1. Maya Voskoboynikov, Group Product Manager Keith Corwin, Lead Software Engineer Meetup Go online to get offline.
2. Meetup is the world's largest network of local groups. Go online to Meetup.com Start or find a Meetup group in your area Schedule a Meetup event or RSVP for one Then, Meetup in the real world And repeat steps 3 and 4
3. Meetup is the world's largest network of local groups. Boston Hooks & Needles Meetup Calgary Alternative Energy Meetup San Antonio Spanish Language Meetup Mumbia Hiking Meetup LA Moms Write! Meetup
7. This is where comes in We integrated with the Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Beta) ...to help bring money into Meetups.
8. With Amazon FPS * Organizers collect $ online, before the event * Members can pay-per-event. We're helping build economies within Meetups so Meetups can last longer.
9. Examples Real use case 1 LA Cooking Meetup $20 fee This pays for food and supplies to learn how to make sushi. Real use case 2 NYC Philosophy Meetup $5 fee To ensure against flaky attendance. Other use cases: reserve a venue cover costs ensure against flakes pay people for their contributions
13. Results so far... Launched in June Adoption has been modest, but steadily increasing $114,883 thru the system about 1000 unique organizers 4700 unique payers 2/3 of all Amazon Payment events are "require to pay"
14. Why Amazon FPS? Built ground-up around the concept of three-party transactions (caller, sender, recipient) Ability to easily take a cut of transactions that we facilitate, should we choose to do so Easy refunds Flexibility and power: full API, various types of tokens, the Gatekeeper language
15. Role of Tokens @ Meetup Three-party token system allows us to easily facilitate transactions between a sender and recipient. Caller-Token -> Meetup.com Recipient-Token -> Meetup Organizer Single-Use Token -> Meetup Member
19. Future plans with Amazon FPS Continue with pay-per-event (ticketing) feature collect $ from members per event Sponsorships get your Meetup sponsored by a business (ex: Huggies sponsors Mom Meetups; local bookstore sponsors the Austin Bookclub Meetup) Membership Dues collect $ from members to pay for Meetup group membership