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Stubmatic provides an excellent alternative to EventWax

6th April 2009 by admin
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EventWax was a great web application, that like us is built on Ruby on Rails. We are sorry to see that http://www.vivabit.com/ will be shutting down this service in the coming months.

We obviously welcome any EventWax users looking for a similar alternative solution to try our excellent service out. We currently offer a free trial allowing you to publish up to 3 events completely free and our monthly subscription plans are fixed price with no booking or transaction fees, but best of all you can charge your own booking fees and keep every penny!

For more information on our service please visit the Tour, FAQ and signup information on our main site:

http://www.stubmatic.com

Stubmatic Affiliate Programme Launched

6th February 2009 by admin
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We recently released our affiliate programme where you can earn %50 of the first months subscription fee from all user’s that you to refer to us.

We have created a special affiliate site that provides more information and allows you to sign up as an affiliate and start earning commission for your referrals today.

For more information and details of the terms and conditions, please visit: http://www.stubmatic.com/affiliates/

Stubmatic Downtime

4th February 2009 by admin
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Firstly we would like to apologise to all our customers for the two periods of downtime experienced over the last 24 hours. Our hosting partner is confident they have resolved the problem and all services should be back up.

Yesterday we had a failure at our London datacenter which resulted in the service going down shortly at 15:00 GMT. Unfortunately this highlighted an issue and single point of failure that we had overseen with our disaster recovery strategy and immediately contacted our hosting partner as to how we could avoid the problem in the future.

We decided to replicate our entire infrastructure in London creating a stand-by setup in Dallas where by we could fail-over silently to this setup in the result of a failure at our London datacenter in the future. Unfortunately as part of the database replication setup our database became read-only which resulted in the Stubmatic.com service becoming unavailable at 05:00 GMT this morning.

We have now resolved this issue and our replication should now be stable and operational.

No data was lost in the incident and we now have a far more resilient infrastructure to prevent an occurance of this happening again in the future.

Best Regards,

Jon Baker

CEO Vibrant Apps Ltd

Charge a booking fee and keep it for yourself.

15th December 2008 by admin
Tags: new features, News
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Stubmatic.com doesn’t charge booking or transaction fees, but that doesn’t mean you can’t. We have rolled out a new feature that allows you to charge your customers a booking fee.

Booking fees are automatically added to your customer’s order and you get to keep 100% of that charged fee. This great new feature helps you cover costs such as the fees charged by PayPal and our subscription fee.

To start charging a booking fee, simply add a new or edit an existing event. Within the ticket details section you will see two new fields (See above). Simply specify a Booking fee value greater than 0 and the fee will automatically be added. You also have the option to charge the fee per ticket or order. Select “charge fee per ticket” if you want to charge per ticket, rather than per order.

As usual we welcome your comments and suggestions.

Stubmatic Update 23-Nov-08

23rd November 2008 by admin
Tags: mainenance, pricing
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We successfully updated Stubmatic this evening. The changes were mainly very subtle ones but the most noticeable will be that we have revised our pricing and switched from British Pounds £ to US Dollars $.

We appologise if this causes any inconvinience to our UK customers however, we have decided to charge in $ from now on mainly due to the fact that 81% of our user base are based in the US vs 7% based in the UK.

Users currently on our British Pound plans have the choice to remain on their current plan or choose to switch to the new plan. Switching plan is easy, simply visit your My Account page when logged into Stubmatic and clicking Change Plan. You will be asked if you wish to change to the new US dollar priced plans. Click yes and you account will be upgraded at the end of your current billing period.

TktIt users who have been given gift membership are unaffected however should you wish to continue your subscription at the end of your gift period, you will need to subscribe to one of our new US priced plans.

We have also added a new field to the Event details form labelled Event Type. This field has been added for future integration reasons. Some of our partner sites would like to retrieve events for a particular type, for example only music events. We have made it as light a feature as possible by having it remember the type of event you last added.

As always, please contact us with your comments / suggestions,

Regards,

Stubmatic Team

Scheduled Maintenance 23-Sep-08 6pm GMT

21st November 2008 by admin
Tags: maintenance
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Scheduled Maintenance: Sunday 23rd November 2008, 6pm. We do not anticipate services to be unavailable for more than 30 mins.

New home page featured in Smashing Magazine

19th November 2008 by admin
Tags: new design, smashing magazine
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Our new home page has made a splash by being recently featured in Smashing Magazine as an example for their article titled “Strategic Design: 6 Steps for Building a Successful Website”. Our homepage was featured as the example for Goal-driven design.

“To succeed, the website must make the best use of the very limited amount of attention visitors will be giving it by not only informing but educating them about what your product does, and selling the benefits it provides. Stubmatic uses design elements effectively to pursue those goals.”

Many thanks to our designer Dan Oliver (He is also available freelance).

You can read the article in full on Smashing Magazine’s website.

New improvements added 26th Oct 08

26th October 2008 by admin
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Today we have added some new features that I know many of you have been requesting. The two biggest requests that we have had is the ability to re-list a completed event and the ability to specify when an event should be completed automatically in advance of its start date.

1. Re-listing events

As of today, any event that is completed before its start date or new box office close date can be re-listed. Not only can you re-list events that you may have completed by accident, you can also now use this feature to temporarily pause sales.

Completed events are not displayed on either your box office, MySpace App or widgets, however if you link to the event directly, users can still visit the event page but they are notified that there are currently no tickets. If an event is re-listed it will automatically re-appear in your box office listings etc.

2. Specify a date and time to complete events (ticket sales)

You can now optionally specify a box office close date. Stubmatic will automatically complete your event at this date / time preventing any further ticket sales.

3. Further social network integration - Add This!

You will notice a new ‘Add This’ button on your box office and events. Users can now use this service to bookmark / share your box office and event pages with their friends via most social networks that they may use. Another tool to help promote your events.

4. Buy Now buttons

We have made it even easier to use our buy now buttons for your events. Simply visit the Promote pages and create buttons in black or white for any published event.

5. Further Search Engine Optimisations

We have made further tweaks to improve the Search Engine Optimisation of your event pages and box offices this should help provide even better search engine ranking of your pages.
As usual, please feel free to drop us an email or contact us using the contact form.

NOTE: We have some further changes to make tomorrow evening (27 Oct 08) at roughly 10pm GMT. Our member pages, box office and sales pages should be unaffected by the update.

Stubmatic launches MySpace app to sell tickets from profile

14th October 2008 by admin
Tags: MySpace, paypal, promote events, sell events, tickets
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Previously we blogged about the new MySpace application that we have been working on. I am pleased to announce that it has been approved by MySpace into their app directory and is available immediately.

Our new app gives a dynamically updated window to your box office automatically listing all your currently listed events. Anyone browsing your MySpace profile will see your box office listing. Clicking the buy button next to an event, will take them directly to that event’s purchase page.

Your users follow the normal payment process on the Stubmatic pages and you get your payment as usual, directly to your PayPal account.

Installing the app is really easy!

1. Visit the Stubmatic App’s MySpace profile page

Navigate to http://www.myspace.com/stubmatic and click Install Application

Install App

2. Accept the default settings

Accept settings

Ensure Show on homepage and Show on profile are both selected

3. Set you username

Enter your Stubmatic username and set an optional title to be displayed on your profile box office such as Vibrant App’s Box Office

4. Start selling from your profile

Your events are automatically listed on your profile page.

Stubmatic improves SEO and event promotion

10th October 2008 by admin
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This morning we rolled out a number of tweeks to the site aimed at better SEO and promotion of your box offices and events.

URLs

The first thing we have done, is to simplify the URL used to access your personal box office. Although the old /myboxoffice/<username> addresses still work. You can now omit the /myboxoffice/ text and simply direct your customers to:

http://www.stubmatic.com/<username>

We have also made changes to the event listings page to make it easier to find each individual event’s public sales url. You will now find these listed under each event.

Search Engine Optimisation

We have also put a lot of effort into integrating with Google, Yahoo and MSN search, such as automatically notifying them when a new event is published as well as numerous other tweeks and we are hoping this will drastically improve user’s box office and individual event page search engine performance.

Promotion Tools

We are currently working on some new Promotion Tools and hope to be announcing the availability of our MySpace app along with some new widgets shortly. For now we have made available a new set of buttons as well as our logos available to you, to help promote your events on Stubmatic.

As always we welcome your questions, comments and suggestions. Please feel free to contact us or post to our forums

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