Attach tickets to multiple events.

[Alexandru]

I have a company that sells tokens rather than tickets… with one token you can gain access to one event, but there are many events to choose from, i’ve tried the wootickets demo but there’s no obvious way that I can achieve that, could i attach one ticket to multiple events?

[Brook]

Howdy Alexandru,

That is not a built in feature of WooCommerce. However, you could achieve something like that by using the store credit addon. They purchase some credit, and it allows them to choose from one of your many events. Does that seem like a good solution?

– Brook

[Alexandru]

Thanks but it’s not really what i’m looking for, i’m trying to find specifically if wootickets addon from the events calendar plugin can achieve the feature ( even if this requires some more coding work ).

[Brook]

I follow.

It is definitely possible to do what you want. But, I am not sure if it will be of any benefit to you to build things that way.

Let me explain a little more about how WooCommerce Tickets works. When you add an event, you can add tickets to it. Each ticket is a “virtual product” in WooCommerce. Virtual products are those that don’t require shipping. When a user visits an event page they will see an option beneath it to add a ticket (virtual product) to that event to their WooCommerce Cart. From there WooCommerce handles everything. When they’re ready to checkout WooCommerce checksout all products in their cart, including any virtual products like tickets.

Now let me ask you, what user flow do you picture for someone who wants to purchase a “token” from you? This is how WooCommerce Tickets works by default:

1. User views calendar, finds event they like
2. User clicks on event, clicks but ticket for that event
3. User checksout with WooCommerce, has a ticket for the above event in their cart. Once you approve the order, user receives an email with the tickets.

At which point do you want the user to buy a token instead of a ticket direct for an event? What is the benefit over the user just selecting the event they want and getting a ticket directly for it? Are they able to select multiple events instead of just one?

Regardless of your answer it is possible to build the feature you want with some modifications to WooCommerce. But, I am just trying to get a better understanding of what you want, and make sure our plugin doesn’t already do something similar and perhaps simpler.

Thanks for clarifying!

– Brook

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