Assistance Determining Right Product Mix

[Loma]

Hello,
I’m working with a local Chamber of Commerce who is looking to upgrade their events management from a combination of Google Calendar & manual tracking to an integrated option with their WordPress website. I find your website a bit confusing in understanding which add-ons are required for their needs. I’m going to outline their requirements and hope you can recommend the best options for them.

Needs:
* Monthly Calendar view on public website
* Recurring events for chamber meetings and such
* Ability for public to register/buy ticket for an event via a website form submission without our having to provide user logins to WP and have them pay via PayPal.
* Ability for community to submit events to event calendar via website form submission without our having to provide user logins to WP

Lastly, they are also evaluating Event Espresso, what sets your plugin a part from their plugin?

[Geoff B.]

Good afternoon Loma and welcome to the Events Calendar forum!

Thank you for your interest in our products.
We’ll be glad to answer your questions.

* Monthly Calendar view on public website

For this, all you need is our free the Events Calendar plugin: https://theeventscalendar.com/product/wordpress-events-calendar/

* Recurring events for chamber meetings and such

Recurring events are part of our the Events Calendar Pro premium add-on which extends our free the Events Calendar plugin: https://theeventscalendar.com/product/wordpress-events-calendar-pro/

Ability for public to register/buy ticket for an event via a website form submission without our having to provide user logins to WP and have them pay via PayPal.

This is accomplished by the combined effort of 2 of our products:

1. Our free Event Tickets plugin: https://theeventscalendar.com/product/wordpress-event-tickets/
2. Our premium Event Tickets Plus add-on which extends our Event Tickets plugin: https://theeventscalendar.com/product/wordpress-event-tickets-plus/ . This plugin interfaces with popular WordPress e-commerce plugins such as WooCommerce.

* Ability for community to submit events to event calendar via website form submission without our having to provide user logins to WP

This is accomplished via our Community Events premium add-on: https://theeventscalendar.com/product/wordpress-community-events/

If you would also like to let your community create tickets, then you will also need to use our Community Tickets premium add-on: https://theeventscalendar.com/product/community-tickets/

By the sound of it, I believe you are a perfect candidate for our Community manager bundle: https://theeventscalendar.com/bundles/

As for the difference with Event Espresso, it would be hard to provide a truly unbiased review since this is a direct competitor.

With that in mind, in the end, it does boil down to personal preference as far as the user interface, the support staff and the customizability.

I know for a fact that we are constantly working at making these 3 aspects as strong as they can be.

Speaking of customizability, You might want to read our Themer’s guide to get a sense of how that works.

Let me know if that helps.

Have a great day!

Geoff B.

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