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Yes – but unlike other listing or direct booking services, there is no subscription fee, contract or commitment to use eVenues. To register, simply create a venue profile with contact information, photos, capacity, availability, pricing, and payment information. There is absolutely no risk: you publish your space; we attract space seekers and manage scheduling; we process the payment and electronically transfer the income into your bank account.
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It is FREE to list your space profile and use our tools. When someone reserves your room, eVenues withholds a 10% processing fee from the total rental. That’s it.
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Our mission is to provide space seekers with easy access and real-time availability to a wide variety of venues at affordable prices. That means we don’t limit the kinds of rooms or spaces we accept in the marketplace. To prevent fraud or abuse, eVenues reviews every profile for validity and confirms all contact information before making your profile live. Other than that, we only ask that you provide enough information to profile your space and include the room availability for prospective space seekers. The better your profile, the more likely it is to attract customers.
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You should price your rooms or spaces to be attractive and competitive with what other spaces are going for. For example, a typical hourly rate for a boardroom space that holds 10 people might be $40, where a typical full-day rate would be $200. Our point being – in this economy – earning a little is certainly better than earning nothing.
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Start by creating a venue and room profile, followed by entering availability and pricing. The eVenues profile wizard allows you to save your profile anytime, as well as be updated after being published.
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No – eVenues supports either listing multiple venues (businesses) or listing multiple rooms or spaces within each venue. For multiple venues, you will need a separate account for each. If you have multiple rooms, each space can have its own profile listing its availability. To make this easy, eVenues provides an intuitive user interface for adding, pricing and setting availability for new rooms. This way, new rooms can be published to the marketplace at a moment’s notice.
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There is no limit to how long you keep your venue active. You may delete your account or take them offline at any time.
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Yes – one of the tools that eVenues offers includes a powerful master calendar that can be used to control and simplify eVenues bookings, as well as internal meetings that might come up. For example, if you happen to book an internal meeting into an available eVenues space, eVenues will dynamically synchronize the schedule so it becomes offline in the marketplace schedule. A similar system alone might cost several thousands of dollars.
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Yes. eVenues can sync your reservation appointments to your Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Exchange.
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eVenues remits all proceeds via check. Under the My Settings\Payment menu, you need to complete the simple form with information on where to send payment.
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eVenues can also pay Venue Providers on the next business day. You can specify this in the My Settings\Payment form.There is an additional charge of $5 for the next-day wire.
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eVenues is recognized as a trusted service by the Better Business Bureau (BBB.) eVenues strives to operate a world-class mission-critical service for its Venue Provider partners. As such, we’ve selected a world-class team of partners to help us deliver. Our systems are built with and use Microsoft platform technology. We are hosted and monitored 24x7x356 by Wowrack in Seattle, Washington. Our SSL certificates are secure and monitored by GoDaddy. Our payment processing is tested and operated by USA ePay\Pinnacle Processing. And, the ACH banking platform we use is provided by Silicon Valley Bank.
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Absolutely. eVenues is the first and only online destination marketplace that enables consumers to find and book short-term meeting space – in real-time. eVenues gives you unprecedented visibility among consumers looking for exactly what you have: great space to meet. We are investing in proven SEO techniques, along with PPC advertising. We are also working with several Seattle-based networks that want to use our venue search engine for scheduling their events. Over time, we will expand our marketing into other geographic markets.
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eVenues is now supporting venue listings and bookings throughout the United States. We are currently evaluating expanding into Canada.
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Similar to other direct booking services, it’s a difficult task getting venues to post their short-term availability (by the hour or day). However, if there is a system that can aggregate these vacant rooms together into one and solve this problem, then consumers will value visiting one destination website to find and book the best venue for their activity.
