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Send SMS notifications to attendees using Twilio for Dryfta

Twilio integration for Dryfta is out. For those who do not know about Twilio, it is a Messaging platform to send SMS from any app, and ensure deliverability using intelligent delivery features.

As an event organizer, you can do the following using Twilio:

  • Send SMSs when someone registers on your event website
  • Notify through SMS when someone purchases a ticket
  • Send automated event reminders to attendees on their registered phone numbers
  • Push an emergency notification to all of your attendees
  • Ask attendees to complete their registration form
  • Notify attendees about a sudden change in one of the program sessions

Update: Organizers can now send mass SMSs to all registrants. Simply enter your text, choose the registrant type and click on Send button to send SMSs to everyone at once.

To start sending automated SMSs to your attendees, you need to purchase a plan at Twilio’s website, get the credentials and enter those credentials into Twilio settings in your Dryfta dashboard.

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Sync subscribers from Dryfta to Mailchimp

Dryfta is an event management platform for universities and organizations. The Mailchimp integration for Dryfta lets event organizers sync subscribers and mailing lists from Dryfta event platform to Mailchimp and vice-versa.

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Overall Benefits

  • Collect email addresses using the opt-in box on your Dryfta powered event website and push these subscribers to a mailing list on your Mailchimp account. That’s the combined power of Mailchimp email marketing and Dryfta event platform, at your disposal!
  • Apart from subscribers, you can also sync name and email addresses of your attendees and speakers to Mailchimp and send email campaigns using the Mailchimp email software.
  • Convert subscribers in your Dryfta event platform to registrants

Technical & Support

To use the Mailchimp integration for Dryfta, all you need is your API key. Enter these credentials in your Dryfta dashboard and you’re all set to start syncing your mailing lists and subscribers to and from Mailchimp.

Cost

Mailchimp integration comes free with a Dryfta subscription.

 

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Event snapshots page with deeper real-time insights

Dryfta users flock to their event snapshots page whenever they want to see real-time status of their events. The real-time status includes attendees who are signing up, ticket orders that have been placed, abstracts that have been submitted so far, total payments collected, tickets which are selling the most, check-ins made to sessions, most loved speakers among attendees, most active attendees, topics/themes which were hot favorite among attendees, countries most participants came from, top commentators in forums, most successful exhibitors & sponsors and many other similar insights which keeps you in control of your events.

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With the latest update, we have made event snapshots page more visually appealing. The tables with textual data has been replaced with colorful bar graphs and line charts, and added a world map visual graph to display countries with most participants.

To display change from last week for various single data points, we added percentage change under each number widget. That will give you an idea of how your event is faring at every passing week.

Let us know what you think of this upgrade and if it helps in any which way in creating your custom forms.

 

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Sell event memberships & Provide access to member-only content

Attendees flocking to your event every year? Give them the option to become members so they get access to member-only content along with discounted tickets.

  • Create different membership ticket types each with its own pricing
  • Allow membership sign-ups and renewals from the event website
  • Allow members to view membership details, tickets purchased, personal event schedule, Meeting requests, submitted abstracts etc from the dashboard
  • Members automatically receive membership renewal reminders
  • Existing members can renew or upgrade their membership type from the dashboard
  • Incentivize members to purchase tickets with members-only discounts

Get Dryfta to build you Event Membership website with member-only content and online ticket purchase.

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Let us know if you have any feedback or suggestions about the Membership tool.

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Want to know which sessions & speakers are hot favorite among attendees?

Being an event organizer, one needs to make sure his/her attendees are engaged on the highest level. To make sure an attendee is engaged, it is important to have engaging and relevant sessions and speakers, among other things.

But how would you know if your attendee is engaged, or not? Dryfta helps you know if your sessions and speakers are engaging your attendees. It also lets you know if a session is too interesting and the room is overfilled. In that case, you can arrange for a larger room with more moderators for more healthy discussion on the session’s topic.
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Create your Event registration & Abstract submission forms using Visual Form Builder

As promised, the upgraded Form builder is now live and accessible from your dashboard. Creating custom fields for your forms including event registration and abstract submission forms, is now easier than ever.

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The text buttons are replaced with visual icons and text buttons to allow more easier understanding of what it (button) does. The absence of too many texts also created more whitespace making it more easier and calmer for event admins to create custom fields!

We also felt the field editor popup was creating a sense of alienation and was not as seamless as we envisioned. So, instead of opening the field editor in a popup, it now opens in the same window.

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Create & Customize Abstract Book using the upgraded Abstract Book Builder

Last week, we added the ability to include custom fields from user registration and reviewer registration forms into abstract book. The Abstract book builder already has the ability to include the fields from abstract submission and review submission forms. The recent upgrade just makes it more complete abstract book builder tool than ever before.

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This feature lets you add authors’ and reviewers’ data in the abstract book. You have the option to choose which fields you want to display in the abstract book. It also allows you to include the Download link to the presentation files of authors/speakers.

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Sell event tickets on Dryfta Platform without a Merchant account

There are a lot of event organizers who do not have their own merchant account to accept ticket payments online. To serve those event organizers, we have integrated a merchant account with Dryfta event platform.

Event organizers can now sell tickets online and collect payments through credit cards using Dryfta event platform without needing a merchant account. Simply sign up for a Dryfta account and start accepting ticket payments. All collected funds are transferred to your bank account at the end of the event.

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All you need to do is to create an event platform on Dryfta, set up your tickets, choose Dryfta as your payment gateway, and enter your bank transfer details where we should transfer your collected funds.

You’re now all set to start selling your tickets online through credit cards! Let us know what you think about this feature and how can we make Dryfta more useful for you.

 

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Universities & organizations signed up for Dryfta event platform (September)

With newly added features and awesome reviews from our customers, Dryfta has gained 3 new customers in the university segment last month alone and has added many new universities, including: Dublin City University, The Edinburgh University, NHS Highland and John Hopkins All Children Hospital.

Alongside universities, we have signed up a host of organizations including Granshan Conference, Pacific Northwest PHP Conference and Red Exporty Events — they are using Dryfta to host their conferences for their various needs including selling tickets, abstract submission and peer review, email marketing, event website, accepting donations, creating badges & participation certificates and more.

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We’ve invested a lot of resources in our platform. Be it in terms of user interactive design, or, state of the art features, and have brought aboard some of the best design and programming talent available. All of us together help Dryfta become the most preferred event management platform for event organizers.
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Use discount codes to increase ticket sales

Dryfta event platform now has a very extensive Discounts manager tool to create discount codes for ticket purchase so event organizers can increase their ticket sales.

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To create a discount code, you simply add a unique code, choose discount type (percentage or amount), set quantity, set validity date and Save. That’s about it. Now simply share this discount code with your participants so they can purchase tickets on discounted price.

You can either create discount code which is valid for all users or can create them according to who your participants are viz.

  • If they are members of your event/conference
  • Group registrations
  • For those who buy multiple tickets
  • Registered on a particular date
  • or, according to the custom field type they have chosen during event registration.

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Launch contests to increase ticket sales & collect email addresses

Wish to increase ticket sales and also create a huge mailing list? Start a contest!

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Here’s how it works

Ask your site visitors to submit their name & email addresses and then at the end of the contest, select a random submitter who would get a discount code which they can later use to purchase discounted tickets.

How do I set it up

To collect name and email addresses, you can embed Dryfta’s newsletter subscription widget. Get it from under your Subscribers list in Dryfta event platform.

To create discount codes for your tickets, use Discounts manager tool in your Dryfta platform, and share it with the random submitters you have chosen. The winners would use the discount code to purchase the tickets.

Who else does it

Skift Global Forum recently organized a similar contest and has collected a lot of email addresses while also improving their ticket sales!

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Here’s a sample subscription widget (Embedded from our demo Dryfta platform)

 

Sell tickets on your event website using Stripe payment gateway

Less than 5 percent of the people have PayPal account, while more than 95 percent have credit cards. If your event website permits only PayPal, it will mean that most attendees will be unable to pay. In such a case the creation of your event website was pointless. Therefore, a credit card processor is necessary to facilitate all payments and not just PayPal.

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We recommend Stripe’s credit card processor because it charges less per transaction fee, is very organizer-friendly, and because we already have an integration built inside Dryfta, for Stripe, just like we have integration for PayPal, Authorize and 2Checkout.

However, Stripe is only available in select few countries right now. So, if you operate out of a Non-Stripe country, here’s our suggestion:

If you or your acquaintance has a bank account and a physical business address in any of the following countries mentioned below, you can open a Stripe account and once activated, you will enter the provided credentials into Dryfta which will allow you to accept Credit Card payments on your Dryfta-powered event website. All your collected payments will be directly transferred to your bank account in that country.
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