Hello,
Thanks for checking out our plugins!
Community Events creates a form that lets users submit events from the front end of the site, but there is not currently a way to charge them to submit events. Sorry for the bad news there! We are currently working on adding this functionality into a future release, but I don’t have a timeline right now as to when that might be implemented.
However, you might be able to get this set up with a third-party plugin. I did a quick search and found the following:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/paid-memberships-pro/
https://memberpress.com
You would need to test this out to make sure that you can get it working.
For featured events, this is a built-in feature of The Events Calendar. You can also set user-submitted events to be featured from the backend, although there is no built-in way to charge for this currently. This article has some more info on how featured events work.
We do offer full refunds within 30 days of purchase, so if you’d like to take Community Events for a test run, feel free to do so! Please let me know if you have any additional questions.
Thanks,
Jennifer