Are complicated event schedules possible?

[Jay]

Is there anyway for people or even myself to put this schedule in the calendar with just one submission or would it need to be at least 3 separate submissions.
Also, this may be a feature request, but multiple ticket prices seems to be a common thing and there’s no option for that that I can see.

October 20, 21, 27, 28 @ 7 pm
October 21, 22, 28, 29 @ 2 pm
And a school show on October 27 at 10 am

Tickets: Adult $12, Senior/Student $10, Child $8

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Jane and welcome back!

Thank you for reaching out to us.
I would love to help you with this topic.

Is there anyway for people or even myself to put this schedule in the calendar with just one submission or would it need to be at least 3 separate submissions.

Technically, you can create exactly that scenario with a single submission.

To achieve that, you will need to use the Events Calendar Pro’s recurring events: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/pro-recurring-events/

Also, this may be a feature request, but multiple ticket prices seems to be a common thing and there’s no option for that that I can see.

You can totally have multiple ticket prices as long as you use the Event Tickets Plus plugin: https://theeventscalendar.com/product/wordpress-event-tickets-plus/

The only downside for your specific question is that we do not fully support Event Tickets Plus alongside recurring events for now.

Currently, we are able to create a single pool set of tickets for a series of recurring events.
But it is not possible to assign specific stock or global stock to each separate event in the series.

The good news is that we are working on adding such a feature, but that is more likely to become a reality next year. We have already started work on this, but it is a fairly complex feature to add.

In the meantime, there is a workaround however. You could:

1. Create the series of recurring events with a single submission
2. Break all of the individual events from that series (turning them into “normal” single events).

That way you save time for the creation and you can have separate ticket stocks for each event.

Finally, if you want to let your front-end users create and add tickets, you will need our Community Tickets plugin (on top of Event Tickets Plus): https://theeventscalendar.com/product/community-tickets/

Let me know if that helps.

Have a great day!

Geoff B.

[Jay]

I see I could do that as 3 separate re-occurring events, but I don’t see that I (or someone using the Community Events add-on) could do it in one submission, which is okay I guess, but just more work and probably not intuitive to random people submitting an event.

I don’t need actual tickets, just where you can submit ticket/event pricing. There’s only one field for that. It would be nice if it could have at least a range of prices instead of just one. ($5-10 instead of just $5)

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Jane,

I totally see what you mean about the multiple price in the event cost field.

Since this could be a cool feature to have, you can suggest it in our User Voice forum. That way other customers can vote for it!

A workaround for now would be to hide the official cost field and replace it with a the Events Calendar Pro custom field (which would allow for a range).

In turn, you would need to adjust the different views so that they use that new field instead of the built-in cost field. You might want to read our Themer’s guide to get a sense of how that works.

If programming is not really your thing, you could hire one of our recommended customizers to do the customization for you..

I wish I had a better answer for you, but for now it’s the best one I have.

Have a great day!

Geoff B.

[Jay]

OK, thank you! I’ll look into that.

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Jane,

Thank you for your understanding.

You are welcome back in our support forums any time 🙂

For now, I am going to close this thread.

Have a great week!

Geoff B.

[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

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