Eventric? Or something like it?

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John O'Brien

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Hey guys,

As a road manager and FOH for the group I'm working with, I'm always searching for better ways to streamline my work.

For those of you who pull double duty and do tour managing or road managing, have you ever used Bento, Filemaker, or things like Eventric?

Eventric seems like a very powerful tool, but I'd like to get some perspective on it before I drop 40 bucks a month on it.

Here's a link eventric:

Home Page | Site

Bento and Filemaker are database programs, I have the bento iphone app that I'm trying out.

Let me know guys!
 
Re: Eventric? Or something like it?

Access is a little more widely used than Filemaker I would think...with the popularity of the Office products. You can probably find some DBs already created very close to what you want to do and then modify to your own likes and needs. As with Filemaker, there is a learning curve but I don't think it is too steep!

Just a thought....

Good luck.
 
Re: Eventric? Or something like it?

Our tour manager uses Eventric and is quite happy with it. They have done the heavy lifting and you just input your info.
We use a yahoo email account to give all the band and crew read only access to the online itinerary info.
They have mobile apps for iphone,android,blackberry.
 
Re: Eventric? Or something like it?

John O'Brien said:
Hey guys,

As a road manager and FOH for the group I'm working with, I'm always searching for better ways to streamline my work.

For those of you who pull double duty and do tour managing or road managing, have you ever used Bento, Filemaker, or things like Eventric?

Eventric seems like a very powerful tool, but I'd like to get some perspective on it before I drop 40 bucks a month on it.

Here's a link eventric:

Home Page | Site

Bento and Filemaker are database programs, I have the bento iphone app that I'm trying out.

Let me know guys!
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Having a description of exactly what kind of record keeping and calculating you need might help. I have been using Filemaker for all my cable management, billing, and show bidding for more than 20 years. Once you have designed a form and decided on the data fields you want included it is very easy to use. I use it almost exclusively as a flat file type DB rather than a relational DB since each show is unique and is saved as a separate file. I just do simple lookups to enter common information. I have not tried Bento, or the iOS version, but I will.

Mac
 
Re: Eventric? Or something like it?

I went from a FileMaker solution to MasterTour (eventric) after I just couldn't keep up with developing my own database solution. I recommend their product.
 
Re: Eventric? Or something like it?

My day job is analyst/programmer so i'm very familiar with databases, programming.... and the effort involved to get it working the way you want to and the endless possibilities of "what if's" and add ons.

Even with my experience if I were in your shoes i'd be inclined to use a product that already did most or more than what I would need.

Mac's got it working the way he wants; great. If you're prepared to put some effort in that can work for you. Just don't think it will be trivial.

Most of my stuff I use for my PA business is on excel spreadsheets - i'm pretty good with macros, vb scripting and such so I can make it dance somewhat but I don't have much of it.

andrew
 
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