacts quickly and efficiently—especially when handling large groups—we listened. Today, we’re excited to announce some new features that will make managing your contacts even more powerful, flexible, and efficient.

Cart Abandonment Notifications for Incomplete Ticket Purchase

Abandoned cart orders occur pretty frequently on a busy event website. Often, potential customers begin filling out their checkout form, only to leave and never return. Knowing about these users, why did they abandoned the cart and then targeting these abandoned cart orders can boost ticket sales.

This feature lets you send an automated email to ticket and membership buyers who have begun creating an order on your event ticketing website built using Dryfta event platform, but haven’t completed it for whatever reason.

The email will act as an enticement inviting the buyer to come back to the event website to complete their order.

As long as the customer’s email address was entered into the website (either by them logging in or registering on your event website while browsing), the Abandoned Carts Notification feature will be able to send them a message, and also notify the admin.

You can also customize the Abandoned Cart email which is sent to the buyer when he/she abandons the cart. To customize, go to Email Broadcast > Notifications and click on Abandoned Cart Notification Email to edit it.

Here’re some fabulous Abandoned Cart Email templates you can take a cue from. The more enticing and personalized your email will be, the higher would be the sales conversion.

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Take a backup of your event data

We recently introduced a Backup tool which lets event organizers download the backup of their latest data including contacts, attendees, orders, payments received, expenses, abstracts submitted (with reviews), program sessions, sponsors, exhibitors and all other important data sets.

This will ensure our customers have a copy of their data at all the times. This also makes our customers feel more secure and in control of their event data.
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Have you reached Product Market Fit? Growth Hack with these tips

Achieving Product-Market Fit (PMF) is a milestone every business aspires to. It signifies that your product meets the needs of your target audience effectively, solving a critical problem for a significant group of people. But PMF is more than just a buzzword—it’s a foundation for growth. Without it, no amount of marketing or promotion will lead to sustainable success.

Why your Product never seems good enough

Hi. This is your Chief Happiness Officer.

I’m very delighted to see 100s of users using Dryfta to manage their events 3 months after our private beta release. I take this oppurtunity to thank our founding customers especially my team for clinging to this vision of having an all-inclusive event management platform for event organizers and delivering on our promises.
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Sell Event Memberships with Access Control

If you’re organizing an annual event with regular attendees, it’s time to step up your game and offer them something extra. Building loyalty among your audience means giving them compelling reasons to come back year after year. One of the best ways to do this? Sell event memberships that provide exclusive perks like premium content access, discounts on tickets, and a personalized experience.

The revised Free plan – Dryfta Event Platform

The Free plan has been revised and will come into effect from today, 11th March, 2016. From now on, all new event platforms created under Free plan, will be able to manage up to 60 contacts and as many abstract submissions.

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Spreading too thin!

We’ve decided to slow down a bit from taking on new feature requests. We’ll continue to accept feature requests as long as they can be implemented within our existing tools and closely relate to our roadmap.

If the new feature requests does not meet this condition, then, although you can still share your requests with us, however, you would have to wait before we attend to it.

We think we’ve spread too thin. It’s time for us to grow vertical by focusing on improving existing features.

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Collect Fees for Accepted Abstracts & Papers

Are you organizing a scientific conference and managing abstract submissions? One of the challenges for event organizers is collecting fees for approved abstracts and papers efficiently. With Dryfta, this process is now simpler than ever. Our platform not only collects abstract submission and peer reviews but also allows you to accept payments for approved submissions—saving time and reducing manual effort.

Feature updates #2

Here’s our update for this week with some really exciting features and some improvements and fixes in the existing features.

Membership payments
Membership payments is now available for all Dryfta users. Create membership tickets and sell memberships to your attendees. Later this month, we’ll release Coupon Manager and Access control features to enable discounts and access to premium content for members.
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The Art of Shipping Early and Often

“Several distinct problems manifest themselves as delays in launching: working too slowly; not truly understanding the problem; fear of having to deal with users; fear of being judged; working on too many different things; excessive perfectionism. Fortunately you can combat all of them by the simple expedient of forcing yourself to launch something fairly quickly.” — Paul Graham, The 18 Mistakes that Kill Startups

At Dryfta, we live by this↑ maxim. Shipping code early and often is an integral part of our code of ethics. The way we do it is we ask our customers to share their feature requests, set them up against our own list of feature updates, and then ruthlessly prioritize code shipping. If you’re the man/woman overlooking product management at your company, you should be skilled at prioritizing product features, market needs and growth expectations all at once.
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Create customizable event websites

In today’s digital age, your event website is often the first interaction attendees have with your event. A well-designed, fully customizable event website can set the tone for a successful experience, giving attendees all the information they need while reflecting your event's unique personality. Dryfta’s event website builder makes this process effortless, enabling event organizers to build stunning, feature-rich websites and mobile sites without needing advanced technical skills.

All-in-One Event Management Software

Abstract Submission & Review Management System

Event Scheduling & Speaker Management System

Virtual Events & Community Platform