Automatically generating tickets for a free event

[Nathan]

I work for an event for which attendees need tickets, which they apply for through our company WordPress website. The tickets are free, however, the event is not open to the public. RSVP’s are directed to from our WordPress website to my email address. For the last show, I would go through each RSVP, then manually created a ticket for each legitimate visitor. This was a laborious process and I was wondering whether Event Tickets could be the right solution. Basically, I was hoping to have the tickets automatically generated for everyone who attempted to accredit themselves to the event, then I could decide whether to send the ticket to them. Is this possible?

[Geoff]

Hi Nathan,

Thanks for getting in touch! I’m really happy to hear you’re considering Event Tickets for your site. 🙂

Event Tickets will indeed allow you to create an unlimited number of RSVP (free) tickets for the event. Each time a person registers for the event, Event Tickets will generate a RSVP which the person can then use to check into the event.

The sticking point might be the second part of your question. Event Tickets is designed to RSVP a person right away, so there really is no mechanism to manually approve people and then send the RSVP email from there. However, there is a snippet you can use to disable the RSVP email. That would allow you to manually curate the list of attendees and then communicate with them from there.

Either way, Event Tickets is a free download so it might be worth plugging it in and giving a test drive to see if that configuration works for you.

Does this help answer your question? 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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