Arches, Drops & Races
Apple & Android pay have been added to the checkout. Everybody seems to be buying their balloons & ducks on the move so this makes payments easy and helps those who don’t carry their bank cards. The confirmation email link now displays an “Already paid for” message to stop those paying twice for the same […]
Here’s another Wicked balloon wall with 40 helium bunches installed with a 2 hour window. City of Westminster
These are cool colours – Black, Copper, Gold & Silver installed in Camden Market
Installed here a few times over the years, a 500 drop at Electric Brixton.
Organic Garland to frame The Angry Crab Shack in the Theatre District of London. I used carb foil shaped balloons and vinyl graphics on the larger 16″ balloons. As usual, my thanks to Laura & Alex for the help.
Organic Rainbow with a bit of cloud action to frame the stairway entrance at St George’s College, Weybridge
Always be careful accessing the “administer the balloons” section when your sales are busy. If a balloon has just been created it will show on your list as “inactive”. Whilst you’re looking at your list the buyer completes their payment and on the server their balloon is now active (but on your screen it’s inactive). […]
Organic style arch to frame the bar in Bring, Boughton
I know 12% sounds steep, hopefully the below explains how I only just break even. If it was highly profitable I could offer the race for free and just take the 12%… but it’s not. The concept for taking card payments and sending a BACS was requested by those using the race who had no […]
Here’s a wall, freestanding with vinyl graphics & Gold Orbz installed at Manchester Central entrance for those insta selfies. Latex colours Navy, Gold & White
The move to PHP was completed in September 2022 and everything is running so much better. During the changeover there were live races on both servers so to save confusion I ran the old server as balloonrace.com and the new as balloonrace.net. Now the move is complete both domains point to the new server. The […]
The easiest way to run the race is to use the stripe option and I bacs a payment to your bank account. Stripe will accept payments from all over the world and you simply set the page up, share the URL and watch the sales build. If you sell balloons by cash you can add […]