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Full Feature Chart

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General Saffire Features

General Site Features

  • Attractive, easy-to-navigate design and interface
  • Templated design that allows you to use your logo and colors in our high-quality layout
  • All website content is entered into an easy-to-use browser tool
  • Unlimited create-your-own pages including text, photos, videos, PDFs, links, sponsors, forms (like applications), items for sale and interactive maps
  • Unlimited create-your-own pages including text, photos, videos, PDFs, links, sponsors, forms (like applications) and items for sale
  • Unlimited create-your-own forms with advanced data management
  • Can be easily integrated with other programs and software (AdWords, live chat, etc.)
  • Facebook and Twitter links on every web page
  • Custom site map, helpful for wayward users and search engines
  • Ability to add a general message announcement bar to the top of every page to raise event excitement or for late-breaking news
  • Google Analytics tracking code is installed so you can log in anytime to view site traffic, as well as get monthly or weekly tracking emails
  • Complete site translation into Spanish or several other languages with Google Translate
  • 24/7 assistance available through online knowledge base

Homepage

  • Countdown timer to the start of your event
  • Link to main event categories directly from homepage
  • Spotlight on unlimited featured sponsors
  • Up to 5 featured events, including Buy Now button for items for sale
  • Rotating featured events presented in Flash to add visual interest
  • One-question survey called "Quick Vote" to entice people to interact
  • Ability to display a weather bug showing the current weather for the zip code of the event (weather bug can easily be hidden when the weather is not a selling point for the event)
  • Play music to give people a better "taste" of the event and showcase featured performers
  • One-stop-shopping event results link from the Events tab on homepage

Event Interactivity and Details

  • Unlimited events within main event categories
  • Unlimited subcategories within main event categories
  • Unlimited items for sale within events (e.g., ticket types, sizes, tables etc.)
  • Option to use Saffire ecommerce and/or your existing ecommerce for sellable items
  • Standard page area for event time, date, location and cost
  • Easy-to-customize event details
  • Event locations can include description and embedded Google map
  • Unlimited PDFs for additional information (e.g., printable docs, rules, etc.)
  • Unlimited links on event pages (e.g., performer websites, external info, etc.)
  • Ability to add completely customizable results to any event, along with unlimited photos and PDFs
  • Integration with your ShoWorks account
  • Custom ordering of event page sections
  • Customers can add events to their Outlook calendars
  • Customers can "Fan" an event so it becomes a "Fan Pick" on the event listing
  • Customers can share an event on Facebook, Twitter, via email and more
  • Ability to create customizable forms for collecting information from your customers
  • Ability to send automatic emails reminding customers to attend your events and then thanking them for coming

Ecommerce

  • User-friendly, secure shopping cart
  • Tickets & Deals page for customers to quickly purchase sellable items
  • Ability to sell tickets with reserved seats (e.g., concerts and rodeos)
  • Ability to sell tickets without reserved seats (e.g., carnival tickets)
  • My Account page, where customers can quickly see previous purchases, check order status and edit account info
  • Ticket orders are emailed to organizers, which link to an order detail page where the order can be easily be fulfilled
  • Detailed and snapshot financial reports showing units sold, top sellers, customers and more; all reports can be printed, exported or emailed for easy sharing and analyzing
  • Ability to charge sales tax for online purchases
  • Ability to charge custom fees to help cover the cost of offering ecommerce
  • Ability to control shipping costs and methods
  • Ability to print mailing labels for shipping online orders

Sponsors

  • Fully customized information for sponsors and potential sponsors
  • Unlimited PDFs for additional information, benefits, packages, etc.
  • New Saffire FeatureDesignate one major sponsor on your homepage

Volunteers

  • Completely customizable information on how to become a volunteer
  • Optional committee listing, along with unlimited PDFs to appear on page

About Your Organization

  • Customizable Mission, History, About Us sections
  • Leadership featured along with photo, name, and title
  • Multiple leadership categories (e.g., Staff, Board, Executive Committee)
  • Unlimited organization and event FAQs, in unlimited custom categories
  • Create optional "About Us" Page in a different language to reach a wider audience

Mobile Version

  • Version of website that works with the greatest number of mobile devices
  • Website auto-directs customers to mobile version if applicable
  • Version of your website designed specifically for the best mobile user experience
  • Events section that allows customers to navigate to events by event category, date or location
  • Directions to the event
  • Brief information about the organization and event
  • Customers have the ability to sign up for email updates
  • Site links to Facebook and Twitter
  • Mobile Ecommerce
  • New Saffire FeatureMobile friendly admin site so you can update your website from your smart phone

Search Engine Optimization

  • Site is search engine optimized from the ground up using the latest strategies
  • CSS-based navigation so your site's navigation is crawlable and quick to load
  • Customizable, descriptive URLs available for main pages (e.g., www.myevent.com/particularevent)
  • Customizable page title, which appears at the top of browser and the top line in Google results
  • Customizable page description, which can appear in Google results and help with search engine ranking
  • Dynamically generated site map that allows search engine robots a clear road map through the site
  • Alt tags on every image, based on targeted search terms
  • Using latest CSS3 font-face techniques where possible, stylized titles so they are crawlable, HTML text
  • Customizable keywords, which can help with search engine rankings

Easy Event Navigation

  • Up to 7 custom event categories, to help customers find events faster
  • Events displayed in list or gallery view
  • "Our Pick" events appear with icon for greater prominence
  • Events filtered by date, location, featured events, fan picks or custom, visitor-selected events
  • Search for events by name and other fields
  • Printer-friendly event schedule

Event Photos and Videos

  • All event photos and videos available in one place in a photo or video gallery, as well as on event detail pages
  • Unlimited photos and custom captions
  • Unlimited videos and custom captions
  • Enhance your photos with our image cropping tool
  • Embed videos from YouTube
  • Customers can send event photos as e-card to friends
  • Customers can share event photos with friends on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest etc.
  • Customers can buy items for an event, right from its event photo (if applicable)
  • Customers can upload their own event photos, which you can approve
  • Customers can send their uploaded photo as an e-card to friends
  • Customer photos can be used for future event marketing, by including use agreement on upload

Social Media Integration

  • Facebook account setup and tips if needed
  • Twitter account setup and tips if needed
  • Custom Twitter background design to coordinate with website
  • Integration with Pinterest
  • Integration with YouTube
  • Wordpress blog setup and custom blog design

Maps and Directions

  • Create-your-own interactive event map by adding "hotspots" for certain attractions
  • Categorize your hotspots with color-coded icons
  • New Saffire FeatureQuickly search interactive event map to find a specific location
  • Access to fairgrounds map from every page on the site, including printer-friendly version
  • Access to driving directions to the event from every page on the site, including printer-friendly version

Calendars

  • Annual events calendar broken down by month
  • Daily calendar based on everything happening during event
  • Customers can create and save custom calendar of events to attend
  • Both general and custom calendars include printer-friendly version

Email Marketing

  • Can integrate with our own email marketing system or yours
  • Custom email template that matches website design
  • Emails can be personalized with the recipient's name
  • New Saffire FeatureDrag-and-drop technology to easily create your own email layout

Text Messages

  • Collect phone numbers from every page on the site
  • Send text updates and announcements to customers

Press

  • Press releases, including date, title, customizable content and photo
  • Articles/features about your event, including date, source, title, customizable content, photos and link
  • High-resolution photos to make it easy for press to report on event

Employment

  • Fully customized information for potential employees and interns, including current openings which appear via PDF

Simple Site Maintenance

  • Password-protected access to a hidden admin website to maintain the external website
  • Unlimited admin site user logins
  • Custom access levels for your admin site
  • Easily update website content in your browser, from anywhere
  • Easily manage customer accounts, including contact info and password reset
  • Advanced data form management, with drag and drop field placement for greater customization
  • Quick reporting of today's and yesterday's revenue and units sold from admin dashboard
  • Revenue snapshot that reports revenue per category by month and can be printed, exported or emailed
  • Revenue detail that can be filtered by date and sliced and diced as general or specific as you like, and can also be printed, exported or emailed
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Customization Options

Included Options

  • Fully customized information about your facility so it can be rented during the off season of your event
  • Scholarship information including criteria, recipients, etc
  • Blog, Facebook, Twitter, QR Code consultation
  • Information on dining, accommodations and other things to do near event
  • Event awards can be featured on their own page
  • Insurance against a "dated" website, with future Saffire updates included

Optional Enhancements

  • Completely custom design from us or one of our design partners
  • Website and/or email content creation

 

Tech Info

Support

  • 24/7 site and database monitoring, with guaranteed next business day response
  • Hosting with international ISP Rackspace (the best in the business, in our opinion)
  • .NET framework, a stable, consistent development platform
  • PCI compliance and continuous updates to address any new requirements
  • SSL to protect connection between the customer and your website
  • Authorize.Net, Payflow Pro, E-xact, Paypal or Google Checkout payment gateway to securely manage online credit card transactions
  • Encrypted data storage for added security against fraud