Hard work gets paid. If you are in right direction, difficulties don’t matter. You will continue your journey and to support this journey, people will come along to be a part of it.

We are very happy to say that some extremely good and experienced people are with us as angel investors to make our journey better than ever. To mark our growth pattern phenomenal, they are supporting our endeavors in big ways.

We have received funding to grow our company and to make kick-ass products in events and entertainment. Among funding angels, there are Harvard Business School Alumni (HBS) Angels, Srijan Capital, Blume Ventures, Rajan Anandan (Google India MD), Ravi Gururaj (VP – Cloud Products, Citrix) and Kishore Warrier.

The fund will be used to expand our new product-line consisting last mile event management solutions. A part of the fund will also be used to focus on different untapped segments of event industry like training, seminars, workshops, lifestyle activities, last-minute tickets, adventure trips and social activities with extended operations.

We got covered in major blogs and media sites. You can see the articles in NextBigWhat, Yourstory.in, VCCircle, Medianama, Trak.in and India Digital Review.

We all like free stuff, don’t we? We thought, how could we increase this feel-good factor of getting FREE stuff and here is a slick experience for you

We are enabling a coupon feature for selected events where you can select FREE coupons from a range of brands up to the value of ticket(s) price. Its like getting your favorite event tickets for FREE

You can see a coupon icon at upper right side of event page for which coupons are enabled.

Clicking on the icon will tell you which brands’ coupons are available for that event.

You will be able to select FREE coupons when you select ticket quantity to buy passes for that event. After selecting ticket count, you will see total price for selected tickets. Now, you can select FREE coupons equal to or lower than total ticket price.

Ayojak.com is committed to offer better experiences for user to explore & attend events/ activities happening around. With our partnership with CouponRani, user will get more value for money.

So, why to wait? Go get your favorite event tickets along with FREE coupons!

2012 happened to be a great year for us. We worked with some of the phenomenal clients in the industry. When we asked how was their experience with us, this is what they said -

1. Create Your Customized Event Page

A total freedom to design your event page the way you want. Applying catchy header images to selecting ‘call to action’ texts, describing events, integrating cool videos & images and showing comment section so that people can discuss at the same page. You can also select if you want to show your contact information on event page.

2. Give Your Event Buyers More Payments Options

There are  more ways to do transactions that  make user experience friction-less. You would be happy to know, we have more than half a dozen payment options to give your users the freedom to pay the way they like. They can easily opt from credit cards, debit cards, net banking, cash-on-delivery, direct-transfer and cheque. For more convenience, we have integrated two payment gateways on our platform and many more to come in future.

3. Contact Attendees from Inside Ayojak Application

One of the robust features which gives you the facility to contact all your attendees from inside the interface. You can simply send them emails to update them about any information.

4. Realtime Traffic Analysis of Your Event Page

It is said, if you can’t measure something, you can’t make it better. For that sake, we give our organizers real time traffic analysis of their event pages. All visitors data at a simple glance so that you can know your audience better and target them in future efficiently.

5. Sell Event Tickets on Facebook

Everything is social. The pace at which social media is growing, people are spending more time on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Keeping this is mind, we developed an application through which you can host your event on Facebook Page, thus start selling tickets from Facebook itself.

On new year eve, we make resolutions for things we want to stick to in upcoming year. Loads of  hopes for a better year with more happiness and joy in life.  Some of us succeed in our resolutions while many fail. On this new year, we too made a resolution to make remarkable things as a product company.

This new year, we are super energized to make great things for our community. A constant approach to make our product better, more easier to use for our event organizers. New product line to solve the pain points of event management – offline and online. Team is up and currently working on the products like Turnstile and Box office solutions.

To create more happiness among our users, we are glued to simplicity, more features, reducing managing time; thus increasing efficiency and productivity in online/ offline event management.

Oh and yes! To make sure we don’t miss any of our task in this mission, our new year task diaries have arrived

As we say Good Bye! to 2012, here comes the new year 2013 with loads of hopes, resolutions and happiness. We all are waiting for it with great expectations and a hope to make it better than previous year. On the eve of this transformation, we bring to you the best of the party events in town. Have a look at our lineup of events that will make your craziness doubled

Why to wait? Set your destination for new year celebrations. Choose one for you here – New Year 2013 Party Events

Or join us on Facebook to stay updated always for all the upcoming events –  https://www.facebook.com/ayojak

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Ayojak has launched its integrated Cash-on-Delivery(COD) solution for event ticket sell across India. We have integrated our ‘event ticketing & registration e-commerce engine’ with several logistics solution provider like FedEx(AFL), GharPay, and Santa Claus Couriers. Hence offering Event Organisers to sell their event tickets by cash-on-delivery across all India in more than 3000 cities.
For all COD delivered using Ayojak’s integrated solution, event organizers can expect a detailed COD tracking system and easy, timely and assured delivery of orders. Ayojak has already been privately serving few selected customers to deliver thousands of COD across India.
With COD solution, Ayojak now completes the 360 degree payment & delivery solution (online, retail and cash-on-delivery) to influence the growth of India’s event e-commerce industry”.

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We also released US Dollar payment processing solution for event organziers who needed their foreign delegates/attendees pay in USD. This would help you hugely to use Ayojak for entire payment processing.
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This is for Co-Admin account in Ayojak. We have been getting feedback from several of our event organizers that they need more than 2 users to manage their event. Ayojak had only 1 prime account holder who could manage. With this new solution, now you can invite 2 more users to login using their own email id and password to manage your event. This will help you to make your full team manage the event registration, data, support queries if any, promotion solution data, reports to analyse.

To add co-admin account, go to your ‘Account’ inside Ayojak, see the option ‘Add Your Co-admin’. In this, you can invite 2 users by entering their email id. Ayojak will send them an invitation and when accepted, they will be added as co-admin.
However Co-admin is basic in the sense, as of now all user have equal permissions. We will be adding more fine grained permissions in coming days such as whether co-admin can edit the event, change the event info or can they send email to attendee? can they download reports, etc. We are happy to hear your suggestions on co-admin feature.

Suggestion/feedback are most welcome on http://twitter.com/ayojak http://facebook.com/ayojak

We have launched a NEW home page keeping in mind that our event organizer should able to use Ayojak as a FULL platform for organizing events. We think an event can be successfully organized if we let event organizer ‘do less and let Ayojak do more’. Ayojak provides end to end solution for organizing event, however when the event gets published, event organizer had to work hard in promoting. Many of you queried/questioned : Why Ayojak doesn’t show events prominently on home and other discovery sections of the site ?

To answer that question and to fill the gap(need), we now enabling our event organizers to not only create & publish an event but also promote to visitors (prospective attendee) on Ayojak.com home page, EventBoard and also via subscribe to event newsletter. Your suggestions are most welcome.

Event Organizing is all about Numbers : how many people will attend, how fast it can be sold, how long it takes to load an event page, how long my buyers are going to be ticket queue, how long it takes to buy a ticket/register for an event…….. several such questions to do with numbers.
We at Ayojak are happy to say that we released next version of Ayojak (yes we are constantly building up the product and currently in 3.4 version) to address all such numbers and give you value more money and use-happily service. This blog post would sounds more tech focused but as an event organizer you would be pleased to see the excellent improvement (we hope).

Our new release addresses your above questions as follows.

1. Now event page in Ayojak loads in less than/equal in 1 sec. Our technology team has massively changed the internals to make 0.1% database calls and 99.9% memcache calls, so whether your event attracts 1000 or 100,000′s user to visit, Ayojak will take the load and load your event page in a second.

2. We also improved the time requires to buy/register for an event. During our test, we found it takes max 3 sec to view an event page->fill the billing detail->pay at payment gateway->get a ticket. This would perfectly supplement your event campaign when you want Ayojak to process 100′s/1000s of ticket during last minute rush booking/ticket sale.

3. We had some glitch in the past when our ticket buying Queue was getting clogged. We took this as a challenge to unearth what was going on.

We re-wrote the message queue using an advanced queue implementation which would work same way if we line up to buy a movie ticket. Every buyer would get 5 minute(configurable) to buy, when they initiate the buy, their request would be in the process queue until time out/they successfully make payment/fails to make payment. Subsequent buyers would able to proceed for buying if the number of tickets they buying is available. As soon as less ticket is available, system auto-magically starts showing user how many ticket is available and how many in queue and how long it may take for getting more tickets if front queue buyers fails to pay/time out.With this implementation, your event will be sold precisely and also respecting each buyer who are in queue for buying.

Some more numbers

Enough of the technology numbers, we are happy to share the registration numbers.

Ayojak is happy & proud to serve events like

Java 7 Launch in Pune – 500+ registrations

UnPluggd 3 – 200+ registrations

TEDxLalBagh – 100+ registrations

IIT Kharagpur TAA Talk – 150+ registrations

and many such events.

We will again be back with more numbers in another iteration. Ayojak’s product development is a non-stop thing and we strive to remove more pains in event organizing.

We hope you will try Ayojak and organize event successfully as UnPluggd, YourStory, StartupWeekend India, IndicThreads (to name few) do.

Good news to share with all our users and fans -Ayojak is now on Cloud 9 . Yes, it is. We have moved into the clouds to serve you better than ever. We have increased our infrastructure power by relocating to Amazon AWS. This infrastructure gives various advantages such as:

1. Ayojak can increase server capacity within minutes, not hours or days. Whether we have 500 events or 5000 events on a day, Ayojak can handle this load. Your event page/service will get absolute care.

2. We will be able to monitor Ayojak’s infrastructure, demand patterns and network traffic in real time and take correct measure within seconds.

3. Ayojak’s infrastructure is more secure now due to advanced cloud computing architecture for data backups and server backups.

5. This means now Ayojak can take on millions/billions views for your events (page views, ticket buying, account creation etc) without you having to worry about your site, your server and maintenance.

6. We are bringing this infrastructure without adding any extra cost to you

This is our little effort to provide you services that fulfill all your requirements with ease and without any worries. We look forward to serve you and hear your suggestions.