A New Design for the Agenda So we were last week doing a small change, as people do, when things transformed – slowly – from a small easy change into a huge refactor thing: It was going to be an easy
An easier talk selection process For events with hundreds of talks, the selection process is a daunting task. The commitment of some communities can sometimes bring content by the truckload, and having to evaluate hundreds or thousands of
Our commitment to diversity Putting together a diverse agenda with a representative amount of male and female speakers is hard. All events can benefit from a multifaceted discussion, but you need proper tools to help. This is
Automatic Invoices. No, seriously. Invoicing is like the ugly cousin nobody likes to mention at parties. It's complicated from a legal perspective, full of weird rare cases, and hard to get it right for more than one
You are offline The agenda for this year is the source of truth for Codemotion 2017. It displays up-to-the-minute information, supports filtering by technology and free text, collects feedback about the speakers and favorite talks that
Our open source projects Today's post is not about us, it's about others. We believe in sharing. We have built our software around the idea than when you open source code, you're not just helping yourself but
Changes are coming Software development can be a lot like housework. You can move a table or add a picture, things that everyone will notice as soon as they enter your home. Or you can, say,
SEO for event ticketing Search Engine Optimization is not an easy topic. In a world full of truths, half-truths and plain lies, it's good to start covering some base facts. If you are new to this, we
Responsive Web Design in Koliseo The best event interface can look like crap if it doesn't include awesome background images to get the point across. At Koliseo we are not shy of experimenting: Include videos in the event
Lower fees for 2015 You don't hear everyday that someone is planning to lower their prices. This year, using Koliseo to sell your events is cheaper than ever: This is a 56% drop of our old ticket
Actions in your GMail Inbox This is one of these rare situations where we integrated a feature before it was released by Google. A couple of months ago we jumped ahead of the wagon and included actions with
New blog! Yay! Our current status: Move to a brand new blog platform that looks awesome and makes it super-easy to create new content -> Done. Introduce into Koliseo all those crazy features that we
Mailing with style You know these days when you want to share how great your new e-mail templates are, but at the same time hiding how embarrassing they used to be? Yep. For us, that would
Purchase multiple ticket types at once Parents taking their children to a family event have a common requirement: they need to purchase adult and children tickets in the same process because, you know, kids. This used to be a
OAuth: the good, the bad, and the ugly Our experience integrating six different OAuth providers has been documented by Extrema Sistemas in their blog. The conclusions: We still kind of love OAuth, despite its problems and inconsistent implementations. Our system is
Advanced fields: marking the start and end of your ticket sales At Koliseo we stress that events can be repeated on multiple dates. You can set performances all weekends of the same month, all reusing the same event name and picture. Regardless of when
Our new “Pause Sales” button This is a brief note, in case you didn’t notice: See that new button? Hard to miss, all red and everything, right? This button will pause your ticket sales for all performances
Custom form fields Did you know? There is an inverse relationship between conversion ratio and the number of fields in your form. Translated to English, the number of fields in your purchase form makes your users
Faster, cleaner, and looking better: our new release for Android is out We must confess our Android app is our particular yak shaving nightmare. The Android world is still young, which means that the One and True Way of Doing Things is a moving target
Not all attendees are created equal Some events just cannot be open for everyone. Koliseo is a young platform but we are no strangers to this, so last week we introduced invitations for your events: Now you can mark
Transfer your event to another user Sometimes it’s better with a little help from your friends, and in order to help the onboarding process for new users we have introduced a feature called “Change owner”, available in the
Reasons why we are using OAuth (TL;DR you should, too) In Koliseo we don’t ask for usernames and passwords. Let me tell you why. In our typical day we get up in the morning and scan our emails, maybe answer some. We
