Attendee list, eventbrite, front-end event creation

[Michele]

Hello,
I am developing a website and am currently using another plugin called “Events Manager”. I am somewhat happy with the plugin but, with events begin a huge aspect of my site I am looking for something a little more user friendly for my community’s members.

I have a few prerequisites that I need to have confirmed.

1. Can members of my site create and upload their own events from the front-end of the site without being redirected to a WP dashboard? Events Manager currently does this and it is very important to maintain front-end creation.

2. How exactly does the RSVP or “Attending” aspect of this plugin work? Does the plugin have to sync with Eventbrite or can members simply “commit/rsvp” without buying tickets?

3. When members create and submit their own events can they sync their event to their own Eventbrite account or is the Eventbrite ticketing only through the site admins account?

4. Having an attendee or “Who’s going” list is very important and is a complicated feature to setup the way I need it in “Events Manager” right now. I assume your plugin has an event attendee list feature available but, how does it exactly work? How would members be added to an attendee list? would they have to buy a ticket? Can member’s see the attendees’ username, profile pic and can they click on the members profile pic or username to be redirected to the attendee’s profile? Also, how is the attendee list shown within an event? Is it at the bottom of the event’s page/post or is it a separate page for each event? Would you have an example screen shot of an event’s attendee list?

Thanks!
Michele

[Geoff]

Hi Michele,

Excellent questions! Let’s hit them one at a time. 🙂

1. Can members of my site create and upload their own events from the front-end of the site without being redirected to a WP dashboard?

Absolutely. We have a plugin called Community Events that extends our free The Events Calendar plugin so that visitors can submit events to your calendar without accessing the WordPress admin. You can enable or disable anonymous submissions and also choose whether you want an event to be published on submission or reviewed as a draft first.

2. How exactly does the RSVP or “Attending” aspect of this plugin work? Does the plugin have to sync with Eventbrite or can members simply “commit/rsvp” without buying tickets?

RSVPs are actually a functionality of another (free) plugin of ours called Event Tickets. Once that plugin is installed, it allows you to accept RSVPs from the visitors on your site.

I do want to note that Event Tickets does not integrate with Eventbrite. So, for example, an RSVP made on an event will not sync over to Eventbrite.com. Instead, Event Tickets is an alternative to Eventbrite for accepting RSVPs for events.

If you ever were interested in selling paid tickets for your events, then you could install Event Tickets Plus, which allows you to sell tickets directly on your site using WooCommerce without the need for an outside service like Eventbrite.

then again (and at the expense of possible making things more confusing), we do have another extension for The Events Calendar called Eventbrite Tickets. This will import the events you create on Eventbrite.com into The Events Calendar on WordPress and display your RSVP/Tickets on your site while allowing the check-in and purchase process to be handled completely on Eventbrite.com instead of your site.

3. When members create and submit their own events can they sync their event to their own Eventbrite account or is the Eventbrite ticketing only through the site admins account?

I’m afraid not. Events that are submitted through the Community Events form go straight to The Events Calendar and cannot be pushed out to a specific user’s Eventbrite account.

4. Having an attendee or “Who’s going” list is very important and is a complicated feature to setup the way I need it in “Events Manager” right now.

Event Tickets Plus does indeed have a feature that allows you to display who is attending an event. It’s an option that can be set whenever you create tickets for an event (screenshot). Once someone has registered for an event, the person’s photo (which is pulled from Gravatar based on their email address) will be displayed on the event (screenshot). I’m afraid the level of detail in the Who’s Attending list is not as extensive as you might be looking for, but it is certainly possible to customize the template file for it with some custom development.

Does this help answer your questions? Please let me know. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[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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