Allowing community to sell tickets to their events

[Karen]

I have installed Events Calendar Pro and Events Tickets Pro with Woo-Commerce, on one of my websites. One of the drawbacks is that Woo-commerce only allows me to use one checking account for direct bank transfers. I have multiple checking accounts, and use each one for a different set of events. So, I did buy Community Events and have installed it and the Events Calendar Pro and events Tickets Pro on another website. I haven’t yet used the Community Tickets Pro and am not sure I understand how it works. My questions are:
If my community members are selling tickets, whose merchant account are we using? Is it mine? If mine, how do I pay them for their portion, if I am only taking a part of the fee. I am a merchant. I do have the ability to do ACH transfer, but the ACH transfer is done manually through an interface provided by my bank. If you can explain how the money comes in and goes out through this Community Events software, that will help me understand if it is going to be useful for me to use.

[Karen]

I use Talech and Elevon wholesale banking services provided by US bancorp

[Cliff]

Hi, Karen.

Thanks for your detailed question.

Community Tickets currently utilizes PayPal’s Split Payments functionality. Each of your site users who wants to create events that sell tickets (all done via the Community Events form) must first enter their PayPal email address.

Here’s a code snippet that puts such a notice above the Community Events form:

https://gist.github.com/cliffordp/6250485f5fe850e5404059c48de3e3ed

You may also want to look through our existing feature requests for Community Tickets.

Please let me know if you have any follow-up questions on this topic.

[Karen]

Thank you for that information. Do I need to install WooCommerce in order to use Community Tickets? Do I need to install Event Tickets Pro to use Community Tickets?

Karen

[Karen]

I understand what you said about the paypal split payment option. I am just wondering if I can avoid using another plug in, like Woocommerce if I am using Community Tickets, or if I have to set up Woocommerce or comparable plugin to be able to use the paypal split payment option.

[Karen]

Also, you gave me a code example. Where is this code example found. Although I do some code writing for my websites (prior to using wordpress), I am not familiar with how to find the code in your plugins, where I am going to be making a change to add the split payment paypal option.

[Cliff]

Yes, Community Tickets requires an eCommerce plugin of your choice (the most popular by far is WooCommerce), Community Events, Event Tickets, and Event Tickets Plus. Therefore, you may be interested in one of our Bundles.

As far as implementing a code customization goes… welcome to WordPress customizing!

Best practice for adding custom code (like to implement a PHP snippet to modify The Events Calendar) is to create a functionality plugin, unless it’s something specific to your theme, in which case best practice is to make sure you’re using a child theme, then add the customization to your child theme’s functions.php file.

Also, the gist links require starting with <?php in order to enable syntax highlighting, but you should not include those with each snippet you add to your functions.php file (or functionality plugin).

I hope this information helps!

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

[Author]

Posts