October 1, 2010 - Mumbai, India.



Avenues, South Asia's largest integrated ecommerce company and Indian Overseas Bank (IOB), a premier Indian bank are pleased to announce that they have signed an agreement for online shopping for IOB customers.

Shopping online is gaining popularity amongst the masses. Not only because of the convenience (anywhere, anytime) but also because of the diversity of products and services online and the variety of tools to compare features and price of said product. A similar growth in the number of online booking is also being seen in the travel (hotels, trains, airlines) and event industries. This growing popularity of using the internet to search, purchase and pay for all types of products and services gave rise to Indian Overseas Bank's desire to offer their customers online shopping convenience. IOB's subsequent signing of a direct debit agreement with Avenues aims at breaking the online shopping barriers for its account holders.

If you receive the EventAvenue Times newsletter, you probably are already using EventAvenue to manage your events. Many of you have been with us for years, others few weeks and some of you are contemplating signing up, either ways, you are aware that EventAvenue is an excellent way to manage almost all of your pre, post and on-site event management tasks.

EventAvenue is pleased to announce that it has reorganized itself to serve different sectors better while maintaining its key aim of simplifying, accelerating and easing your processes. We now has 6 innovative modules to suit the requirements of different sectors – Conference Management, Online Ticketing, Webinar Management, Exhibitor Management, Education Fee Collection and Donation Collection. Now in addition to managing events, you can manage exhibitions, handle ticket-based events, organize webinars, collect donations and accelerate admissions.

Conference Management Solution
The Conference Management Solution will help you organize any type and size conference. It will enable you to reach out to your delegates, ramp up event attendance, offer online registration and hotel booking facility on your website. It also allows you to collect payments in real time, collect surveys to get delegate feedback and tune up financial performance.

Online Ticketing Solution
The Online Ticketing Solution will help you organize all types of ticket-based events from concerts and cricket matches to marathons and triathlons. It has a flexible, customizable and extremely easy-to-use interface. It enables you to automatically manage inventory, sell ticket online, accept payment in real time, maintain customer information in a single database, generate reports easily and conduct CRM exercises.

Donation Collection Solution
The Donation Collection Solution will enable any organization collecting donations to aid disaster-ridden countries or the poor, the sick and the marginalized from people across the world with ease. It is also suitable for charitable trusts and religious organizations that offer religious services online to close the wide chasm between God, the temple and the people. It integrates directly with your website and enables you to collect donations using multiple payment option and in multiple currencies via a real time payment engine.

Education Fee Collection Solution
Online Education Fee Collection Solution is an unparallel Education Fee Collection solution that will expedite your application distribution and fee collection process. It comes with an in-built payment gateway that enables student pay their fees – admission, exam etc. directly online. It has comprehensive accounting and reporting module that enables your Accounts and Administrative Depts. to issue fee receipts and student lists report respectively easily. It accelerates your admission and fee collection process while reducing your staffs’ workload.

Webinar Registration Solution
The Webinar Registration Solution will enable to collect registration and payment for all web based events. You will be able to manage registrations, invoicing, CRM, accounting and reporting tasks directly online. It also allows you to collect payments in real time and collect surveys to get delegate feedback.

Exhibitor Management Solution
The final solution is the Exhibitor Management Solution will enable you to publish your space/stall plan online and enable your prospective exhibitors to view an interactive floor plan before booking an exhibition stall/space in real time. You can also sign up for value addition such as a real time payment gateway and cross sell other inventory, send invoices etc. directly online with ease.

We hope these new and innovative solutions will help serve you better.